Faculty Profiles

I grew up on a farm outside Bloomdale, Ohio, a town of 700. I am married to Amy Black (Treier), who teaches Political Science at Wheaton, and we have a daughter named Anna. My church background prepared me for Wheaton by including Methodist, Grace Brethren, Baptist, Evangelical Free, briefly Anglican, and now Presbyterian churches: my theological commitments are evangelical and eclectic, very broadly in the Reformed tradition. My scholarship focuses generally on evangelical systematic theology and theological interpretation of the Bible, more specifically on Christology and cultural engagement. A unifying theme is pursuit of biblical wisdom. Hobbies include reading, watching baseball, reading, golfing, and reading.

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Ph.D., Systematic Theology, 2002

Grand Rapids Theological Seminary
Th.M., New Testament, 1998

Grand Rapids Theological Seminary
M.Div., 1996

• Christology
• Evangelicalism
• Hermeneutics
• Systematic Theology
• Theological Interpretation of Scripture
• Theology and Culture

• Wheaton Ph.D. Supervisors

• Consulting editor, International Theological Commentary series (T & T Clark)
• Co-editor with Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture series (IVP Academic)

• Over twenty different undergraduate and graduate courses
• Current electives focus on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Oliver O'Donovan, Christology, and ecclesiology
• The first-year PhD seminar on hermeneutics

• Lord Jesus Christ 
• Introducing Evangelical Theology
• Evangelical Dictionary of Theology
• Theology and the Mirror of Scripture: A Mere Evangelical Account (Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture)
• Proverbs & Ecclesiastes (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible)
• Introducing Theological Interpretation of Scripture: Recovering a Christian Practice
• Virtue and the Voice of God: Toward Theology as Wisdom