CURRICULUM VITAE

GERALD R. MCDERMOTT Professor of Religion and Philosophy Roanoke College Salem, VA 24153 e-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION: Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1989 M.R.E Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary, 1982 B.S. in History and Education, North Dakota State University, 1982 B.A. in New Testament and Early Christian Literature, University of Chicago, 1974.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND HONORS: Copenhaver Visiting Scholar Grant, to bring Hungarian literary critic Tibor Fabiny to Roanoke College for the fall of 2006, $15, 500. Institutional Renewal Grant, for 4-part lecture series on “The Lutheran Tradition” at Roanoke College, Rhodes Consultation, 2004-05, $4000. Resident Fellow, Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Studies, Collegeville Minnesota, 2002-03. Louisville Institute, 2002-03, for sabbatical at Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Studies. $5400. Member, Rhodes Consultation on the Future of Church-Related Colleges, 2000-03, $3500. Member, Lutheran Academy of Scholars in Higher Education, Harvard University, June 1999, $2000. Roanoke College, “Professional Achievement Award,” 1999, $1000. Member, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey, Aug. 1995–July 1996, $32,800. Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, Mednick Fellowship, 1995, $800, for research trip to Yale’s Beinecke Library. Presbyterian Historical Society, 1993 Woodrow Wilson Award for outstanding scholarly article: “Jonathan Edwards, the City on a Hill, and the Redeemer Nation: A Reappraisal,” $100. Selected by Roanoke College student body to give the “Last Lecture” December 1993 (first professor selected) Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Fellowship for Young Scholars in American Religion, 1992–93, $1000 plus expenses for four trips to Indianapolis to work with Catherine Albanese and William Hutchison. Roanoke College, Faculty Enrichment Grant, $600 Roanoke College, Faculty Professional Advancement, $600 Roanoke College, Summer Research Award, 2006, $2000. Roanoke College, Summer Research Award, 1999, $2000. Roanoke College, Summer Research Award, 1998, $2000. Roanoke College, Summer Research Award, 1997, $2000. Roanoke College, Summer Research Award, 1994, $2000. Roanoke College, Research Grant, 1994, $750. Roanoke College, Summer Research Award, 1993, $2000. Roanoke College, Summer Research Award, 1992, $2000. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1990, $3500 Roanoke College, Roanoke Faculty Scholar, 1991-1994; 1994-1997; 1997-2000, 2001-2004. Three-year awards that reduce teaching load and grant $500 per year for research expenses. Roanoke College, Faculty Research Starter Grant, 1991, $1419. Roanoke College, Faculty Research Starter Grant, 1990, $1762. University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts, Ada Louise Ballard Dissertation–Year Fellowship, 1988–89, $7000. University of Iowa School of Religion, Teaching Research Fellowship, 1985–88, four years of funding worth $40,000. University of Iowa, Research Grant, 1987, $450. Honors Assistant, University of Iowa, 1984–85. Graduated with Honors from the University of Chicago, 1974.

PUBLICATIONS: Books God’s Rivals: Why God Allows Different Religions–Insights from the Bible and the Early Church (InterVarsity Press, January 2007) Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths (Oxford University Press, 2000). Study of Edwards’s battles with deism over reason, revelation and the religions. Can Evangelicals Learn from Non-Christian Religions? Jesus, Revelation and the Religions. (InterVarsity Press, 2000). First book-length evangelical reflection on the possibility of revelation in non-Christian religions. **Winner of Christianity Today’s 2001 Book Award for Missions & Global Affairs. One Holy and Happy Society: The Public Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Penn State Press, 1992). The first comprehensive study of Edwards’s socio- political theory. (with William Fintel, M.D.) A Medical and Spiritual Guide to Living with Cancer (Word Books, 1993). In-depth answers to both the medical and theological questions surrounding cancer. (with William Fintel, M.D.) Dear God, It’s Cancer (Word Books, 1997). 2d ed. of Living With Cancer. Contains updated medical chapters and new chapters on skin and ovarian cancer, hospice, and physician-assisted suicide. (with William A. Fintel, M.D.) Cancer: A Medical and Theological Guide for Patients and Their Families (Baker Books, June 2004). Contains updated medical chapters and new chapters on alternative medicine and the mind- body connection. Seeing God: Jonathan Edwards and Spiritual Discernment (Regent College Publishing, 2000; first edn. InterVarsity Press, 1995). A rewriting of Edwards’s Religious Affections, drawing on the masters of Christian spirituality and lessons from church history.

Articles and Chapters “Testing Stark’s Thesis: Is Mormonism the First New World Religion Since Islam?” in John W. Welch, ed., The Worlds of Joseph Smith (Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 2006), 271-92. “Reviving Disputation: Right and Wrong Ways to Think About Other Religions,” Pro Ecclesia XIV:4 (Fall 2005), 487-93 “Will Mormonism Become the Next Great World Religion?” Books and Culture 12:1 (Jan-Feb 2006), 9-11, 42-46. “The Eighteenth-Century Culture War: and Jonathan Edwards on Religion and the Religions,” Litteraria Pragensia 15:29 (2005), 48-63. “Kein primitiver Glaube: Evangelikale widerlegen ein Vor-urteil und warden einflussreicher,” Confessio Augustana I (2005), 48-51. “Jesus and the Religions: My Response to Leicester Longden,” in Reformation and Revival (forthcoming) “Homosexuality: A Theological Analysis,” in Reformation and Revival (forthcoming) “Does Doctrine Matter?” The Anglican Digest 47:1 (Lent 2005), 47-48. “Missions, and Native Americans,” in Sang Hyun Lee, ed., The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards (Princeton: Princeton University Press, January 2005), 258-73. “Jonathan Edwards on Justification: Closer to Luther or Aquinas?” Reformation and Revival Journal 14:1 (2005), 119-38. “Franklin, Jefferson and Edwards on Religion and the Religions,” in Kenneth Minkema and Harry Stout, eds., Jonathan Edwards at 300: Essays on the Tercentenary of His Birth (Lanham, Md., University Press of America, 2005), 65-85. “The Tension Between Land and Peace: Evangelical Christians, Israel, and the Jews,” in Center Conversations 25 (Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center, November 2003), 1-13. “Jonathan Edwards Responds to Deism,” Theology Matters 9:6 (Nov/Dec 2003), 9-12. “Jonathan Edwards, Theologian for the Church,” Reformation and Revival 12:3 (Summer 2003), 11-23. “Which Palestine? Whose Land? A Response to Doug Howard,” Fides et Historia XXXV:2 (Summer/Fall 2003), 79-84. “Jesus and the Religions: A New Paradigm for Christian Engagement?” Books and Culture (Jan./Feb. 2004), 9-11. “Jonathan Edwards, The American Mind,” The Weekly Standard (Oct. 20, 2003), 37-41. “Holy Pagans,” Christian History XXII:1 (February 2003), 38-39. “Poverty, Patriotism, and National Covenant: Jonathan Edwards and Public Life,” Journal of Religious Ethics 31:2 (Summer 2003), 229-51, 316-18. “Jonathan Edwards and the National Covenant: Was He Right?” in D.G. Hart et al, eds., The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards: American Religion and the Evangelical Tradition (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, June 2003), 147-57. “Jonathan Edwards, John Henry Newman, and Non-Christian Religions,” in Oliver Crisp and Paul Helm, eds., Jonathan Edwards, Philosophical Theologian (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003) “Christ vs. Many Gods,” in Uwe Siemon-Netto, ed., One Incarnate Truth: Christianity’s Answer to Spiritual Chaos (St. Louis: Concordia, 2002), 57- 62. “The Land: Evangelicals and Israel,” Books and Culture 9:3 (March/April 2003), 8- 9,40-42. “What Is Fear of God?” The Anglican Digest 44:4 (Transfiguration 2002), 8-10. “Response to Gilbert: ‘The Nations Will Worship: Jonathan Edwards and the Salvation of the Heathen,’” Trinity Journal 23NS (2002), 77-80. “What If Paul Had Been From China? Reflections on the Possibility of Revelation in Non-Christian Religions,” in John G. Stackhouse, ed., No Other Gods Before Me? Evangelicals and the Challenge of World Religions (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2001), 17-35. **This book won Christianity Today’s 2002 Book Award for Missions and Global Affairs. “Jesus Christ, Postmodern Pluralism and World Religions,” part of United Press International’s on-line “Christ and Postmodernity” series, January 2001, http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upisearch.cfm “Deism” (5000 words) in Hans J. Hillerbrand, ed., The Encyclopedia of Protestantism (New York: Routledge, 2004), 568-74. “Persuasion and the Lutheran Academy,” in Mark Mattes, ed., Faith and Pedagogy (forthcoming) “What if Paul Had Gone to China? Reflections on the Possibility of Revelation in the Religions” in John G. Stackhouse, Jr., No Other Gods Before Me? Evangelicals and the Challenge of World Religions (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2001). “A Possibility of Reconciliation: Jonathan Edwards and the Salvation of Non- Christians,” in Sang Lee and Alan Guelzo, eds. Edwards in our Time: Jonathan Edwards and Contemporary Theological Issues (Eerdmans, 1999), 173-202. “Jonathan Edwards and American Indians: ‘The Devil Sucks Their Blood,’” in The New England Quarterly 72:4 (Dec. 1999), 539-57. “The Tongue is a Witch: Speech and Power,” in Books and Culture 7:4 (July/August 2001), 37-8. “Jonathan Edwards and the Salvation of Non-Christians,” in Pro Ecclesia IX:2 (Spring 2000), 208-27. “Jonathan Edwards, Deism, and the Mystery of Revelation,” Journal of Presbyterian History 77:4(Winter 1999), 211-24. “Jonathan Edwards,” “Charles Chauncy, “John Clarke,” and “John Cotton” in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (4th ed.), forthcoming. “Jonathan Edwards on Revival, Spiritual Discernment, and God’s Beauty,” in Reformation and Revival 6:1 (Winter 1997), 103-14. Syllabus and rationale for “Religion in America” published in Course Outlines: Young Scholars in American Religion. Indianapolis: Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, February 1993. “Edwards and Islam: The Deist Connection,” chapter three in Jonathan Edwards’s Writings: Text, Context, Interpretation, ed. Stephen J. Stein (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996). “Jonathan Edwards and the Culture Wars: A New Resource for Public Theology and Philosophy, in “Pro Ecclesia IV: 3 (Summer 1995), 268–30. “A Deeply Concealed Kinship: Heidegger and Zen,” in Journal of Religious Studies 18, nos. 1&2 (1992), 114–24. “Jonathan Edwards, the City on a Hill, and the Redeemer Nation: A Reappraisal,” in American Presbyterians/Journal of Presbyterian History 69: 1 (Spring 1991), 33–47. “Karma and Rebirth as Christian Pedagogy: Geddes MacGregor’s Attempt to Synthesize Reincarnation and Christianity,” in Journal of Religious Studies 16: 1–2 (1990), 157-73. “Civil Religion in the American Revolution: An Historiographic Analysis,” in Christian Scholar’s Review XVIII: 4(June 1989), 346–62. “What Jonathan Edwards Can Teach Us About Politics,” Christianity Today 38: 8 (July 18, 1994), 32–35. (with William Fintel, MD.) “Cancer: This threatening word can teach us a great deal about life,” Today’s Better Life 3:1 (Fall 1993), 88–91. “Esther Burr,” “William Robinson,” and “John Smalley” in Donald Lewis, ed., A Dictionary of Evangelical Biography (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995). “The Eighteenth-Century Awakening: A Reminder to Evangelicals in the 1990s,” National and International Religion Report 6: 26 Special Supplement (Dec. 14, 1992), 1–4.

Reviews Massimo Serretti, ed., The Uniqueness and Universality of Jesus Christ, in Dialogue and Alliance 18:2 (Fall/Winter 2005), 125-27. George R. Sumner, The First and the Last: The Claim of Jesus Christ and the Claims of Other Religious Traditions in The Cresset LXVIII: 4 (Easter 2005), 51-54. E. Brooks Holifield, Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War in Pro Ecclesia XIII (Summer 2004), 359-61. Harry S. Stout et al, eds, The Works of Jonathan Edwards Volume 22: Sermons and Discourses 1739-1742, in Religious Studies Review 30:1, 92. Sang Hyun Lee, ed., The Works of Jonathan Edwards Volume 22: Writings on the Trinity, Grace and Faith in Religious Studies Review 30:1, 92. Richard Bailey and Gregory Wills, eds., The Salvation of Souls: Nine Previously Unpublished Sermons on the Call of Ministry and the Gospel by Jonathan Edwards, in Religious Studies Review 30:1, 92. Jacques Dupuis, Christianity and the Religions: From Confrontation to Dialogue, in Monastic Interreligious Studies Bulletin 70 (March 2003), 13-15. Minou Reeves, Muhammad in Europe: A Thousand Years of Myth-Making, in The Sixteenth-Century Journal 35:4 (Winter 2004), 1197-99. Timothy Tennent, Christianity at the Religious Roundtable: Evangelicalism in Conversation with Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, in Studies in World Christianity (2002), 8:2, 320-22. Robert E. Brown, Jonathan Edwards and the Bible, in Catholic Historical Review (April 2003), 336-37. Philip B. Secor, Richard Hooker: Prophet of Anglicanism, and Secor, Sermons of Richard Hooker: The Power of Faith, The Mystery of Grace in The Sixteenth-Century Journal XXXIII/3 (fall 2002), 827-29. “True Pluralism,” review essay of S. Mark Heim, The Depth of the Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends in The Cresset (Christmas/Epiphany 2001-02), 28-31. David Noel Freedman and Michael J. McClymond, eds., The Rivers of Paradise: Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muhammad as Religious Founders in Princeton Seminary Bulletin XXIII:2 (July 2002), 248-51. Stephen R. Holmes, God of Grace & God of Glory: An Account of the Theology of Jonathan Edwards in Pro Ecclesia XI:3 (Summer 2002), 369-71. Wilson H. Kimnach, Kenneth P. Minkema, & Douglas A. Sweeney, eds. The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader in American Religious Experience (on-line journal at http://are.as.wvu.edu), Dec. 1999. Leon Chai, Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy in Cross Currents 49:2 (Summer 1999), 270-74. George S. Claghorn, ed. Works of Jonathan Edwards Vol. 16: Letters and Personal Writings in Religious Studies Review (forthcoming) Stephen J. Stein, ed. Works of Jonathan Edwards Vol. 15: Notes on Scripture in Religious Studies Review 25:1 (Jan 1999), 116. Linda Munk, The Devil’s Moustrap: Redemption and Colonial American Literature in Religious Studies Review 25:1 (Jan 1999), 116. Kenneth P. Minkema, ed., Works of Jonathan Edwards vol. 14: Sermons and Discourses 1723-1729 in Religious Studies Review 24:2 (April 1998), 212. Harry S. Stout and D. C. Hart, eds, New Directions in American Religious History in Religious Studies Review. Stephen H. Daniel, The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards in William and Mary Quarterly 53:3 (July 1996), 658-60. Joseph A. Conforti, Jonathan Edwards Religious Tradition., and American Culture in Cross–Currents 46, no. 3 (Fall 1996), 426–27. Lawrence Foster, Women Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers. The Oneida Community. and the Mormons in Critical Review of Books in Religion 54 (1994), 537–39. Francis J. Eremer, ed. Puritanism: Transatlantic Perspectives on a Seventeenth– Century Anglo–American Faith in American Historical Review (Dec. 1995), 1663–64. Mason Lowance and Wallace Anderson, eds, Works of Jonathan. Edwards Vol. 11: Typological Writings in Church History 65: 1 (March 1996), 109–110. Knud Haakonssen. ed. Enlightenment and Religion: Rational Dissent in Eighteenth- century Britain in Fides et Historia 29: 2 (Summer 1997): 115-16. Kenneth P. Ninkema, ed., Works of Jonathan Edwards. vol. 14 Sermons and Discourses 1723–1729, in Religious Studies Review. (forthcoming). Allen C. Guelzo’s Edwards on the Will: A Century of American Theological Debate in American Presbyterians/Journal of Presbyterian History 70:3 (Fall 1992), 195–200. Ann Norimoto, Jonathan Edwards and the Catholic Vision of Salvation in Theology Today 53:2 July 1996), 278. Mark Noll, ed. Evangelicalism: Comparative Studies in Religious Studies Review 22:1 (Jan. 1996), 79. Stephen H. Daniel, The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards in Religious Studies Review 22:2 (April 1996), 136. David D. Hall, ed., The Works of Jonathan Edwards Vol. 12: Ecclesiastical Writings in Religious Studies Review 22:2 (April 1996) 174. John S. Smith, Harry S. Stout, and Kenneth P. Minkema, eds., K. Jonathan Edwards Reader, in Religious Studies Review 22:2 (April 1996), 174–75. Diana Hochstedt Butler’s Standing Against the Whirlwind: Evangelical Episcopalians in Nineteenth–Century America in Religious Studies Review (forthcoming) John F. Smith, Jonathan Edwards: Puritan. Preacher. Philosopher in Religious Studies Review 20:3 (July 1994), 247. B. Oberg and H. Stout, eds., . Jonathan Edwards and the Representation of American Culture in Religious Studies Review 20:3 (July 1994), 246. Alexander B. Grosart, ed., Selections from the Unpublished Writings of Jonathan Edwards in Religious Studies Review 21:3 (July 1995), 248. Stephen Yarborough and Joan C. Adams, Delightful Conviction: Jonathan Edwards and the Rhetoric of Conversion in Religious Studies Review 21:3 (July 1995), 248. David Kling, A Field of Divine Wonders: The New Divinity and Village Revivals in Northwestern Connecticut 1792-1822 in Religious Studies Review 21:3 (July 1995), 248–49. Allen C. Guelzo, For the Union of Evangelical Christendom: The Irony of the Reformed Episcopalians in Religious Studies Review 21:3 (July 1995), 249. Julius H. Rubin, Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America in Religious Studies Review 21:1 (January 1995), 60. Winton U. Solberg, ed., Cotton Mather’s The Christian Philosopher in Religious Studies Review 21:1, 60-61. Wallace F. Anderson and Mason I. Lowance, eds., The Works of Jonathan Edwards Vol 11: Typological Writings in Religious Studies Review 21:1, 61. Mark Valeri, Law and Providence in Joseph Bellamy’s New England in Religious Studies Review 21:4 October 1995), 345. Richard T. Steele, "Gracious Affections” and “True Virtue” in Jonathan Edwards and John Wesley” in Religious Studies Review 21:4 (October 1995), 345. Donald Weber’s Rhetoric and History in Revolutionary New England in Religious Studies Review 16:1 (January 1990), 89-90. MX. Lesser’s Jonathan Edwards in Religious Studies Review 15:4 (October 1989), 348. Charles A. Miller’s Jefferson and Nature: An Interpretation in Religious Studies Review 16:2 (April 1990), 174. Mark Nolls Princeton and the Republic 1768-1822 in Religious Studies Review 17:3 (July 1991), 274–75. Conrad Cherry’s The Theology of Jonathan Edwards: A Reappraisal in Religious Studies Review 17:3 July 1991), 274. Harry S. Stout’s The Divine Dramatist: and the Rise of American Evangelicalism in Religious Studies Review 18: 3 (July 1992), 244. Edwin Gaustad’s Liberty of Conscience: in America in Religious Studies Review 19:3 (July 1993), 276. Michael J. Crawford’s Seasons of Grace: Colonial New England’s Revival Tradition and Its British Context in Religious Studies Review 19:3 (July 1993), 276. John Corrigan’s The Prism of Piety: Catholick Congregational Clergv at the Beginning of the Enlightenment in Religious Studies Review 19:3 (July 1993), 277. William Morris, The Young Jonathan Edwards: A Reconstruction in Religious Studies Review 20:1 (Jan 94), 74. Jon Pahl, Paradox Lost: Free Will and Political Liberty in American Culture 1630- 1760 in Religious Studies Review 20:1 (Jan 94), 74. Wilson Kimnach, ed.. The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Sermons and Discourses 1720-1723 in Religious Studies Review 20:3 (July 1994), 246–47.

Conference Papers and Public Lectures “Is Sola Scriptura Really Sola? Edwards, Newman, Bultmann and Wright on the Bible as Religious Authority,” conference on “Religious Authority in Christianity” at Brigham Young University, April 8, 2006. “Edwards on the Trinity,” Evangelical Theological Society, Philadelphia, PA, 18 November 2005. “Yahweh and the Gods: The Old Testament’s Surprising Approaches to Other Religions,” ’s 2005 Pruit Memorial Symposium: “Global Christianity: Challenging Modernity and the West,” 12 November 2005. “Franklin, Jefferson and Edwards on Religion and the Religions,” at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA, 4 November 2005. “Jonathan Edwards and Thomas Jefferson on Religion and the Religions,” lecture sponsored by the English and American Studies Departments, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic), 25 May 2005. “Jonathan Edwards and the World Religions,” lecture co-sponsored by the Protestant Missionary Center and the Center for Hermeneutical Research, Budapest (Hungary), 30 May 2005. “Testing the Stark Thesis: Is Mormonism the First New World Religion Since Islam?” “The Worlds of Joseph Smith” Conference, Library of Congress, 7 May 2005. “Evangelicals and the State of Israel,” Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C., 15 April 2005. I was one of two featured speakers, addressing congressional staffers. “An Analysis of the Evangelical Left,” Institute on Religion and Democracy, Washington, DC, 4 April 2005. “Psychic Abandonment, and How to Deal With It,” five lectures delivered at the 2005 HPR III Training Institute, conference for behavioral healthcare employees and practitioners, 14 March 2005, Roanoke, VA. “Jonathan Edwards, the Prisca Theologia and Spiritual Discernment,” three days of lectures for faculty at Brigham Young University, sponsored by the Richard Evans Chair for Religious Understanding. “The Bible and Gay Marriage,” at an “Interfaith Conference: Defending Marriage and Family,” Family Action Council International, Washington, DC, 28 February 2004. “Franklin, Jefferson and Edwards on Religion and the Religions,” for “Edwards at 300: A National Symposium on Jonathan Edwards” Library of Congress, 3-4 October 2003. “Jonathan Edwards, Missions, and Native Americans,” at “Jonathan Edwards the Theologian,” international conference sponsored by Princeton Seminary, 12 April 2003. “Why Did the Triune God Permit the Rise and Flourishing of the Great Non- Christian Religions?” public lecture at the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, 12 December 2002. “A Conversation with Gerald McDermott: Jonathan Edwards and World Religions,” annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Toronto, Canada, 22 October 2002. Three theologians responded to my paper. “Evangelicals and Israel,” at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, DC, 21 November 2002. I was the featured speaker at a conference for twenty evangelical leaders from around the country, plus representatives from the White House, State and Defense Departments. “The Tension Between Land and Peace: Fundamentalist and Evangelical Christians, Israel and the Jews,” at the The Elijah School for the Study of Wisdom in the World Religions, Jerusalem, 24 July 2002. “Persuasion in the Lutheran Academy,” at the Lutheran Academy of Scholars in Higher Education conference at Midland College in Nebraska, 1 August 2000 “What if Paul Had Gone to China? Reflections on the Possibility of Revelation in the Religions,” at Regent College’s Fall Theology Conference, Vancouver, B.C., 13 October 2000. Chaired session and responded to two papers on political economy at the International Jonathan Edwards Conference, Miami, March 10, 2000. “Jonathan Edwards and Non-Christian Religions: Using the Ancient Theology to Recast the History of Religions,” at the American Society of Church History meeting in San Diego, April 23, 1999. “Jonathan Edwards and the Deists” at the American Society of Church History meeting in Nashville, TN, April 26, 1998. “Hope for the Heathen: Jonathan Edwards on the Eschatological Destiny of Non– Christians” at the national conference, “Jonathan Edwards and Current Theological Issues,” Philadelphia, PA, October 3-5, 1996. “Why Doth Jonathan Rage? Understanding Edwards’s Hostility to Islam,” presented to the national Edwards conference at University of Indiana, June 4, 1994. “The Priviledges and Duties of Subjects: Jonathan Edwards’s Theology of Patriotism,” presented to the Organization of American Historians Annual Meetings, April 14-17, 1994, Atlanta. “Jonathan Edwards and the Culture Wars: A New Resource for Public Theology and Philosophy,” presented at “Jonathan Edwards in Historical Perspective” conference at the Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 31, 1993. “Why Doth Edwards Rage? Understanding Eighteenth-century Orthodox Hostility to Islam,” presented to the June 1993 meetings of Young Scholars in American Religion, Institute for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indianapolis. “The Public Theology of Nathanael Emmons: Continuing the Edwardsean Tradition of Dissent,” given at the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, March 14, 1992, Atlanta, GA.

Works in Progress

Book-length manuscript on the theological meaning of religious pluralism: Why did and does the Triune God permit the rise and flourishing of the great non- Christian religions? Invited paper for national conference on Edwards and justification. Invited paper for national conference on the history of evangelical attitudes to the state of Israel.

Other Scholarly and Professional Service Past service: Delivered the 2002 Miller Lecture at Valparaiso University, “Beauty, Mysticism and Damnation: Jonathan Edwards as America’s Theologian,” February 11, 2002. Was featured speaker at conference sponsored by the C.S. Lewis Institute in Washington, D.C.: “Spiritual Discernment in an Age of Deception: Wisdom from America’s Greatest Theologian (Jonathan Edwards)”, November 3-5, 2000. Co-produced 4-part TV series on Religion in America for WBRA, the public television station in Roanoke. The four one-hour shows (religious experience, alternative religions, religion and politics, religion and science) aired in October 2000. Delivered plenary lecture, “Do We Really Need to Be Healthy?” at the “Faith, Health and Community Life” symposium sponsored by Carilion Health System at Roanoke College October 13, 1999. Served as Acting Director of Center for Church and Society, Roanoke College, 1999-2000. Consulted with the George H. Gallup International Institute on an instrument to measure spiritual maturity in American congregations, 1996-1999. Served as expert witness in “cult” case in San Francisco May 4-8, 1998. Served on panel of four to plan a conference on religion and the arts sponsored by the Luce Foundation, Boston, June 11-13, 1993. Served on the Brewer Prize Committee for the American Society of Church History, March-April 1998. Lectured on Edwards and aesthetics at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Ambridge, PA, on April 23, 1997. Spoke on Edwards and spiritual discernment at a staff training retreat outside of Pittsburgh for the Coalition for Christian Outreach, April 24–25, 1997. Lectured on Jonathan Edwards and non-Christian religions at Princeton Theological Seminary April 8, 1996, and at Robert Wuthnow’s seminar for the history and sociology departments at Princeton University, April 26, 1996. Lectured as the Ronald Nelson Visiting Scholar at Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa, Oct. 11–13, 1995. Lectured on faith and medicine at Wartburg College, Oct. 19, 1995. Lectured on American religion at Pazmany Peter University and the Karoli Reformed University in Budapest, Hungary, May 2-12, 1995. Lectured on the affections and the world religions at Malone College, Canton, OH, Feb. 19-20, 2001. Served as outside reader for masters theses at Virginia Episcopal Seminary (1994) and Liberty University (1995) Reviewed book manuscripts for Penn State Press, 1992 and 1993, book proposal for Oxford University Press, 1999, and manuscript for Yale University Press, 2001. Reviewed textbook manuscript for St. Martin’s Press, 1994. Lectured on Jonathan Edwards at the Brazilian Baptist Seminary in Sao Paulo, August 1992 Refereed 70 proposals for NEH Summer Stipend in November 1991 Served as editor for National and International Religion Report 1992-93. Refereed articles for Church History and William and Mary Quarterly Served as Acting Director of Center for Church and Society, Roanoke College, 1992–93, 1999-2000 Gave seminars (with William A. Fintel, M.D.) on faith and medicine at Roanoke Memorial Hospital (spring 1993), Chicago chapter of the Christian Medical and Dental Society (October 1993), the national conference of the ACTS cable–TV network in Jacksonville, FL (November 1993), and Allegheny Regional Hospital in Clifton Forge, VA, Oct. 8, 1994 Lectured on faith and palliative care at the Ethics Conference sponsored by Carilion Health Systems (Roanoke, Sept. 24, 1998) and at the Virginia Breast Cancer Education Conference sponsored by the Virginia Department of Health (Richmond, October 5, 1998), on faith and health at the Faith, Health and Community Symposium co-sponsored by Carilion Health Systems and Roanoke College (October 13, 1999), and on interdisciplinary knowledge with oncologist William Fintel for the graduate student chapter of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship at the University of Virginia (Feb. 4, 2000). Was featured speaker at the Graham Gilmer Memorial Bible Conference at Rivermont Presbyterian Church, Lynchburg, Virginia, Sept. 20-22, 2003.

Current service: I have been invited by the George H. Gallup International Institute to serve as a consultant for its “Spiritual Health of the Nation” project. Headed by John DiIulio and Byron Johnson, it will offer a “State of Spiritual Health of the Nation” report each year at the same time as the President’s “State of the Union” address, measuring the inner resources of the populace needed to move the nation ahead in a positive direction. I serve as Vice-President of the board of Children’s Relief International (HQ Denver, primary mission in Mozambique). I also serve as Associate Priest at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Fincastle, Virginia.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: Roanoke College, Professor of Religion and Philosophy, 2002- Roanoke College, Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy, 1996–2002. Roanoke College, Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy, 1989–95. University of Iowa, Teaching Assistant, 1985–87. Jonathan Edwards Sermons Project, Yale University, Transcriber, 1988–89.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Religion American Society of Church History

COURSES TAUGHT Islam; (with Paul Hinlicky) Born Again? Catholic and Protestant Perspectives on Baptism and New Birth; Religion in America (history and current manifestations of; focused primarily on history of theology), New Religions in America (non- traditional religious communities), Living Religions of the World, (co-taught) Religions and Philosophies of China; Religions of the Middle East (on site in Egypt and Israel), Values and the Responsible Life (introduction to religious and philosophical ethics), the Reformation, the Development of Christianity (early church from the close of the canon to the dawn of the Reformation), New Testament, Introduction to Christianity, Religious Pluralism (exploration of the issues of truth and revelation), The Self in Autobiography.