We were recently delighted to welcome Dr Chad Van Dixhoorn to Edinburgh Theological Seminary for a special lecture series.
Recordings from both sessions are now available to watch online.
Dr Van Dixhoorn addressed our students on the topic: ‘Communion with God. The Lives, Books, and Burials of Master William Strong.’
Watch this lecture here.
This was followed by a public lecture entitled: ‘Creeds and Confessions: A Cost-Benefit Analysis’.
Watch this lecture here.
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Dr. Chad Van Dixhoorn is Professor of Church History and Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is the leading expert on the work of the Westminster Assembly, he completed a five-volume work of The Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly, 1643-1652 (Oxford University Press). He is currently working on a major monograph on the Westminster Assembly, having recently completed an edition of John Lightfoot’s journals, also published with OUP. He is the editor most recently of John Arrowsmith’s Plans for Holy War, and serves as general editor of Works of Samuel Rutherford, which is to be published by Reformation Heritage Books in 22 volumes.
Van Dixhoorn studied at Huron College, The University of Western Ontario (BA) and received his ministerial training at Westminster Theological Seminary (MDiv, ThM). After receiving his PhD from the University of Cambridge, he was awarded two post-doctoral fellowships, the second granted by the British Academy. He was a member of the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge and has held two fellowships at Wolfson College, Cambridge. Since 2014, Dr Van Dixhoorn has also served as an honorary research fellow at the University of East Anglia, and since 2023 as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto.
Ordained in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Dr Van Dixhoorn has served as a minister at Cambridge Presbyterian Church (EPCEW) and at Grace Presbyterian Church in Virginia. He and his wife Emily have five children and a son-in-law.
