Julien C. H. Smith (PhD Baylor University) is Professor of Humanities and Theology in Christ College, Valparaiso University. He is author of Christ the Ideal King: Cultural Context, Rhetorical Strategy, and the Power of Divine Monarchy in Ephesians (Mohr Siebeck, 2011) and Paul and the Good Life: Transformation and Citizenship in the Commonwealth of God (Baylor University Press, 2020). His current projects focus on ecological hermeneutics and virtue ethics.