Matthew J. Tuininga

Matt began teaching at Calvin Theological Seminary in 2016. He previously taught at Oglethorpe University, in Atlanta, Georgia, and at Sewanee, University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee. His research focuses on religion, society and politics in American history. He is currently writing a book on North Carolina and Virginia Presbyterians during the Civil War era. His previous books include The Wars of the Lord: The Puritan Conquest of America’s First People, forthcoming with Oxford University Press, and Calvin’s Political Theology and the Public Engagement of the Church: Christ’s Two Kingdoms, published with Cambridge University Press in 2017. He is also the editor of On Charity and Justice, a volume of Abraham Kuyper’s collected works in public theology, published by Lexham Press in 2022, and the author of a number of journal articles and book chapters on Christianity and slavery and Reformed political thought.

Matt teaches courses in ethics, history, and political thought. He formerly worked as a legislative correspondent for a Member of Congress and as a counter-terrorism intelligence analyst for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Matt and his wife Elizabeth have three children.

Published Books:

Calvin’s Political Theology and the Public Engagement of the Church: Christ’s Two Kingdoms, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017

On Charity and Justice: Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology, Bellingham: Lexham Press, 2021 (Editor)

The Wars of the Lord: The Puritan Conquest of America’s First People: Oxford University Press, 2025