Teaching & Research Fellows

Dr. Garcia has been Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of History at Cambridge University and Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and is presently Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. He is also an adjunct professor in theology at Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia and London), Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (Pittsburgh, PA), and Trinity School for Ministry (Ambridge, PA), and has been pastor of Immanuel Orthodox Presbyterian Church (Coraopolis, PA) since 2007. His is a member of the Society for the Study of Theology (SST), Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), and Evangelical Theological Society (ETS). Dr. Garcia has worked in recent years on horrendous evils and the atonement, the theological virtues, and the nature of Scripture. He has enjoyed research fellowships and awards in Edinburgh, Geneva, and Grand Rapids, MI, and maintains an active research and teaching program. He was an assistant editor (theological) for the five-volume Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly: 1643-1652 (Oxford University Press, 2012), edited by Chad Van Dixhoorn, and has served in a similar role for a project on the idea of independency in the early modern era. He is author of Life in Christ: Union with Christ and Twofold Grace in Calvin’s Theology (Paternoster, 2008) and many journal articles and essays, and is researching the theological ontology of the feminine in relation to the biblical divorce and household texts. In his free time, Dr. Garcia enjoys literature, music, sports, and wine – especially red “left bank” Bordeaux. He is a member of the Guild of Sommeliers, and occasionally studies for the Certified Specialist of Wine exam.

Dr. Larson completed her dissertation in Munich in 2010 on a Fulbright grant. She is currently Visiting Scholar in the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University and co-editor of the Bio-bibliographical Guide to Medieval Jurists, an in-progress online database funded by the Ames Foundation (Harvard Law) in collaboration with Saint Louis University’s Center for Digital Humanities. She is co-editor of the forthcoming Companion to the Medieval Papacy (Brill). Her first book, Master of Penance: Gratian and the Development of Penitential Thought and Law in the Twelfth Century (Washington DC: CUA Press, 2014), is winner of a 2015 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise from the University of Heidelberg. She has also edited and translated the subject of her monograph, Gratian’s Tractatus de penitentia; the publication is forthcoming from CUA Press. She and her family are members of Gateway Orthodox Presbyterian Church in St. Louis.

Mr. Sacasas earned his MA in Theological Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary in 2002. He is currently completing a Ph.D. in Texts and Technology from the University of Central Florida. His dissertation examines the work of Hannah Arendt and the resources it offers to those seeking to understand the personal and social implications of emerging technologies. He has written about technology and society for a variety of outlets including The New Inquiry, Rhizomes, The American, Mere Orthodoxy, and Second Nature Journal. He serves as the Director of the Greystone Institute’s Center for the Study of Ethics and Technology (CSET). Since 2004, he has been an adjunct professor of humanities at Belhaven University and also teaches at Reformation Bible College. Mr. Sacasas and his wife and daughter are members of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Oviedo, Florida.

Dr. Curtis is a professional scholar, author, and teacher specializing in Hebrew Bible, with a research focus on ancient Judean prophetic and historical texts, the Persian period in Palestine (539–331 BCE), and the history of biblical interpretation. He serves as Professor of Biblical Studies at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, PA, where he has taught Hebrew language, Old Testament studies, and Christian theology for 24 years. In 2011, he was Adjunct Professor of Biblical Studies at Jerusalem University College, Mt. Zion, Israel. He is
an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America, and served on the pastoral staff of Peace Presbyterian Church (PCA), Cary, NC. He has lectured on four continents, and is frequently sought as a consultant, guest speaker, and teacher. He is the author of numerous articles and conference papers in Hebrew Bible, and of the book Up the Steep and Stony Road: The Book of Zechariah in Social Location Trajectory Analysis. Academia Biblica 25 (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006). He has studied at Westminster Theological Seminary (Ph.D., Duke University, Reformed Theological Seminary (M.Div.), Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and Geneva College (B.A.). He and his wife, Sue Ann, have two grown children, Nathan and Naomi, and a granddaughter, Psyche Ariel.

Dr. Hobbs is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Sheffield and a member of the Sheffield Interdisciplinary Institute for Biblical Studies. Dr. Hobbs has studied at the Summer Institute of Linguistics, taught English for Academic Purposes at US and UK universities, and served as Course Director of the MA in Applied Linguistics at the University of Sheffield. She currently researches and publishes in the areas of disciplinary discourse, theolinguistics, and institutional discourse with a focus on Reformed Christianity. Dr. Hobbs studied English Literature at Covenant College, completed an M.A. in Applied Linguistics/TESOL at Georgia State University, and received her PhD from the University of Sheffield. She also spent a summer studying at the Summer Institute of Linguistics at UND. She grew up in reformed Presbyterian churches in the United States (RPCUS, OPC) and is now a member of an independent Reformed Church. She is married to a fellow Covenant alumnus and has two children.

Dr. Rampelt has studied Philosophy (BA, Case Western Reserve University; MA, University of Pennsylvania), Theology (MAR and Th.M., Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia), and History and Philosophy of Science (PhD, Cambridge). After completing his doctoral studies in 2005, he was a research fellow at the newly formed Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge (2006-2009). Since returning to the United States, Dr. Rampelt spent three years working in neuroscience labs at the University of Pittsburgh, and is now adjunct faculty in the same university in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. His research has investigated the role of theology and theologians in the history of science, particularly the Early-Modern period, as well as the role of theology in scientific creativity since that time.

Dr. Burkholder’s theological interests run vast and wide. Having completed a M.Div. in Spiritual Formation at Talbot School of Theology (2008), he is eager to commend living into the fullness of the spiritual life. For this reason, in addition to his work at Greystone he also serves on the Council and Board at Grafted Life Ministries whose goal is to help the church foster deeper relationships with Christ among its members. After completing the M.Div., he entered Talbot’s Th.M. program in New Testament (2009) and directed his academic energies to understanding the Apostle Paul’s theology of spiritual growth and how this should inform our own pursuit of spiritual wholeness. This degree also gave Dr. Burkholder a predilection for grounding theological reflections and formulations in Scripture and biblical theology. After Talbot, he entered the Ph.D. program in Systematic Theology at Duquesne University (2015). The diversity of the theological program opened up new vistas of inquiry. There he was introduced to Christian ethics and began thinking through how our worldviews impact the ways we choose to live our daily lives as well as make important ethical decisions. He also became immensely fascinated with thinking through what happens with our theology and understanding of the atonement when Jesus and the Gospels are interpreted from the viewpoint of the restoration theology of Second Temple Judaism. This interest birthed his Duquesne Ph.D. dissertation, which assesses René Girard’s soteriology by reading the Gospels as documents informed by the Jewish hopes for restoration of the Second Temple Period. Dr. Burkholder is a ruling elder at North Park Church (EPC).

Dr. Head graduated cum laude from Butler University in English in 1970. He received a seminary degree in religious education from Temple Theological Seminary (1973). Dr. Head has served many years in public and Christian schools, as teacher and administrator. He holds an M.S. in school administration from Butler (1975) and a Ph.D. in Christian Education from Trinity College and Seminary, Newburgh, Indiana (2005) with a dissertation on the English Dissenting Academies. He is currently completing a second Ph.D. from the Great Books Honors College of Faulkner University, researching Dante’s synthesis of the classical and the Christian in his Divine Comedy. Dr. Head has taught Advanced Placement English Language/Literature & Composition for over twenty years, has served as a consultant-workshop presenter for College Board, including directing a summer program for teachers at the Indiana Academy of Science, Mathematics, and Humanities, and has been a reader/scorer for AP Literature essays for eleven summers. He has led nearly twenty overseas educational tours to the United Kingdom and Western Europe. His interests include directing plays and musicals and acting in Shakespearean roles in community and university theater. He has published articles in Indiana English, Indiana Scene and Christian Educator magazines, and has been awarded several fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including the Summer Institute in Florentine Renaissance Humanism. He currently teaches English in a Christian school and humanities at Southeastern University, Lakeland, FL. He attends Providence Baptist Church of Riverview, FL with his family.

Dr. Dennison is an accomplished author and teacher in apologetics and modern theology. His publications include Karl Marx. Modern Thinkers Series (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, forthcoming, 2016); In Defense of the Eschaton: Essays in Reformed Apologetics, edited by James Baird (Eugene OR: Wipf and Stock, 2015); The Young Bultmann: Context for His Understanding of God, 1884–1925. American University Studies Series 7, Theology and Religion (New York: Peter Lang, 2008); A Christian Approach to Interdisciplinary Studies: In Search of a Method and Starting Point (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2007); and Paul’s Two-Age Construction and Apologetics (1985; rep. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2000). Raised in western Pennsylvania, Dr. Dennison is a graduate of Geneva College majoring in Bible and philosophy. He graduated with an M.Div. and Th.M. in Theological Studies (Apologetics) from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He received a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies (Philosophy, Theology, and History in 19^th and 20^th century Germany) from Michigan State University. He taught Bible 16 years at a Christian High School, and was an adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College. Since 1993 he has taught in the Interdisciplinary Studies Department of Covenant College. He also served as Visiting Professor of Apologetics and Systematic Theology at Northwest Theological Seminary; and teaches as Instructor in Apologetics for the Ministerial Training Institute of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC). He has served as a regular Stated Supply for four various congregations and is an ordained teaching elder in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.