Michael Horton (theologian)
Michael S. Horton | |
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| Born | May 11, 1964 |
| Occupations | Professor, Theologian, Author |
| Years active | 1998–Present |
| Known for | Modern Reformation Magazine, White Horse Inn radio program |
| Awards | Honorary Doctor of Divinity, Grove City College (2016) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Biola University (BA), Westminster Seminary California (MA), Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and University of Coventry (PhD) |
| Thesis | Thomas Goodwin and the Puritan doctrine of assurance : continuity and discontinuity in the Reformed Tradition, 1600-1680 (1998) |
| Influences | John Calvin, Reformation Theology, Early Church Fathers |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Westminster Seminary California (Professor) |
| Main interests | Systematic Theology, Apologetics, Historical Theology |
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Michael Scott Horton (born May 11, 1964) is an American Reformed systematic theology scholar. He is the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California. Horton has written and edited more than forty books and contributed to various encyclopedias, including the Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology and Brill’s Encyclopedia of Christianity.
In addition to his work as a professor, Horton is the founder of Sola Media and its productions, the White Horse Inn radio show and podcast, Modern Reformation magazine, Core Christianity, and Theo Global.
His most recent book is Shaman and Sage: The Roots of “Spiritual but Not Religious” in Antiquity, the first of three volumes in his intellectual history of “spiritual but not religious” as a phenomenon in Western culture.