Curriculum Vitae
Work:
Covenant Theological Seminary
12330 Conway Road
St. Louis MO 63141
314 434 4044
PERSONAL
Born: December 19, 1970 in Stratford, NJ
Married: January 1, 1994 to Sara Elizabeth (nee Young; born: April 20, 1972)
Children: Samuel Nathan (born: October 26, 1997); Elizabeth Anne (born: March 25, 1999); Andrew Thomas (born: July 11, 2001);
Benjamin Michael (November 18, 2003).
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Westminster Theological Seminary, 2002 (Historical and Theological Studies/American Reformed Tradition).
Dissertation: “Hold Fast That Which Is Good”: The Public Theology of Robert Lewis Dabney.
M. A., Bob Jones University, 1994 (Theology/Church History)
B. A., Bob Jones University, 1993, cum laude (Pastoral Studies)
Also attended: Liberty University, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
ECCLESIASTICAL AFFILIATION
Presbyterian Church in America
Teaching elder, Missouri Presbytery
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Chief Academic Officer and Associate Professor of Church History
Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, MO
Courses Taught
• CH200: Story of Christianity
• CH310: Ancient and Medieval Church History
• CH320: Reformation and Modern Church History
• CH531: Abraham Kuyper
• CH544: History of Theology in America 1: Puritans to Civil War
• CH563: Life and Thought of Jonathan Edwards
• Independent studies on Jonathan Edwards; Wendell Berry; Karl Barth; faith and politics; Medieval church history
PRIOR MINISTERIAL EXPERIENCE/EMPLOYMENT
2005-06: Assistant Pastor, The Covenant Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, MO
2002-04: Assistant Pastor, Community Presbyterian Church (PCA), Louisville, KY
PUBLICATIONS
Books: Author
On Being Presbyterian: Our Beliefs, Practices, and Stories (P&R Publishing, 2006).
Robert Lewis Dabney: A Southern Presbyterian Life, American Reformed Biography series (P&R Publishing, 2005).
Forthcoming
What is Presbyterian Church Government? Basic of Reformed Faith (P&R, forthcoming, 2009)
Books: Editor
Co-editor (with Robert A. Peterson), All for Jesus: A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Covenant Theological Seminary (Christian
Focus, 2006).
• “‘What is the nature of true religion?’: Religious Affections and its American Puritan Context”
Co-editor (with D. G. Hart and Stephen J. Nichols), The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards: American Religion and the Evangelical
Tradition (Baker, 2003).
• “‘He Cuts Up Edwardsism By the Roots’: Robert Lewis Dabney and the Edwardsian Legacy in the Nineteenth Century South”
• “Jonathan Edwards Between Church and Academy: A Bibliographic Essay”
Series: Editor
Series co-editor (with D. G. Hart), American Reformed Biography series, P&R Publishing, 2002-present, nine volumes contracted to
date; two volumes published.
Articles and Essays
“‘Divine Light, Holy Heat’: Jonathan Edwards, the Ministry of the Word, and Spiritual Formation,” Presbyterion 34 (2008): 1-12.
“‘Our Church Will Be On Trial’: W. M. McPheeters and the Beginnings of Conservative Dissent in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.,”
Journal of Presbyterian History 84 (2006): 52-66.
“Southern-Fried Kuyper?: Robert Lewis Dabney, Abraham Kuyper, and the Limitations of Public Theology,” Westminster Theological
Journal 66 (2004): 179-201.
“‘A Man Just Like Us’: Jonathan Edwards and Spiritual Formation for Ministerial Candidates,” Presbyterion 30 (2004): 1-10.
• Reprinted in Eusebeia: The Bulletin of the Jonathan Edwards Centre for Reformed Spirituality, No. 2 (Spring 2004): 29-42.
“Old Times There Are Not Forgotten: Robert Lewis Dabney’s Public Theology for a Reconstructed South,” Journal of Presbyterian
History 81 (2003): 149-63.
“God and Country: Wendell Berry’s Theological Vision,” Christian Scholar’s Review 32 (2002): 73-92.
“J. Gresham Machen, Ned B. Stonehouse, and the Quandary of Reformed Ecumenicity,” Westminster Theological Journal 62 (2000):
197-222.
“Christianity at the Crossroads: E. Y. Mullins, J. Gresham Machen and the Challenge of Modernism,” The Southern Baptist Journal of
Theology 3 (Winter 1999): 58-79.
“Charles Finney’s Theology of Revival: Moral Depravity,” The Master’s Seminary Journal 6 (1995): 197-221.
Forthcoming
“Presbyterians in America: Denominational History and the Quest for Identity,” in American Denominationalism: Perspectives on the
Past, Prospects for the Future, ed. Keith Harper (University of Alabama Press, forthcoming).
Magazine Articles
“A Heart Aflame: Understanding Presbyterian and Reformed Piety” Covenant Magazine 22:3 (Fall 2007): 7-9.
“Presbyterian Identity for Postmoderns,” ByFaith Magazine (April/May 2007): 36-8.
“Church Leadership,” Covenant Magazine 22:1 (Spring 2007): 8-9.
“‘A Man Just Like Us’: Jonathan Edwards and Spiritual Formation for Ministerial Candidates,” Covenant Magazine 19:4 (Winter 2004-
5): 6-9
Dictionary Articles
Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America, ed. Michael J. McClymond (New York: Greenwood Press, 2006).
• “J. Wilbur Chapman”
• “Shubal Stearnes”
• “Primitive Baptists”
Review Essays
“God and Country American Style,” Westminster Theological Journal 69 (2007): 185-97.
“Review Essay: Brian D. McLaren’s A Generous Orthodoxy,” Presbyterion 32 (2006): 83-92.
“God in an American Mold: A Review Essay of Mark Noll’s America’s God,” Fides et Historia 35 (2003): 141-3.
“Growing Pains on the Sawdust Trail: Evangelicals’ New Conversion Narratives,” Perspectives 18:2 (February 2003): 18-21.
“Fundamentalisms Revived and Still Standing: A Review Essay,” Westminster Theological Journal 60 (1998): 327-37.
Book Reviews
Written book reviews for Church History, Modern Reformation, Presbyterion, Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, Westminster
Theological Journal
PAPERS AND LECTURES
“The Only Hope for America: Southern Presbyterians, Billy Graham, and the Mission of the Church,” Westminster Student Association
Lecture, Westminster Seminary California, Escondido, CA, April, 2008.
“‘Divine light, holy heat’: Jonathan Edwards, the Sermon, and Spiritual Formation,” Evangelical Theological Society, National
Meeting, San Diego, CA, November, 2007.
“Coalescing Conservative Dissent: Southern Presbyterians and Confessional Revision in the 1930s,” Westminster Confession for Today,
Memphis, TN, June 2007
"Presbyterians in America: Denominational History and the Quest for Identity," Winter Meeting, American Society of Church History,
Atlanta, Georgia, January 2007.
“‘Red and Yellow, Black and White’: Southern Presbyterian Conservatives and the Crises of Postwar America,” National Meeting,
Conference on Faith and History, Oklahoma Baptist University, Oklahoma, OK, September 2006.
“A Defense of Virginia, the South, and Mastery: Robert Lewis Dabney's Proslavery Polemics,” Institute for Faith and Learning
Conference, Baylor University, Waco, TX, October, 2004.
“Creator, Creation, and Community: Exploring the Vision of Wendell Berry,” The Francis Schaeffer Institute, St. Louis, MO,
September, 2004.
“A Southern Presbyterian ‘Patriot’: Robert Lewis Dabney’s Struggle with Manhood and Honor during the Civil War,” American Society
of Church History, Spring Meeting, Harrisburg, PA, April, 2004.
“‘A Man Just Like Us’: Jonathan Edwards and Spiritual Formation for Ministerial Candidates,” Covenant Theological Seminary, St.
Louis, MO, October 2003.
“At War With His Age: Robert Lewis Dabney’s Antimodern Theology for the Postbellum South,” American Society of Church History,
Spring Meeting, Louisville, KY, May 2003.
“D. G. Hart and the Ironies of a Confessional Presbyterian Historian,” Conference of Faith and History, National Meeting, Huntington
College, Huntington, IN, October 2002.
“‘Old times there are not forgotten’: Robert Lewis Dabney’s Public Theology for a Reconstructed South,” The Historical Society,
National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, May 2002.
“‘He Cuts Up Edwardsism By the Roots’: Robert Lewis Dabney and the Edwardsian Legacy in the Nineteenth Century South,”
Evangelical Theological Society, Southeastern Regional Meeting, Memphis, TN, March 2002; Covenant Theological Seminary, St.
Louis, MO, October 2003.
“‘The Cause of Truth and Order’: Robert Lewis Dabney’s Public Theology for a Reconstructed South,” Douglas Southall Freeman
Symposium, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, February 2002.
“‘What is the Nature of True Religion?’: Religious Affections and Its American Puritan Context,” Reformation Day Conference,
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Lancaster, PA, October 2001.
“Edwards Studies and Evangelical Theology,” Evangelical Theological Society, National Meeting, Nashville, TN, November 2000.
“Jonathan Edwards—A Postmillennialist?: A Comparative Investigation and Proposal,” Evangelical Theological Society, National
Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 1995.
GRANTS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS
2004-05: Presbyterian Historical Society Research Fellowship
$3000 for four weeks of archival research at Presbyterian Historical Society; one of four awarded.
FACULTY COMMITTEES AND SERVICE
2006-2007: Director of Institutional Self-Study
2005-present: President's Cabinet
2004-present: Faculty committees, Covenant Theological Seminary
• 2005-present: Curriculum committee
committees; proposal reader in spring 2005.
CURRENT RESEARCH AND PROJECTS
Book length project: For a Continuing Church: Conservative Dissent in Southern Presbyterianism, 1934-74 (research stage; seeking
funding)
ECCLESIASTICAL SERVICE
Presbytery
2007-present: Administrative Committee, Missouri Presbytery
2007-present: Reformed University Ministries Committee, Missouri Presbytery
• Chairman, 2007-present
2004-2005: Ad Hoc Committee on the Federal Vision, Missouri Presbytery (clerk)
2003-2005: Committee on Candidates, Ohio Valley Presbytery
• Chairman, 2005
• Internship Subcommittee Chairman, 2003-2005
General Assembly
2006-2007 : Ad Interim Committee on Federal Vision, etc.
2003-2004, 2006, 2008: Committee of Commissioners
2003-2004: Judge, G. Aiken Taylor Award, Presbyterian Church in America Historical Center
Covenant Theological Seminary
12330 Conway Road
St. Louis MO 63141
314 434 4044
PERSONAL
Born: December 19, 1970 in Stratford, NJ
Married: January 1, 1994 to Sara Elizabeth (nee Young; born: April 20, 1972)
Children: Samuel Nathan (born: October 26, 1997); Elizabeth Anne (born: March 25, 1999); Andrew Thomas (born: July 11, 2001);
Benjamin Michael (November 18, 2003).
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Westminster Theological Seminary, 2002 (Historical and Theological Studies/American Reformed Tradition).
Dissertation: “Hold Fast That Which Is Good”: The Public Theology of Robert Lewis Dabney.
M. A., Bob Jones University, 1994 (Theology/Church History)
B. A., Bob Jones University, 1993, cum laude (Pastoral Studies)
Also attended: Liberty University, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
ECCLESIASTICAL AFFILIATION
Presbyterian Church in America
Teaching elder, Missouri Presbytery
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Chief Academic Officer and Associate Professor of Church History
Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, MO
- 2008: Associate Professor of Church History; Chief Academic Officer, Covenant Theological Seminary
- 2007: Vice President for Academics, Covenant Theological Seminary
- 2006: Dean of Faculty, Covenant Theological Seminary
- 2005: Assistant Professor of Church History and Associate Dean for Academics, Covenant Theological Seminary
- 2004-05: Adjunct professor of church history and coordinator of candidate relations, Covenant Theological Seminary
Courses Taught
• CH200: Story of Christianity
• CH310: Ancient and Medieval Church History
• CH320: Reformation and Modern Church History
• CH531: Abraham Kuyper
• CH544: History of Theology in America 1: Puritans to Civil War
• CH563: Life and Thought of Jonathan Edwards
• Independent studies on Jonathan Edwards; Wendell Berry; Karl Barth; faith and politics; Medieval church history
PRIOR MINISTERIAL EXPERIENCE/EMPLOYMENT
2005-06: Assistant Pastor, The Covenant Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, MO
2002-04: Assistant Pastor, Community Presbyterian Church (PCA), Louisville, KY
PUBLICATIONS
Books: Author
On Being Presbyterian: Our Beliefs, Practices, and Stories (P&R Publishing, 2006).
Robert Lewis Dabney: A Southern Presbyterian Life, American Reformed Biography series (P&R Publishing, 2005).
Forthcoming
What is Presbyterian Church Government? Basic of Reformed Faith (P&R, forthcoming, 2009)
Books: Editor
Co-editor (with Robert A. Peterson), All for Jesus: A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Covenant Theological Seminary (Christian
Focus, 2006).
• “‘What is the nature of true religion?’: Religious Affections and its American Puritan Context”
Co-editor (with D. G. Hart and Stephen J. Nichols), The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards: American Religion and the Evangelical
Tradition (Baker, 2003).
• “‘He Cuts Up Edwardsism By the Roots’: Robert Lewis Dabney and the Edwardsian Legacy in the Nineteenth Century South”
• “Jonathan Edwards Between Church and Academy: A Bibliographic Essay”
Series: Editor
Series co-editor (with D. G. Hart), American Reformed Biography series, P&R Publishing, 2002-present, nine volumes contracted to
date; two volumes published.
- Sean Michael Lucas, Robert Lewis Dabney: A Southern Presbyterian Life (2005)
- D. G. Hart, John Williamson Nevin: High Church Calvinist (2005)
- John Muether, Cornelius Van Til: Reformed Apologist and Churchman (2008)
- Tom Nettles, James Petigru Boyce (forthcoming, 2009)
Articles and Essays
“‘Divine Light, Holy Heat’: Jonathan Edwards, the Ministry of the Word, and Spiritual Formation,” Presbyterion 34 (2008): 1-12.
“‘Our Church Will Be On Trial’: W. M. McPheeters and the Beginnings of Conservative Dissent in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.,”
Journal of Presbyterian History 84 (2006): 52-66.
“Southern-Fried Kuyper?: Robert Lewis Dabney, Abraham Kuyper, and the Limitations of Public Theology,” Westminster Theological
Journal 66 (2004): 179-201.
“‘A Man Just Like Us’: Jonathan Edwards and Spiritual Formation for Ministerial Candidates,” Presbyterion 30 (2004): 1-10.
• Reprinted in Eusebeia: The Bulletin of the Jonathan Edwards Centre for Reformed Spirituality, No. 2 (Spring 2004): 29-42.
“Old Times There Are Not Forgotten: Robert Lewis Dabney’s Public Theology for a Reconstructed South,” Journal of Presbyterian
History 81 (2003): 149-63.
“God and Country: Wendell Berry’s Theological Vision,” Christian Scholar’s Review 32 (2002): 73-92.
“J. Gresham Machen, Ned B. Stonehouse, and the Quandary of Reformed Ecumenicity,” Westminster Theological Journal 62 (2000):
197-222.
“Christianity at the Crossroads: E. Y. Mullins, J. Gresham Machen and the Challenge of Modernism,” The Southern Baptist Journal of
Theology 3 (Winter 1999): 58-79.
“Charles Finney’s Theology of Revival: Moral Depravity,” The Master’s Seminary Journal 6 (1995): 197-221.
Forthcoming
“Presbyterians in America: Denominational History and the Quest for Identity,” in American Denominationalism: Perspectives on the
Past, Prospects for the Future, ed. Keith Harper (University of Alabama Press, forthcoming).
Magazine Articles
“A Heart Aflame: Understanding Presbyterian and Reformed Piety” Covenant Magazine 22:3 (Fall 2007): 7-9.
“Presbyterian Identity for Postmoderns,” ByFaith Magazine (April/May 2007): 36-8.
“Church Leadership,” Covenant Magazine 22:1 (Spring 2007): 8-9.
“‘A Man Just Like Us’: Jonathan Edwards and Spiritual Formation for Ministerial Candidates,” Covenant Magazine 19:4 (Winter 2004-
5): 6-9
Dictionary Articles
Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America, ed. Michael J. McClymond (New York: Greenwood Press, 2006).
• “J. Wilbur Chapman”
• “Shubal Stearnes”
• “Primitive Baptists”
Review Essays
“God and Country American Style,” Westminster Theological Journal 69 (2007): 185-97.
“Review Essay: Brian D. McLaren’s A Generous Orthodoxy,” Presbyterion 32 (2006): 83-92.
“God in an American Mold: A Review Essay of Mark Noll’s America’s God,” Fides et Historia 35 (2003): 141-3.
“Growing Pains on the Sawdust Trail: Evangelicals’ New Conversion Narratives,” Perspectives 18:2 (February 2003): 18-21.
“Fundamentalisms Revived and Still Standing: A Review Essay,” Westminster Theological Journal 60 (1998): 327-37.
Book Reviews
Written book reviews for Church History, Modern Reformation, Presbyterion, Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, Westminster
Theological Journal
PAPERS AND LECTURES
“The Only Hope for America: Southern Presbyterians, Billy Graham, and the Mission of the Church,” Westminster Student Association
Lecture, Westminster Seminary California, Escondido, CA, April, 2008.
“‘Divine light, holy heat’: Jonathan Edwards, the Sermon, and Spiritual Formation,” Evangelical Theological Society, National
Meeting, San Diego, CA, November, 2007.
“Coalescing Conservative Dissent: Southern Presbyterians and Confessional Revision in the 1930s,” Westminster Confession for Today,
Memphis, TN, June 2007
"Presbyterians in America: Denominational History and the Quest for Identity," Winter Meeting, American Society of Church History,
Atlanta, Georgia, January 2007.
“‘Red and Yellow, Black and White’: Southern Presbyterian Conservatives and the Crises of Postwar America,” National Meeting,
Conference on Faith and History, Oklahoma Baptist University, Oklahoma, OK, September 2006.
“A Defense of Virginia, the South, and Mastery: Robert Lewis Dabney's Proslavery Polemics,” Institute for Faith and Learning
Conference, Baylor University, Waco, TX, October, 2004.
“Creator, Creation, and Community: Exploring the Vision of Wendell Berry,” The Francis Schaeffer Institute, St. Louis, MO,
September, 2004.
“A Southern Presbyterian ‘Patriot’: Robert Lewis Dabney’s Struggle with Manhood and Honor during the Civil War,” American Society
of Church History, Spring Meeting, Harrisburg, PA, April, 2004.
“‘A Man Just Like Us’: Jonathan Edwards and Spiritual Formation for Ministerial Candidates,” Covenant Theological Seminary, St.
Louis, MO, October 2003.
“At War With His Age: Robert Lewis Dabney’s Antimodern Theology for the Postbellum South,” American Society of Church History,
Spring Meeting, Louisville, KY, May 2003.
“D. G. Hart and the Ironies of a Confessional Presbyterian Historian,” Conference of Faith and History, National Meeting, Huntington
College, Huntington, IN, October 2002.
“‘Old times there are not forgotten’: Robert Lewis Dabney’s Public Theology for a Reconstructed South,” The Historical Society,
National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, May 2002.
“‘He Cuts Up Edwardsism By the Roots’: Robert Lewis Dabney and the Edwardsian Legacy in the Nineteenth Century South,”
Evangelical Theological Society, Southeastern Regional Meeting, Memphis, TN, March 2002; Covenant Theological Seminary, St.
Louis, MO, October 2003.
“‘The Cause of Truth and Order’: Robert Lewis Dabney’s Public Theology for a Reconstructed South,” Douglas Southall Freeman
Symposium, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, February 2002.
“‘What is the Nature of True Religion?’: Religious Affections and Its American Puritan Context,” Reformation Day Conference,
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Lancaster, PA, October 2001.
“Edwards Studies and Evangelical Theology,” Evangelical Theological Society, National Meeting, Nashville, TN, November 2000.
“Jonathan Edwards—A Postmillennialist?: A Comparative Investigation and Proposal,” Evangelical Theological Society, National
Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 1995.
GRANTS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS
2004-05: Presbyterian Historical Society Research Fellowship
$3000 for four weeks of archival research at Presbyterian Historical Society; one of four awarded.
FACULTY COMMITTEES AND SERVICE
2006-2007: Director of Institutional Self-Study
2005-present: President's Cabinet
- Clerk, 2006-present
2004-present: Faculty committees, Covenant Theological Seminary
• 2005-present: Curriculum committee
- Chair, 2006-present
committees; proposal reader in spring 2005.
CURRENT RESEARCH AND PROJECTS
Book length project: For a Continuing Church: Conservative Dissent in Southern Presbyterianism, 1934-74 (research stage; seeking
funding)
ECCLESIASTICAL SERVICE
Presbytery
2007-present: Administrative Committee, Missouri Presbytery
2007-present: Reformed University Ministries Committee, Missouri Presbytery
• Chairman, 2007-present
2004-2005: Ad Hoc Committee on the Federal Vision, Missouri Presbytery (clerk)
2003-2005: Committee on Candidates, Ohio Valley Presbytery
• Chairman, 2005
• Internship Subcommittee Chairman, 2003-2005
General Assembly
2006-2007 : Ad Interim Committee on Federal Vision, etc.
2003-2004, 2006, 2008: Committee of Commissioners
- Overtures, 2008 (vice-chairman)
- Bills and Overtures, 2006
- Covenant College, 2004
- Christian Education and Publications, 2003
2003-2004: Judge, G. Aiken Taylor Award, Presbyterian Church in America Historical Center
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