About New Wine
New Wine Makes Known. We seek to heighten the awareness of students and the communities they serve to the pressing concerns facing post-modern society.
New Wine Motivates. We go beyond merely informing by inviting people to respond, inspiring them to sense the need & take ownership in meeting the need.
New Wine Mobilizes. We offer suggestions for resolving problems and engaging issues.
Dr. Paul Louis Metzger, Director
Dr. Paul Louis Metzger is the Founder and Director of The Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins. He serves as New Wine's catalyst for cultivating a community of people brought together around a shared vision of bearing witness to Christ in
contemporary culture.
Integrating theology and spirituality with cultural sensitivity stands at the center of Dr. Metzger's ministry vision. He and his wife, Mariko, a native of Japan, have been active in intercultural ministry in churches in the States, Japan, and England. Dr. Metzger is the author of The Word of Christ and the World of Culture: Sacred and Secular through the Theology of Karl Barth (Eerdmans, 2003); editor of Trinitarian Soundings in Systematic Theology (T&T Clark International, 2005); and editor of the journal, Cultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture.
His new book with Eerdmans, 
Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church, is now available. Dr. Metzger is also coauthoring The Bride: An Ecumenical and Evangelical Ecclesiology with Brad Harper (Brazos, forthcoming), and co-editing A World for All?—Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology with Peter J. Casarella and William F. Storrar (Eerdmans, forthcoming). Dr. Metzger is a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey. The Metzgers have two children, Christopher Takasumi and Julianne Misaki. Dr. Metzger has a keen interest in the art of Hokusai and enjoys reading literature.