Education
Bachelor, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, 1969. Master of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1976.
Bachelor, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, 1969. Master of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1976.
P. J. Zondervan professor history theology Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan, since 1972. A. W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow Duke University, 1978—1979. Professor history theology Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, 1980—1992.
Member committee study Institute Interdisplinary Studies, University Warsaw, since 2009. Advisor Society Reformed Life Theology, since 2009. Belle Van Zuylenleerstoel member Utrecht University, Netherlands, 1999.
Author: (book) Christ and the Decree: Christology and Predestination in Reformed Theology from Calvin to Perkins, God, Creation and Providence in the Thought of Jacob Arminius, The Unaccommodated Calvin, After Calvin: Studies in the Development of a Theological Tradition. Co-author (with James E. Bradley): Church History: An Introduction to Research, Reference Works, and Methods.
Member Lowell Area Arts Council, Michigan, since 2006, Mid-Michigan Art Guild, Lansing, since 2008, Dutch Reformed Translate Society, Grand Rapids, since 1996. President Calvin Studies Society, 1999—2000, H. Henry Meeter Center Calvin Studies, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1994—1999, since 2005. Member, editorial committee Sixteenth Century Journal, 1991—2008.
General editor Texts & Studies Reformation & Post-Reformation Thought, since 1995.
Married.