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A.T.B. McGowan

BD (Aberdeen), PhD (Aberdeen), STM (Union Theological Seminary, New York) Honorary Professor of Reformed Doctrine E-mail: andrew.mcgowan@uhi.ac.uk

Professor McGowan is Minister of Inverness East Church of Scotland and UHI Professor of Theology. He was the founding Principal of Highland Theological College UHI.

Research Interests

Professor McGowan's main research interest is in the historical development of Reformed theology, particularly Scottish theology. He is currently working on a reconstruction of the old 'covenant theology' system into a new schema which he is calling 'Headship Theology.' He is also concerned to present Reformed Theology as a 'school of thought' rather than as a single strand of thought, so as to recover the richness of European Reformed theology and liberate it from captivity to narrow, 'single strand' thinking.

Representative Publications

Books

• The Federal Theology of Thomas Boston (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1997)
• Always Reforming: Explorations in Systematic Theology (Leicester: IVP, 2006)
• The Divine Spiration of Scripture: Challenging Evangelical Perspectives (Nottingham: IVP, 2007)

Chapters in Books

•  ‘In Defence of Headship Theology’ in J. A. Grant and A. I. Wilson (eds) The God of the Covenant: Biblical, theological and contemporary perspectives (Leicester: Apollos, 2005) 178-199
• ‘The Unity of the Covenant’ and ‘Scottish Covenant Theology’ in J.A. Pipa & C.N. Willborn (eds) The Covenant: God’s Voluntary Condescension (Taylors, SC: Presbyterian Press, 2005) 1-13; 61-72
• 'Was Westminster Calvinist?' in L. Quigley (ed) Reformed Theology in Contemporary Perspective (Edinburgh: Rutherford House, 2006) 46-65
• ‘Justification and the Ordo Salutis’ in Bruce L. McCormack (ed) Justification in Perspective: Historical Developments and Contemporary Challenges (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2006) 147-163
• ‘Affirming Chalcedon’ in Stephen Clark (ed) The Forgotten Christ (Nottingham: IVP, 2007) 19-47
• ‘Karl Barth and Covenant Theology’ in D. Gibson & D. Strange (eds) Engaging with Barth: Contemporary Evangelical Critiques (Nottingham: Apollos, 2008) 113-135
• ‘Evangelicalism in Scotland from Knox to Cunningham’ in Michael A.G. Haykin and Kenneth J. Stewart (eds) The Emergence of Evangelicalism: Exploring Historical Continuities (Nottingham: Apollos, 2008) 63-83
• ‘Providence & Common Grace’ in F.A. Murphy & P.G. Ziegler (eds) The Providence of God (London: T & T Clark, 2009) 109-128

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