Dr. Chad B. Van Dixhoorn
Associate Professor of Church History
703-448-3393
Bio
A Canadian by birth, Chad Van Dixhoorn is a graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary (MDiv, ThM) and the University of Cambridge (PhD). He has taught theology at the University of Nottingham, and has held three fellowships at the University of Cambridge, where he has researched the history and theology of the Westminster assembly and taught on the subject of Puritanism. A former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, in 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Van Dixhoorn has lectured at RTS DC since 2008 where he teaches church history and practical theology.
Van Dixhoorn has served as associate minister of Cambridge Presbyterian Church and Grace Presbyterian Church in Vienna, VA, where he preaches weekly. He and his wife Emily have five children. He organizes his free time by coaching little league, losing tennis matches against all comers, and reading NYT bestsellers.
Online Resources
SERMONS:
- Why do Christians suffer? (Romans 8:18-30)
- God and man (Psalm 8)
- When anger and mercy meet (Jonah 4)
- A second chance? (Daniel 3)
INTERVIEWS:
- With 9Marks Ministries (a dialogue with three congregationalists on the subject of church government)
- With Ligonier Ministries (an interview on recent research)
Publications
- Confessing the faith: a reader's guide to the Westminster Confession of Faith (Edinburgh, forthcoming 2014).
- The minutes and papers of the Westminster assembly, 1643-1652 (Oxford, 2012), 5 vols.
SELECT ARTICLES:
- ‘Politics and religion in the Westminster assembly and the “grand debate”,’ in Alternative establishments in early modern Britain and Ireland: Catholic and Protestant, eds. R. Armstrong and T. O’hAnnrachain (Manchester, 2013), pp. 129-148.
- ‘Election’, in T & T Clark Companion to Reformation Theology, ed. D. Whitford (Edinburgh, 2012), pp. 86-104.
- ‘The strange silence of prolocutor Twisse: Predestination and politics in the Westminster assembly’s debate over justification’, The Sixteenth Century Journal 40 (2009), pp. 395-418.
