James E. McGoldrick

Education: B.S., Temple University, 1961; M.A. Temple University, 1964; Ph.D. West Virginia University, 1974; additional graduate study at Dropsie College, St. Joseph's University, University of Scranton, and Pennsylvania State University.

Positions: Pastor of Pittsgrove Baptist Church, Daretown, NJ, 1959-65; Calvary Baptist Church, Pitman, NJ, 1965-66. Assistant Professor of History at John Brown University, 1966-70; instructor in history at West Virginia University, 1970-73; Professor of History at Cedarville University, 1973-2001.

Author: Luther’s English Connection (Milwaukee: Northwestern Publishing House, 1979); Luther’s Scottish Connection (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1989); Baptist Successionism (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1994); God’s Renaissance Man: The Life and Work of Abraham Kuyper (Darlington, UK: Evangelical Press, 2000). Christianity and Its Competitors: New Faces of Old Heresy (Fearn, Scotland: Christian Focus Publications, 2006).

Articles (selected): “Edmund Burke: Christian Activist,” (Modern Age, 1973); “Mussolini And The Vatican,” (University Of Dayton Review, 1976); “Was William Tyndale A Synergist?” (Westminster Theological Journal, 1982); “Three Principles of Protestantism,” (Banner of Truth, 1983); “Luther on Life Without Dichotomy,” (Grace Theological Journal, 1984); “Patrick Hamilton: Luther’s Scottish Disciple,” (Sixteenth Century Journal, 1987); “Prophet In Scotland: The Self-Image of John Knox,” (Calvin Theological Journal, 1998); “Introducing Martin Luther,” (Reformation & Revival, 1998); “Luther’s Doctrine of Predestination,” (Reformation & Revival, 1999).

Contributor: Great Lives From History, Chronology of European History, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, Dictionary of Tudor England, Dictionary of Scottish Church History And Theology, Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England, Magill’s Guide to Military History, Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing.