Reformation Scholar Dr. Paul Lim to Speak at Theological Fellowship’s 2024 Spring Lectures

The Theological Fellowship at Covenant Seminary will host its 13th annual spring lectures on Wednesday, April 3, and Thursday, April 4. The featured speaker is award-winning church historian and author Dr. Paul Lim, Associate Professor of the History of Christianity at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, and Interim Director of the Nashville Institute for Faith and Work. The event is free and open to all.

Dr. Paul Lim

The lectures will take place in Founders Hall 342 (Preaching Chapel) according to the following schedule:

• Wednesday, April 3, 3:30 p.m., Lecture 1: “Calvin: Ethics of the Imago Dei and Its Discontents”

• Thursday, April 4, 10 a.m., Lecture 2: “Augustine: From Shaking Pear Trees to a Philosophy of History”

Dr. Paul Lim is an award-winning historian of Reformation and post-Reformation Europe. He earned his PhD in ecclesiastical history from Cambridge University, with further training in Latin, archival research, and the history of biblical exegesis from Université de Genève. In addition to his teaching duties at Vanderbilt University and Divinity School, Dr. Lim serves Scholar-in-Residence at Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville and as Interim Director of theNashville Institute for Faith and Work. He is the author of Mystery Unveiled: The Crisis of the Trinity in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2012), which won the 2013 Roland H. Bainton Prize as the best book in history from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. Other works include The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (Cambridge, 2008) and In Pursuit of Purity, Unity, and Liberty: Richard Baxter’s Puritan Ecclesiology in Context (Brill, 2004). Dr. Lim was the PhD supervisor for Covenant Seminary’s own Associate Professor of Systematic Theology Dr. Andrew “Drew” Martin when he studied at Vanderbilt.

The lectures are hosted by Theological Fellowship at Covenant Seminary, a student organization that fosters and promotes Christ-centered scholarship for students considering future academic studies and for trained ministry leaders seeking greater depth of understanding. The Fellowship strives to be a safe place for dialogue, encouragement, and prayer through weekly meetings and discussions of readings or guest presentations on topics addressing cultural and theological issues relevant to current or future ministries. The group hosts an annual theological conference each January, as well as a yearly spring lecture event, and free ministry lunch programs for students, staff, and faculty throughout the school year. These events provide examples of and mutual encouragement for ministry-oriented academic study and fellowship. 

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Questions about the lectures? Contact Mitch Penning, President of Theological Fellowship.