Closing the Distance: Lenten Spiritual Disciplines | Prayer | Kyle Strobel

Closing the Distance with Kyle Strobel, a professor at Biola University and the author of "Where Prayer Becomes Real." Kyle Strobel (Ph.D. University of Aberdeen) is a systematic theologian who teaches spiritual theology for Talbot’s Institute for Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Formation Focus programs. His areas of interest include systematic theology, Jonathan Edwards, spiritual formation and prayer. He writes both popular and academic books and articles, and is on the preaching team at Redeemer Church, La Mirada.

Books Written
Where Prayer Becomes Real: How Honesty with God Transforms Your Soul, co-authored with John Coe (Baker Books, 2021)
Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to His Thought, co-authored with Oliver Crisp (Eerdmans Publishing, 2018)
The Way of the Dragon or the Way of the Lamb: Searching for Jesus' Path of Power in a Church that Has Abandoned It co-authored with Jamin Goggin (Thomas Nelson, 2017).
Beloved Dust: Drawing Close to God by Discovering the Truth About Yourself co-authored with Jamin Goggin (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2014).
Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards (IVP, 2013).
Jonathan Edwards’s Theology: A Reinterpretation (T&T Clark, 2013).
Metamorpha: Jesus as a Way of Life (Baker Books, 2007).

Books Edited
The Ecumenical Edwards: Jonathan Edwards and the Theologians (Ashgate Publishing, 2015).
Sanctified in Grace: A Theology of the Christian Life co-edited with Kent Eilers (T&T Clark, 2014).
Reading the Christian Spiritual Classics: A Guide for Evangelicals co-edited with Jamin Goggin (IVP Academic, 2013).
Charity and Its Fruits: Living in the Love of God, edited and introduced by Kyle Strobel (Crossway, 2012).

Articles
“Christian Life,” and “Doctrine of Simplicity” in A Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia ed. Harry Stout (Eerdmans, 2017), 87-89, 153-155.
“Jonathan Edwards’s Reformed Doctrine of Theosis,” in Harvard Theological Review 109:3 (July 2016): 371-399.
“A Spiritual Sight of Love: Constructing a Doctrine of the Beatific Vision” for UnionTheology.Org.
“‘In Your Light they Shall See Light’: A Theological Prolegomena for Contemplation” in Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care (Spring 2014): 85-106.
“Jonathan Edwards and the Polemics of Theosis,” in Harvard Theological Review 105:3 (July 2012): 259-279.

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