UNIO CUM CHRISTO EDITORS

Current Positions

Emeritus Professor of Systematic Theology: Faculté Jean Calvin, Aix-en-Provence [ https://www.facultejeancalvin.com/ ]

Extraordinary Professor of North West University (RSA)

Education

ThD, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (1980)

Books

James Barr and the Bible: Critique of a New Liberalism. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1980. Repr., Oregon, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2016.

En toute occasion, favorable ou non: Positions et propositions é vang éliques. Aix-en-Provence: Kerygma, 2014.

John Calvin. Institution de la Religion chrétienne. New translation and edition with Melle Marie de Védrines. Aix-en-Provence: Excelsis/Kerygma, 2009.

Cross Words: The Biblical Doctrine of Atonement. Fearn: Christian Focus, 2006.

Representative Articles

"Freedom of Conscience, Reformation, and the Advent of Secularism." Pages 191-219 in The Reformation: Its Roots and Its Legacy. Edited by Pierre Berthoud and Peter J. Lalleman. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2017.

"Story, Eschatology and the Agnus Victor." Pages 343-56 inStrangers and Pilgrims on Earth: Essays in Honour of Bram van de Beek. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

"The Lasting Significance of Ernest Troeltsch's Critical Moment." Westminster Theological Journal 72.2 (Fall 2010): 199-217.

"Calvin and France: A Paradoxical Legacy." Pages 271-82 in Restoration through Redemption: John Calvin Revisited. Edited by Henk van den Beek. Leiden: Brill, 2013.

"Sacred Violence and the Cross: A Dialogue with René Girard." In Christian Faith and Violence, Studies in Reformed Theology 2. Edited by D. van Keulen and M. E. Brinkman. Zoetermeer: Meinema, 2005.

Other Professional Experiences

2009-2012 Academic Dean, Faculté Jean Calvin

1982-2012 Editor: La Revue réformée [www.larevuereformee.net].

1980-2012 Director: Les Éditions Kerygma, Aix-en-Provence

2008-2012 President of the Francophone Association of Evangelical Theologians

Ecclesiastical

Pastor of the Evangelical Reformed Church of France (a member church of the Protestant Federation of France and the Conseil National des Evangéliques de France).

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Current Positions

President and Professor of Historical Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia [https://www.wts.edu/]

Education

PhD, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia (1985)

Books

Saint Peter's Principles: Leadership for Those Who Already Know Their Incompetence. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2019.

With Jerry Newcombe. George Washington's Sacred Fire. Bryn Mawr, PA: Providence Forum, 2006.

The Binding of God: Calvin's Role in the Development of Covenant Theology. Text and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2001.

Representative Articles

"The Relationship of Church and State." Pages 500-538 in Reformation Theology: A Systematic Summary. Edited by Matthew Barrett. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2017.

"Calvin's Final Verdict on the Augsburg Confession." Pages 96-117 in Aspects of Reforming: Theology and Practice in Sixteenth Century Europe . Edited by Michael Parsons. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2013.

"Pluralism, Postmodernity, and Religious Liberty: The Abiding Necessity of Free Speech and Religious Convictions in the Public Square." Journal of Ecumenical Studies 44.1 (Winter 2009): 26-56.

"The Early Reformed Covenant Paradigm: Vermigli in the Context of Bullinger, Luther and Calvin." Pages 70-96 in Peter Martyr Vermigli and the European Reformations: Semper Reformanda . Edited by Frank A. James III. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 115. Boston: Brill, 2004.

"Confessional Subscription Among the Sixteenth Century Reformers." Pages 33-66 in The Practice of Confessional Subscription. Edited by David W. Hall. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1995.

"The Continuing Conundrum: Calvin and the Conditionality of the Covenant." Calvin Theological Journal 29.1 (April 1994): 42-74.

"Ursinus' Development of the Covenant of Creation: A Debt to Melanchthon or Calvin?" Westminster Theological Journal 43.2 (Spring 1981): 247-88.

Other Professional Experiences

1994-         Member of Board of Huguenot Fellowship

2000          President, Providence Forum, https://providenceforum.org/.

1988-         Numerous roles in PCA Presbyteries and General Assemblies

1983-1988 Numerous roles in OPC Presbyteries and General Assemblies

Ecclesiastical

1991-2009 Senior Pastor, Proclamation Presbyterian Church, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

1988-1991 Associate Pastor, Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Newark, Delaware

1982-1988 Pastor, Bethany Presbyterian Church, Oxford, Pennsylvania

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Current Positions

Professor of Church History at Theological University Apeldoorn
President of REFORC (Reformation Research Consortium)

Education

PhD, Theological University Apeldoorn

Books

Martin Luther: A Spiritual Biography, Crossway 2018

Representative Articles

Die Wechselbeziehungen Zürich-Niederlande 1519-1619, In: Arianne Albisser/Peter Opitz (Hg.)- Die Zürcher Reformation in Europa. Beiträge der Tagung des Instituts für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte 2019, (TVZ-Zürich 2021), 539-552.

Augsburg in Heidelberg – Der reformierte Umgang met der Confessio Augustana, in: Günter Frank, Volker Leppin, Tobias Licht (Hrsg) – Die ‘Confessio Augustana’ im Ökumenischen Gespräch (De Gruyter, Berlin 2021), 121-132.

Herman Selderhuis, Augustine in Reformed Tradition: An Impetus for Further Research, in: 'Nos sumus tempora': Studies on Augustine and his Reception Offered to Mathijs Lamberigts (Peeters, Leuven 2020), 517-534.

Other Professional Experiences

Board member European Academy of Religion (EuARe)

Senior researcher, Dutch Research School for Theology and Religion (NOSTER)

Editor-in-chief, book series: Reformed Historical Theology (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht)

Editor-in-chief, book series: Refo500 Academic Studies (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht)

Editor-in-chief, book series: Law & Religion (Brill/Schöningh)

Member of the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat (Scientific Committee) Melanchthon Akademie Bretten

Member, Executive Board, RESILIENCE

Editor, Studies in Puritanism & Piety

Member of the Board of the Martin Luther Foundation Erfurt

Ecclesiastical

1987 to 1992 pastor of the Christian Reformed Church of Hengelo

1992 to 1997 pastor of the Christian Reformed Church of Zwolle.

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Teaching Experience

Visiting Lecturer in New Testament Studies, Farel Reformed Theological Seminary, Montréal, Canada (2010-2018) [https://farel.net/]

Adjunct Professor of Old Testament, Eastern University, Saint Davids, PA (2004)

Education

PhD, Hermeneutics and New Testament, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia (2007)

Publications

"J. Gresham Machen's The Virgin Birth of Christ: Then and Now." Unio cum Christo 2.2 (October 2016): 135-55.

(Contributor and Editor) Peter A. Lillback and Richard B. Gaffin Jr., eds. Thy Word Is Still Truth. Phillipsburg, N.J.: P&R Publishing, 2013.

The Shepherd-Flock Motif in the Miletus Discourse (Acts 20:17-38) Against Its Historical Background . Studies in Biblical Literature 124. New York: Peter Lang, 2009.

Translations and Editions

(Translator) Guillaume Farel, The Manner and Way (1533) and John Calvin, Form of Ecclesiastical Prayers (1545, 1542, 1566). Pages 195-212 and 299-336 in Reformation Worship: Liturgies from the P ast for the Present. Edited by Jonathan Gibson and Mark Earngey. Greensboro, NC: New Growth Press, 2018.

(Co-editor with Paul Wells.) Desiderius Erasmus. "An Exhortation to the Diligent Study of Scripture." Unio cum Christo 2.2 (October 2016): 13-28.

(Translator) Claude Brousson. Letters to Roman Catholics (1687). Unpublished.

Other Professional Experiences

2007-2014 Researcher and Editor, Westminster Theological Seminary

1993-1996 Member of the Editorial Committee of the Journal Hokhma [http://hokhma.org/]

Ecclesiastical

Leading Bible Studies and Preaching Engagements in the United States, France, Switzerland, England, and North Africa.