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First Year at Gordon-Conwell: 2008
Expertise: Constructive, Systematic, and Trinitarian Theology
Biography:
Dr. Vidu came to Gordon-Conwell from his native Romania, where he previously taught at Emmanuel University and the University of Bucharest. He is a constructive theologian who is involved in a recovery of the patristic and medieval Trinitarian theology for the contemporary church. Having done previous work in theological epistemology (Theology After Neo-Pragmatism, 2009), hermeneutics (Postliberal Theological Method, 2005), doctrine of the atonement (Atonement, Law, and Justice, 2014), trinitarian theology (The Same God Who Works All Things, 2021; The Divine Missions, 2021), his latest research focuses on a trinitarian theology of the Christian life.
At Gordon-Conwell, Dr. Vidu teaches a number of electives in addition to systematic theology, including: Recent Theories of the Atonement, The Attributes of the Trinitarian God, Modern Theology, Theological Hermeneutics.
Dr. Vidu is married to Adriana and they have one daughter, Hannah.
Degrees
- Dip (University of Oradea)
- BA (Emmanuel Bible Institute)
- MPhil (Babes-Bolyai University)
- PhD (University of Nottingham)
Featured Publications
Select List of Publications
- The Same God Who Works All Things: Inseparable Operations in Trinitarian Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2021.
- “The Indwelling of the Holy Spirit as Love.” Pages 165-186 in Love, Divine, and Human: Contemporary Essays in Systematic and Philosophical Theology. Edited by Oliver D. Crisp, James M. Arcadi, and Jordan Wessling. London; New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2019.
- “Ascension and Pentecost: Soteriology and the Divine Missions.” In Being Saved: Explorations in Human Salvation. Edited by Marc Cortez, Joshua R. Farris, and S. Mark Hamilton. London: SCM Press, 2018.
- “Divine Missions.” In The T&T Companion to the Atonement. Edited by Adam J. Johnson. London; New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017.
- “Hermeneutics.” Pages 702-705 in Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. 3rd ed. Edited by Daniel J. Treier and Walter A. Elwell. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2017.
- ‘The Cross, and Necessity: A Trinitarian Perspective.’ The Irish Theological Quarterly 82 (2017): 322-341.
- “Alasdair MacIntyre,” “Thomas C. Oden,” and “Realism.” Pages 544-545, 627, and 734-735 in New Dictionary of Theology: Historical and Systemic. 2nd ed. Edited by Martin Davie, Tim Grass, Stephen R. Holmes, John McDowell and T.A. Noble. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016.
- “The Place of the Cross Among the Inseparable Operations of the Trinity.” Pages 21-42 in Locating Atonement: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics. Edited by Oliver D. Crisp and Fred Sanders. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2015.
- “Opera Trinitatis Ad Extra and Collective Agency.” European Journal for the Philosophy of Religion 7(3) (2015): 27-47.
- Atonement, Law, and Justice. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2014.
- “Can We Say Very Much? Evangelicals, Emergents, and God-Talk.” In Renewing the Evangelical Mission. Edited by Richard Lints. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013.
- Theology After Neo-Pragmatism. Milton Keynes, UK; Colorado Springs, CO: Paternoster, 2008.
- “Habits of the Spirit: Reflections on a Pragmatic Pneumatology.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 50 (2007): 105-119.
- “The Place of the Past in Theological Construction” Theology Today 64 (2007): 201-220.
- Postliberal Theological Method: A Critical Study. Milton Keynes, UK; Waynesboro, GA: Paternoster, 2005.
- “Frei and Auerbach on the Meaning of the Gospel Narratives.” Trinity Journal 26 (2005): 245-265.
- “The Author as Otherness and Post-structuralist Hermeneutics.” In Interpretation of Texts, Sacred and Secular, History and Theory. Edited by Pierre Buhler and Tibor Fabiny. Zurich: Pano Verlag, 1999.