Ken Stewart


Kenneth J. Stewart

Professor of Theological Studies
On faculty since 1997

 

706.419.1653
Ken.Stewart@covenant.edu

 

Education

Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, 1992 

M.Phil., University of Waterloo, 1985 

Th.M. and M.Div., Westminster Theological Seminary, 1975, 1976 

B.A., University of British Columbia, 1971 

 

Professional Interests

Dr. Stewart is a specialist in the history of Christianity from the Reformation to the present with special interest in the development of the evangelical Protestant tradition. He also has a growing research interest in early Christianity. He also teaches early modern European history and the two-semester Christian Doctrine sequence required of sophomores.

 

Personal Interests

Dr. Ken Stewart is an avid book collector and reader. He is a determined vegetable gardener.

 

Covenant Activities

Has chaired the Biblical and Theological Studies Department, 2001-2004 and 2006-2008.

 

Professional Membership

  • Evangelical Theological Society
  • Conference on Faith and History
  • Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals

 

Selected Publications 

       Books

  • The Emergence of Evangelicalism: Exploring Historical Continuities, co-edited with Michael A.G. Haykin, Inter-Varsity Press (U.K.) & Broadman and Holman, U.S.A., 2008
  • Restoring the Reformation: British Evangelicalism and the Francophone Réveil 1816-1849, Paternoster, Carlisle (U.K.), 2006

         Articles

  • ‘Newman versus Newman: The Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864) and later Biographical Memoir Compared' in the Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology in Vol. 26.1 (2008) pp. 57-67.

  • ‘Loss and Recovery', A review essay of: Catherine Gidney, ‘A Long Eclipse: The Liberal  Protestant Establishment and the Canadian University: 1920-1970; A. Donald MacLeod, ‘An Evangelical Calvinist in the Academy: W. Stanford Reid' (both McGill-Queens University Press) and A. Donald MacLeod, ‘C. Stacey Woods and the Evangelical Discovery of the University' (IVP, 2007) in Books and Culture, July/August, 2008, pp. 24-26.

  • ‘The Tractarian Critique of the Evangelical Church Invisible: John Henry Newman's Tracts 2, 11, 20 & 47 in Historical Context', in Churchman, 121.4 (2007), pp. 347-360.
  • ‘Does Evangelicalism Pre-Date the 18th Century? An Examination of David Bebbington's Thesis' in The Evangelical Quarterly, LXVII (2005), No. 2, 135-153
  • "A Millennial Maelstrom: the Continental Society in the 1820's" in Crawford Gribben and Timothy C.F. Stunt, eds. Prisoners of Hope: Aspects of Evangelical Millennialism in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1880, Paternoster, Carlisle, (U.K.), 2004
  • ‘A Bombshell of a Book: Gaussen's Theopneustia and Its Influence on Subsequent Evangelical Theology' in The Evangelical Quarterly (2003), No. 3, 215-237
  • ‘William Abraham's Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology (1998): A Historical-Theological Assessment' in Didaskalia, the journal of Providence Seminary, Otterburne, Manitoba ,Winter, 2003, Vol. 14, No. 2, 13-23
  • ‘Between Malachi and Matthew: Evangelicals and the Apocrypha' in Books and Culture, (May-June 2003)

         Reviews

  • Todd Mangum, ‘The Dispensational-Covenant Rift: The Fissuring of American Evangelical Theology 1936-44' (Paternoster, 2007) in the Westminster Theological Journal, Vol. 70 (2008) no. 1, pp. 201-204
  • John E. Colwell, ‘Promise and Presence: An Exploration of Sacramental Theology' (Paternoster, 2005), in the Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology Vol. 25. (2007) No. 2, pp. 253-256.
  • A. Donald MacLeod, ‘C. Stacey Woods and the Evangelical Rediscovery of the University, (Inter Varsity Press, 2007) in the Westminster Theological Journal   Vol. 69 (2007) no. 2 pp. 427-429.
  • David F. Wright ‘What Infant Baptism Has Done to Baptism' (Paternoster, 2005) in Presbyterion Vol. 32 ( 2006) no. 2
  • James M. Garretson, 'Princeton and Preaching: Archibald Alexander and the Christian Ministry' (Banner of Truth, 2005) in Calvin Theological Journal Vol. 41 (2006) no. 2.
  • Eamon Duffy, ‘The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580' 2nd Edition, (Yale, 2005), in Calvin Theological Journal Vol. 41 (2006) no.2.
  • Leonard VanderZee, ‘Christ, Baptism and the Lord's Supper: Recovering the Sacraments For Evangelical Worship' (IVP, 2004) and Gordon T. Smith, ‘Holy Meal: The Lord's Supper in the Life of the Church' (Baker, 2005) in Presbyterion Vol. 32. (2006), no. 1
  • Lon Allison and Mark Anderson, ‘Going Public with the Gospel: Reviving Evangelistic Proclamation' (Inter Varsity Press, 2003) in Presbyterion, Vol. 31 (2005) no. 2

 

 

Spring 2009 Courses

None