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Overview
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Stephen
R. Spencer
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Blanchard Professor of Theology
On faculty since 2001
Phone: (630) 752-5931
stephen.r.spencer@wheaton.edu
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Ph.D., Michigan State University (1988)
Th.M., Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary (1981)
M.Div., Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary (1978)
B.A., Cedarville College (1974)
Additional Study and Research: Faculty Fellowship, H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin and Calvinism, Calvin College and Seminary (Summer 1995); National Endowment for Humanities Summer Institute, University of Notre Dame Medieval Institute (Summer 1989).
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Professional and Personal Interests
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Systematic theology synthetically interprets revelation, striving
for ever-increasing faithfulness in ever-changing cultural contexts,
and thus is fundamental to living as Christ's disciples and
viewing the world in terms of Christ. God calls Christians to
faithfulness to his self-disclosure and effective contextualization
of Christian faith. The activity of articulating Christian doctrine
(theological method) in cultural contexts interests me, particularly
the Church's relationship to culture. I also study several theologians,
especially John Calvin and Thomas Aquinas (and Reformed theology
and late medieval theology more generally) because of enduring
value of their thought as well as the very significant eras
in which they lived.
My wife, Gaylynn and I frequent the college basketball games.
Besides theology, I enjoy reading baseball biographies and histories
and World War II and Civil War histories.
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- Systematic theology courses
- Historical Theology courses in Doctrine of the Church; Doctrine of Scripture; Historical
- Theology courses in Reformation Theology,
Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin.
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- American Academy of Religion
- Calvin Studies Society,
- Barth Society
(among others)
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- Theological method
- The doctrine of Scripture
- Church and culture
- John Calvin
- Thomas Aquinas
- Carl F. Henry
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Some Articles/Chapters/Papers Published or Presented
“Christ’s Sermon and Calvin’s Harmony: Redaction, Hermeneutics, and Theology” in Reading the Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries, ed. Jeffrey P. Greenman, Timothy Larsen, and Stephen R. Spencer. Grand Rapids: Brazos, forthcoming.
Jeffrey P. Greenman, Timothy Larsen, and Stephen R. Spencer, eds. Reading the Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries. Grand Rapids: Brazos, forthcoming.
'Hope,” “Last Things.” In Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of Scripture, ed. K. Vanhoozer, C. Bartholomew, D. Treier, and N. T. Wright (Baker Academic, 2005).
(with Vincent E. Bacote) “Theological Implications for Natural Science.” In Not Just Science: Questions Where Christian Faith and Natural Science Intersect, ed. Dorothy F. Chappell and E. David Cook. Zondervan, 2005.
"Evangelical Modernists or Postmodernists? Evangelical Responses to Postmodernism and Postliberalism" (unpublished).
"Chafer, Lewis Sperry,” “Walvoord, John F.” In Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals, ed. T. Larsen, D. Bebbington, M. Noll. Leicester, UK: InterVarsity, 2003.
(With Robert A. Pyne). “A Critique of Free Will Theism, Parts One and Two.” Bibliotheca Sacra (July-September, October-December 2001): 259–86, 387–405.
"Conscience," "Pope, W. B." "Predestination," "Real Presence." In Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, ed. Walter A. Elwell. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2001.
"Francis Turretin." In Biographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians, ed. Patrick Carey and Joseph Lienhard. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000.
"Dispensationalism." In The Encyclopedia of Christianity, vol. 1., ed. Erwin Fahlbusch, et al. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1999.
"Scofield, C. I." In Historical Handbook of Major Biblical Interpreters, ed. Donald K. McKim. 610–615. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1998.
"Baptist Bulletin." In Popular Religious Magazines in the United States, ed. P. Mark Fackler and Charles H. Lippy. 63–68. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995.
"Reformed Theology, Covenant Theology, and Dispensationalism." In Integrity of Heart, Skillfulness of Hands, ed. Charles Dyer and Roy B. Zuck. 238–54. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994.
"Francis Turretin's Concept of the Covenant of Nature." In Later Calvinism: An International Perspective, ed. W. Fred Graham. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies. 71–91. Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1994.
"Adoniram Judson," "Particular Baptists," and Charles Haddon Spurgeon." In The Encyclopedia of the Reformed Faith, ed. Donald K. McKim. Louisville, KY: Westminster /John Knox, 1992.
"In Defense of Voluntarism: Thomas Aquinas, Johns Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham on the Power of God." Bulletin of the Evangelical Philosophical Society 12 (1989): 29–47.
"Is Natural Theology Biblical?" Grace Theological Journal 9 (1988): 59–72.
"Fideism and Presuppositionalism." Grace Theological Journal 8 (1987): 89–99.
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