David Congdon

Senior Editor, University Press of Kansas and adjunct instructor in theology

Dr. David W. Congdon (M.Div.; Ph.D. Systematic Theology, 2014) is an author, speaker, and scholar working in the area of theology and culture. He is currently the Senior Editor at the University Press of Kansas, where he oversees the publishing program in politics, law, history, and religion. He is also a lecturer in religious studies at the University of Kansas, where he teaches interdisciplinary courses on Christian nationalism, American utopianism, and other topics. Academically, he maintains an active research and publishing program. His latest book is Who Is a True Christian? Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture, published in April 2024 by Cambridge University Press. His other works include The Mission of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann’s Dialectical Theology, Rudolf Bultmann: A Companion to His Theology, The God Who Saves: A Dogmatic Sketch, and Varieties of Christian Universalism: Exploring Four Views. He is also the coeditor, with W. Travis McMaken, of the Studies in Dialectical Theology at Lexington Books.