Dr. Jason Lief '96
Professor of Biblical + Theological Studies
Education:
Ph.D., Luther Seminary
M.A., Wheaton College Graduate School
B.A., Northwestern College
712-707-7027
jason.lief@nwciowa.edu
Dr. Jason Lief teaches courses in Christian education and youth ministry. A Northwestern College graduate, he served as the chaplain for Pella (Iowa) Christian High School while earning a master's degree in theology from Wheaton College Graduate School. He also completed a doctorate in practical theology from Luther Seminary. He previously taught theology and youth ministry at Dordt College for 10 years. Dr. Lief is the author of Poetic Youth Ministry: Loving Young People by Learning to Let Them Go and Christianity and Heavy Metal as Impure Sacred Within the Secular West: Transgressing the Sacred.
Christianity and Heavy Metal as Impure Sacred Within the Secular West: Transgressing the Sacred. Lexington Books. 2017
Poetic Youth Ministry: Loving Young People by Learning to Let them Go. Cascade Books. 2015
"Eschatology, Creation, and Practical Reason: A Reformational Interpretation of the Two Kingdoms Perspective." Kingdoms Apart: Engaging the Two Kingdom's Perspective. (P&R Press, October 2012)
"Some Kind of Monstrosity: What Youth Ministry can Learn from Heavy Metal" Journal of Youth and Theology (Spring 2014)
"Challenging the Objectivist Paradigm: Teaching Biblical Theology with J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Guillermo del Toro" Teaching Theology and Religion (October 2009)
"Cultivating a 'Religionless' Social Imaginary: Youth Ministry in a Secular Age,' International Association for the Study of Youth Ministry Conference London, Englandm January, 2015
Associate Professor of Theology and Youth Ministry, Dordt College
High School Chaplain, Pella Christian High School, Pella, IA
Association of Youth Ministry Educators
International Association for the Study of Youth Ministry
American Academy of Religion