DOUGLAS A. SWEENEY PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY AND THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF CHURCH HISTORY AND THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT DIRECTOR, JONATHAN EDWARDS CENTER TRINITY EVANGELICAL DIVINITY SCHOOL 2065 HALF DAY ROAD DEERFIELD, IL 60015 (847) 317-8047 [email protected]

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EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University (Religion), 1995 M.A., Vanderbilt University (Religion), 1993 M.A., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (History of Christian Thought), 1989 B.A., Wheaton College (History), 1986

AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Historical Theology; History of Christianity; American Religion & Culture CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: St. Mark Lutheran Church, Lindenhurst, IL EMPLOYMENT:

Professor of Church History and the History of Christian Thought, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, 2008(tenured since 2003) Chair, Department of Church History and the History of Christian Thought, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2001-2005, 2012(Interim Chair in 1999-2000, 2007, 2010) Director, Jonathan Edwards Center, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, 2010-

Director, Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding (formerly the Center for Theological Understanding), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, 2000-2012 Associate Professor of Church History and the History of Christian Thought, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, 20022008 Visiting Professor, Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, NC, 2002, 2001 Visiting Professor, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Charlotte, NC, 2000 Assistant Professor of Church History and the History of Christian Thought, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, 19972002 Lecturer in Church History, Yale University Divinity School, New Haven, CT, 1996-97 Assistant Editor, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1995-97 Adjunct Professor (Ethics), Aquinas College, Nashville, TN, 1995

PUBLICATIONS: Books He Will Teach You All Things: A Global History of Christian Doctrine (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, forthcoming). Teaching In, With, and Under the Christian Church (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, forthcoming). Edwards the Exegete: Biblical Interpretation and Anglo-Protestant Culture on the Edge of the Enlightenment (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Co-editor, with Kevin J. Vanhoozer and Thomas H. McCall, The Kantzer Lectures in Revealed Theology, a multi-volume series of

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monographs (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, forthcoming). Co-author, with Richard J. Mouw, The Suffering and Victorious Christ: Toward a More Compassionate Christology (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013). Co-author, with Mark A. Noll, Bruce L. Shelley, Garth M. Rosell, George Marsden, Richard J. Mouw, William Martin, and Jennifer Woodruff Tait, The Rise of the Evangelicals: The Birth of a Movement That Changed America, Christianity Today Essentials, Kindle Ed. (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 2012) Co-editor, with Oliver D. Crisp, After Jonathan Edwards: The Courses of the New England Theology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). Co-author, with Owen Strachan, The Essential Edwards Collection, a five-volume series of books for Christian laity (Chicago: Moody Press, 2010). -Korean translation published in 2012 Jonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word: A Model of Faith and Thought (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2009). -Korean translation published in 2011 Co-editor, with Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe, Holding on to the Faith: Confessional Traditions in American Christianity (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2008). Co-editor, with Allen C. Guelzo, The New England Theology: From Jonathan Edwards to Edwards Amasa Park (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006). The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005). -Korean translation forthcoming Editor, The “Miscellanies,” 1153-1360, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vol. 23 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004). Co-editor, with David W. Kling, Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad: Historical Memories, Cultural Movements, Global Horizons (Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2003).

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Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). Co-editor, with Wilson H. Kimnach and Kenneth P. Minkema, The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999). -Korean translation published in 2005

Articles “Why I Am an Evangelical Christian and a Lutheran,” in Why We Belong: Stories of Evangelical Unity amidst Diversity, ed. Anthony Lyn Chute, Christopher W. Morgan, and Robert A. Peterson (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, forthcoming). “Jonathan Edwards and the Study of His Eighteenth-Century World: George Marsden’s Contribution to Colonial American Religious Historiography,” in American Evangelicalism: George Marsden and the Shape of American Religious History, ed. Darren Dochuk, Thomas S. Kidd, and Kurt Peterson (South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming). “Foreword,” in Jonathan Edwards, The Power of God: A Jonathan Edwards Commentary on the Book of Romans, ed. David S. Lovi and Benjamin Westerhoff (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, forthcoming). “Justification by Faith Alone?: A Fuller Picture of Edwards’ Doctrine,” in Jonathan Edwards and Justification, ed. Josh Moody (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2012). Co-author, with David Barshinger, “Edwards, Jonathan,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, 30 vols., ed. Hans-Josef Klauck, Bernard McGinn, Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Barry Dov Walfish, and Eric Ziolkowski (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012). “A Call and Agenda for Pastor-Theologians,” posted on The Gospel Coalition web blog, April 26, 2012 (www.thegospelcoalition.org). “Evangelicals in American History,” in The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History, ed. Paul Harvey and Edward Blum (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012).

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“Mercersburg Doctrine as a Double-Edged Sword: A Response to Darryl Hart,” in Evangelicals in the Early Church, ed. George Kalantzis and Andrew Tooley (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2011). “Modern Evangelicalism and Global Christian Identity: Promise and Peril as Seen through the Eyes of a North American Church Historian,” in After Imperialism: Christian Identity in China and the Global Evangelical Movement, ed. Richard R. Cook and David W. Pao (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2011). “Jonathan Edwards and Justification: The Rest of the Story,” in Don Schweitzer, ed., Jonathan Edwards as Contemporary: Essays in Honor of Sang Hyun Lee (New York: Peter Lang, 2010). Co-author, with Elizabeth M. Currier, three articles in the Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, ed. Daniel Patte (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). “A Brief History of Dr. Doug Sweeney,” The Scrawl 6 (October 22, 2010): 1, 4 (an interview with the graduate student newsletter at Trinity). “On the Vocation of Historians to the Priesthood of Believers: A Plea to Christian Scholars,” in Confessing History: Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation, ed. John Fea, Jay Green, and Eric Miller (South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010). “Falling Away from the General Faith of the Reformation”?: The Contest over Calvinism in Nineteenth-Century America,” in John Calvin’s American Legacy, ed. Thomas J. Davis (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010). “Catching the Edwards Bug,” Wheaton 12 (Spring 2009): 59. “Edwards and the Bible,” in Gerald R. McDermott, ed., Understanding Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to America’s Theologian (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). Co-author, with Mark C. Rogers, “Walk the Aisle,” ChristianHistory.net (a web-based magazine of Christianity Today International, posted October 24, 2008). “Foreword,” in Joseph A. Conforti, Samuel Hopkins and the New Divinity Movement: Calvinism, the Congregational Ministry, and Reform in New England between the Great Awakenings, The Jonathan Edwards Classic Studies Series, The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2008; orig. 1981).

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“Search the Scriptures: Edwards and the Bible,” in Introducing America’s Theologian: Jonathan Edwards and the European Prospect, ed. Tibor Fabiny (Budapest: Karoli Gaspar University Press, 2008). -This citation is a translation from the Hungarian. My chapter was translated into Hungarian for this publication. Co-author, with Bandon Withrow, “Jonathan Edwards: Continuator or Pioneer of Evangelical History?,” in The Emergence of Evangelicalism: Exploring Historical Continuities, ed. Michael A. G. Haykin and Kenneth J. Stewart (Nottingham, England: Inter-Varsity Press, 2008). -American edition by Broadman & Holman, 2008 “Introduction,” in The Great Commission: Evangelicals and the History of World Missions, ed. Martin Klauber and Scott M. Manetsch (Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 2008). “Conference on Faith and History Roundtable: Mark A. Noll’s The Civil War as a Theological Crisis,” Fides et Historia 39 (Summer/Fall 2007): 1-3. “On the Vocation of Historians to the Priesthood of Believers: Faithful Practices in Service of the Guild,” Fides et Historia 39 (Winter/Spring 2007): 1-13. “Jonathan Edwards,” in Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters, ed. Donald K. McKim (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2007) “Evangelical Tradition in America,” in The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Edwards, ed. Stephen J. Stein (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). Co-author, with Joseph L. Thomas, “Crossing the Color Line: A Brief Historical Survey of Race Relations in American Evangelical Christianity,” in This Side of Heaven: Race, Ethnicity, and Christian Faith, ed. Robert J. Priest and Alvaro L. Nieves (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007). Interview with Chris Fann for article entitled “10 Questions With . . . Dr. Doug Sweeney,” posted on web blog entitled The Preface, December 29, 2006 (http://nextstep-preface.blogspot.com). “Unity in Diversity?: The New Evangelical Legacy,” and “Fundamentalism,” Christian History & Biography, No. 92 (Fall 2006).

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“Foreword,” in Bryan N. Maier, The Separation of Psychology and Theology at Princeton, 1868-1903: The Intellectual Achievement of James McCosh and James Mark Baldwin (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005). “Longing for More and More of It: The Strange Career of Jonathan Edwards’s Exegetical Exertions,” in Jonathan Edwards at 300: Essays on the Tercentenary of His Birth, ed. Harry S. Stout, Kenneth P. Minkema, and Caleb J. D. Maskell (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005). “Jonathan Edwards and the Church,” in The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards, ed. Sang Hyun Lee (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). “Edwards’ Legacy,” on the web site of the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University (http://edwards.yale.edu), posted January 8, 2005. Interview with the Rev. Steve Farish for article entitled “Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad: Dr. Doug Sweeney Discusses His New Book on Edwards in an Interview with TEDS Alumnus Rev. Steve Farish (MA ’02),” Trinity Magazine (Spring 2004): 18-21. “A Plentiful Harvest: Jonathan Edwards at 300,” Books & Culture (November/December 2003): 16, 40-42. “Skating on Thin Ice: The Precarious Life and Hard Times of Religion in the University,” in Books & Culture (September/October 2003): 34-35. “A More Discriminating Assessment: George Marsden’s Tercentennial Look at Edwards,” Evangelical Studies Bulletin 20 (Spring 2003): 1-5. “Taylorites, Tylerites and the Dissolution of the New England Theology,” in D. G. Hart, Sean Michael Lucas, and Stephen J. Nichols, eds., The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards: American Religion and the Evangelical Tradition (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2003). “Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)” (co-author) and “Nathaniel William Taylor (1786-1858),” in Timothy Larsen, ed., Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals (Leicester, England: Inter-Varsity Press, 2003). “Expect Joy,” in Christian History 22, no. 1 (2003): 42-43--on Jonathan Edwards’s eudaemonism. -reprinted in John Piper, ed., 1703-2003: Reflections on Jonathan Edwards 300 Years Later (Minneapolis: Desiring God Ministries, 2003)

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Interview with Diane J. McDougal for article entitled “Starting at the Root: Addressing Diversity in the Training of EFCA Pastors,” Beacon 76 (November/December 2002): 12-14. “Introduction,” to Jonathan Edwards on Revival: Discerning Genuine from Spurious Revival (Lima, Peru: Ediciones Cervantes, 2002) -a Spanish language edition of Edwards’s Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God (I have offered an English translation of the title here) “Daughters of Light,” Fides et Historia 34 (Summer/Fall 2002): 109-12. “Preface,” to Peter Van Mastricht, A Treatise on Regeneration, ed. Brandon Withrow (Morgan, Penn.: Soli Deo Gloria, 2002). “Jesuits and the Counter-Reformation,” in Evangelical Dictionary of Christian Education, ed. Michael J. Anthony et al. (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 2001). “Keeping Watch Until He Comes: A History of Christian Millennialism,” in The Ministerial Forum (of the Evangelical Free Church of America), vol. 11 (Fall 2000): 1-3. “Dwight, Timothy,” “Evangelical Covenant Church,” “Evangelical Free Church of America,” and “Hopkins, Samuel,” in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (4th ed., Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1998-2000). “Taming the Reformation: What the Lutheran-Catholic Justification Declaration really accomplished--and what it did not,” in Christianity Today (Jan. 10, 2000): 63-65. -first published on-line at ChristianityToday.com, Nov. 2, 1999 Several articles in Dictionary of the Presbyterian and Reformed Tradition in America, ed. Mark A. Noll and D. G. Hart (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999). “Taking a Shot at Redemption: A Lutheran Considers the Calvin College School of Historiography,” Books & Culture (May/June 1999): 43-45. “The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus,” Books & Culture (March/April 1999): 45-46. “Can Our History Grant Us Courage?: The Reinvigoration of Old-Line Protestant Congregational Studies,” Religious Studies Review 25 (January 1999): 43-47.

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“Jonathan Edwards’ Legacy of Spiritual Formation and Pastoral Ministry: An Interview with Professor Sweeney of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School,” Ministry and Theology 115 (January 1999): 146-51. -This citation is a translation from the Korean. “Bela Bates Edwards,” in American National Biography, vol. 7 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 324-25. “Are There Two Roads to Holiness? Charles G. Finney and the Reinterpretation of Wesleyan/Holiness Origins: A Conversation between Allen Guelzo and Douglas A. Sweeney,” Wesleyan/Holiness Studies Center Bulletin 6 (Spring 1998): 1-3. “Edwards and His Mantle: The Historiography of the New England Theology,” New England Quarterly 71 (March 1998): 97-119. “Jonathan Edwards,” in Historical Handbook of Major Biblical Interpreters, ed. Donald K. McKim (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1998). “Fleshing Out the Kingdom of God: A Synthetic Look at AngloAmerican Social Christianity,” Reviews in American History 25 (March 1997): 82-88. “Nathaniel W. Taylor and the Edwardsian Tradition: A Reassessment,” in Jonathan Edwards’s Writings: Text, Context, Interpretation, ed. Stephen J. Stein (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996). “Christianity Today,” in Popular Religious Magazines of the United States, ed. Mark Fackler and Charles H. Lippy (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995). “Peter Cartwright: Muscular Christianity on the Wild Frontier,” in Ambassadors for Christ, ed. John D. Woodbridge (Chicago: Moody Press, 1994). “Historiographical Dialectics: On Marsden, Dayton, and the Inner Logic of Evangelical History,” Christian Scholar’s Review 23 (September 1993): 48-52. “Fundamentalism and the Neo-Evangelicals,” Fides et Historia 24 (Winter/Spring 1992): 81-96.

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“The ‘Strange Schizophrenia’ of Neo-Evangelicalism: A Bibliography,” Evangelical Studies Bulletin 8 (Spring 1991): 6-8. “The Essential Evangelicalism Dialectic: The Historiography of the Early Neo-Evangelical Movement and the Observer-Participant Dilemma,” Church History 60 (March 1991): 70-84.

Book Reviews American Historical Review, Books & Culture, Christianity Today, ChristianityToday.com, Church History, The Cresset, Evangelical Studies Bulletin, Fides et Historia, Historical Journal of Massachusetts, International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Jonathan Edwards Center (website, Yale University), Jonathan Edwards Center (website, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), Journal of American History, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Journal of Religion, Religious Studies Review, Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology, Theology Today, Trinity Journal (I have written multiple reviews for several of these journals.)

PAPERS:

“Reformation Lectures,” three talks at Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, GA, October 26-27, 2015 “Edwards under the Word,” at “Edwards for the Church,” a conference for clergy, Gateshead Presbyterian Church, Gateshead, England, Fall 2014 (specifics TBA) “Witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts?: Some Lessons from the Past,” at “Christianity and Witch Accusations,” a conference hosted by the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology, Nairobi, Kenya, March 2014 “Edwards the Exegete,” two lectures at the “Reformed Theology and Modern Ministry” seminar, Yullin Church, Seoul, South Korea, May 27, 2013 “Christus Victor et Christus Dolor: Resources for the Formation of a More Global and Compassionate American Christology,” at “Suffering and Hope in Jesus Christ: Christological Polarity and Religious Pluralism,” a conference co-sponsored by the Carl F. H.

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Henry Center for Theological Understanding, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and Tokyo Christian University, held in Tokyo, Japan, July 21-23, 2010 “Nevin, Schaff and Mercersburg Theology: A Response,” at “Evangelicals and the Early Church: Recovery, Reform, Renewal,” a conference co-sponsored by The Wheaton Center for Early Christian Studies and The Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Wheaton College, March 18-19, 2010 “‘Falling Away from the General Faith of the Reformation’? The Contest over Calvinism in Nineteenth-Century America,” at “Calvin and His Influence, 1509-2009,” a conference hosted by the Association Calvin 2009, Institut d’histoire de la reformation, faculte autonome de theologie protestante, Société du Musée historique de la Réformation et Bibliothèque Calvinienne, and sponsored by the Fondation Hans Wilsdorf, the Schweizerische Reformationsstiftung, the Loterie Romande, the Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique, and the University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, May 24-27, 2009 “History of the Evangelical Movement in the West,” at “Beyond Our Past: Bible, Cultural Identity, and the Global Evangelical Movement,” a conference co-sponsored by the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Evangel Seminary, Hong Kong, and China Evangelical Seminary, Taiwan, held in Hong Kong, China, May 29-31, 2008 “Search the Scriptures: Edwards and the Bible,” at “Jonathan Edwards in Europe,” a conference co-sponsored by the Bishop of the Dunamellék (Danube) District in the Reformed Church of Hungary and the Jonathan Edwards Center of Yale University, Karoli Gaspar University, Budapest, Hungary, May 8-9, 2007 “American Protestant-Catholic Relations on the Eve of Vatican II: A Response,” at the spring meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, March 29-31, 2007 “Defining Evangelicalism: Status Questionis,” in a session entitled “Understanding Recent Proposals on ‘Evangelical’ Identity,” annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Washington, D.C., November 15-17, 2006

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“On the Vocation of Historians to the Priesthood of Believers: Faithful Practices in Service of the Guild,” presidential address delivered at the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, OK, September 20-23, 2006 “Confessing Lutherans: A Response,” at “Confessional Traditions in American Christianity,” a consultation of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Wheaton College (funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.), Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, September 29-30, 2005 “Liberty, Equality, and Religion in Eighteenth-Century America: A Response,” at the annual winter meeting of the American Society of Church History, Seattle, WA, January 6-9, 2005 “Rethinking Integration as a Model for the Task of the Christian Historian: A Response,” at the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Hope College, Holland, MI, October 14-16, 2004 “‘Longing for More and More of It’?: The Strange Career of Jonathan Edwards’s Exegetical Exertions,” at “Jonathan Edwards at 300: A National Symposium,” a conference co-sponsored by The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Yale University, and the Library of Congress, The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., October 3-4, 2003 “‘Longing for More and More of It’?: The Strange Career of Jonathan Edwards’s Exegetical Exertions,” at the tercentennial celebration of Jonathan Edwards as theologian, Princeton Theological Seminary, April 10-12, 2003 “‘The Fulness of Christ’: Jonathan Edwards and the Church,” at the annual winter meeting of the American Society of Church History, Chicago, IL, January 2-5, 2003 “Jonathan Edwards and Other Religions: A Response to Gerald McDermott,” at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Toronto, Ontario, November 20-22, 2002 “The Crisis in Evangelical Historiography: A Response to Keith Sewell,” at the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Huntington College, Huntington, IN, October 10-12, 2002

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“Edwards and Openness: A Response,” at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Colorado Springs, CO, November 14-16, 2001 “Yale Divinity School and the Decline of Edwardsian Culture,” at the annual spring meeting of the American Society of Church History, Yale University, March 29-31, 2001 “Evangelical: What’s in a Word?,” “Orthodox Protestants with an Eighteenth-Century Twist,” and “Centrifugal Force, Centripetal Faith: The Future of Evangelicalism,” given as the plenary speaker at the southwest regional meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, LeTourneau College, Longview, Texas, March 8-10, 2001 “Taylorites, Tylerites, and the Dissolution of the New England Theology,” at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Nashville, TN, November 15-17, 2000 “Taylorites, Tylerites, and the Dissolution of the New England Theology,” at the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA, October 19-21, 2000 “Edwards in Great Britain: A Response,” at “Jonathan Edwards in Historical Memory,” a conference co-sponsored by The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Yale University, The University of Miami, The Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at Yale, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Miami, FL, March 9-11, 2000 “New Directions in Jonathan Edwards Studies,” at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, April 1-5, 1998 “Issues in the Edwardsean Tradition: A Response,” at the spring meeting of the American Society of Church History, Nashville, TN, April 24-27, 1997 Joseph Bellamy Lecture, sponsored by the Bellamy-Ferriday House and First Congregational Church, Bethlehem, CT, April 13, 1997 “Edwards and His Mantle: The Historiography of the New England Theology,” at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Chicago, IL, March 28-31, 1996

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“H. Richard Niebuhr and the Kingdom of God in America: Protestant Principle and Protestant Substance in a Post-Protestant Era,” in the Theology and Religious Reflection Section at the annual meeting of The American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, PA, November 18-21, 1995 “Nathaniel William Taylor and the Edwardsian Tradition: Evolution and Continuity in the Culture of the New England Theology,” at the southeastern regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Gainesville, FL, March 10-12, 1995 “Nathaniel William Taylor and the Edwardsian Tradition: A Reassessment,” at “The Writings of Jonathan Edwards: Text and Context, Text and Interpretation,” a conference co-sponsored by The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Yale University, and the Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, June 2-4, 1994

OTHER ACADEMIC SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS (EXTRA-CURRICULAR-SELECTED): Senior Theological Mentor, 2013 Spring Gathering of the Society for the Advancement of Ecclesial Theology (SAET), Calvary Memorial Church, Oak Park, Illinois, June 2-4, 2013 Guest lecture, “American Puritans, Jonathan Edwards, and the Great Awakening,” in class on “The History of Preaching,” Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, March 18, 2013 Invited participant, consultation on witchcraft accusations in Africa, at Nairobi International University, Nairobi, Kenya, March 6-9, 2013 Session chair, “Cotton Mather and Jewish History,” at the annual meeting of the American Society of Church History, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 3-6, 2013 Guest speaker, “Martin Luther: Calvinist or Arminian?,” Aldersgate Society, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, November 5, 2012

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Guest speaker, “Writing for Publication,” Trinity Artist Guild and The Writing Group Ministry, Trinity International University, November 1, 2012 Session chair, “Cotton Mather as Historian of Jews in the Biblia Americana,” at the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, October 46, 2012 Invited Leader/Speaker, Faculty Integration of Faith and Learning Seminar, Biola University, La Mirada, California, June 11-15, 2012 Senior Theological Mentor, 2012 Spring Gathering of the Society for the Advancement of Ecclesial Theology (SAET), Calvary Memorial Church, Oak Park, Illinois, June 3-5, 2012 Guest lecturer, Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois, in class on “Prayer and Life in the Spirit,” April 21, 2012 Session co-chair, “After Edwards: Appropriations of the New England Theology,” at the annual meeting of the American Society of Church History, Chicago, Illinois, January 5-8, 2012 Senior Theological Mentor, 2011 Spring Gathering of the Society for the Advancement of Ecclesial Theology (SAET), Calvary Memorial Church, Oak Park, Illinois, June 5-7, 2011 Presentation on “Hispanic Christianity in America,” Mosaic initiative, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, April 7, 2011 Video interviews, People of Faith, a mini-series on American Christianity produced by the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Wheaton College, February 2011 Session chair, “The Edwardsean Legacy for Peace, Justice, and Equality,” at the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon, October 7-9, 2010 Senior Theological Mentor, 2010 Spring Gathering of the Society for the Advancement of Ecclesial Theology (SAET), Calvary Memorial Church, Oak Park, Illinois, May 31-June 1, 2010

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Interview, “Prime Time America,” hosted by Greg Wheatley (a syndicated radio program aired on the Moody Broadcasting Network), 2009 Senior Theological Consultant, “The Identity and Ministry of the Pastor-Theologian,” the 2009 Fellowship Symposium of The Society for the Advancement of Ecclesial Theology (SAET), held at Calvary Memorial Church, Oak Park, Illinois, October 11-13, 2009 Co-Host and Discussant, “Mission and Power in North-South Christian Relations,” a conference co-sponsored by the Conference on Faith and History, Instituto para la Promoción de la Educación Cristiana, and the Nagel Institute (Calvin College), held at the Universidad Biblica Latino Americano, San José, Costa Rica, June 22-25, 2009 “Was Martin Luther a Calvinist?: Reflections from a Lutheran on the Never-Ending Row between the Calvinists and Arminians,” Aldersgate Society, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, April 15, 2009 “A Princetonian You Should Know: Jonathan Edwards and the Nature of Authentic Christianity,” a series of four presentations to the Christian Union student group of Princeton University (and Harvard University), Killington, Vermont, January 26-30, 2009 Session chair and Co-Host, “World History and History That Changed the World,” the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio, September 17-20, 2008 Invited Participant and Co-Sponsor, “Partnership in Theological Education in Africa,” a conference co-sponsored by the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology and the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Nairobi, August 13-15, 2008 Session chair, “Mark Noll’s The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (2006),” at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, sponsored by the Conference on Faith and History, Atlanta, GA, January 4-7, 2007

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Interview, “Prime Time America,” hosted by Greg Wheatley (a syndicated radio program aired on the Moody Broadcasting Network), 2006 Session chair, “Decisions, Mentors, Influences, and Work: Becoming a Christian Historian,” at the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, OK, September 20-23, 2006 Co-convener and Master of Ceremonies, “The Great Commission: Evangelicals and the History of World Mission,” a conference of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, April 28-29, 2006 Invited Participant, “The Changing Face of American Evangelicalism,” a consultation of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicalism, Wheaton College (funded by the Henry Luce Foundation), Wheaton, IL, October 13-14, 2005 Interview, “Open Line,” hosted by Wayne Shepherd (a syndicated radio program aired on the Moody Broadcasting Network), 2005 Presentation on “Defining Evangelicalism,” Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Faculty Workshop, Mundelein, IL, August 18, 2005 Segment, “Race to Unity!” video, produced for the second National Summit: “Race to Unity,” Dallas, TX, July 27-29, 2005 Session Chair, “Three Centuries of Studying Jonathan Edwards: From Samuel Hopkins to Kenneth Minkema,” at the annual winter meeting of the American Society of Church History, Seattle, WA, January 6-9, 2005 Panelist, “The Future of the Conference on Faith and History,” at the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Hope College, Holland, MI, October 14-16, 2004 Co-convener, leader of historians’ break-out sessions, and panelist, “Scripture and the Disciplines,” an interdisciplinary conference cosponsored by the Center for Theological Understanding of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Wheaton College, and the Consortium of Christian Colleges and Universities, Wheaton College, May 24-27, 2004.

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Guest lecturer, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT, in a seminar on Jonathan Edwards taught by Harry S. Stout and Kenneth P. Minkema, April 2004 Co-leader/teacher, study tour on the “Heritage of the Reformation,” taught in Prague, Wittenberg, Eisenach, Halle, and Vienna, July 3-31, 2002, sponsored by Reformed Theological Seminary in conjunction with Evangelisches Predigerseminar, Wittenberg Participant, “Teaching Race and Ethnicity Conference,” sponsored by the Wabash Center and directed by Robert Priest and Tite Tiénou of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Techny Towers, Techny, IL, May 28-30, 2002 Special Lecturer, Trinity College, on “African-American Religion,” February 14, 2002 Speaker, Forum on Paedobaptism, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, February 14 and 21, 2002 Speaker, Large Group meeting of Trinity Wives Fellowship, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, January 7, 2002 Speaker, meeting of Association of Believers for Black America (ABBA), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, October 1, 2001 Co-organizer and speaker, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School faculty retreat, August 29-21, 2001 Co-leader/teacher, study tour on the “Heritage of the Reformation,” taught in Prague, Wittenberg, Eisenach, Halle, and Vienna, July 5-August 1, 2001, sponsored by Reformed Theological Seminary in conjunction with Evangelisches Predigerseminar, Wittenberg Plenary Speaker, Fall Convocation, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Charlotte, NC, on “What Is an Evangelical?,” August 26, 2000 Speaker, Graduate Christian Fellowship, Northwestern University, on Christian faith in the academy, Evanston, IL, May 31, 2000 and August 1, 2000

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Group Leader, “Authority in the Church,” the 34th International Ecumenical Seminar hosted by the Ecumenical Institute, Strasbourg, France, July 5-12, 2000 Co-organizer of conference and session chair, “Edwards in Historical Memory,” a conference co-sponsored by The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Yale Divinity School, The University of Miami, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Miami, FL, 2000 Speaker, Forum on Revival and Renewal in the Church, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, 2000 Speaker, annual meeting of the Ministerium of the Evangelical Free Church of America, Bolingbrook, IL, January 27-28, 2000 Interview, “His People,” hosted by Bill Feltner (a syndicated radio program aired on the Pilgrim Radio Network), 1999 Speaker, Forum on Liturgical and Contemporary Worship, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, 1998 Interview, The Dick Staub Show (syndicated talk radio program), 1998 Presentation on “Spiritual Development in the Lutheran Tradition,” Trinity Evangelical Divinity School faculty retreat, Deerfield, IL, 1998 Session Chair, Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Nashville, TN, 1998 Speaker, Forum on Spiritual Formation in Theological Education, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, 1998 Session Chair, “Evangelizing Post-Moderns,” an international conference sponsored by the Bannockburn Institute at Trinity International University, Deerfield, IL, 1998 Speaker, Forum on Evangelical Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, 1998 Speaker, Forum on Evangelicals and Post-Modernity, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, 1997

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ECCLESIASTICAL SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS: St. Mark Lutheran Church, Lindenhurst, IL (2001-present) Yullin Church, Seoul, Korea (2013) Skokie Valley Baptist Church, Wilmette, IL (2013) Lagrange Bible Church, Lagrange, IL (2010) Moody Church, Chicago, IL (1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005) Winnetka Bible Church, Winnetka, IL (1999, 2000, 2001, 2005) The Orchard (formerly Arlington Heights Evangelical Free Church), Arlington Heights, IL (1998, 2001, 2005, 2008) Lancaster Evangelical Free Church, Lancaster, CA (2004) Crossroads Church, Libertyville, IL (2003—in conjunction with Lakeview Presbyterian Church, Vernon Hills, IL; Libertyville Evangelical Free Church, Libertyville, IL; New Life Church, Vernon Hills, IL; and Village Church of Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, IL) Christ Church, Lake Forest, IL (2001, 2003) St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Waukegan, IL (1998-2001) Wheaton Christian Reformed Church, Wheaton, IL (2000) Western Springs Baptist Church, Western Springs, IL (1998, 1999) First Church of Christ, Bethlehem, CT (1997) Bethesda Lutheran Church, New Haven, CT (1996-97) Otter Creek Church of Christ, Nashville, TN (1994) First Lutheran Church, Nashville, TN (continuously from 1990-95) *At most of these churches, I spoke multiple times during each of the years listed. AWARDS / HONORS: Finalist, Christianity Today Book Award in History/Biography, 2010 (for Jonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word: A Model of Faith and Thought) Jonathan Edwards Research Fellowship, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2003-2004 Scholarship from the Department of Ecumenical Affairs, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, for participation in the 34th International Ecumenical Seminar hosted by the Ecumenical Institute, Strasbourg, France, July 5-12, 2000

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Award for Exceptional Professional Growth, “in recognition of significant service to Divinity School and the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ by means of his rapid growth and superior performance as a classroom communicator,” Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, April 1999 Visiting Fellowship, Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ, 1994 Travel Grant, “The Writings of Jonathan Edwards: Text and Context, Text and Interpretation,” a conference co-sponsored by The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Yale University, and the Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1994 Travel Award, Vanderbilt University Graduate School, Nashville, TN, 1993 Dissertation Enhancement Award, Vanderbilt University Research Council, Nashville, TN, 1992 Awarded highest honors on doctoral examinations, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 1992 George N. Mayhew Fellowship, Vanderbilt University Graduate Department of Religion, Nashville, TN, 1990-1991 University Tuition Scholarship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 1989-1994 SERVICE (SELECTED): Church work: At St. Mark Lutheran Church, Lindenhurst, IL: Elder; Teacher, Adult Bible Study; Volunteer, PADS homeless ministry; Participant, prison evangelism ministry; Member, pastoral call committee; occasional worship leader. At St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Waukegan, IL (previously): Member, Church Council; Teacher, Adult Forum (Sunday School); Volunteer, PADS homeless ministry. At Bethesda Lutheran Church, New Haven, CT (previously): Co-director, Adult Forum (Sunday School).

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At First Lutheran Church, Nashville, TN (previously): teacher, Logos adult Sunday School class; Vice-President, Church Council; Chair, Evangelism/Membership Committee; member, Long Range Planning Committee; many other activities related to Christian education, outreach (especially to the homeless), and the leading of our congregation’s worship life. Various speaking engagements at other congregations.

ACADEMIC SERVICE: Member, Committee on Research and Prizes, American Society of Church History, 2013-2016 Member, Editorial Committee, Congregational Bulletin, a publication of the Congregational Library, Boston, 2012Member, Editorial Board, Jonathan Edwards Studies, an online journal sponsored by the Jonathan Edwards Center, Yale University, 2010Director, Jonathan Edwards Center, Trinity International University, 2010Senior Theological Mentor, Society for the Advancement of Ecclesial Theology, 2009Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Christian History & Biography, a publication of Christianity Today International, 2008Judge, Christianity Today Book Awards, History/Biography category, 2007Member, Committee on Research, American Society of Church History, 2007-2010 Board Member, Conference on Faith and History, 2004-2010 President, Conference on Faith and History, 2006-2008 Sponsoring Participant, “Missiones de Corto Plazo: experiencias y perspectivas latinoamericanas,” Seminario Evangélico de Lima, Lima, Peru, August 2-4, 2006

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Co-organizer, “The Great Commission: Evangelicals and the History of World Mission,” Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Alumni Conference, Deerfield, IL, April 28-29, 2006 Vice President (President Elect), Conference on Faith and History, 2004-2006 Faculty Advisory Board member, Academic Initiative, Campus Crusade for Christ, 2003Service as a visiting professor on doctoral dissertation committees, 1999- (Loyola University in Chicago; Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville; Wheaton College; Marquette University; Australian College of Theology; University at Albany-SUNY) Service as an external reviewer for promotion and tenure committees, 2005- (Wheaton College, McMaster University, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Lancaster Bible College, Vanderbilt University) Referee, Baker Book House, Church History, Fides et Historia, Gorgias Press, InterVarsity Press, Jonathan Edwards Studies, Journal of Baptist Studies, Journal of Religion, New York University Press, Oxford University Press, Paternoster Press, Routledge, Trinity Journal, University of Illinois Press, Walter de Gruyter, Westminster Theological Journal, Wiley-Blackwell, Yale University Press, 1995Steering Committee, Jonathan Edwards Study Group, Evangelical Theological Society, 1999-2008 Member/Speaker, The Common Root Project, a Chicago-area Evangelical-Roman Catholic dialogue group, 1998-c.2005 Book Review Editor, Fides et Historia, 1996-2004 Co-convener, leader of historians’ break-out sessions, and panelist, “Scripture and the Disciplines,” an interdisciplinary conference cosponsored by the Center for Theological Understanding of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Wheaton College, and the Consortium of Christian Colleges and Universities, Wheaton College, May 24-27, 2004. Invited Participant, “The Lexington Seminar” (on teaching in theological education), A Project Supported by Lilly Endowment

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Inc. and Sponsored by Lexington Theological Seminary, Northeast Harbor, ME, June 5-10, 2003 Academic Consultant, The Christian Millennial History Project of America, 1998-2003 Participant and speaker, project on “Teaching ‘Race and Ethnic Relations’ in Theological Education,” 2001-2002, sponsored by the Wabash Center and the Evangelical Free Church of America Invited Participant, conference on “The Future of Religious Colleges,” sponsored by Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 6-7, 2000 Invited Participant and Group Leader, “Authority in the Church,” the 34th International Ecumenical Seminar of the Ecumenical Institute, Strasbourg, France, July 5-12, 2000 Co-convener, “Edwards in Historical Memory,” an international conference on Jonathan Edwards’s world-wide legacy, Miami, FL, March 9-11, 2000 Editorial Board, Trinity Journal, 1997-2000 Steering Committee Member, Center for Personal and Interpersonal Growth, Bannockburn Institute, Deerfield, IL, 19972000 Secretary, Committee of Oversight, Lutheran Studies Program at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT, 1996-97 Consultant, Lilly Endowment Project on American Religion and Material Culture, James Hudnut-Beumler, Director, Columbia Theological Seminary, Atlanta, GA, Summer 1995

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