Dr. Cambria Kaltwasser

Education:
Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary
M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary
B.A., John Brown University

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cambria.kaltwasser@nwciowa.edu

Dr. Kaltwasser teaches courses in historical and doctrinal theology on topics such as election, eschatology, worship, prayer, and the Christian life. She earned her doctorate in systematic theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she also completed her Master of Divinity. Dr. Kaltwasser's research focuses on prayer, sanctification, and the Christian life. She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Karl Barth on Friendship with God.

Dr. Kaltwasser serves as co-president of the Karl Barth Society of North America and as project editor for the Barth Translators' Seminar, which is funded by a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities. She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). In 2013–14, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

+Publications and presentations"Karl Barth's Critique of Deification," in Paul Gavrilyuk, Andrew Hofer, and Matthew Levering, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Deification (Oxford University Press, August 2024). "Kenosis and the Mutuality of God," in Paul T. Nimmo and Keith L. Johnson, eds. Kenosis: The Self-emptying of Christ in Scripture and Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, July, 2022). "At the Zero-Point' of Faith: The Clash of Old Man and New in the Römerbrief and Barth's Later Doctrine of Sanctification," in Christophe Chalamet, Andreas Dettwiler, and Sarah Stewart-Kroeker, eds., Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans: Retrospect and Prospect (Berlin, De Gruyter, May 2022). "Karl Barth on Death" in George Hunsinger and Keith Johnson, eds., The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Karl Barth (West Sussex: Wiley, 2020).

+Professional experienceCo-president, Karl Barth Society of North America Project Editor, Barth Translators' Seminar, Center for Barth Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary

+HonorsNorthwestern Sabbatical Award, Spring 2025 Fulbright Grant for yearlong research in affiliation with Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, supervised by Christoph Schwöbel, 2013–2014.

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