Join us for a two-day conference as Presbyterian scholars, thinkers, pastors, and authors come together.

Cost $50—can be paid at the door and covers all meals and snacks.

Where: Harbor House on the campus of Wheaton College (this is not a function of Wheaton College)

To register please email Jeff McDonald at jsmcdonald47@gmail.com

Conference Dates: October 22nd and 23rd, 2024

Tuesday, October 22nd

9:00 a.m. Panel Discussion on the “Secularization of Higher Education”

  • Dr. Daniel K. Williams, Senior Research Fellow, Ashbrook Center, Ashland University

  • Dr. Owen Anderson, Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State University

10:00 a.m. “James Montgomery Boice and the Making of a New Evangelical”

  • Dr. John Tweeddale, Professor of Theology and VP of Academics, Reformation Bible College (FL)

11:00 a.m. “Francis Grimke, Racism, and the Imago Dei

  • Dr. Paul Kemeny, Professor of Religious Studies and Dean, Grove City College

12:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m. “Transatlantic Encounters: Old Princeton and German Universities”

  • Dr. Annette Aubert, Lecturer in Church History, Westminster Theological Seminary

2:00 p.m. Panel Discussion of The Oxford Handbook of Presbyterianism edited by Paul Kemeny and Gary Scott Smith

  • Dr. Bradley Longfield, Professor of Church History, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary

  • Dr. David Bebbington, Professor of History Emeritus, University of Stirling, Scotland

  • Dr. Jack Whytock, Executive Director, Haddington House Trust, PEI, Canada

  • Dr. John Wiers, Retired Pastor and Adjunct Instructor, Kirkwood Community College

  • Dr. Paul Kemeny, Professor of Religious Studies and Dean, Grove City College

  • Dr. Gary Scott Smith, Professor of History Emeritus, Grove City College

3:45 p.m. “The Christian Nationalism of Nineteenth Century Presbyterians”

  • Dr. Darryl Hart, Associate Professor of History, Hillsdale College

4:45 p.m. “Charles Hodge and Natural Theology”

  • Dr. Owen Anderson, Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State University

5:45 p.m. Dinner

7:00 p.m. Panel Discussion of Richard Burnett’s Machen’s Hope: The Transformation of a Modernist in the New Princeton

  • Dr. Mark Noll, McAnaney Professor of History Emeritus, University of Notre Dame 

  • Dr. Camden Bucey, President of the Reformed Forum, Historian of the OPC

  • Dr. Robert Cara, Professor of New Testament and VP of AA, Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, NC

  • Dr. Darryl G Hart, Associate Professor of History, Hillsdale College

  • Dr. George M. Marsden, McAnaney Professor of History Emeritus, University of Notre Dame (via ZOOM)

  • Dr. Richard Burnett, Executive Director, Theology Matters, and Director of the M.A. program in Reformed Theology, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary

Wednesday, October 23rd

8:00 a.m. “Xenia Seminary and the Challenge of Evangelical Scholarship”

  • Dr. Jeff McDonald, Executive Director, Presbyterian Scholars Conference 

9:00 a.m. “M. G. Kline: Orthodox Presbyterian Scholar”

  • Mr. John Muether, Professor of Church History, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando

10:00 a.m. Panel Discussion of Ted Davis’s Protestant Modernist Pamphlets: Science and Religion in the Scopes Era

  • Dr. Brad Gundlach, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, Trinity International University

  • Dr. James Ungureanu, Adjunct Professor, Carthage College

  • Dr. Dorothy Chappell, Professor of Biology Emerita, Wheaton College

  • Dr. Tom Miller, Professor of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

  • Dr. Ted Davis, Distinguished Professor of the History of Science Emeritus, Messiah University

11:30 a.m. Lunch

12:30 p.m. “The Curse of Modern Life: Abraham Kuyper’s Critique of Modernity and Calls for Restoring an Ancient Sacramental Ecology”

  • Dr. James Ungureanu, Adjunct Professor, Carthage College

1:30 p.m. Presentation on A Survey of Presbyterian Missions History in Africa

  • Dr. Jack Whytock and Mrs. Nancy Whytock, Haddington House Trust, PEI, Canada

2:30 p.m. “A Theological Seminary of the First Class in the West”: Choosing Presbyterian Seminary Locations, Undue Influence, & Manifest Destiny” 

  • Dr. Barry Waugh, Editor, Presbyterians of the Past 

3:30 p.m. “Resisting Secularization, Reclaiming Its Historic Mission, and Integrating Faith and Learning at Grove City College”

  • Dr. Gary Scott Smith, Professor of History Emeritus, Grove City College

“Coming to the Presbyterian Scholars Conference has enriched my faith and desire to learn from my peers.” -attendee