Jonathan Anderson

Jonathan A. Anderson is the Eugene and Jan Peterson Associate Professor of Theology and the Arts and the head of the Christianity and the Arts concentration at Regent College. His scholarship explores the interrelations of art history, theology, and religious studies, with a particular focus on modern and contemporary art. He is the author of The Invisibility of Religion in Contemporary Art (University of Notre Dame Press, 2025), Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism (with William Dyrness, IVP Academic, 2016), and many articles and book chapters on related topics, including “Thinking with Christianity” in Theology, Modernity, and the Visual Arts (Brepols, 2024) and “Modern Art” in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Prior to his appointment at Regent College, Anderson completed a PhD at King’s College London and then taught for three years at Duke Divinity School as the Postdoctoral Associate of Theology and the Visual Arts. Before this, he was trained as an artist and art critic, earning an MFA from California State University Long Beach and teaching for eleven years as an Associate Professor of Art at Biola University. For a fuller look at Dr. Anderson’s publications and artworks, please visit jonathan-anderson.com.

Areas of Expertise

• Theology and the Arts
• Modern and Contemporary Art
• Art History, Theory, and Criticism
• Visual Theology
• Theological Aesthetics