Isaac B. Sharp, MDiv, PhD `19
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theological Studies Director, Online & Part-Time Programs
Contact
3041 Broadway, AD 416
New York, NY 10027
(212) 280-1482
Education
B.A., Carson-Newman College
M.Div., Mercer University
M.Phil., Union Theological Seminary
Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary
Biography
Isaac B. Sharp is Visiting Assistant Professor and Faculty Director of Online and Part-time Programs at Union Theological Seminary. After graduating with his Ph.D. in 2019, he has spent the last several years helping Union develop and launch the Advanced Certificate programs and the new Master of Arts in Social Justice, Union’s first fully online degree.
Dr. Sharp is the author of The Other Evangelicals: A Story of Liberal, Black, Progressive, Feminist, and Gay Christians—and the Movement That Pushed Them Out (Eerdmans 2023), which develops a new, more inclusive history of twentieth-century evangelicalism by bringing to light the stories of those who were defined out of the category. Describing it as “absorbing and authoritative,” Calvin University historian and New York Times bestselling author Kristin Kobes Du Mez suggests, “The Other Evangelicals will quickly establish itself as one of the most important books on American evangelicalism in the modern era.”
His other major publications include Christian Ethics in Conversation: A Festschrift in Honor of Donald W. Shriver Jr., 13thPresident of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (Wipf & Stock, 2020), and Evangelical Ethics: A Reader in the Library of Theological Ethics series (Westminster John Knox, 2015).
An in-demand interview subject and podcast guest, Dr. Sharp’s current research areas include the evolution of contemporary American evangelical identity, the social and political history of the Southern Baptist Convention, and the ethics of Artificial Intelligence.
Prior to doctoral work, Dr. Sharp received a B.A. with Honors in Religion from Carson-Newman College, where he served as an Oxford Studies Fellow, conducting research in British Baptist history at Regent’s Park College, Oxford University, and an M.Div. with an emphasis in Christian Ethics from the McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University, in Atlanta, GA.