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Dr. Theodore G. Van Raalte

Professor of Ecclesiology

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  • BA, McMaster University, 1995
  • MDiv, Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary, 1999
  • MA (Theological Studies), Providence Theological Seminary, 2010
  • PhD, Calvin Theological Seminary, 2013

Dr. Van Raalte is professor of Ecclesiology, prior to which he served as a pastor for eleven years. He completed a PhD at Calvin Theological Seminary in historical theology, focusing on Antoine de Chandieu’s (1534-1591) clear presentation of Reformed theology by the use of scholastic method.

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  • Dissertation and Thesis

    “Antoine de Chandieu (1534-1591): One of the Fathers of Reformed Scholasticism?” PhD diss., (Calvin Theological Seminary, 2013).
    “Early Reformed Spirituality: The Prayers of Guillaume Farel (1489-1565).” MA thesis: (Providence Theological Seminary, 2010).

  • Books
    • Antoine de Chandieu (1534–1591): The Silver Horn of Geneva’s Reformed Triumvirate (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
    • As You See the Day Approaching: Reformed Perspectives on the Last Things. Edited by Theodore G. Van Raalte. (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2016).
    • The Bond of the Covenant Within the Bounds of the Confessions: A Conversation Between the URCNA and CANRC. Edited by John A. Bouwers and Theodore G. Van Raalte. (St. Catharines, ON: Church Unity Publications, 2015).
    • Early French Reform: Guillaume Farel’s Theology and Spirituality. Co-authored with Jason Zuidema. (Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2011).
    • Resource Package on Church Planting and Neighbourhood Bible Studies. Edited by Kresha Faber and Ted Van Raalte. (Surrey, BC: privately published, 2011).
  • Articles And Essays
    • “The Reformation in Europe,” in ed.  Cántaro Publications Editorial Team, Post Tenebras Lux: Light After Darkness (Jordan Station: Cántaro Publications, 2025), 43–76.
    • “Guillaume Farel’s Trinitarian Prayers,” in ed. M. Klauber, The Theology of Early French Protestantism: From the Affair of the Placards to the Edict of Nantes (Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2023), 127–51.
    • “Antoine de Chandieu’s Quiet Opposition to the Jesuits,” in ed. M. Klauber, The Theology of Early French Protestantism: From the Affair of the Placards to the Edict of Nantes (Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2023), 257–81.
    • “Apostle of the Alps: Guillaume Farel and the Reforming of Geneva,” in ed. Jon Balserak and Andrew Spicer, Brill Companion to the Reformation in Geneva,  (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 51–74.
    • “Compelling Each Other: Beza’s Response to John Hay as Part of the Genevan’s Anti-Jesuit Efforts in the 1580s,” in ed. Scott Manetsch and Kirk Summers, Theodore Beza at 500. New Perspectives on an Old Reformer (Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2020), 263–82.
    • “Father Abraham: One-Hundred Year Retrospect,” in Clarion 69:22 (Oct 30, 2020), 591–5.
    • “Self-Deception and the Apologetic of Despair in Pascal, Kierkegaard, and Bahnsen” in Unio Cum Christo 6:1 (April 2020): 99-115.
    • ’I have sought to move all to pray . . . to this good Father, by the Lord Jesus, in the power of the Holy Spirit’:  Farel, Caroli, Calvin, and Farel’s Trinitarian Prayers,” in Calvin Theological Journal 54:2 (Fall 2019), 301–324.
    • “Section 8: Advice on Theological Training,” (ed.) in Early Sessions of the Synod of Dort (Acta et Documenta Synodi Nationalis Dordrechtanae, vol. 2 (Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2018), 168–97.
    • “Tulips, Roses, or Bacon?” Clarion 67:8 (April 20, 2018), 207–208.
    • Farel, Guilluame. Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, ed. Marco Sgarbi. Cham: Springer, 2019.
    • “On the Consistory Bench: Practice Preaching of the Proposans and Proponenten in the Reformed Churches of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” in Mid-America Journal of Theology 28 (2017), 43–66.
    • “Sola Scriptura: Anarchy?” Clarion 66:21 (Oct 20, 2017), 590–92.
    • “Send us Wood,” Clarion 66:20 (Oct 6, 2017), 550–52.
    • “Eschatology, or Doctrine concerning the End Times,” in As You See the Day Approaching: Reformed Perspectives on the Last Things, ed. Theodore G. Van Raalte (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2016), pp. 1–19.“In Between and Intermediate: My Soul in Heaven’s Glory,” in As You See the Day Approaching: Reformed Perspectives on the Last Things, ed.Theodore G. Van Raalte (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2016), pp. 70–111.
    • “Another Wax Nose? Accommodation in Divine Revelation,” in Correctly Handling the Word of Truth: Reformed Hermeneutics Today, ed. Mees te Velde and Gerhard H. Visscher (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2014), pp. 226–51.
    • “The French Reformed Synods of the Seventeenth Century,” in The Theology of the French Reformed Churches: From Henri IV to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, ed. Martin Klauber (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2014), pp. 57–97.
    •  “François Lambert d’Avignon (c. 1487-1536): Early Ecclesial Reform and Training for the Ministry at Marburg,” in Church and School in Early Modern Protestantism: Studies in Honor of Richard A. Muller on the Maturation of a Theological Tradition, eds Jordan J. Ballor, David S. Sytsma, and Jason Zuidema (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 81–96.
    •  “Noster Theophilus”: The Fictitious “Printer” Whose Anti-Jesuit Volumes Issued from Various Presses in Geneva between 1580 and 1589,” Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 74:3 (2012), pp. 569–91.
    •  “The Puritans and Paedobaptism,” [co-authored with Mark Jones] ch. 45 in A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life, by Joel Beeke and Mark Jones (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2012), pp. 725–41.
    •  “Unleavened Morality? Herman Bavinck on Natural Law,” in Five Studies in the Thought of Herman Bavinck, a Creator of Modern Dutch Theology, ed. John Bolt (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2011), pp. 57–99.
    •  “For The Greater Good: Christian Philosophical and Theological Responses to The Problem of Evil,” in La Revue Farel 5 (2010): 81–96.
    •  “Guillaume Farel’s Spirituality: Leading in Prayer,” in Westminster Theological Journal 70:2 (Fall 2008): 277–302.
    •  “The Most Illustrious Illustration of our Free Election – Calvin and Augustine on Christ’s Election,” in Koinonia 20:2 (Fall 2003): 15–40.
For further bibliographical details, see Dr. Van Raalte's Academia.edu profile.