Prof. Dr. Matthew Ryan Robinson

My research interests lie at the intersection of religion and society, focusing more specifically on how theologies shape and reflect the specific contexts of their emergence in complex ways. The kinds of questions I purse and the methods I employ thus tend to be highly interdisciplinary. My formal academic training is in the fields of Systematic Theology and Religious Studies. But I have always enjoyed returning to the history of philosophy, on the one hand, while on the other hand, engaging with new forms and contexts of religious communication (e.g., digital and intercultural). 

2025 / Habilitation and venia legendi for Systematic Theology
Protestant Theological Faculty, RFW University of Bonn, BONN
2022 / Ordination (Presbyterian Church (USA))
2015 / Doctor of Philosophy 
Dept. of Religious Studies, Northwestern University, EVANSTON
2011 / Master of Arts
Dept. of Religious Studies, Northwestern University, EVANSTON
2009 / Master of Divinity 
Divinity School of the University of Chicago, CHICAGO
2004 / Bachelor of Arts
Depts. of Philosophy & Ancient Languages, Wheaton College, WHEATON