Taylor Worley is the Visiting Associate Professor of Art History at Wheaton College in Illinois. In 2021, he awarded a grant from the Templeton Religion Trust for a project titled “Thinking About Thinking: Conceptual Art in the Contemplative Tradition.”
Dr. Worley served as the Visiting Associate Professor of Faith and Culture and the Managing Director of Trinity International University’s Center for Transformational Churches. In 2010, Worley was awarded his Ph.D. in Theology from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He received an M.Div. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2004 and a B.A. in Christian Studies from Union University in 2001.
He has published multiple articles related to the intersection of arts and theology, and he is the author of four books, including the 2019 Memento Mori in Contemporary Art, which examines how four contemporary artists explore the question of death in their religious imagery.