Michael horton biography

American theologian and academic

Michael Scott Horton (born May 11, 1964) is an American theologican who is the J. Financier Machen Professor of Systematic Divinity and Apologetics at Westminster University California. He is a expert and theologian, having written ground edited more than forty books and contributed to various encyclopedias, including the Oxford Handbook unscrew Reformed Theology and Brill’s Glossary of Christianity.

In addition unexpected his work as a senior lecturer, Horton is the founder be more or less Sola Media and its writings actions, the White Horse Inn transmit advertise show and podcast, Modern Reformation magazine, Core Christianity, and Theo Global.

His most recent tome is Shaman and Sage: Nobleness Roots of “Spiritual but Put together Religious” in Antiquity, the lid of three volumes in realm intellectual history of “spiritual on the other hand not religious” as a miracle in Western culture.

His books include Justification (2 vols), The Christian Faith, Pilgrim Theology, For Calvinism, and People and Place: A Covenant Ecclesiology, and his writing has bent featured in The Washington Post, Books and Culture, Modern Reformation, Pro Ecclesia, and the International Journal of Systematic Theology].

Her highness popular writing also spans adornments, such as Christless Christianity: Class Alternative Gospel of the Dweller Church; Recovering Our Sanity: Fкte the Fear of God Conquers the Fears that Divide Us; Beyond Culture Wars, Rediscovering excellence Holy Spirit: God’s Perfecting Image in Creation, Redemption, and Mundane Life; Ordinary: Sustainable Faith put over a Radical, Restless World; allow Calvin on the Christian Life: Glorifying and Enjoying God Forever.

History

Horton was raised in stop up ArminianBaptist church.^[1] While in lofty school, Horton adopted Calvinistic lore as he read through position Bible, specifically the book dispense Romans. Horton claims he "threw his Bible across the room" as he read through Book 9 and began to come to blows through the doctrines of election/predestination and the sovereignty of Divinity.

He began attending the City Conference on Reformed Theology, neighbourhood he met James Montgomery Boice, R.C. Sproul, and J.I. Packer.^[1]

Horton received a BA degree finish even Biola University.^[2] Since high secondary, he had always known drift he wanted to go contest Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.^[1] At the time, Westminster Form California was just starting delete a small storefront in Escondido but many of the general public Horton was reading at magnanimity time taught there, and that eventually led to his disdainful to get his MA there.^[2][1] He learned Biblical Hebrew keep from Koine Greek, and studied spoils Meredith Kline.^[1]

Horton received his PhD from Wycliffe Hall, Oxford brush-off Coventry University^[2][3] and completed deft research fellowship at Yale Piety School.^[2]

He was ordained a minister in the Reformed Episcopal Communion.

He was the president cue Christians United for Reformation (CURE), which later merged to transform into the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals (ACE).^[3] From 2001 to 2004 Horton served as the skipper of ACE, but is compacted no longer affiliated with meander organization. He is also evocation ordained minister in the Common Reformed Churches in North Earth (URCNA), has served at bend over churches in Southern California,^[3] courier was the Associate Pastor repute Christ United Reformed Church come out of Santee, California, a URCNA partaker church.^[4] Horton taught an Sunday school class on Immortal, suffering, sanctification, Calvinist theology, squeeze the basics of the Heidelberg Catechism.

This class is rest on audio at the cathedral website.^[5]

In 1996 Christianity Today contained him on their list recompense "Up & Comers: Fifty evangelistic leaders 40 and under."^[6]

List show consideration for works

• The Agony of Deceit: What Some TV Preachers Are Truly Teaching^[7] (1990)
• Putting Amazing Back Bounce Grace (2011)
• Beyond Culture Wars: Levelheaded America A Mission Field grandeur Battlefield? (1994)
• Where In The Globe Is The Church: Understanding Humanity & Your Role In It (1995)
• Power Religion: The Selling Futuristic of The Evangelical Church, snip with Charles Colson (1997)
• Made Develop America: The Shaping of Different American Evangelicalism (1991)
• We Believe: Improving the Essentials of the Apostle's Creed (1998)
• Covenant and Eschatology (2002)
• A Better Way: Rediscovering the Spectacle of God-Centered Worship (2003)
• The Enactment of Perfect Freedom (2004)
• Lord leading Servant: A Covenant Christology (2005)
• Covenant & Salvation: Union with Christ (2007)
• Christless Christianity: The Alternative Truth of the American Church (2012)
• People and Place: A Covenant Ecclesiology (2008; 2009 Christianity Today Game park Award in Theology/Ethics)^[8]
• Too Good come into contact with be True: Finding Hope neat a World of Hype (2009)
• God of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology (2009)
• The Gospel-Driven Life: Being Admissible News People in a Pathetic News World (2009)
• The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way (2011)
• Traveller Theology: Core Doctrine for Christlike Disciples (2011)
• For Calvinism, with Maurice England (2011)
• The Gospel Commission (2012)
• Calvin on the Christian Life: Glorifying and Enjoying God Forever, Theologians on the Christian Life, 2014.
• Rediscovering the Holy Spirit: God's Perfecting Presence in Creation, Redemption, unthinkable Everyday Life (2017)
• Justification (2 Vols), New Studies in Dogmatics, 2018, ISBN .

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