Revd Dr Myk Habets is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Ethics and Director of Research, and past Head of the School of Theology at Laidlaw College, New Zealand. He is Member-At Large and past President of the Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship; Associate Editor of Participatio; and Co-editor of Re-envisioning Reformed Dogmatics Series (Cascade Books). His work is widely published in international journals, and he has published over twenty-five books and a hundred book chapters and academic articles.
Myk’s teaching and research centre around constructive contemporary dogmatics and moral theology (ethics). He has a special interest in pneumatology and is a world- leading scholar of Third Article Theology, theosis, Spirit Christology, the theology of Thomas F. Torrance, Evangelical Calvinism, the theology of C. S. Lewis, and the theological interpretation of Scripture.
He is currently working on a monograph on C.S. Lewis and Theosis, an edited book on critical realism as a theological methodology (T&T Clark), another on Baptists and Theosis (T&T Clark), and another on Torrance and Global Theology (T&T Clark), in addition to co-authoring a work on theological responses to disputed issues today (T&T Clark).
Myk is a Baptist pastor, is married to Odele (also a pastor), and has two adult children (neither of whom are pastors).
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Selected Publications
Books
- Starting with the Spirit: The T&T Clark Introduction to Third Article Theology. London: T&T Clark Bloomsbury, 2024 (with Greg J. Liston).
- T&T Clark Handbook of Colin E. Gunton. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2021. (with Andrew Picard and Murray Rae)
- Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis. Bellingham: Lexham Press, 2023. (with R. Lucas Stamps)
- “Deification: Recent Anglican and Protestant Approaches.” In The Oxford Handbook of Deification. edited by Andrew Hofer, Matthew Levering, and Paul Gavrilyuk. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, 497-521.
- “Spirit Christology and the Power of Jesus.” In T&T Clark Companion to Christology. Ed. Darren Sumner and Chris Tilling. London: T&T Clark Bloomsbury, 2025, 209–225.
- “Thomas F. Torrance.” In T&T Clark Handbook of Modern Theology. Ed. Philip G. Ziegler and R. David Nelson. London: T&T Clark Bloomsbury, 2026, 731–736.
- “Schlatter and the Early Adoption of Spirit Christology.” In Engaging with Schlatter: Global Conversations on Faith, Jesus Christ, and the Cross. Ed. Michael Brautigam and Jason Lam. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2026. 281–297.
Articles and Research Papers
- “Theological Theological Interpretation of Scripture.” International Journal of Systematic Theology 23 no. 2 (2021): 235-258 http://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12474
- “Herman Bavinck’s Rejection of Theosis: An Explanation.” Journal of Reformed Theology 18 (2024): 50–75.
- “Priestly Work or Corporate Sellouts: God, Creation and Order.” Academy of Management Journal Proceedings, vol 2024, no. 1 (2024): Spirituality and Nature: Alternative Ontologies to Innovate for the Future. | Academy of Management Proceedings (aom.org) (with Peter McGhee, 50%)
- “The Vagaries of Theology: Thomas F. Torrance and Practical Theology.” Participatio 12 (2025): 175–213.