Professor of Church History, Emeritus

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Education:

• B.A., Princeton University, 1956
• M.A., Cornell University, 1959; B.D.
• Covenant Theological Seminary, 1960
• Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1970

Teaching and other work:

• Pastoral ministry, Missouri, Tennessee, 1960–1964, 1970–1972
• Instructor, Covenant College, 1958–1964
• Assistant Professor of History, 1964–1970
• Associate Professor of History and Dean of Faculty, 1970–1972
• Associate Professor of Church History and Dean of Faculty, Covenant Theological Seminary, 1972–1977
• Associate Professor of Church History and President, 1977–1984
• Adjunct Professor of Church History, 2002–2006; Editor, Presbyterian Journal, 1984–1987; Westminster, 1987–

Author:  

• Puritan Profiles: 54 Influential Puritans at the Time When the Westminster Confession of Faith Was Written; “In All Things…”
• The Preeminence of Christ in the History of Covenant College, 1955–2005
• Word to the World: Selected Writings of William S. Barker.

Contributor:  

• Dictionary of Christianity in America; Theonomy: A Reformed Critique (editor)
• The Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography: 1730–1860
• To Glorify and Enjoy God: A Commemoration of the 350th Anniversary of the Westminster Assembly
• The Practice of Confessional Subscription; Sermons that Shaped America: Reformed Preaching from 1630 to 2001 (co-editor).

Representative Articles:

• “The Resurrection of the Body,” Tenth Quarterly, 1986
• “The Hemphill Case, Benjamin Franklin, and Subscription to the Westminster Confession,” American Presbyterians, Winter 1991
• “The Westminster Assembly on the Days of Creation,” Westminster Theological Journal, 2000.