Rev. Dr. Logan Hoffman has served for the past ten years in a variety of roles at the intersection of Christian Higher Education and the local church. He has served as a pastor and ordained minister in The Wesleyan Church, first in New Zealand as a church planter and then in Marion, IN, as part of the staff team at College Wesleyan Church, and as a professor for a variety of Christian liberal learning courses and experiences. His experience in Christian Higher Education includes teaching courses in Philosophy, Theology, Church History, and Biblical Studies for both Indiana Wesleyan University and Taylor University, as well as coordinating a semester-long study abroad experience in Ireland alongside his wife, Emilie.   

The research Professor Hoffman pursues likewise sits at the intersection of these influences, seeking to hold together the Wesleyan/Holiness commitment to heart religion and the practical needs of the church with the academic impulse toward rigor and clarity when speaking about God. His current research focuses on the work of Friedrich Schleiermacher, a German theologian who sought to navigate the same tension in his own time with clarity and creativity, in service to both the church and the academy. Schleiermacher’s term for such a person, one who is able to do theological work in such a way that it serves both the ecclesial and scientific interest, was a “Prince of the Church.” In studying Schleiermacher’s theological method and the resulting Doctrine of God in his magnum opus, Der christliche Glaube, Dr. Hoffman hopes to be just such a Prince. Dr. Hoffman has also begun pursuing a research interest in Eschatology, the study of “last things,” an area of theology in which a significant gap exists between the academy and the church, especially in modern times. 

Dr. Hoffman is convinced that no greater service might be rendered to the church and the world than to deeply root young people in the Christian narration of reality and to guide them in considering their life and its purpose according to the plot and logic of that narration. He is deeply grateful to be working in a community that has this end as its guiding telos and, by God’s grace, produces such deeply rooted young people.

Logan and his wife, Emilie, have three children, Rosemary, Elliott, and Clark. When not preparing for class or working on a writing project, Dr. Hoffman enjoys working on household renovation projects, fine-tuning his home espresso set-up, and watching Formula 1.