Jennifer Powell McNutt: Serving the Academy and the Church

Following Christ | Rooted in God’s Word | Shaped by Theology and Church History | Generously Reformed

Professor

Franklin S. Dyrness Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Wheaton College, IL

Historian of Christianity and Reformation Studies

Fellow, Royal Historical Society

President, Calvin Studies Society

Research Fellow and Award-Winning Teacher

Pastor

Ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the PC (USA)

Co-President and Co-Founder, McNuttshell Ministries

Fellow, Center for Pastor Theologians

Advisory Board Member, The Center for Women In Ministry, Beeson Divinity School

Writer

Award-winning Author

Academic and Popular/Lay Publications

Working with Publishers:

  • Routledge, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Brill, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, and Mohr Siebeck

  • Brazos, IVP Academic, Zondervan Academic, Fortress Press, Wipf & Stock, Baker Academic, and Labor et Fides

  • Intellectual History Review, The Historical Journal, Bulletin de la Société d’histoire et d’archéologie de Genève

  • Bylines: Christianity Today Magazine and Online, Christian History Magazine

Pastor.

Professor.

Author.

Jennifer Powell McNutt (Ph.D., University of St. Andrews) is the Franklin S. Dyrness Chair of Biblical and Theological Studies and Professor of Theology and History of Christianity at Wheaton College, IL. She is a Fellow in the Royal Historical Society and an award-winning professor and author. She has received both the Sidney E. Mead Prize and the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize from the American Society of Church History for her writing including her first monograph, Calvin Meets Voltaire (Routledge, 2014). Her research interests include the Reformation, John Calvin, the history and theology of the Reformed tradition, and the history of the Bible and its interpretation. She is the author of the forthcoming The Mary We Forgot (Brazos Press, 2024), the co-author of Know the Theologians (Zondervan, 2024), and co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation (Oxford University Press, 2024). She is also an ordained minister in the Presbyterian church and is co-President of McNuttshell Ministries, which bridges the church and the academy.

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