Richard Lints

RICHARD LINTS, Ph.D.
Andrew Mutch Distinguished Professor of Theology, 1986.
B.A. (Westminster College); M.A., Ph.D. (University of Notre Dame); A.M. (University of Chicago).

Dr. Lints joined the Gordon-Conwell faculty in 1986. He served as Professor of Systematic and Philosophical Theology from 1994 until his appointment as Andrew Mutch Distinguished Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology in 2008. He has also taught at several other colleges and theological schools, including the University of Notre Dame, Trinity College (Bristol, UK), Westminster Theological Seminary and Yale Divinity School.
 
An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America, Dr. Lints has  served in a variety of pastoral positions in Presbyterian churches, including planting Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Concord, MA, in 1994.
 
HIs scholarly interests include systematic theology, biblical theology, philosophy and cultural studies.
 
Dr. Lints and his wife, Ann, reside in Boxborough, MA, and have three children, Catherine, Sarah and Lucas.
 
Dr. Richard Lints' Publications
 
Books
  • Radical Ironies: Religion and the Rise of Postmodernity in the 1960s (forthcoming)
  • Reflective Identity: The Imago Dei and Idolatry (forthcoming)
  • What Difference Does Difference Make: Ecclesiology, Democracy and the Clash of Traditions (forthcoming)
  • Personal Identity in Theological Perspective, co-edited with Michael Horton and Mark Talbot (Eerdmans, 2006)
  • The Westminster Dictionary of Key Terms in Philosophy and Their Importance in Theology, co-authored with Kelly Clark and James K.A. Smith (Westminster/John Knox, 2004)
  • The Fabric of Theology: A Prolegomenon to Evangelical Theory   (Eerdmans, 1993)
 
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Articles
Dr. Lints has written more than a dozen articles in a number of scholarly books, journals and encyclopedias. These include: Modern Reformation, Revolutions in Worldview, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Westminster Journal of Theology and New Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. He has two forthcoming articles: “Soteriology” in Mapping Modern Theology: A Thematic History of Recent Theological Reflection, ed. Bruce L. McCormack and Kelly M. Kapic (Baker Academic) and “Biblical Authority and Communities” in The Scripture Project: The Bible and Biblical Authority in the New Millenium, ed. D.A. Carson (Eerdmans).
 
Some of the articles Dr. Lints has written for Modern Reformation include: