G. Stephen (Steve) Weaver, Jr.

G. Stephen (Steve) Weaver, Jr. 1827 Old Frankfort Rd. Lawrenceburg, KY 40342 Mobile Phone: (502) 229-3938 Email: sweaver@sbts.edu Website: pastorhistorian.com EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy December 2013 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky Major: Church History/Historical Theology Minor: Systematic Theology Minor: Biblical Spirituality Master of Divinity May 2005 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky Major: Biblical and Theological Studies Bachelor of Science December 2001 Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia Major: Religion TEACHING EXPERIENCE Adjunct Professor of Christian Ministries, California Baptist University Online Riverside, California; Fall 2014, Fall 2018 Adjunct Professor of Church History, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville, Kentucky; Fall 2012 Spring 2018 Adjunct Professor of Christian Ministries, North Greenville University Online Greenville, South Carolina; Spring 2015 Fall 2016 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Research and Administrative Assistant, The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky; 2008 2015 Responsibilities: Assisted Director (Michael A.G. Haykin) with research projects. Organized one major conference each Fall and a mini-conference each Spring. Published scholarly periodicals and occasional pieces. Oversaw Center s website and blog. Managed Center s social media presence through Facebook and Twitter.

PUBLICATIONS Dissertation Hercules Collins: Orthodox, Puritan, Baptist, Ph.D. diss. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2013. Books Co-authored with Tom Nettles, Teaching Truth, Training Hearts: The Study of Catechisms in Baptist Life (Cape Coral, FL: Founders Press, 2017). Orthodox, Puritan, Baptist: Hercules Collins (1647-1702) and Particular Baptist Identity in Early Modern England (Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2015). Edited and introduced with Michael A. G. Haykin, An Orthodox Catechism (Reformed Baptist Academic Press, 2014). Edited and introduced with Ian Hugh Clary, The Pure Flame of Devotion: The History of Christian Spirituality (Joshua Press, 2013). Co-edited with Michael A. G. Haykin, Devoted to the Service of the Temple : Piety, Persecution, and Ministry in the Writings of Hercules Collins (Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2007). Articles Hercules Collins (1647 1702), British Particular Baptists, vol. 4, ed. Michael A.G. Haykin (Particular Baptist Press, 2018), forthcoming. John Piggott (c. 1670 1714), British Particular Baptists, vol. 4, ed. Michael A.G. Haykin (Particular Baptist Press, 2018), forthcoming. When Biography Shapes Ecclesiology: Bunyan, Kiffin, and the Open-Communion Debate The Journal of Baptist Studies 9 (2018), 31-54. Not Likely to Become a Numerous Church : The Early History of Buck Run Baptist Church The Spencer Journal 10 (September 2018). A Publication of the J. H. Spencer Historical Society. Andrew Fuller (1754 1815): Faithful amid Heartbreak, 12 Faithful Men: Portraits of Courageous Endurance in Pastoral Ministry, ed. Collin Hansen and Jeff Robinson (Baker Books, 2018), 87-100. Our Battle with Sin, Founders Journal 111 (Winter 2018), 36-42. Three Persons Yet But One : The Trinitarian Theology of Hercules Collins Puritan Reformed Journal 9, 2 (July 2017), 211-225.

Silas Mercer Noel (1783 1839), A Noble Company: Biographical Essays on Notable Particular-Regular Baptists in America, vol. 8, ed. Terry Wolever (Particular Baptist Press, 2016), 219-241. C. H. Spurgeon: A Fullerite? Journal of Baptist Studies 8 (2016). The Theological Kingship of Andrew Fuller and Charles Spurgeon, Reformation Today 267 (September-October 2015): 16-20. Christ Spiritually Present and Believers Spiritually Nourished: The Lord s Supper in Seventeenth-Century English Particular Baptist Life, Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies 2 (2015). The Puritan Argument for the Immersion of Believers: How Seventeenth-Century Baptists Utilized the Regulative Principle of Worship, Recovering a Covenantal Heritage: Essays in Baptist Covenant Theology, ed. Richard C. Barcellos (Reformed Baptist Academic Press, 2014), 109-125. Ambrose Dudley (c. 1752 1825), A Noble Company: Biographical Essays on Notable Particular-Regular Baptists in America, vol. 5, ed. Terry Wolever (Particular Baptist Press, 2014), 123-154. Patiently to Suffer for Christ's Sake : Hercules Collins as an Exemplar of Baptists During the Great Persecution (1660 1688), Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 18.1 (Spring 2014). Co-authored with Michael A. G. Haykin, To concenter with the most orthodox divines : Hercules Collins and his An Orthodox Catechism a slice of the reception history of the Heidelberg Catechism to be published in Power of Faith - 450 Years of the Heidelberg Catechism (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013) edited by Karla Apperloo-Boersma and Herman J. Selderhuis. Ambrose Dudley (c. 1752-1825), The Spencer Journal, vol. 4 (September 2012). A Publication of the J. H. Spencer Historical Society. Baptists and 1662: The Persecution of John Norcott and Hercules Collins, Founders Journal 89 (Summer 2012). The Plain Testimony of Scripture : How the Early English Baptists Employed the Regulative Principle to Argue for Believer s Baptism, The Gospel Witness (January 2012). The Redemption of the Body: A Meditation on Romans 8:18-25, The Gospel Witness (August 2011). Faithful to the Last : Hercules Collins and Enduring Persecution, Grace Magazine (June 2011).

Book Reviews Review of Henry Jessey: Puritan Chaplain, Independent and Baptist Pastor, Millenarian Politician and Prophet by Jason G. Duesing, Themelios 41:3 (2016). Review of Looking unto Jesus: The Christ-Centered Piety of Seventeenth-Century Baptists by J. Stephen Yuille, Southeastern Theological Review 5.2 (Winter 2014). Review of The Lord s Supper as a Means of Grace: More Than a Memory by Richard C. Barcellos, The Confessional Presbyterian 10 (2014). Review of An Unpredictable Gospel: American Evangelicals and World Christianity, 1812-1920 by Jay Riley Case, The Southern Baptist Journal of Missions and Evangelism 1.1 (2012). Review of Help to Zion s Travellers edited by Nathan Finn, Themelios 36:2 (2011). Review of The Lord s Supper edited by Thomas Schreiner and Matthew Crawford (Nashville: B&H Academic, 2011), Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 15:1 (Spring 2010). Review of A Piety Above the Common Standard: Jesse Mercer and Evangelisitic Calvinism by Anthony L. Chute (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2005), The Journal of Baptist Studies 2 (2008). Encyclopedia Entries Burr, Esther Edwards, in A Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia, ed. Harry S. Stoutt, Kenneth P. Minkema, and Adriaan Neele (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Company, Mercer, Jesse, in Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, ed. George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport (Lanhan, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Rice, Luther, in Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, ed. George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport (Lanhan, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Robertson, Archibald Thomas, in Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, ed. George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport (Lanhan, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Stearns, Shubal, in Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, ed. George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport (Lanhan, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,

Religious Liberty, in Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, ed. George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport (Lanhan, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Professional Papers and Addresses Baptists as Thorough Religious Reformers at the Evangelical Theological Society meeting in Providence, RI on November 17, 2017. Three Persons yet but One : The Trinitarian Theology of Hercules Collins at the Evangelical Theological Society meeting in San Antonio, TX on Wednesday, November 16, 2016. th William Kiffen, John Bunyan, and the Open Communion Controversy at 10 Annual Conference of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY on September 20, 2016. C. H. Spurgeon: A Fullerite? at the Evangelical Theological Society meeting in Atlanta, GA on November 18, 2015. th The Persecution of Baptists in Virginia, 1768-1777 at the 9 Annual Conference of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY on September 16, 2015. The Church of Christ, who upon Confession of Faith have bin Baptised : Hercules Collins and Baptist Ecclesiology at the Evangelical Theological Society meeting in San Diego, CA on November 19, 2014. The 1689 Baptist Confession and Its Influence on Early American Missions and Church Planting at the Baptist, Confessionalism and the Providence of God, 1689-2014 conference in Indianapolis, IN on November 14, 2014. The Puritan Argument for the Immersion of Believers: How Seventeenth-Century Baptists Utilized the Regulative Principle of Worship at the Evangelical Theological Society meeting in Milwaukee, WI on November 16, 2012. Baptists as Puritans: How Seventeenth-Century London Particular Baptists Viewed Themselves at the International Conference on Baptist Studies VI meeting at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC on July 13, 2012. Baptists and 1662: The Persecution of John Norcott and Hercules Collins at Andrew Fuller Center Mini-Conference at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY on April 18, 2012.

Ambrose Dudley: A Forgotten Founder of Kentucky Baptists at the J. H. Spencer Historical Society meeting at Florence Baptist Church in Florence, KY on November 14, 2011. A Patient Wearing of Christ s Cross : Hercules Collins and a Baptist Theology of Persecution at the 2010 Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies Conference in Louisville, KY. Piety in 17th Century Baptist Pastoral Ministry as Seen in Three Funeral Sermons at the 2009 Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies Conference in Louisville, KY. Hercules Collins and The Temple Repair d: Baptists and Theological Education at the 2008 Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies Conference in Louisville, KY. Use or Influence? Calvin and the Cappadocians at the 2007 Southeast Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Marianna, FL. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Fellow, Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies Strict Baptist Historical Society (United Kingdom) Baptist Historical Society (United Kingdom) J. H. Spencer Historical Society (Kentucky Baptists) Kentucky Historical Society Evangelical Theological Society