Cambridge Scholar and Wheaton Professor Heads to Westminster East

It was recently announced that GK Beale, Chair of Biblical Studies at Wheaton College, is heading off to Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia, PA.

Beale is currently the Kenneth T. Wessner Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College.  He earned his MA in History from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, and Ph.D from Cambridge in Divinity, specializing in Greek and Hebrew exegesis. Prior to joining Wheaton in 2000, Beale taught at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Grove City College. He is the author of one of the decade’s most controversial books on the subject of biblical inerrancy, The Erosion of Inerrancy, and the co-editor (with DA Carson, also graduate of Cambridge) of the monumental Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (2007), which was awarded the Academic Book of the Year (2008) Award by the Association of Theological Booksellers.

Wheaton College (founded 1860) is a private Christian college located in Wheaton, IL. Some notable graduates of Wheaton include the evangelist Billy Graham, the agnostic textual scholar Bart Ehrman, and the molinist Christian philosopher Dr. Bill Craig. The motto of the institution is “For Christ and His Kingdom.”

From 1926-1929, Princeton Seminary (second oldest seminary in the US) abolished its board of directors, abandoned the “Five Declarations” that it had agreed to since 1910, and signed the liberal-leaning Auburn Confession, sending Professors Cornelius Van Til, John Gresham Machen, and others to start Westminster Theological Seminary. Some notable graduates of Westminster include Cambridge Scholar Wayne Grudem, and Tim Keller, author of the New York times best-seller The Reason for God. According to the seminary’s website, “Westminster has prospered as we have maintained the infallible Scriptures as our foundation.”