Research Interests

  • British and Continental Theologies of the Long Reformation

  • Patristic and Medieval Developments in Christology and Trinitarian Theology

  • Early Modern Reception of the Church Fathers

  • Theological Interpretation of Scripture (Historical Approaches)


 Education

May 2026

PhD, Theological Studies (awaiting conferral)
University of Toronto
Wycliffe College

May 2009

May 2005

BA, Philosophy
BS, Mechanical Engineering
Cedarville University


Research & Writing

 

Doctoral Dissertation

2026

“Personhood, Energy, and Communion in the Thought of Richard Hooker.”
Supervisor: Ephraim Radner

 

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Journal Articles

“The Rhetorical Pisteis in John Damascene’s Defense of Icons.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 33, no. 4 (Winter 2025): 627–57.

“Early Protestant Riffs on Ephesians 4:18 in Martin Bucer and Richard Hooker.” Anglican and Episcopal History 94, no. 1 (March 2025): 92–120.

“The Theological Sources and Poetic Priorities of Milton’s Narrative Theodicy.” Scottish Journal of Theology 77, no. 3 (August 2024): 274–90.

Book Reviews

Review of Daniel F. Graves and Scott N. Kindred-Barnes, eds., Richard Hooker and the Christian Virtues. Pro Ecclesia 35 (Forthcoming 2026).

Review of Brian Douglas, Sacramental Poetics in Richard Hooker and George Herbert: Exploring the Abundance of God. Pro Ecclesia 32, no. 1–2 (February 2023): 169–74.

 

Conference Papers

2026

“Energy and Participation: Neoplatonic Poesis in Richard Hooker’s Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie.” Paper forthcoming at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 2026.

“Figural Hermeneutics in Richard Hooker’s Habakkuk Sermons.” Paper forthcoming at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, November 2026.

“Forensic Rhetoric in Acts 3:12–26: Peter’s Discourse Reconsidered.” Paper forthcoming at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, November 2026.

“‘Thou art unto me an husband of bloode’: Zipporah as a Figure of the Church in Richard Hooker’s ‘Working Theology’ of Baptism.” Paper presented at the Anglican Way Conference, February 2026.

2025

“The Christological Coherence of the Divine and Human Wills in Richard Hooker’s Lawes.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, October 2025.

“‘A certaine figurative resemblance’: Richard Hooker’s Figural Reading of Old Testament Narrative.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, March 2025.

2024

“‘Harmonious Dissimilitude’: The Dionysian Aesthetics of Richard Hooker’s Image Theory.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, October 2024.

2023

“‘Did they not all live the life of God?’: Early Protestant Riffs on Ephesians 4:18 in Martin Bucer and Richard Hooker.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, October 2023.

2021

“‘By cooperation with deitie and that in all thinges’: Dyoenergism and Participation in Richard Hooker’s Lawes.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, October 2021.

 

Other Published Writings

Magazine Pieces

Review of Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers. Modern Reformation 21, no. 4 (July–August 2012): 48–49.


Teaching

 

Wycliffe College

Fall 2024

WYP2301H – Basics of Preaching
Co-Instructor with Jeremy McClung

Fall 2023

WYP2301H – Basics of Preaching
Teaching Assistant for Peter Robinson

Fall 2022

WYT2505H – Introduction to Anglican Theology
Co-Instructor with Cole Hartin

Summer 2022

WYT2620H – Introduction to Christian Apologetics
Teaching Assistant for Andrew Bannister

Winter 2022

WYT6612H – Theological Interpretation of Scripture
Teaching Assistant for Joseph Mangina

Fall 2021

WYT2505H – Introduction to Anglican Theology
Teaching Assistant for Ephraim Radner


Employment & Ministry

3/2011–Present

Missionary
SAMS-USA

12/2021–Present

Assistant Priest (Honorary)
Christ the King Anglican Church

9/2021–12/2024

Sessional Faculty & Teaching Assistant
Wycliffe College, University of Toronto

5/2012–12/2020

3/2011–12/2011

5/2009–12/2010

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