Dr. Caldwell has been teaching Church History and Historical Theology at Southwestern since 2004. He is currently on his sabbatical leave for the 2012 calendar year.

Education

• B.A. Northwestern University
• M.Div. & M.A. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
• Ph.D. in Historical Theology: Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Courses Taught

• Core Courses: Church History 1 and 2; Baptist Heritage, Hermeneutics
• Electives: Jonathan Edwards, American Christianity, The Second Great Awakening, Development of Doctrine
• Ph.D. Seminars: Jonathan Edwards, New England Puritanism, Historical Methodology, The Second Great Awakening

Research Interests – I would welcome working with doctoral and masters students in these and related areas:

• Jonathan Edwards
• The First and Second Great Awakenings
• Theology of the Edwardsean Tradition (New Divinity, New England Theology)
• Baptist Studies related to the above topics

In addition to the above topics, I have secondary research interests in

• The History of Biblical Interpretation
• Medieval and Post–Reformation Scholasticism
• The History of Theology in North America

Books

• With Steven M. Studebaker, The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards: Text, Context, and Application. Ashgate, 2012.
• Communion in the Spirit: The Holy Spirit as the Bond of Union in the Theology of Jonathan Edwards. Paternoster Studies in Evangelical History and Thought. Paternoster, 2006

Articles and Essays

• “Theological Context: New England’s New Divinity and the Age of Judson’s Formation.” In Adoniram Judson: The Bicentennial Celebration of America’s First Missionary, 1812-2012. Edited by Michael A. G. Haykin and Jason G. Duesing. Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, Forthcoming in October, 2012.
• “A Brief History of Heaven in the Writings of Jonathan Edwards.” Calvin Theological Journal, 46.1 (April, 2011): 48-71.
• “Call the Sabbath a Delight: Jonathan Edwards on the Lord’s Day.” Southwestern Journal of Theology 47.2 (Spr. 2005): 191-205

Presentations

• “’Loving God Because He First Loved Us?’ Joseph Bellamy, Andrew Croswell, Justification, and Colonial America’s Second Antinomian Controversy.” Evangelical Theological Society, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 17-19, 2010.
• “A Tough Nut to Crack: Edwards’s Trinitarianism and its Reformed Scholastic Heritage.” Jonathan Edwards for the New Millennium. Annual Meeting of the Jonathan Edwards Society, The First Churches of Northampton, Northampton, Massachusetts, October 1-3, 2010.
• “Andrew Croswell and the Anatomy of American Antinomianism in the Wake of the First Great Awakening.” Secularization and Revival: The Fate of Religion in Modern Intellectual History, Baylor’s Symposium on Faith and Culture, Baylor University, October 8-10, 2009.
• “Joseph Bellamy Against the Antinomians: Bellamy’s Campaign against Anti-Legal Christianity in the Antinomian Controversy of the 1760s.” Awakenings and Revivals in American History, Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia, April 16-18, 2009.

Memberships

• The Conference on Faith and History
• The American Society of Church History
• The Evangelical Theological Society

Personal

• Wife: Lisa, married (Dec. 1995); two daughters: Audrey (2003) and Natalie (2005)
• Guitarist: proud owner (and player) of a ‘77 Les Paul, a ‘79 silver anniversary Stratocaster, and a ’93 Taylor 512.
• Runner: Marathon (personal record, 4:40 – 10:40/mile); Half-Marathon (pr 1:50:18– 8:25/mile); 10K (pr 48:30 – 7:48/mile); 5K (pr 22:50 – 7:17/mile)