Academic Panel – The Breadth and Depth of Neo-Calvinism Today

Join us on the eve of the Kuyper Conference, as Professor Cory Willson hosts an academic panel on Neo-Calvinism.

Schedule:

Doors open for hors d’oeuvres at 5:15 p.m.

Panel begins at 6:00 p.m.

Livestream will be available.

Featuring:

Agnes Chiu Ph.D. – Dr. Agnes Chiu holds a Ph.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary. She serves as Assistant Professor and Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives, as well as Director of the Center for Public Theology, at China Evangelical Seminary North America in the Greater Los Angeles area. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Robert Covolo, Ph.D. – Dr. Robert Covolo (VU Amsterdam) is executive director of the Center for Faith + Work Los Angeles (CFWLA). He also serves on faculty at the Azusa Pacific University Honors College

Marinus de Jong Ph.D. – Dr. Marinus de Jong is associate professor of systematic theology at Theological University Utrecht, the Netherlands. He is secretary of the Neo-Calvinism Research Institute. De Jong is an ordained minister in the Nederlandse Gereformeerde Kerken and is editor-in-chief of the church magazine Onderweg. He recently published A Church for a Secular World: The Development of Klaas Schilder’s Ecclesiology (Leiden: Brill, 2025)

Gayle Doornbos Ph.D. – Dr. Gayle Doornbos serves as associate professor of theology at Dordt University, teaching courses such as Theological Methods, Spiritual Formation, Faith and Suffering, and Teaching the Bible. Concerned with contemporary questions about the doctrine of God, the relationship between philosophy and theology, the Neo-Calvinist tradition, and Christian formation in the post-Christian west, Doornbos remains active in research of such topics.

James Eglinton Ph.D. – Dr. James Eglinton was appointed to the Meldrum Lectureship in Reformed Theology at The University of Edinburgh in 2013, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2020. Prior to joining the School of Divinity, I was a postdoctoral research fellow, and then senior researcher in systematic and historical theology, at the Theologische Universiteit Kampen. I hold undergraduate degrees in law (LLB Hons, Aberdeen) and theology (BTh Dist., Glasgow). My PhD, on the Dutch dogmatician Herman Bavinck, was written at the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Prof. David Fergusson.

Brad Hickey Ph.D. – Dr. Brad Hickey graduated from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2022 with a Ph. D in Theology and Culture and wrote his dissertation on engaging gaming culture through a Christian worldview. Dr. Hickey has published articles and book reviews on sites such as Think Christian and Christian Scholar’s Review and is currently under contract with Cascade Books to produce a forthcoming theological volume on faith and gaming. He serves as the Director of Gaming, leads a large missionally-driven gaming community on campus, and teaches introductory theology and gaming courses at Dordt University.

Stephanie Summers – Stephanie Summers is the CEO of the Center for Public Justice. Ms. Summers is a co-author with the late Washington Post columnist Michael J. Gerson and Katie Thompson of Unleashing Opportunity: Why Escaping Poverty Requires a Shared Vision of Justice (FallsCity Press). A frequent speaker and moderator, recent topics include Christian activism in Reformed Public Theology (Baker Academic) and leadership in The Routledge Handbook of Religious Literacy, Pluralism, and Global Engagement (Routledge). Ms. Summers is a recipient of the inaugural Duke Divinity Reflective Leadership Award.

N. Gray Sutanto Ph.D. – Dr. N. Gray Sutanto is the Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, Washington D.C. His two latest authored books are A Sense of the Divine: An Affective Model of General Revelation from the Reformed Tradition (Cambridge, 2025) and God and Humanity: Herman Bavinck and Theological Anthropology (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2024). He is also the editor of the forthcoming Essential Herman Bavinck Reader (Baker Academic, 2026), and the T&T Clark Handbook of Neo-Calvinism (2024)