Benjamin Holsteen

After a nearly twenty-year career as a musician working both inside and outside the Church, Benjamin Holsteen shifted focus and is now a mid-life, early-career academic, theologian, and artist currently writing a PhD on the work of songwriter Nick Cave at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts at the University of St Andrews. His research interest include the intersection of theology and popular culture, the melancholic in sacred and secular art (especially in popular music, film, Biblical literature and classic works of Christian mysticism), and the shape of contemporary belief in a post-secular age.