Church History and History of Christian Thought Faculty Members
Full-time Faculty
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Scott M. ManetschChair of the Church History and the History of Christian Thought Department Associate Professor of Church History BA, Michigan State University MDiv, MA, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School PhD, University of Arizona |
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Douglas A. SweeneyDirector of the Center for Theological Understanding BA, Wheaton University |
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John D. WoodbridgeResearch Professor of Church History and the History of Christian Thought BA, Wheaton College |
Shared Faculty
Dr. Richard Cook
Associate Professor of Mission History and Global Christianity
Adjunct Faculty and Visiting Faculty
Martin I. Klauber (Reformation History)
Adjunct Professor of Church History
BA, State University of New York at Buffalo
MA, MDiv, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
MA, PhD, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Fred W. Beuttler
BA, University of Illinois
MA, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
PhD, University of Chicago
Fred W. Beuttler is Deputy Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives. In May, 2005, Speaker Dennis Hastert recreated the Office of the Historian, appointing Robert Remini as Historian of the House and Fred Beuttler as Deputy Historian. Prior to coming to Washington, Dr. Beuttler was for seven years the Associate University Historian at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). At UIC, Dr. Beuttler directed the university’s oral history project and researched the history of the University. From 1993 to 1998, Dr. Beuttler was an assistant professor at Trinity Christian College near Chicago, where he taught American history and government.
Kenneth Minkema (American Colonial Church History)
Executive editor of The Works of Jonathan Edwards and lecturer in American Church History at Yale University.
Joseph Thomas (Holiness and Pentecostalism)
BA, Eastern Illinois University
MAT, Fuller Theological Seminary
PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Herman Selderhuis (Reformation and Calvin studies)
Herman Selderhuis (Dr.Theol., Apeldoorn) is professor of church history and church polity at the Theologische Universiteit Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. The author of several articles and books on the Reformation, he is also director of the Institute for Reformation Research (Apeldoorn) and is general secretary of the International Calvin Congress.