And speaking of Patristics - Michael Haykin heads to SBTS
May 15, 2007
Big news out of Louisville. Russell Moore has done it again. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary this week added prominent church historian Michael A.G. Haykin to its faculty, appointing him as professor of biblical spirituality and church history.
A prolific author and noted scholar in areas of early church history, Baptist history and Christian spirituality, Haykin will pioneer Southern’s innovative new Ph.D. and D.Min. programs in biblical spirituality, will teach and supervise doctoral students in patristic history, and will head the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at Southern, which will host events and publish materials related to Baptist history.
Haykin has served as principal and professor of church history and spirituality at Toronto Baptist Seminary in Toronto, Canada, since 2003. Previously, he was a professor at Heritage Theological Seminary from 1993-1999 and at Central Baptist Seminary from 1982-1993.
Raised Roman Catholic, Haykin was converted to Christ in 1974 out of a radical leftist brand of New Age spirituality. Sensing a call to vocational ministry, he attended Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto from 1974 to 1982, earning a doctorate in patristics.
It is important for Christians to study the writings of the church fathers because they were the first interpreters of Scripture, Haykin noted.
“For that reason their witness cannot be ignored,” he said. “The doctrine of the Trinity, for example, was hammered out by them--from its New Testament witness--and the resultant creedal statement, the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, stands as a landmark theologically.
“On the other hand, they cannot be placed on the level of Scripture--Holy Scripture stands above them, and their thought must be measured by the Word of God.”
Find all about it, here.
A prolific author and noted scholar in areas of early church history, Baptist history and Christian spirituality, Haykin will pioneer Southern’s innovative new Ph.D. and D.Min. programs in biblical spirituality, will teach and supervise doctoral students in patristic history, and will head the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at Southern, which will host events and publish materials related to Baptist history.
Haykin has served as principal and professor of church history and spirituality at Toronto Baptist Seminary in Toronto, Canada, since 2003. Previously, he was a professor at Heritage Theological Seminary from 1993-1999 and at Central Baptist Seminary from 1982-1993.
Raised Roman Catholic, Haykin was converted to Christ in 1974 out of a radical leftist brand of New Age spirituality. Sensing a call to vocational ministry, he attended Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto from 1974 to 1982, earning a doctorate in patristics.
It is important for Christians to study the writings of the church fathers because they were the first interpreters of Scripture, Haykin noted.
“For that reason their witness cannot be ignored,” he said. “The doctrine of the Trinity, for example, was hammered out by them--from its New Testament witness--and the resultant creedal statement, the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, stands as a landmark theologically.
“On the other hand, they cannot be placed on the level of Scripture--Holy Scripture stands above them, and their thought must be measured by the Word of God.”
Find all about it, here.
