CURRICULUM VITAE Gordon L. Heath Mcmaster Divinity College
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CURRICULUM VITAE Gordon L. Heath McMaster Divinity College 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, Ontario, L8S4K1 [email protected] (905) 525-9140 x26409 20 August 2019 EDUCATION PhD, 2004 • University of St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto MDiv (Honours), 1994 • Acadia University BTh, 1989 • Tyndale University College EMPLOYMENT McMaster Divinity College • Professor of Christian History, 2017 – present • Centenary Chair of World Christianity, 2013 – present • Director, Canadian Baptist Archives, 2004 – present • Associate Professor of Christian History, 2009 – 2017 • Assistant Professor of Christian History, 2004 – 2009 Tyndale University College • Assistant Professor of History, 2000 – 2004 • Director, Degree Completion Program, 2000 – 2004 • Adjunct Faculty, 1999 – 2000 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Undergraduate • History of Christianity • History of Christianity 1 • History of Christianity 2 • The Reformation • History of Evangelicalism • The Historian’s Craft: Historiography • Directed Research Project 2 Graduate • History of Christianity 1 • History of Christianity 2 • Foundations in Theology and History 1 • Foundations in Theology and History 2 • The Reformation • Christians and Violence • Christianity in the Canadian Context • Post-Christendom and the Canadian Church • History of Evangelicalism • Baptist History and Polity • Critical Events in Christian History • Women in Christian History • World and Writings of John Wesley • The Lives of the Saints: Then and Now • Ministry and Evangelical Thought • Evangelical Thought and Practice • Various Directed Studies classes • Presbyterianism in Canada (as a TA) PUBLICATIONS Authored Books • The British Nation is Our Nation: The BACSANZ Baptist Press and the South African War, 1899-1902. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2017. • A War with a Silver Lining: Canadian Protestant Churches and the South African War, 1899-1902. Montreal/Kingston/London/Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009. • Doing Church History: A User-friendly Introduction to Researching the History of Christianity. Toronto: Clements, 2008. Co-authored Books • The Lost Gospel of Judas: Separating Fact from Fiction. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. Co-authored with Stanley E. Porter. Translated into Polish: Zaginiona Ewangelia Judasza: Fakty I Fikcje. Krakow: Wydawnictwo, 2008. Edited Books • Empire from the Margins: Religious Minorities in Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902. Eugene: Pickwick, 2017. • American Churches and the First World War. Eugene: Pickwick, 2016. • Canadian Churches and the First World War. Eugene: Pickwick, 2014. Also published as Canadian Churches and the First World War. Cambridge: Lutterworth, 2014. 3 Co-edited Books • Christian Responses to Terrorism: The Kenyan Experience. Eugene: Pickwick, 2017. Co- edited with David Tarus. • Baptists and War: Essays on Baptists and Military Conflict, 1640s -1990s. Eugene: Pickwick, 2015. Volume Two in the Canadian Baptist Historical Society Series. Co-edited with Michael Haykin. Also published as Baptists and War: Essays on Baptists and Military Conflict, 1640s -1990s. Cambridge: Lutterworth, 2015. • The Globalization of Christianity: Implications for Christian Ministry and Theology. Eugene: Pickwick, 2014. Co-edited with Steve Studebaker. • Baptists and Public Life in Canada. Eugene: Pickwick, 2012. Volume One in the Canadian Baptist Historical Society Series. Co-edited with Paul Wilson. • Baptism: Historical, Theological and Pastoral Perspectives. Eugene: Pickwick, 2011. Co- edited with Jim Dvorak. Chapters in Books • “Dissenting Traditions and Politics in the Anglophone World,” In The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: Volume V; The Twentieth Century: Themes and Variations in a Global Context, edited by Mark P. Hutchinson, 61-90. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. • “Watson Kirkconnell’s Covert War against Communism,” In North American Churches and the Cold War, edited by Paul Mojzes, 64-79. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018. • “Empire from the Margins: An Introduction,” In Empire from the Margins: Religious Minorities in Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902, edited by Gordon L. Heath, 1- 15. Eugene: Pickwick, 2017. • “‘The Boers standing in the way of progress in Africa must be swept asixde:’ Patriotism and Imperialism in the Canadian Jewish Times during the South African War,” In Empire from the Margins: Religious Minorities in Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902, edited by Gordon L. Heath, 155-171. Eugene: Pickwick, 2017. • “This South African war does not affect all citizens in the [same] manner:” French Protestants in Quebec during the South African War,” In Empire from the Margins: Religious Minorities in Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902, edited by Gordon L. Heath, 69-84. Eugene: Pickwick, 2017. (chapter co-authored with Sid D. Sudiacal) • “Introduction,” (co-authored with David Tarus), In Christian Responses to Terrorism: The Kenyan Experience, editors Gordon L. Heath and David Tarus, 3-11. Eugene: Pickwick, 2017. • “Response to Joseph D. Galgalo and Joseph B. O. Okella,” In Christian Responses to Terrorism: The Kenyan Experience, editors Gordon L. Heath and David Tarus, 173-175. Eugene: Pickwick, 2017. • “The Armenian Genocide and Its Implications for the Teaching of Global Christianity: Some Reflections for Evangelicals,” In Inaugurations: Inaugural Lectures Delivered at McMaster Divinity College, editor Stanley E. Porter, 91-106. Eugene: Pickwick, 2017. Reprinted from McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry. • “American Churches and the First World War: An Introduction,” In American Churches and the First World War, editor Gordon L. Heath, 1-14. Eugene: Pickwick, 2016. 4 • “‘The accursed partnership of Turk and Teuton’: American Churches and the Armenian Genocide,” In American Churches and the First World War, editor Gordon L. Heath, 181- 203. Eugene: Pickwick, 2016. • “Canadian and American Baptist Self-Perceptions in the Age of Imperialism,” In Mirrors & Microscopes, editor Douglas Weaver, 87-109. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2015. • “The Nile Expedition, New Imperialism and Canadian Baptists, 1884-1885,” In Baptists and War: Essays on Baptists and Military Conflict, 1640s-1990s, editors Michael Haykin and Gordon L. Heath, 98-114. Eugene: Pickwick, 2015. Reprinted from Baptist Quarterly. • “‘Thor and Allah in a hideous, unholy confederacy’: The Armenian Genocide in the Canadian Protestant Press,” In The Globalization of Christianity: Implications for Christian Ministry and Theology, editors Steve Studebaker and Gordon L. Heath, 105-128. Eugene: Pickwick, 2014. • “Engaging War and Empire: 400 Years of Baptist Attitudes and Actions,” In ‘Step Into Your Place’: The First World War and Baptist Life & Thought, edited by Larry Kreitzer, 158- 188. Oxford: Regent’s Park College, 2014. • “South Africa to the Somme: The Legacy of the Boer War for Canadian and New Zealand Baptists in the Great War,” In Freedom and the Powers: Perspectives from Baptist History marking the 400th Anniversary of Thomas Helwys’ The Mystery of Iniquity, edited by Anthony R. Cross and John H.Y. Briggs, 83-101. Didcot: Baptist Historical Society, 2014. • “Introduction,” In Canadian Churches and the First World War, editor Gordon L. Heath, 1- 13. Eugene: Pickwick, 2014. • “The South African War: Prelude to the Great War,” In Canadian Churches and the First World War, editor Gordon L. Heath, 15-33. Eugene: Pickwick, 2014. • “The Upside-down Professor,” In Those Who Can, Teach: Teaching as Christian Vocation, edited by Stanley E. Porter, 192-205. Eugene: Pickwick, 2013. • “When the Blood of the Martyrs Was Not Enough: A Survey of Places Where the Church Was Wiped Out,” In The Church, Then and Now, Bingham Colloquium Series, editors Stanley E. Porter and Cynthia Westfall, 97-133. Eugene: Pickwick, 2012. • “Introduction” (co-authored with Paul Wilson), In Baptists and Public Life in Canada, Volume One in the Canadian Baptist Historical Society Series, editors Gordon L. Heath and Paul R. Wilson, 1-7. Eugene: Pickwick, 2012. • “Traitor, Half-Breeds, Savages and Heroes: Canadian Baptist Newspapers and Constructions of Riel and the Events of 1885,” In Baptists and Public Life in Canada, Volume One in the Canadian Baptist Historical Society Series, editors Gordon L. Heath and Paul Wilson, 198- 217. Eugene: Pickwick, 2012. • “Introduction (co-authored with James D. Dvorak), In Baptism: Historical, Theological and Pastoral Perspectives, editors Gordon L. Heath and James D. Dvorak, viii-xvii. Eugene: Pickwick, 2011. • “The Church Fathers and the Roman Empire,” In Empire in the New Testament, Bingham Colloquium Series, editors Stanley E. Porter and Cynthia Westfall, 259-279. Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick, 2011. • “When Missionaries Were Hated: An Examination of the Canadian Baptist Defense of Imperialism and Missions during the Boxer Rebellion, 1900,” In Baptists and Mission, editors Ian M. Randall and Anthony R. Cross, 261-276. Milton Keynes/Colorado Springs/Hyderabad: Paternoster, 2007. 5 Refereed Journal Articles • “‘We Are Through with War’: The Rise and Fall of Pacifism among Canadian Baptists Between the Two World Wars,” Baptistic Theologies 9, 2 (2017): 37-53. • “The Wartime Diaries of Canadian Baptist Military Chaplain William A. White, 1917-1918” Baptist Quarterly (July 2017). DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2017.1343915 • “The Armenian Genocide and Its Implications for the Teaching of Global Christianity: Some Reflections for Evangelicals” McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry 16 (2014- 2015): 177-194. • “Canadian Baptists and Late-Victorian