G. Stephen Weaver, Jr. 1827 Old Frankfort Rd. Lawrenceburg, KY 40342 Mobile Phone: (502) 229-3938 Email: gsweaverjr@gmail.com Twitter: @steveweaver Facebook: pastorsteveweaver 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 Dissertation Title: Hercules Collins: Orthodox, Puritan, Baptist Supervisor: Thomas J. Nettles 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 AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Adjunct Professor of Christian Ministries, California Baptist University Online Riverside, California; Fall 2014 Present Adjunct Professor of Church History, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville, Kentucky; Fall 2012 Present Adjunct Professor of Church History, Boyce College Louisville, Kentucky; Spring 2013 Present Instructor, Center for Pioneer Church Planting To Every Tribe Ministries, Los Fresnos, Texas; December 2011 Present Fellow, The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky; 2009 Present
Research and Administrative Assistant, The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky; 2008 Present PUBLICATIONS Dissertation Hercules Collins: Orthodox, Puritan, Baptist, Ph.D. diss. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2013. Books Orthodox, Puritan, Baptist: Hercules Collins (1647-1702) and Particular Baptist Identity in Early Modern England (Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2015), forthcoming. 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-authored 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 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 Looking unto Jesus: The Christ-Centered Piety of Seventeenth-Century Baptists by J. Stephen Yuille, Southeastern Theological Review 5.2 (Winter 2014). Forthcoming. 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 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