D. Andrew Kille

D. Andrew Kille (January 6, 1950 – June 30, 2018) was an American writer, teacher, biblical scholar and interfaith activist.

Early life and education Kille was born January 6, 1950, in Ventura, California. He studied at Ojai Valley School and The Thacher School in Ojai, California, before he entering Stanford University. He graduated in 1971 with a degree in English literature, and attended the American Baptist Seminary of the West in Berkeley, California, where he received his M.Div degree.

He served as a pastor at the Grace Baptist Church in San Jose, California, for fifteen years, before returning to school. He received the first Ph.D. granted in Psychological biblical criticism from the Graduate Theological Union in 1997. His interest in psychology and the Bible began during his years as a pastor and was nurtured through the work of Morton Kelsey, John A. Sanford, Elizabeth Howes and the Guild for Psychological Studies, and Carl Jung. He has contributed to several volumes of psychological biblical criticism.

Kille served as both co-chair and chair of the psychology and Biblical studies section of the Society of Biblical Literature. In 2007, he was named Editor of The Bible Workbench, a study resource on the Bible rooted in a psychologically informed approach, published by The Educational Center in Charlotte, N.C.

Kille died on June 30, 2018, of pancreatic cancer.

Kille was chair of the group that worked to create SiVIC, the Silicon Valley Interreligious Council in 2011, and serves as chair of the SiVIC board.