Education
Bachelor of Arts, (English), Magna cum laude, Greenville College, Greenville, Illinois, 1979
Master of Divinity, (Biblical Studies), Honors, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, 1983
Additional graduate study, (Literary Criticism), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 1985-1987
Doctor of Philosophy, (Historical Theology), St. Louis University, 2004.

Courses Taught
Core 101 Foundations in the Liberal Arts
Core 102 Christian Thought and Life
Religion 101 Bible and Culture
Religion 265 Homiletics
Religion 266 Introduction to Worship
Religion 270 Wisdom and Poetic Literature
Religion 275 Free Methodist Polity and Doctrine
Religion 285 Historic Methodism
Religion 301 Faith and Learning
Religion 335 Apocalyptic Literature of the Bible
Religion 343 History of Western Christianity II: Reformation to Present
Religion 352 Pauline Epistles
Religion 353 Synoptic Gospels
Religion 390 Religion in American Culture
Religion 451 Foundations of Christian Doctrine
Religion 485 Religion Seminar (Cross-listed with the English Dept.)

Recent Papers, Presentations, and Publications

"The Liturgical Reordering of the Ecclesia Anglicana: Faithful Understanding in the Elizabethan Homilies of 1563," Anglican Episcopal History 76.4 (2007): 489-519.

"Understanding the Authority of the Elizabethan Homilies," Proceedings of the North American Academy of Liturgy (2007): 88-117.

"Disinterring the Bones of John Foxe: Suffering in the Acts and Monuments as Weapon in Ecclesiastical Definition," at the Wesleyan Theological Society, Kankakee, IL, March, 2007.

"The Queen and her Homilies: Resolving the Problem of Theological Authority in the British Reformation," at the North American Academy of Liturgy, Toronto, Canada, January, 2007.

"'Tuning the Pulpits': Forming the Faithful by Fiat (or, Sermons in the Service of the Virgin Queen)," lecture delivered at the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, St. John's University and School of Theology, Collegeville, MN, October 26, 2006.

“Wesley, Tradition, and the Homilies,” lecture delivered at Tyndale Seminary, Toronto, Canada, May 31, 2005.

"Sixteenth Century Predecessors of John Wesley: Intimations of Eucharistic Ecclesiology in the Elizabethan Homilies of 1563,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Wesleyan Theological Society, Seattle Pacific University, March, 2005.
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Review of John Wyclif: Scriptural Logic, Real Presence, and the Parameters of Orthodoxy by Ian Christopher Levy. Review of Biblical Literature ( October 23, 2004).
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Web article for the Folger Shakespeare Library, “Eucharist,” from the NEH Seminar, “Sites of Cultural Stress from Reformation to Revolution,” September 2004:
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Post-Doctoral Appointment
Scholar-in-Residence
Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research
St. John's University, Collegeville, MN
http://www.iecr.org/
Fall, 2006

Research Interests
The English Reformation
The Bible and Literature
The Theology of Preaching
Worship and Technology
Dissertation: Narratio Reformationis: The Elizabethan Homilies of 1563 and the Problem of Authority in the Ecclesia Anglicana.

Curriculum Vita (100k .pdf)
C.S. Lewis Presentations

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