John Samuel Feinberg | |
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Born | Dallas, Texas, U.S. | April 2, 1946
Education | University of California, Los Angeles (B. A., 1968) Talbot Theological Seminary (M.Div., 1971) Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, (Th.M., 1972) University of Chicago (MA, PhD, 1979) |
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Spouse | Patricia |
Children | 3 |
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Doctoral advisor | Alan Donagan [1] |
Other advisors | Warner Wick Paul Ricoeur |
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School or tradition | Dispensationalism,Calvinism |
Main interests | Ethics |
John Samuel Feinberg (born April 2,1946) is an American theologian,author,and professor of biblical and systematic theology. He is currently listed as Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology (retired) at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield,Illinois. He is noted for his expertise in theodicy. [2]
Feinberg was born in 1946 to Charles Lee and Anne Priscilla (Fraiman) Feinberg in Dallas,Texas. His family moved from Dallas,Texas to Los Angeles,California in 1948 when his father became the first dean of Talbot Theological Seminary. Feinberg earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of California at Los Angeles,his Master of Divinity from Talbot Theological Seminary,his Master of Theology degree (1972) in systematic theology from Trinity,and his Master of Arts (1971) and Doctor of Philosophy (1979) degrees from the University of Chicago.
Feinberg lives in Vernon Hills,Illinois,with his wife Patricia,with whom he has three children. His brother Paul David (1938 - 2004) also taught Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School for thirty years.
In his early career,Feinberg served as a missionary in Los Angeles on staff for the American Board of Missions to the Jews. He began his teaching career in 1969 at the Los Angeles Bible Training School in Watts,California. Feinberg was ordained to ministry in 1971 and served as pastor of the Elmwood Park Bible Church in Elmwood Park,Illinois,from 1974 to 1976. He resumed teaching in 1976 at Western Conservative Baptist Seminary in Portland,Oregon,before moving in 1981 to teach at Liberty Baptist Seminary and College in Lynchburg,Virginia. In 1983,he joined the faculty of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
During the mid-1980s,Feinberg served on the national membership committee of the Evangelical Theological Society. He also served as editor of the Bulletin of the Evangelical Philosophical Society from 1982 to 1983,and from 1985 to 1986 he served a term as president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society. Since then,he has authored several books and serves as a theological consultant for the academic division of Crossway Books. He serves as general editor for the series Foundations of Evangelical Theology.
In 2015 a Festschrift was published in his honor. Building on the Foundations of Evangelical Theology:Essays in Honor of John S. Feinberg includes contributions from Kevin Vanhoozer,Bruce A. Ware,and Walter Kaiser Jr.
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