Professor
Fields of interest: English History, Early Modern Europe, History of Christianity, Historiography, Colonial America, Medievel Europe, Intellectual History, Ancient Mediterranean World
Education: Ph.D. Michigan Sate University, 1969; M.A., DePaul University, 1965; B.A., Calvin College, 1961
Courses that I Teach:
| HIST 2120 | Ancient Mediterranean World | ||
| HIST 3140 | Medieval Europe 500-1500 | ||
| HIST 3210 | Renaissance and Reformation | ||
| HIST 3220 | Absolutism and Revolution, 1598-1799 | ||
| HIST 3400 | The Great Teachings | ||
| HIST 3610 | Colonial America | ||
| HIST 4210 | Intellectual History | ||
| HIST 4300 | History of Christianity | ||
| HIST 4350 | English History to 1603 | ||
| HIST 4360 | English History 1603 to Present | ||
| HIST 4990/4960 | Senior Seminar ad Directed Reading | ||
| HIST 5930 | History of Historical Writing | ||
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Awards:
| 1978 | NEH Summer Fellowship for College Teachers, UC Berkeley: "Eighteenth- Century British Culture" |
| 1981 | NEH Summer Fellowship for College Teachers, UC Berkeley: "European Economic History" |
Scholarship and Research:
| 1968 | Article: "An Approach to Teaching Revolutions" Christian Educators Journal (Nov., 1968) |
| 1969 | Article: "Political Calvinism," A Journal of Church and State, XI, no. 3 (Autumn, 1969) |
| 1970 | Artcile: "The Christian Historian: Seeker or Apologist?" Fides et Historia, II no. 2 (Fall, 1970) |
| 1971 | Review in The Reformed Journal, XXXI, no. 1 (February, 1971): David S. Lovejoy, Religious Enthusiasm and the Great Awakening (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1969) |
| 1973 | Article: "Anglican Against Puritan: Ideological Origins During the Marian Exile," Church History, 42, no. 1 (March, 1973) |
| Article: "'Where is History Going:' and Historical Scholarship," Fides et Historia, V, nos. 1-2 (Spring, 1973) | |
| Professional evaluator Mennonite Quarterly Review (review of a submitted article) | |
| Review in The Reformed Journal, May-June, 1973: R.W. Southern, Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (Grand Rapids, 1972) | |
| 1974 | Paper read at Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota, October, 1974: "Civil Religion and Christianity in Modern Europe" |
| 1975 | Article: "Western Secularization as a Continuing Process: Ironic Origins and Puzzling Results," Fides et Historia, VIII, no. 1 (Fall, 1975) |
| Paper read at St. Thomas More College, Fort Mitchell, KY, April, 1975: "Puritan Philosophy of History: Providence as Mystery - Providence as Revelation" | |
| 1976 | Panel member on Modesto Cablevision Series: "Colonial Religion" (5 presentations) |
| Paper read at department colloquium, Spring, 1976: "Calvinist Philosophy of History" | |
| Paper read to the Political-Military Affairs Company, Treasure Island, May, 1976: "Current British Affairs" | |
| Review in Christian Scholars Review, VI, nos. 2, 3 (1976): Eric Voegelin, From Enlightenment to Revolution (Durham, NC, 1975) | |
| 1977 | Republication of "Anglican Against Puritan . . . . " in F.J. Bremer and A.T. Vaughan, eds., Puritan New England (New York, 1977) |
| Review in Fides Historia, IX, no. 2 (Spring, 1977): J. Sears McGee, The Godly Man in Stuart England (New Haven, 1976) | |
| 1978 | Article: "Providence as Mystery, Providence as Revelation: Puritan and Anglican Modification of John Calvin's Doctrine of Providence," Church History, 47, no. 1 (March, 1978) |
| 1980 | Review in Albion, vol. 12, no. 2 (Summer, 1980): Rosemary O'Day, The English Clergy: The Emergence and Consolidation of a Profession, 1558- 1642 (Leicester, 1980) |
| Review in Fides et Historia, XII, no. 2 (Spring, 1980): James E. McGoldrick, Luther's English Connection (Milwaukee, 1979) | |
| 1981 | Article: "Competence vs. Piety in Cultural Studies," Christian Educators Journal, 21, no. 1 (Oct./Nov., 1981) |
| Review in The Historian: Peter N. Clark, et al., eds., The English Commonwealth, 1547-1640 (New York, 1979) | |
| 1982 | Review in Albion, vol. 24, no. 1 (Spring, 1982): Rosemary O'Day and Felicity Heal, eds. Princes and Paupers in the English Church, 1500-1800 (Totowa, NJ, 1981) |
| Articles in Richard L. Greaves and Robert Zaller, eds., Bibliographical Dictionary of British Radicals in the Seventeenth Century, 3 vols., (Brighton, Sussex, 1982-84): "William Benn," "Samuel Eaton," "Robert Franklyn," "Richard Gilpin," "Samuel Hammond," "Henry Hickman," "Samuel Stone" | |
| 1983 | Review in Christian Scholar's Review, XIII, no. 1 (1983): Dewey D. Wallace, Puritans and Predestination: Grace in English Protestant Theology, 1525-1695 (Chapel Hill, NC, 1982) |
| 1984 | Articles in Walter A. Elwell, ed., Evangelical Dictionary of Theology (Grand Rapids, 1984): "Pragmatism," "Benedict Spinoza," "Protestant Scholasticism," "Francois Turretin," "John Toland," "Matthew Tindal," "Philipp Jakob Spencer" |
| Review in Church History, 53, no. 3 (September, 1984): Charles B. Schmitt, John Case and Aristotelianism in Renaissance England (Kingston, 1983) | |
| 1985 | Respondent to paper in the "Calvin and Calvin Studies Colloquium," May, 1985, Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| Review of Keith L. Sprunger, Dutch Puritanism: A History of English and Scottish Churches of the Netherlands in the Sixteen and Seventeenth Centuries (Leiden, 1982). In The Historian, vol. XLVII (Aug., 1985) pp. 570-571. Pub. by Phi Alpha Theta International Honor Society in History. | |
| 1987 | Article: "A Response to 'Scrap of Bread and a Right Conscience'" in Calvin and Christian Ethics, P. DeKlerk, ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Calvin Studies Society, 1987) |
| Review in The Historian, vol. XLIX (pp. 385-386) of G.R. Elton, F.W. Maitland (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985). | |
| 1989 | Review of M. Anderson's Evangelical Foundations (1987), in Church History, Dec., '89, pp. 513-4 |
| 1991 | Articles: "Anglicanism"; "English Calvinism." In Historical Dictionary of Tudor England, 1485-1603, edited by Ronald H. Fritze. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. |
| Review of Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History, by John Clive. The Historian 53 (Winter 1991): 321-322 | |
| Review of Religious Radicals in Tudor England, by J.W. Martin. Church History 60 (September 1991): 398-400 | |
| 1992 | Articles: "Book of Discipline," "John Gill," "Thomas Hooker," "Lambeth Articles," "Walter Travers," "James Ussher," in Encyclopedia of the Reformed Faith, Donald McKim, ed. Louisville: John Knox Press, 1992 |
| 1996 | Review of Antonia Frasier's Kings and Queens of England in Sixteenth Century Journal |
| Refereed article on seventeenth-century English Judaism for the journal Church History | |
| 1997 | Review of On 'What is History?', by Keith Jenkins in Fides et Historia (Spring, '97) |
| 1998 | Review of History and Belief, by R.E. Frykenberg in Christian Scholars Review (Fall, '98) |
| 1999 | Review of M. Bunzl, Real History in Fides et Historia (Summer, 1999) |
| Ongoing - Manuscript on Richard Cox accepted for publication by Sutton Courtenay
Press(Great Britain) English ecclesiastical Appointments, 1540-47 |
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| Member of the editorial board of Fides et Historia, published by the Conference on Faith and History |
| Conference on British Studies |
| American Society of Church History |
| Sixteenth-Century Studies Society |
| Calvin Studies Society |
| Conference on Faith and History |
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