Claire Hein Blanton is a theologian, researcher, and author. She is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at Baylor University's Truett Seminary-Houston, where she teaches courses in modern theology, ethics, and Reformation theology.

Claire is the author of Between Resistance and Submission: Bonhoeffer, Luther, and Christian Witness as Political Theology. Her writings have appeared in Bloomsbury’s Bonhoeffer and Contemporary Challenges: Crisis and Hope, The Christian Citizen, Baptist News Global, and the St. Mark’s Review.

Claire’s research is focused on the importance of ‘care for the neighbor’ as means of political engagement, primarily through the lens of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. She is interested in where responsibility to be Christ to the neighbor runs up against political expectations. Claire is interested in how these acts of witness and care impact areas of civic disobedience and what the inherent limitations to participation in the state are as a result. More broadly, she is interested in political theology, ethics, and mental health.

Claire is an ordained Baptist minister and lives in Houston, Texas.