A graduate of Occidental College (AB) and Boston University (STB, Ph.D), Trotter was Dean and Professor of Theology at the Claremont School of Theology. Later he was General Secretary of the Board of Higher Education and Ministry of The United Methodist Church and President of Alaska Pacific University. His special interests are in religion and the arts and religion in higher education.
Articles
- Campus Ministry in the Last Decade of the Century
- Imagination and History
- Theology and Imagination
- The Uses of Imagination in Religious Experience
- Ordination and the Unity of the Church
- The Renewal of the Sense of Wonder in the Church
- Flannery O’Connor: Her Vision
- Reality and Resonance: The Church Turns Toward Worship
- The Authority of Hope
- The Church’s Stake in the Arts
- On Being Sideswiped by Edvard Munch
- On Being Alive to the Arts and Religion: Music
- On Being Alive to the Arts and Religion: Film
- On Being Alive to the Arts and Religion: Painting
- A Theology of Church Music
- What is Religious Art?
- The Church Moves Toward Film Discrimination