Donald John is an Actuary by profession and is currently Head of Actuarial for a UK insurance company. He also has a longstanding interest in Reformed theology, which culminated in his doctoral studies entitled “Reformed Thought and the Free Offer of the Gospel, With Special Reference to the Westminster Confession of Faith and James Durham (1622-1658)”. Passionately committed to the value of historical research for the church today, he believes that a thorough understanding of the richness and breadth of the Reformed tradition will enable the church to proclaim the gospel to the modern world with greater clarity and depth.
Qualifications
PhD (UW Trinity St David) BSc Hons (Heriot Watt University) Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries
Research Interests
Reformed Theology in the 16th and 17th centuries
Scottish Theology
The Westminster Assembly
The Free Offer of the Gospel
Recent Publications
The Free Offer of the Gospel in Reformed Thought (Reformed Historical Theology; Grottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, forthcoming)
“Knox versus the Knoxians? Predestination in the Teaching of John Knox and the Seventeenth-Century Federal Theologians,” in Reformed Orthodoxy in Scotland: Essays on Scottish Theology c.1560-c.1775 (ed Aaron C. Denlinger; Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2014)
“Missing, Presumed Misclassified – Hugh Binning (1627-53) the ‘Lost’ Federal Theologian”, Westminster Theological Journal, 75:2 (Fall 2013)