Many leading scholars of American religion will offer important analysis of Presbyterian history.
There will be various papers presented and three book panel discussions.
When | October 18th and 19th
Where | Harbor House on the campus of Wheaton College, IL (this is not a function of Wheaton College)
Email our conference chair, Jeff McDonald (jsmcdonald47@gmail.com) to register. (There is no cost and meals and snacks are free.)
Schedule | Presbyterian Scholars Conference | October 18th and 19th
Tuesday, October 18th
9:00 a.m. Opening Prayer
Dr. Hassell Bullock, Professor of Old Testament Emeritus, Wheaton College
“Gerhardus Vos and His Friends”
Rev. Danny Ollinger, General Secretary of Christian Education, Orthodox
Presbyterian Church
10:00 a.m. “20th-Century Magazine Networks and Fundamentalist Identity”
Dr. Amber Thomas Reynolds, Guest Assistant Professor of History, Wheaton College
11:00 a.m. “The Politics of Presbyterian Polity”
Dr. Darryl Hart, Distinguished Associate Professor of History, Hillsdale College
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. “Presbyterian Missions in North Africa Focusing Upon Jewish Mission Work”
Dr. Jack Whytock, President, Haddington House Trust, Prince Edward Island, Canada
2:00 p.m. Panel Discussion of James Ungureanu’s
Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict
Comment: Dr. Stuart Mathieson, Research Fellow, Dublin City University
Dr. Dorothy Chappell, Former Dean of Natural Sciences and Professor of Biology Emeritus, Wheaton College
Dr. Mark Noll, Professor of History Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
Dr. Tom Miller, Professor of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Dr. Brad Gundlach, Distinguished Professor of History, Trinity College
Response: Dr. James Ungureanu, Lecturer, University of Dallas, Honorary Research
Fellow, University of Queensland
4:00 p.m. Panel Discussion of Reformed and Evangelical across Four Centuries: The Presbyterian Story in America
Comment: Dr. Brad Longfield, Professor of Church History, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary
Dr. A. Donald MacLeod, Former Research Professor, Tyndale Seminary, Toronto
Dr. Amber Thomas Reynolds, Guest Assistant Professor of History, Wheaton College
Dr. Darryl Hart, Distinguished Associate Professor of History, Hillsdale College
Response: Dr. Don Fortson, Professor of Church History, RTS-Charlotte
Dr. Ken Stewart, Professor of Theological Studies Emeritus, Covenant College
6:00 p.m. Dinner
7:15 p.m. Panel Discussion of Mark Noll’s America’s Book: The Rise and Fall of a Bible Civilization, 1794-1911
Comment: Dr. Mark Valeri, Distinguished Professor of Religion and Politics, Washington University, St. Louis
Dr. James Ungureanu, Lecturer, University of Dallas
Dr. Brad Longfield, Professor of Church History, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary
Dr. Darryl Hart, Distinguished Associate Professor of History, Hillsdale College
Response: Dr. Mark Noll, Professor of History Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
Wednesday, October 19th
8:00 a.m. “Wilbur Morehead Smith: Evangelical Presbyterian Apologist and Bookman”
Dr. Jeff McDonald, Pastor, Avery Presbyterian Church, Bellevue, NE
9:00 a.m. “Review of Garth Rosell’s A Charge To Keep: Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and
the Renewal of Evangelicalism”
Dr. A. Donald MacLeod, Former Research Professor, Tyndale Seminary
10:00 a.m. “Grassroots Ecumenism: The Way of Christian Reunion”
Dr. Karen Petersen Finch, Professor of Pastoral Leadership, Presbyterian College, Montreal
11:00 a.m. “Old Princeton’s Midwestern Allies”
Dr. Ken Stewart, Professor of Theological Studies Emeritus, Covenant College
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. “An Evangelical Epistemology? From Bacon and Paley to Stokes”
Dr. Stuart Mathieson, Research Fellow, Dublin City University
2:00 a.m. “Young B.B. Warfield’s Uncertain Calling”
Dr. Brad Gundlach, Distinguished Professor of History, Trinity College
3:00 p.m. “A Truly African Christianity: the Theology and Leadership of the Kenyan Presbyterian minister John G. Gatũ (1925-2017)”
Dr. Tim Larsen, McManis Professor of Christian Thought, Wheaton College
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