Education

Ph.D., Baylor University (Religion/Historical Theology), 2014

• Major Fields: Early Church History and Theology

• Minor Fields: New Testament Theology and Literature; Ancient Philosophy

• Dissertation Title: "De Fide Orthodoxa and Gregory of Elvira's Trinitarian Vision"

M.A., Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (Theology), 2001

Diploma, Southwest School of Bible Studies (Biblical Studies), 1996

Ph.D. Student, Washington State University (Engineering Science), 1993-1994

M.Engineering, Cornell University (Applied & Engineering Physics), 1992

B.S., University of Tulsa (Physics), 1990

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS & ACTIVITIES

Secretary/Treasurer, North American Patristics Society, 2016-Present

Member, North American Patristics Society

Member, American Society of Church History

Member, Association Internationale d’Études Patristiques

Theta Alpha Kappa National Religion Honor Society

Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society

Teaching Experience

Associate Professor, Freed-Hardeman University, 2018-Present

Scholar-in-Residence, Freed-Hardeman University, 2017-2018

Director and Professor, Southwest School of Bible Studies, 2007-2017

Instructor, Southwest School of Bible Studies, 2001-2007

Adjunct Instructor, Oklahoma Christian University, 1999-2001

Instructor/Narrator, “Bible Land Passages” Video Project (in association with World Video Bible School), 2015-Present

Latin Instructor, One Day Academy, 2015-2017

Teaching Fellow, Patristic Social Ethics Course, Pappas Patristic Institute, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Boston, July 2009

Other Experience

Pulpit Minister

Christian Chapel Church of Christ, Wildersville, Tennessee, 2018-Present

Southwest Church of Christ, Austin, Texas, 2001-2007

University Church of Christ, San Marcos, Texas, 1999-2001

University Hills Church of Christ, Austin, Texas, 1995-1999

Translator, The Church’s Bible: Commentary on Matthew, edited by Daniel H. Williams (Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2018), Summer 2007. Provided translations for Eusebius of Emesa and Chromatius of Aquileia.

Director, Annual Southwest Lectures, Southwest Church of Christ, 2003-2013

Research Physicist, U.S. Air Force, High Explosives Research and Development Facility, Eglin AFB, 1990-1994

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

"Gregory of Elvira's Polemics in the Tractatus Origins," North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 2021.

Invited Panelist and Respondent, New Horizons in Early Christian Studies: Challenges and Opportunities, University of St. Micahel's College in the University of Toronto, March 2021.

"'In Ordinary Speech': Gregory of Elvira's Christological Preaching," Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 2019.

"Gregory of Elvira as an Evolving Pro-Nicene," XVIII International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, August 2019.

"When Augustine “Lost”: The Bishop’s Debate with Maximinus," North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 2018.

“The Cassiciacum Dialogues: Augustine’s Christian Protreptic,” North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 2017.

“The Value of Historical Authenticity in Early Christian Apologetic,” F. Furman Kearley Conference for Biblical Scholarship, Faulkner University, June 2016.

“Gregory of Elvira’s Response to Ariminum (359),” North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 2014.

“Gregory of Elvira, De Fide Orthodoxa, and the Luciferians,” North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 2012.

“Tertullian’s Trinitarian Monarchy in Adversus Praxean: A Rhetorical Analysis,” XVI International Conference on Patristics Studies, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K., August 2011.

“The Authorship of Epistula ad Diognetum and Characterizations of Judaism,” North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 2010.

“Everything is Permissible: Ivan Karamazov and Genocide,” Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Dallas, March 2010.

“Violence Against Self? A Medieval Perspective on Suicide from Dante’s Inferno and Purgatory,” Texas Medieval Association, Austin, Texas, October 2009.

“Both Poet and Theologian: Czeslaw Milosz’s Catholic Transcendence,” College Theology Society Annual Convention, Notre Dame, May 2009.

“Monarchianism Reconsidered: Tertullian’s Trinitarian Monarchy in Adversus Praxean,” North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 2009.

PUBLICATIONS

"Gregory of Elvira as an Evolving Pro-Nicene," Studia Patristica 127 no. 24 (2021): 127-135.

“De Fide Orthodoxa and Gregory of Elvira’s Trinitarian Vision.” Currently undergoing external review for inclusion in the Oxford Early Christian Texts series, Oxford University Press.

The Incredible Century: The Rise of Christianity, print edition (forthcoming).

The Incredible Century: The Rise of Christianity (Odem, TX: Anchor Digital Publishing, 2012). Digital, interactive book.

"Blurred Lines: Rejecting Legalism," Gospel Advocate 160 no. 2 (Feb 2018): 26-27.

“Tertullian’s Trinitarian Monarchy in Adversus Praxean: A Rhetorical Analysis,” Studia Patristica 65 no. 13 (2013): 367-377.

Meeting Christ: Called Unto Heaven, 31^st Annual Southwest Lectures, ed. Richard Brumback and Sam Willcut (Austin, TX: Southwest Publications, 2012).

Championing Christ: Called Unto Conviction, 30^th Annual Southwest Lectures, ed. Rick Brumback (Austin, TX: Southwest Publications, 2011).