JEC Lecture with Doug Sweeney
Monday, November 18, 2024, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Reserve your seat for a lecture and free dinner with Dr. Doug Sweeney
Register for a free dinner and lecture presented by the Jonathan Edwards Center with Dr. Douglas Sweeney. Dr. Sweeney's lecture is titled "The Evangelical Supernatural in Early Modern Europe: Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards on the Miracles of Jesus”. The lecture and dinner will be 6 -7 p.m.
All guests are invited to join Dr. Chun's Church History I class following the lecture to hear an additional lecture from Dr. Sweeney: "Why the Reformation Happened" at 7 p.m.
About Doug Sweeney
Douglas Sweeney became the second dean of Beeson Divinity School in 2019. In this role, he shepherds the institution by providing strategic leadership and facilitating its work to prepare men and women for gospel ministry. Before coming to Beeson, Sweeney taught at Aquinas College, Yale Divinity School, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, the University of Heidelberg, and several other schools in the United States and abroad. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books on the history of Christian doctrine, early modern Protestant history, American church history, Christology and global evangelicalism. His latest book is called The Substance of Our Faith: Foundations for the History of Christian Doctrine (Baker Academic). It is the first of two volumes on the global history of doctrine, or the history of the teaching of the Christian faith in churches all around the world since the time of the apostles. Sweeney is an evangelical Lutheran affiliated with Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ. He is married to Wilma, and they have one adult son, David, and daughter-in-law, Stephanie.