Church History and History of Christian Thought Faculty Members

Full-time Faculty:

Scott M. Manetsch

Chair 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

Dr. Manetsch joined Trinity's faculty after serving three years as an Assistant Professor of Religion at Northwestern College (Iowa). Ordained in the Reformed Church in America, he served as an associate pastor of education and discipleship for three years. During graduate school, he was awarded a Fulbright fellowship and spent two years doing archival research on French Reformation history at the University of Geneva. He is the author of Theodore Beza and the Quest for Peace in France, 1572-1598 (2000) and several recent articles exploring pastoral theology and practice in sixteenth-century Geneva. He is a member of the Sixteenth Century Studies Society, the Calvin Studies Society, and the American Society of Church History.

Douglas A. Sweeney
Director of the Center for Theological Understanding
Associate Professor of Church History and the History of Christian Thought
BA, Wheaton University
MA, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
MA, PhD, Vanderbilt University

Dr. Sweeney came to Trinity from Yale University, where he edited The Works of Jonathan Edwards and served as a lecturer in church history and historical theology. He is the author of numerous articles and the author or editor of several books, including the following: The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader (Yale University Press, 1999), which he coedited with Wilson H. Kimnach and Kenneth P. Minkema; Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards (Oxford University Press, 2003); Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad: Historical Memories, Cultural Movements, Global Horizons (University of South Carolina Press, 2003), which he edited with David W. Kling; and Jonathan Edwards's "Miscellanies" Nos. 1153-1360 (Yale University Press, 2003). Dr. Sweeney has also taught courses for Aquinas College in Nashville, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Charlotte, and Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte.

John D. Woodbridge,
Research Professor of Church History and the History of Christian Thought
BA, Wheaton College
MA, Michigan State University
MDiv, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Doctorat de Troisième Cycle, Universite de Toulouse, France

Dr. Woodbridge was awarded a Fulbright fellowship and has done postgraduate study with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Studies. Dr. Woodbridge has taught history at the University of Toulouse, Northwestern University, and Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne. He is the author of Revolt in Prerevolutionary France, Biblical Authority and coauthor with Timothy George of The Mark of Jesus. He is coeditor of Scripture and Truth, Hermeneutics, Authority and Canon, and Doing Theology in Today's World, as well as the editor of Great Leaders of the Christian Church, More than Conquerors, and Ambassadors for Christ. He has served as a senior editor for Christianity Today and has also published academic articles and books in Europe.

Adjunct Faculty:

Martin I. Klauber
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

Dr. Klauber is an investment banker and author of several scholarly works on post-Reformation theology.

Visiting Faculty:

Fred W. Beuttler
Visiting Professor of Church History and the History of Christian Thought
BA, University of Illinois
MA, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
PhD, University of Chicago

Dr. Beuttler is Associate University Historian and Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Director of the Oral History Project at UIC. He has also served on the faculty of Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois, and as a guest professor at the Ivan Franko Pedagogical Institute in Drogobytch, Ukraine. He has published The University of Illinois at Chicago: A Pictorial History.

Steven A. McKinion
Visiting Professor of Church History
BA, Mississippi College
ThM, University of Mobile
PhD, King's College, University of Aberdeen

Dr. McKinion has served as Associate Professor of Historical Theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary since 1998. His particular specialization is fourth- and fifth-century Christology, particularly Cyril of Alexandria. His published works include Life and Practice in the Early Church: A Documentary Reader, and Words, Imagery, and the Mystery of Christ: A Reconstruction of Cyril of Alexandria's Christology.