Morning Plenary Speaker

Myk Habets

On the subject of: Theosis/How We Become More & More Like Christ

Myk Habets is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Head of the School of Theology at Laidlaw College and has Senior Researcher status with AUT and ACT. He is also a Baptist pastor. Myk lectures in Systematic Theology and Ethics and has lectured at a number of universities and colleges in New Zealand and abroad.

He is President of the Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship, Associate Editor of Participatio: The Journal of the Thomas Torrance Theological Fellowship, and Co-editor of Re-envisioning Reformed Theology Series (Cascade Books). His work is widely published in international journals, and he has published over twenty-four books, including The Anointed Son and The Progressive Mystery

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, C.S. Lewis, Evangelical Calvinism, and the theological interpretation of Scripture.