Education

2001-05      Ph.D., University of Iowa

2000-01      M.A. with Highest Honors, Biola University

1996-99      A.B. summa cum laude, Miami University

Scholarship

Books

A Molinist-Anabaptist Systematic Theology. Lanham, MD: UPA, 2007, xi +
     351 pp.

A Central European Synthesis of Radical and Magisterial Reform: The   
     Sacramental Theology of Balthasar Hubmaier. Lanham, MD: UPA,
     2006, ix + 303 pp.

Articles

"Israelite Religious Music (1000 b.c.e.-300 c.e.)," "Christianity, Topic Introduction (origins to 300
     c.e.)," "Theological Debates in Ethiopian Christianity (1750-1914)," "Neo-Orthodoxy, Theologies
     (1945-present)," "Major World Religions, Topic Introduction (1945-present)." In World History
     Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2009.

"Word-Faith Movement, Its Theology and Worship." In The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity.
     Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

"Holy Roman Empire." In World Empires, An Encyclopedia. Croton-on-Hudson, NY: Facts on File,
     2008.

"Aquinas, Christology, and Art." Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy,
     History, and Science 14.3-4 (2007).

"Desert Spirituality in 17th and 18th Century French Calvinism." Religious Studies and Theology 26.2
     (2007): 203-31.

"The Word-Faith Movement: A Theological Conflation of the Nation of Islam and Mormonism?"
     Journal of the American Academy of Religion 75.1 (2007): 87-120.

"Religious Dissent and 'Godly Discipline' at St. Andrews in 1560 and 1574." Westminster Theological
     Journal 69.1 (2007): 39-62.

"Eastern Orthodox Church," "Florentine Neoplatonism," "Golden Age of Irish Monastic Scholarship (c.
     500-800)," "Italian Renaissance (Quattrocento) and Early Northern Renaissance," "Neo-
     Confucianism," "Pyrrhus," "Renaissance of Rome: Nicholas V, Pius II, Sixtus IV," "Roman Golden
     and Silver Age," "Xi Zhu." In Encyclopedia of World History. Croton-on-Hudson, NY: Facts on File,
     2007.

"Recognizing and Successfully Averting the Word-Faith Threat to Evangelicalism." Christian
     Apologetics Journal 6.1 (2007): 53-70.

"Hubmaier's Concord of Predestination with Free Will." Direction: A Mennonite Brethren Forum 35.2
     (2006): 279-99.

"1 Corinthians 15:3b-6a, 7 and the Bodily Resurrection of Jesus." Journal of the Evangelical
     Theological Society 49.2 (2006): 225-34.

Reviews

Encountering the Spirit: The Charismatic Tradition, by Mark J. Cartledge. Pneuma: The Journal of the
     Society for Pentecostal Studies, forthcoming.

A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West, by James J. Lorence. Appalachian Voice (January 2008).

Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism, by Mark
     A. Noll and Carolyn Nystrom. The Sixteenth Century Journal 38.4 (2007): 1079-81.

Lukan Theology in the Light of the Gospel’s Literary Structure, by Douglas S. McComiskey.
     Themelios 32.1 (2006): 72-73.

A Sure Ground on Which to Stand: The Relation of Authority and Interpretive Method in Luther's
     Approach to Scripture, by Mark D. Thompson. Themelios 32.1 (2006): 89-90.

Luther and Calvin on Old Testament Narratives: Reformation Thought and Narrative Text, by Michael
     Parsons. The Sixteenth Century Journal 36.2 (2005): 592-94.

The Salvation of Souls: Nine Previously Unpublished Sermons on the Call of Ministry and the Gospel
     by Jonathan Edwards, edited by Richard A. Bailey and Gregory A. Wills. Review of Biblical
     Literature (3 October 2004), 3 pp.

Presentations at Academic Conferences

"Obedience in the Ancient Church and Non-Violence." 59th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical
     Theological Society, 14 November 2007.

"Understanding 'If Anyone Says to This Mountain…' (Mark 11:20-25) In Its Religio-Historical
     Context." 2nd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Christian Apologetics, 2 June 2007.

"The Word-Faith Threat to the Substance and Popular Perception of Evangelicalism." 58th Annual
     Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, 15 November 2006.

"Aquinas' Christological Theory of Art: Christ as the One Divine Art by Whom the Many Human Arts
     Are Providentially Directed." 15th Annual Wheaton Theology Conference: The Beauty of God –
     Theology and the Arts, 8 April 2006.

"Can Little's Creation-Order Theodicy Be Reconciled with Sovereign Individual Predestination?" 57th
     Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, 16 November 2005.

Membership in Professional Societies

2008-     The Alliance for Jewish-Christian-Muslim Understanding

2007-     Premier Member, Biblical Archaeology Society

2007-     American Association of University Professors

2007-     Full Member, Society for Pentecostal Studies

2007-     Charter Member, International Society of Christian Apologetics

2005-     American Society of Church History

2004-     Sixteenth Century Society

2004-     Evangelical Theological Society

2004-     Mennonite Historical Society

2004-     Evangelical Philosophical Society

2002-     Religious and Theological Studies Fellowship

2001-     American Academy of Religion

2001-     Society of Biblical Literature

Teaching

Introductory Courses

             Introduction to Religion

             Survey of World Religions

             Judeo-Christian Tradition

Upper-Level Courses

             Great Living Religions: Christianity

             Birth of Protestantism in Context

             Music and Religion in the Ancient and Christian West

             Religion and Society

Independent Studies

             Latin

             Greek

             The Historical Jesus

Employment History

2007-         Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Radford University

2005-07     Replacement Position (two-year, full-time) in Religion, University of Northern Iowa

2002-05     Graduate Teaching Assistant in Religious Studies, University of Iowa