Jason McMartin

Departments	Rosemead School of Psychology Division of Biblical and Theological Studies Talbot School of Theology
Biola Affiliations	Faculty
Phones	(562) 903-4867 (Rosemead School of Psychology) (562) 903-4814 (Talbot School of Theology)

Documents

Degrees

Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
M.A., Claremont Graduate University
M.A., Talbot School of Theology
B.A., ��ʷ

Member of

University Personnel Committee

Biography

Jason McMartin specializes in the areas of systematic theology, religious epistemology, philosophical theology and theological integration. Recent research has explored moral emotions and Christian approaches for finding meaning in suffering. He teaches systematic theology and theological integration for Rosemead School of Psychology and for Talbot School of Theology..

Affiliations

Christian Association for Psychological Studies
Evangelical Theological Society

Publications

Hall, M. E. L., Kapic, K. M., Park, C., Sacco, S. J., Kim, D., McMartin, J., Silverman, E., Shannonhouse, L., Aten, J., & Snow, L. M. (2024). Lament: Measuring a Christian meaning-making coping practice. Journal of Psychology and Theology 53(1), 36-54.
Shannonhouse, L., McMartin, J., Sacco, S.J., Hall, M.E.L., Park, C.L., Kim, D., Silverman, E.J., Kapic, K.M., and Aten, J. (2024). Spiritual surrender: Measurement of an emic Christian religious coping strategy. Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 11 (2), 173–185.
McMartin, J., & Pickavance, T. (2024). Affective reason. Episteme 21 (3), 819-836.
Hall, M. E. L., McMartin, J., Park, C., Sacco, S. J., Kim, D., Kapic, K. M., Silverman, E. Shannonhouse, L., Aten, J., Snow, L. M., & Lopez, L. (2022). Suffering with Christ: Emic Christian coping and relation to well-being. SSM – Mental Health 2, 100158.
Hall, M.E.L., Silverman, E.J., Sacco, S.J., Park, C.L., McMartin, J., Kapic, K.M., Shannonhouse, L., Aten, J., & Snow, L.M. (2022). Intimacy with God: Development of An Emic Christian Measure and Relationship to Well-Being. Journal of Psychology and Christianity 41(1), 36-53.
McMartin, J. & Hall, M.E.L. (2022). Christian functional views of suffering: A review and theoretical overview. Mental Health, Religion, & Culture 25(3), 247-262.
McMartin, J., Silverman, E.J., Hall, M.E.L., Aten, J., & Shannonhouse, L. (2020). Christian Meaning Making through Suffering in Theology and Psychology of Religion. The Journal of Moral Theology 9(1), 120-135.
McMartin, J. (2017). Holy Saturday and Christian theological anthropology. In Farris, J. & Lotfin, K. (Eds.). Christian physicalism?: Philosophical and theological critiques. Lexington Books.
Langer, R., McMartin, J., & Hall, M.E.L. (2017). Theological perspectives on trauma: Human flourishing after the fall. In Gingrich H.D. & Gingrich F.C. (Eds.). Treating trauma in Christian counseling. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press.
McMartin, J. & Pickavance, T.H. (2016). The voice of God in historical biblical criticism. In Crisp, O.D. & Sanders, F. (Eds.). The voice of God in the text of Scripture. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.
McMartin, J. (2016). Reason. In Johnson, K. L. & Lauber D. (Eds.). T&T Clark Companion to the Doctrine of Sin. London: T&T Clark.
McMartin, J. (2015). The Work of the Holy Spirit in Natural Psychological Growth. Journal of Psychology and Christianity 34(3), 214-225.
McMartin, J. (2013). Sleep, Sloth, and Sanctification. Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care 6(2), 255-272.
McMartin, J. (2013). The Theandric Union as Imago Dei and Capax Dei. In Crisp, O.D. and Sanders, F. (Eds.). Christology Ancient and Modern: Explorations in Constructive Theology. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 136-150.
McMartin, J. (2013). Analytic Philosophy and Christian Theology. Religion Compass 7(9), 361-371.

Presentations

Hall, M. E. L., McMartin, J., Lawson, S., & Duff, M. (March, 2025). Learning to Lament: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on a Forgotten Practice. Symposium presented at the Christian Association of Psychological Studies Conference, Denver, CO.
McMartin, J., & Pickavance, T. (November, 2024). Theology for Coming to Terms with Our WEIRDness. Paper presented at the Evangelical Theological Society conference, San Diego, CA.
McMartin, J., & Pickavance, T. (May, 2024). Affective Evidentialism and Jonathan Edwards’s the New Sense of the Heart. Paper presented at Society of Christian Philosophers Mountain-Pacific Meeting, Malibu, CA.
McMartin, J. (February, 2024). Spiritual Surrender as Virtuous Response to Tragedy. Paper presented at Virtuous and Vicious Responses to Tragedy, Newport News, VA.
McMartin, J., & Pickavance, T. (November, 2023). Primal World Beliefs as Affective Appraisers. Paper presented at the Evangelical Philosophical Society conference, San Antonio, TX.
Bland, C. & McMartin, J. (March, 2023). Counselor role integration, value conflicts, and the orders of love. Paper presented at Christian Association of Psychological Studies, Louisville, KY.
McMartin, J. & Pickavance, T.H. (2020, November). Three grades of emotional reason. Paper presented at Evangelical Philosophical Society Conference (virtual).
Bland, C., & McMartin, J., (2020, March). Do we need realignment? Values based conflicts in counseling & therapy. Paper presented at Christian Association of Psychological Studies, Atlanta, GA.
McMartin, J. (2020, January). Holy Spirit empowered work. Paper presented at the Los Angeles Theology Conference, La Mirada, CA.
McMartin, J. & Pickavance, T.H. (2019, November). Edwards, the epistemology of emotions, and religious disagreement. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, San Diego, CA.
McMartin, J. (2016, May). Prayer is the meaning of life. Invited lecture for “Analytic Theology for Theological Formation” lecture series, Fuller Seminary, Pasadena, CA.

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