CURRICULUM VITAE A C (ADRIAAN) NEELE Dartmouth St. NW, Grand Rapids, MI

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE A C (ADRIAAN) NEELE 1350 Dartmouth St. NW, Grand Rapids, MI adriaan.neele@prts.edu adriaan.neele@yale.edu Interest key words: International, Academic, Graduate Studies and Original research supervision, Education, Research and Publication: Early Modern History (theology and philosophy, Software, Digital content publication, e-learning / online distance education, and Ministry of Preaching GENERAL INFORMATION Nationality: United States of America. Languages: Reading, Writing and Speaking Afrikaans, Dutch, English. Reading French, German. Education: Ph.D (Historical Theology), University of Utrecht, The Netherlands (2005). Th.M (Master Historical Theology, cum laude), Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, USA (2002). M.T.S (Master of Theological Studies), Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, USA (2001). B.Sc (Ing., Biochemistry), University of Delft (Van Leeuwenhoek Institute) (1982).

2 Various Management and Finance courses: University of Uppsala, Sweden (1984); Nijenrode University, The Netherlands (1985). Highschool, Guido de Brès, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (1978). Ordination: Minister of Word and Sacraments Ordained March 5, 2004 (L Eglise Réformée du Quebec), Parttime pastorate Montréal (2004-5, ERQ), Pretoria (2005-7, NHK), New Haven , NHK), Bloemfontein (2014-NHK): NHK=Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk in Afrika (Dutch Reformed Church in Africa), Moderator of the NHK Dordrecht, and NHK Queenstown. RESIDENT COUNTRIES 2015 June- USA, Grand Rapids, Michigan South Africa, Bloemfontein USA, New Haven, Connecticut South Africa, Pretoria Canada, Quebec USA, Michigan The Netherlands and UK 1985 USA and Sweden The Netherlands 2

3 VOCATION HIGHLIGHTS 2015 Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids Director of the Doctoral Program, Professor of Historical Theology (2016 ) Consultant for the Doctoral Program ( ) 2015 Rocateq International, Barendrecht, the Netherlands Executive Board Member Americas University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa Senior Research Professor Early Modern History) (*) Professor Extraordinary Jonathan Edwards Studies) (*) (*) Responsible for: Executive Management of Jonathan Edwards Centre Africa (multi-million-rand budget) Market and academic positioning. (International) graduate student acquisition and admission. Building network of educational (theology) partners in Southern and West Africa. Graduate student dissertation and thesis advisor. Course design (**) 1 Yale University, New Haven, USA (Faculty of Divinity School, Research Scholar, Director, Editor Digital Humanities Project). Responsible for: The Works of Jonathan Edwards Online edition (73 vol., +/- 100,000 pages of primary source material, and accompany resources). Internationalization of Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University in establishing affiliated centers in Australia, Brazil, Benelux, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, and South Africa for research, education, and publication. The Jonathan Edwards Studies online journal an international refereed scholarly journal (Co-Editor). The Global Sermon Digital Editing project an international volunteer and Yale editorial guided Edwards sermon online 1 (**) Full-time , Part-time

4 editing project. Fundraising for Edwards project, US $600,000, and National Endowment of Humanities grants of US $500, Eductator a software company for web-based education (Co-Founder, Investor and Member of the Board) Postgraduate studies, various academic appointments. - Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids. - University of Utrecht. - Dean and Professor of Theology, Farel Reformed Theological Seminary, Canada. Restructuring & Turn Around of this tertiary education institute. - Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria and Institute of Missiology, South Africa PE, Limited Liability Company (Founder & Managing Director; International investment and consultancy). Mergers, acquisitions and restructuring of several software companies Baan Company (Executive Management; software, international, Initial Public Offering, Venture Capital). Start up Baan Business School ( ). Start up North American operations ( ). Start up South American operations ( ). Secured first and second round Venture Capital Biores (Executive Management; Biotechnology). Start up of biotechnology company, The Netherlands. Secured Venture Capital. Acquisition and Merger of UK-based company. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 4

5 I. Teaching 2016 Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids PhD courses 2015 University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa Senior graduate student seminars early modern history John Wycliffe Theological College, Johannesburg, South Africa Seminar Graduate Program Puritan Studies Ridley Theological College Melbourne University, Australia Keynote address Global Jonathan Edwards Conference Graduate student seminar 2014, 15 Yale University Jonathan Edwards Studies (summer school) 2014 Mackenzie University, Sao Paulo, Brasil, Postgraduate School of Theology. Jonathan Edwards Studies. 2012, 13, 14 George Whitefield College, Muizenberg, South Africa Jonathan Edwards Studies Morija Theological Seminary, Morija, Lesotho Luther Studies Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids Jonathan Edwards Studies Yale University Post Reformation Studies. Jonathan Edwards Studies (summer school) University of the Free State, South Africa Jonathan Edwards Studies (undergraduate, postgraduate) University of the Free State, South Africa Historical Theology (postgraduate). Historical Theology (undergraduate seminar). 5

6 Africa Institute of Missiology, Hammanskraal, South Africa Church History and Systematic Theology University of Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Church History and Polity Reformation and Post-reformation Studies Mukhanyo Theological College, Kwandabele, South Africa Church History (Early Church, Medieval Church and Reformation period). Winter courses Farel Reformed Theological Seminary, Montreal, Canada Church History and Systematic Theology Nigerian Reformed Theological College, Abakaliki, Nigeria Church History and Systematic Theology. II. Curriculum and Course Design 2015 Doctoral Program (PhD), Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, MI 2014 Philosophical Theology online course (Masters) Jonathan Edwards Centre Africa at University of the Free State, South Africa Historical Theology online course (Masters) Jonathan Edwards Centre Africa at University of the Free State, South Africa Research Methodology online course (Masters) Jonathan Edwards Centre Africa at University of the Free State, South Africa PhD program Jonathan Edwards Centre Africa at University of the Free State, South Africa Jonathan Edwards Studies online course at Yale University. III. Web Design and Management 6

7 2015 Yale University, Jonathan Edwards Center New digital asset management system 2014 The Digital Archive of Africa Theologians (design stage) WD Jonker Digital Archive. E Brown Digital Archive Edwards News blog Jonathan Edwards Centre Africa at University of the Free State, South Africa Global Edwards Sermon Editing project Jonathan Edwards Studies online journal The Works of Jonathan Edwards digital archive. IV. Scholarly Editing Co-editor George Whitefield at 300: Reflection, Reassessment, and Research in Africa (London: Latimer Trust) Co-editor series New Directions in Jonathan Edwards Studies (Yale University / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen) Co-Editor Jonathan Edwards Studies online journal at Yale University. Co-Editor Global Edwards Sermon Online Editing project at Yale University. Co-Editor Jonathan Edwards: An Encyclopedia (Yale University / Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishers, Grand Rapids / Cambridge, forthcoming). Co-Editor The Works of Jonathan Edwards at Yale University. 7

8 Director and Editor, Yale University, Jonathan Edwards Center. V. Business Co-Founder, Investor and Member of the Board, EDUCATOR B.V. - a software company for web-based education Founder, Investor and Director, PE, Limited Liability Company - an international investment and management consultancy firm. Jansen MI B.V., The Netherlands a management information company (internationalization) Revenue US $ 7M. LCI, Limited Liability Company, USA a logistic software application company (investor, merger) Revenue US $ 10M. BAIN, Inc., Israel a logistic software application company (internationalization) Revenue US $ 5M. Waypoint, Inc., USA a software consultancy company (investor, chairman of the board) Revenue US $ 25M Vice President, Baan Company a global Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) software company Vice President, Baan Business School , Vice President Global Alliances and Acquisitions : Vice President Americas : Vice President, Founder of the USA subsidiary. Grew business revenue from US $ 0 to US $ 40M Co-Founder and Managing Director, BIORES B.V./Ltd a Dutch/UK based biotechnology company. Grew business revenue from US $ 0 to US $ 10M. VI. Research 1985 Biotechnology Researcher, Pharmacia, Sweden a global pharmaceutical company. 8

9 Biotechnology Researcher, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Molecular Biology. VII. Professional Positions 2006 Founder and Board Member of the NET Foundation a Dutchbased and global operating foundation to support theological education with (web-based) technology Co-founder of Workgroup Nadere Reformatie SA an academic interest group of Post-reformation philosophy and theology Member of Church History Society of Southern Africa a group of academic church historians Co-Founder of Reformed Insight and Spirituality a global magazine promoting Reformed intellectual thought Board member of Académie Chrétien Rive Nord, Laval, Canada a Christian school Board member of Dutch Reformed Translation Society, Grand Rapids, USA Board Member of Catamount neighborhood organization, Ada, MI Volunteer of Grand Rapids inner-city food bank of the Reformed Church in America Volunteer of Baldwin Mission project. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE I. Supervision, University of the Free State, Master of Theology (MTh) Country Thesis 1. Blaauw, Corné South Africa Historical Theology ( 14) 9

10 2. Emma-Adamah, Victor Nigeria Philos. Theology ( 14) 3. Rayl, Brett Japan Historical Theology ( 16) 4. Griesel, Jake South Africa Historical Theology ( 15) 5. Samba Mosweua Botswana Historical Theology ( 15) 6. Lizanne Dippenaar South Africa Historical Theology ( 15) 2. Doctorate in Theology (PhD) 1. Keller, Michael USA Jonathan Edwards sermons: Metaphors & Experience ( Ledwith, Dan USA Jonathan Edwards definition of theology: Trajectories and Direction ( 17) 3. Najapfour, Brian USA The Theology of Joseph Hart s Hymns (on hold) 4. Ramsey, Patrick Canada The Westminster Standards & the Mosaic Covenant ( 18) 5. Smuda, Daniel USA John Taylor s use of Scripture and its relevance for Edwards studies ( 18) 6. Strauss, Schalk South Africa The Reception of Jonathan Edwards thought in the sermons of Tim Keller ( 17) 7. Tseuoa, N Simon Lesotho The First Generation of French Protestant Missionaries to Lesotho ( 18) 10

11 3. Co-supervision University of Groningen Doctorate in Theology (PhD) 2013 Erik Willemsen, Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards. 4. External Examiner of Master theses and PhD dissertations 2015 University of Pretoria, Master study on Reformed Theology and Malawi Missions Northwest University / George Whitefield College, Master studies on Reformed Theology, and Edwards studies in relation to Africa 2013 University of Stellenbosch, PhD dissertation on Edwards and the Doctrine of Justification. II. Students (supervised) graduated, University of the Free State 1. Magister Theologiae 2015 Jake Griesel, Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein (c ): the relationship of theology, philosophy, and history in De servitude, libertati christianae non contraria and sermons (cum laude) Victor Emma-Adamah, Anton Wilhelm Amo ( ), the African- German Philosopher on Mind: An Eighteenth-Century Intellectual History cum laude) Samba Mosweua, The Understanding of Initiation by Jonathan Edwards ( ) and African Indigenous People Corné Blaauw, A Whole New World of Philosophy Jonathan Edwards on Science, Nature and Miracles (cum laude) 2012 Ntabanyanesk Tseuoa, The Message of Morija. A Critical Historical Study of the Sermons ( ) of the Missionaries of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in Basutoland. 11

12 2. Philosophiae Theologiae 2015 Ian Clary, A Bibliographical Biography of Arnold Dallimore (London: IVP, 2016) 2015 Peter Jung, Jonathan Edwards and New England Arminianism (tbd) 2013 Donald Whitney, Finding God in Solitude: The Personal Piety of Jonathan Edwards ( ) and its Influence on his Pastoral Ministry (New York: Peter Lang, 2014) 2013 Ryan McGraw, A Heavenly Directory: Trinitarian Piety, Public Worship and a Reassessment of John Owen s Theology (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Göttingen, 2014). III. Writing 1. Scholarly Articles in Progress The Translation of Petrus van Mastricht Theoretico-practica Theologia (2016) Nineteenth Century Catechism in Lesotho: A Primary Sources study of the Morija Archives, Lesotho. (2015) 2. Book in Progress (under contract) Before Jonathan Edwards: Sources of New England theology and philosophy (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). A Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia (Yale University / Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2016), co-editor with Harry S. Stout and Kenneth Minkema. 3. Articles Accepted for Publication The Reception of Calvin in Post-reformation theology, KOERS for Christian Theology (forthcoming 2016). 12

13 Mastricht, Petrus van ( ), Encyclopedia Nadere Reformatie Boston: Brill, forthcoming 2016). (Leiden, Intellectual Continuity and Discontinuity of Theological Education of 17 th - century Cape Pastors. (Accepted for publication HTS, South Africa, 2016) Een Interdisciplinaire Studie: Een Frans zeventieneeuws theologisch debat in dichtvorm. (Accepted for publication SAVN, South Africa / The Netherlands, 2015) 4. Published Articles 2015 The Reception of Edwards A History of the Work of Redemption in Nineteenth-century Basutoland, Journal of Africa Religious History (Brill: Leiden/ Univ. of Cambridge): Theological Education of Nineteenth-century French Missionaries: An Appropriation of the Catholicity of Classical Christian Theology, Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae 39 (2), Edwards: Trajectories in Biblical Exegesis, Theological Wratislaviensia, 7: Exchanges Scotland, The Netherlands, and America: The Reception of the Theoretico-practica Theologia and the History of the Work of Redemption, NGTT vol. 53, no. 1 (2012), Jonathan Edwards and the Nature of Theology, (transl. Portuguese), Fides Reformata, 43: Calvin Research in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Limitations, Acta 13

14 Theologica, December, Post-reformation Reformed literature on children, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, Spring, Popular-academic Articles 2008 Jonathan Edwards: theoloog, philosoof en zendeling, Waarheidsvriend Orgaan van de Gereformeerde Bond in de Protestanse Kerk Nederland, no. 33 and no. 34, June Gisbertus Voetius en die sendingsteologie, Hervormer, Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Africa, Pretoria, vol. 70, no. X., Johannes à Marck : Theoloog van de Schrift, Reformatorisch Dagblad, October Een bizonder boek vir een bizonder collectie, Hervormer, Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Africa, Pretoria, vol. 69, September 5, Review article of Philipp J. Spener, Briefe aus der Frankfurter Zeit , Band 4: , Studia Historiae Ecclessiasticae: Vol.31 (2006) no. 1, Petrus van Mastricht ( ): een biographisch overzicht, Oudvaders, vol. 1 no. 3 (Kampen: Kok, 2006) Major New Standard Work on Post-Reformation Reformed Studies, Review article of Richard A. Muller, Post Reformation Reformed Dogmatics (Grand Rapids: Baker Academics, 2005) vol. 1 4, Studia Historiae Ecclessiasticae, Vol.31, no. 2, De Unieke Christus: Het unieke van het Christelijk geloof ten aanzien van de Islam, De Waarheidsvriend, jrg. 94, no Petrus van Mastricht ( ): Veelzijdig theoloog Leven voor God door Christus, Reformatorisch Dadblad, February

15 2004 Reformed and Islam: Petrus van Mastricht and his view on Islam, Reformed Insight and Spirituality, I.2, I.3, and I Published Book Chapters 2013 Jonathan Edwards and the Nature of Theology, Jordan J. Baylor et al. (eds.), Church and School in Early Modern Protestantism (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2013), Zending en Edwards, Vissers van Mensen. Een heel jaar op zendingsreis (Heerenveen: Groen, 2011), The Reception of John Calvin s work by Petrus van Mastricht ( ), Andreas Beck, William den Boer (eds.), The Reception of John and His Theology in Reformed Orthodoxy (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2011), The theoretico-practica as interpretative framework for Cotton Mather s theology, University of Tuebingen, Germany (Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010), Mastricht, Petrus van, Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchen Lexicon, (Nordhausen: Traugott Bautz, 2006), Band XXVI, Published Books Co-Editor, Jonathan Edwards: The Matthean Parables, 3 vols. (Eugene, OR: Cascade Academics, 2012, 13) Co-Editor, Jonathan Edwards: Transatlantic Exchanges (Edinburgh: Dunedin Press, 2011) Petrus van Mastricht ( ). Reformed Method and Piety (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2009). 15

16 2006 Co-editor, Church Order for the Reformed Church of India (Chennai: Reformed Church, 2006) The Art of Living to God. A Study of Method and Piety in the Theoretico practica Theologia of Petrus van Mastricht ( ) (Pretoria: University of Pretoria, Department of Church History, Series 8., vol. 1, 2005). 8. Conference Papers / Lectures 2015 The Reception of A History of the Work of Redemption in Basutoland, Global Jonathan Edwards Congress, Australia, Keynote address The Meeting of George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield College, Cape Town, August 20-22, New Directions in Postgraduate Studies: Digital Landscape, University of the Free State, Postgraduate School, Bloemfontein, March 8, Adolph Mabille s Dogmatique, Eugène Casalis Symposium, National University, Roman, Lesotho, October 29-31, Jonathan Edwards and the Catholicity of Biblical Interpretation, American Church History Society, Chicago, January 10, Biblical Exegesis and Jonathan Edwards, Christianity in Today s World: The legacy of Jonathan Edwards, Jonathan Edwards Center Poland, Evangelical School of Theology, Wroclaw, Poland, May 31- June 1, Jonathan Edwards and Protestant Scholasticism, Jonathan Edwards Society, Northampton, MA, October 10, Digital Research and John Calvin Studies, 10 th International Congress of Calvin Research, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, August,

17 2010 A Transitional Moment in Theology: Jonathan Edwards and the Post- reformation scholastics, Inaugural address, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, March 8, The reception of John Calvin s work by Petrus van Mastricht ( ), International Congress of Post-reformation Studies, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, October 5, Trans-Atlantic exchanges: Mastricht in the Netherlands, Scotland and New England. University of Glasgow, Scotland, May 2-5, The theoretico-practica as interpretative framework for Cotton Mather s theology, University of Tuebingen, Germany, October 3-5, Post-reformation Reformed sources and children, Conference paper presented at annual meeting of Church History Society of Southern Africa, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, January,