OS GUINNESS Author and Social Critic Dr.
Os Guinness is a writer, speaker and co-founder of The Trinity Forum,
where he served as Senior Fellow and Vice Chairman of the Board from
its inception in 1991 until 2004. Dr. Guinness directed the first seven
Trinity Forum seminar curricula and many other projects, and was a
regular Moderator at Forums in the United States, Europe and Asia. He
did undergraduate studies at the University of London and postgraduate
studies at University of Oxford, where he graduated with a D.Phil in
the social sciences from Oriel College. He has written or edited more
than 20 books, including
The American Hour, The Call,
Time for Truth,
Long Journey Home,
Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror, and
The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It.
His deep concern is to bridge the chasm between academic knowledge and
popular knowledge, taking things that are academically important and
making them intelligible and practicable to a wider audience,
especially as they concern matters of public policy.
MICHAEL S. HORTON J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics Westminster Theological Seminary Dr.
Michael Horton has taught apologetics and theology at Westminster
Seminary California since 1998. He is also President of White Horse
Media, for which he co-hosts the White Horse Inn, a nationally
syndicated, weekly radio talk-show exploring issues of Reformation
theology in American Christianity. In addition, he is editor-in-chief
of Modern Reformation magazine. Before joining Westminster, Dr. Horton
completed a Research Fellowship at Yale University Divinity School. He
holds an MA from Westminster Seminary and Ph.D. from the University of
Coventry and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Dr. Horton is the author/editor of
20 books, including
Putting Amazing Back Into Grace,
God of Promise,
Too Good to Be True,
A Better Way,
Covenant and Salvation,
People and Place and Christless Christianity.
He has written articles for Modern Reformation, Pro Ecclesia,
Christianity Today, The International Journal of Systematic Theology,
Touchstone and Books and Culture. He is associate pastor of Christ
United Reformed Church in Santee, California.
BRUCE LINDLEY MCCORMACK Frederick and Margaret L. Weyerhaeuser Professor of Systematic Theology Department of Theology Princeton Theological Seminary Dr.
Bruce McCormack received an M.Div. from Nazarene Theological Seminary,
a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary and an honorary doctorate
of theology from the Friedrich Schiller Universitat in Jena, Germany. A
Presbyterian, Dr. McCormack is interested in the history of modern
theology, from Schleiermacher and Hegel through Karl Barth. His courses
cover Schleiermacher’s Glaubenslehre and the doctrine of atonement in
Christian tradition. He is a member of the General Assembly committee
commissioned to write a new catechism for the Presbyterian Church (USA)
and has been a member of the panel on doctrine for the Church of
Scotland. A member of the Karl Barth-Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland,
he is North American editor of the Zeitschrift fuer Dialektische
Theologie, published in Holland.
MARK NOLL Francis A. McManus Professor of History University of Notre Dame Most
of Dr. Mark Noll’s research and writing has dealt with subjects
involving the history of Christianity and the intellectual or political
history of the United States and Canada. Current projects include a
short book on race, religion and American politics and a more extensive
study of the Bible in North American public life. Dr. Noll was
privileged to be a student of David Wells in the church history program
at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and also to share in the
research project from which came the first of David Wells’ major books
on contemporary evangelicalism,
No Place for Truth. Dr. Noll is the author of a number of books, including
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind,
America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln,
God and Race in American Politics: A Short History, and co-author of
Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism.
He received M.A. degrees from the University of Iowa and Trinity
Evangelical Divinity School and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.
J.I. PACKER Board of Governors’ Professor in Theology Regent CollegeVancouver, British ColumbiaDr.
James I. Packer is one of the preeminent evangelical theologians today
who, in addition to his work at Regent College, writes books, serves as
a Senior Editor and Visiting Scholar of Christia
nity
Today and contributes to a variety of theological journals. In 1979,
after teaching and preaching for 27 years in England, he became
Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Regent College, and
in 1989 was installed as the first Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of
Theology. In 1996, he assumed his current position. He holds MA and
D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University. Among his many books are
Knowing God,
A Passion for Faithfulness,
Alive to God,
Faithfulness and Holiness,
God Has Spoken and
Finding God’s Will.
CORNELIUS PLANTINGA President and Charles W. Colson Professor of Systematic Theology Calvin Theological Seminary Dr.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. studied at Yale University, and received a
B.D. from Calvin Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. magna cum laude from
Princeton Theological Seminary. He has also been a visiting scholar at
St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. Formerly pastor of the
Webster (New York) Christian Reformed Church, Dr. Plantinga served as
Professor of Systematic Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary and the
first Dean of the Chapel at Calvin College before becoming Calvin
Seminary’s sixth president in 2002. He is a former editor of the Calvin
Theological Journal, and is now a member of the Board of Editors of
Books & Culture. He is the author of five books and co-editor of
three. His more than 140 published articles and essays have appeared in
such periodicals as Theology Today, The Thomist, First Things,
Christianity Today, The Christian Century and Books & Culture. A
number of his pieces have won awards from such groups as The Associated
Church Press and The Evangelical Church Press, and his 1995 book on
sin,
Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be, won the 1996 Book of the Year award of Christianity Today. Seven years later,
Engaging God’s World: A Christian View of Faith, Learning, and Living won the same award.
TITE TIENOU Senior Vice President of Education and Academic Dean and Professor of Theology of Mission Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Prior
to joining Trinity in 1997, Dr. Tiénou served as President and Dean of
the Faculté de Théologie Evangélique de l’Alliance in Abidjan, Côte
‘Ivoire West Africa, and taught for nine years at Alliance Theological
Seminary, Nyack, NY. He was founding director and professor of the
Maranatha Institute in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, in addition to a
being pastor in the Central Church of the Christian Alliance Church.
Dr. Tiénou earned an MA in Missiology and Ph.D. in Intercultural
Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary, and the Maîtrise en Théologie
at Faculté Libre de Théologie Evangélique in Vaux-sur-Seine, France. He
is a member of the African Studies Association and the OMSC Study Group
on Mission Issues. Dr. Tiénou has authored numerous books and articles,
including
The Theological Task of the Church in Africa,
published in both English and French. His many articles have appeared
in publications such as Evangelical Review of Theology, AIM
International, The Alliance Life and Evangelical Missions Quarterly. He
has served as senior mission scholar in residence at Overseas
Ministries Study Center in New Haven, CT, and research fellow at Yale
Divinity School, and as chairman and chairman emeritus for the
International Council of Accrediting Agencies. He was a member of the
International Advisory Council for Lausanne II in Manila.
KEVIN J. VANHOOZER Blanchard Professor of TheologyWheaton CollegeDr.
Kevin J. Vanhoozer has served in his current position at Trinity
Evangelical Divinity School since 1998. He also taught at TEDS from
1986 to 1990 before being appointed a senior lecturer at New College,
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, where he taught for eight years. He
has served as a member of the Panel on Doctrine in the Church of
Scotland and as co-chair of the Systematic Theology group of the
American Academy of Religion. He is the author of
Biblical Narrative in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur,
Is There a Meaning in this Text?,
First Theology: God, Scripture and Hermeneutics,
The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical-Linguistic Approach to Christian Theology, and most recently,
Remythologizing Theology: Divine Action, Passion and Authorship. He is also the editor of eight books, including
The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology and
The Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible, and serves as the North American Consulting Editor for the revised edition of the
New Dictionary of Theology. He received an M. Div. from Westminster Theological Seminary, and the Ph.D. from Cambridge University, England.
MIROSLAV VOLF Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic TheologyYale Divinity School In addition to his teaching position at Yale Divinity School, Dr. Miroslav Volf is Director of the
Yale Center for Faith and Culture. A member of the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. and the Evangelical
Church
in Croatia, Dr. Volf was involved in international ecumenical dialogues
such as the Vatican Council for Promotion of Christian Unity, and
interfaith dialogues, most recently in Christian-Muslim dialogue. A
native of Croatia, he regularly teaches and lectures in Central and
Eastern Europe. Dr. Volf received an M.A. from Fuller Theological
Seminary and a Dr. Theol. from the University of Tübingen in Germany.
His recent books include
Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace; the Archbishop of Canterbury Lenten book for 2006;
Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation, a winner of the 2002 Grawemeyer Award; and
After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity, winner of the Christianity Today book award.
LAUREN WINNER Assistant Professor of Christian Spirituality Duke Divinity School Dr. Lauren F. Winner is the author of three books,
Girl Meets God,
Mudhouse Sabbath, and
Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity,
and is former book editor for Beliefnet. She has appeared on PBS’s
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly and has written for The New York Times
Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, Books
and Culture and Christianity Today. Dr. Winner has an M.Phil. degree
from Clare College, Cambridge; an M.Div. from Duke Divinity School; and
a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. She travels extensively to
lecture and teach, and during the academic year of 2007-2008, was a
visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton
University.
