LOCAL EVENT: Church History 101 – An 8-Week Series (Chicago) 7:00PM CT
From 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm- kj@cslewisinstitute.org
- In Person Event Type
Church History 101, an 8-week teaching series, invites you to explore the turning points, controversies, and convictions that have defined the church through the ages.
Park Community Church Near North, 1001 N Crosby St, Chicago, IL 60610, USA kj@cslewisinstitute.org
Hanmee Na Kim
Hanmee Na Kim is an assistant professor of East Asian History at Wheaton College. Before joining Wheaton, she was a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Southern California Korean Studies Institute. She received her PhD in modern Korean history at the University of California, Los Angeles, MA in Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and BA with honors in International Studies from the University of Chicago. Her current research interests and work are on Korea-U.S. diplomatic/cultural/intellectual interactions (1866-1945) and Korean students in the U.S. (1884-1960).
Jennifer Powell McNutt
Jennifer Powell McNutt is the Franklin S. Dyrness Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies and Professor of Theology and History of Christianity at Wheaton College's Litfin Divinity School. Dr. McNutt holds her PhD from the University of St. Andrews (Reformation Studies Institute), MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary, and BA in Religious Studies from Westmont College. She is a Fellow in the Royal Historical Society and Scholar-in-Residence at Newberry Library in Chicago. She is an award-winning professor and writer, and her most current works include Know the Theologians, The Mary We Forgot: What the Apostle to the Apostles Teaches the Church Today, and The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation. She and her husband, are the co-founders of “McNuttshell Ministries.
Mike Woodruff
Mike Woodruff is the lead pastor at Christ Church, a multi-site church with campuses in the northern suburbs of Chicago. In addition to chairing the boards of Renew Communities and Lakelight Institute, Mike is the past President of ScholarLeaders International, a visiting scholar with the Murdock Charitable Trust and the author of over 200 articles and eight books. He also writes The Friday Update, a weekly reflection on life, culture, and faith today.
Eric Targe
Eric Targe serves as Pastor for Teaching and Preaching at Park Community Church. Originally from New York, he has lived in the city of Chicago since 2009. Eric graduated with a BA in Theology from Moody Bible Institute and a Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Eric also serves as an adjunct professor at the Moody Bible Institute, and is passionate about equipping the saints for gospel love, gospel life, and gospel liturgy, so that the good news of Jesus might be displayed more clearly in a bad news world.
Gregg Quiggle
Gregg Quiggle served for nearly forty years at Moody Bible Institute as the D.L. Moody Professor of Historical Theology and Dean of Study Abroad. He graduated from Wheaton College (BA, MA in Church History/Theological Studies) and Marquette University (MA in Historical Theology) before earning his PhD at Open University by focusing on Dwight Moody’s approach to urban social problems. Dr. Quiggle has written and lectured extensively on the impact of Dwight Moody and has contributed to multiple books, most recently MBI’s One Volume Seminary. He is also the author of Bread and Bibles: D.L. Moody’s Evangelism and Social Action. Now retired from teaching, he operates Quotelos Travel Service, a Christian history tour company.
Vincent Bacote
Vincent Bacote, is an Associate Professor of Theology and the Director of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics at Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL. He is the author of the The Political Disciple: A Theology of Public Life (2015), The Spirit in Public Theology: Appropriating the Legacy of Abraham Kuyper (2005), and has contributed to books including On Kuyper (2013), Aliens in the Promised Land (2013), Keep Your Head Up (2012) and Prophetic Evangelicals (2012). He is a regular columnist for Comment Magazine and contributes to other magazines, including Books and Culture, Christianity Today, Think Christian and regeneration quarterly, and journals such as Christian Scholars Review, Urban Mission and the Journal for Christian Theological Research.
Joel Carpenter
Joel Carpenter is provost and professor of history (emeritus) at Calvin University. Until 2019 he was the founding director of Calvin’s Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity, and he now serves as Senior Research Fellow. He also chairs the board of Langham Partnership USA. Dr. Carpenter has published extensively in the field of American religious history, most notably Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism (Oxford, 1997). He has edited or co-edited six books in that field, most recently Christianity and Social Change in Contemporary Africa (Langaa, 2020), and Christianity in India: Conversion, Community Development, and Religious Freedom (Fortress, 2018). He earned his degrees in history at Calvin College (B.A.) and Johns Hopkins University (M.A. and Ph.D.).