Bains, David R.
David R. Bains is the S. Louis and Ann W. Armstrong Professor of Religion at Samford University. His histories of theology, worship, and religious architecture have appeared in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity and The Encyclopedia of Religion in America among others.
Carey, Patrick
Patrick Carey is emeritus professor of theology at Marquette University, former chair of Marquette’s Department of Theology, a past president of the American Catholic Historical Association, and author or editor of over twenty books and numerous articles on American Catholic life and thought.
Nevin, John Williamson
Sam Hamstra Jr. is the Affiliate Professor of Church History and Worship at Northern Seminary. He is the editor of several studies, most recently The Reformed Pastor: Lectures on Pastoral Theology by John Williamson Nevin, and has authored several works on worship, including What’s Love Got to Do With It? How the Heart of God Shapes Worship.
John Williamson Nevin (1803–1886), professor successively at Western Theological Seminary, the Theological Seminary of the German Reformed Church at Mercersburg, and Franklin and Marshall College. He was a leading nineteenth-century theologian and founding editor of Mercersburg Review.
Borneman, Adam S.
Adam S. Borneman is a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) pastor and independent scholar based in Atlanta, Georgia, where he currently serves as program director with The Ministry Collaborative. He is the author of Church, Sacrament, and American Democracy: The Social and Political Dimensions of John Williamson Nevin’s Theology of Incarnation (2011).
John Williamson Nevin (1803–86) was an innovative and controversial American theologian. Although reared in Presbyterianism, he became the premier exponent of the “Mercersburg Theology” of the German Reformed Church. He promoted a view of Christianity as evolving, focused on the incarnation, and centered in the sacraments.
Adam S. Borneman is a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) pastor and independent scholar based in Atlanta, Georgia, where he currently serves as program director with The Ministry Collaborative. He is the author of
Church, Sacrament, and American Democracy: The Social and Political Dimensions of John Williamson Nevin’s Theology of Incarnation (2011).
Patrick Carey is emeritus professor of theology at Marquette University, former chair of Marquette’s Department of Theology, a past president of the American Catholic Historical Association, and author or editor of over twenty books and numerous articles on American Catholic life and thought.