Dr James Eglinton (LLB (Hons.), BTh (Dist.), PhD)
Meldrum Senior Lecturer in Reformed Theology

Address
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School of Divinity, Mound Place
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH1 2LX
Background
I was appointed to the Meldrum Lectureship in Reformed Theology 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.
To date, the bulk of my research and writing has focused on neo-Calvinism, a form of Reformed Christianity that developed between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the Netherlands, and that has continued to evolve in a range of international contexts. My first monograph, Trinity and Organism, was published by Bloomsbury in 2012 (Chinese translation published: 2019). I was co-editor of Neo-Calvinism and the French Revolution (Bloomsbury, 2014), editor and translator of Herman Bavinck on Preaching and Preachers (Hendrickson, 2017), and co-editor and co-translator of Christian Worldview (Crossway, 2019). My second monograph, Bavinck: A Critical Biography, was published by Baker Academic in 2020, and won that year's History and Biography Book of the Year Prize in The Gospel Coalition 2020 Book Awards. It was also a finalist in the 2021 ECPA Book Awards. In 2023, I was responsible for three more books: the first English translation of J.H. Bavinck's Personality and Worldview (Crossway), the co-translation of Herman Bavinck's Christianity and Science (Crossway), and the volume Neo-Calvinism and Roman Catholicism (Brill), co-edited with George Harinck.
I serve as Associate Editor of the Journal of Reformed Theology, published by Brill.
I maintain a strong interest in public theology, both theoretical and practical, and have previously written for The Times, The Herald, The Scotsman, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, and Nederlands Dagblad, and have taken part in broadcasts on BBC Radio 4 (Moral Maze), STV (Scotland Tonight), BBC Alba (An Là) and BBC Radio nan Gàidheal (Naoi gu Deich).
I speak, read and write English, Scottish Gaelic, Dutch and French.
Qualifications
LLB (Hons.), BTh (Dist.), PhD
Responsibilities & affiliations
External appointments
Member of editorial or advisory boards for journals:
Journal of Reformed Theology
Theologia Reformata
The Bavinck Review
Member, The Bavinck Society
Undergraduate teaching
Christian Theology: Approaches and Themes
Christian Theology: Doctrines and Debates
Body, Soul and Self: Theological Anthropology
Modern Christology
The Theology of Karl Barth
Modern Theology from the French Revolution to the First World War
Postgraduate teaching
Jesus Christ in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics
Readings in Theological Anthropology
Readings in Western Theology: From the French Revolution to the First World War
Current MTh by research supervision: Arthur Rankin
Previous MTh by research supervision: Amy Plender
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
Israel Guerrero
Hunter Nicholson
Henry Chiong
Terence Chu
Robb Torseth
David Meinberg
Sebastian Bjernegård
Jack Gamble-Smith
Ragaai Atia
Past PhD students supervised
Dr Greg Parker (Assistant Professor of Theology, Cairn University)
Dr Ximian Xu (Kenneth and Isabel Morrision Postdoctoral Fellow in Theology and AI Ethics, University of Edinburgh/Edinburgh Futures Institute)
Dr Cameron Clausing (Lecturer in Applied Theology and Missional Engagement, Christ College, Sydney, Australia)
Dr Richard Brash (Lecturer in Systematic Theology, Christ Bible Seminary, Nagoya, Japan)
Dr Bruce Pass (Lecturer in Christian Thought and History, Brisbane School of Theology, Australia)
Dr Nathaniel Gray Sutanto (Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary, Washington, DC)
Rev Dr Cory Brock (St Columba's Free Church, Edinburgh)
Current research interests
My current research interests - theological and historical - are focused on late modern Dutch Reformed theology. I have recently completed the first English-language scholarly biography of Herman Bavinck (1854-1921).Knowledge exchange
I regularly contribute op-ed columns and articles on religion and public life to a number of national and international media outlets, including The Times, The Herald, The Scotsman, Christianity Today, Nederlands Dagblad, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Herman Bavinck
Research output: › Chapter (Accepted/In press) -
Persoonlijkheid en wereldbeschouwing
(208 pages)
Research output: › Book (Accepted/In press) -
Christelijke wetenschap
(232 pages)
Research output: › Book (Accepted/In press) -
Nakedly political use of Bible quotes is jarring for many
In:
The Times
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The reception of aquinas in Kuyper’s Encyclopaedie der heilige Godgeleerdheid
(16 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198798026.013.27
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Bavinck: A Critical Biography
(480 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
The Reception of Aquinas in Kuyper’s Encyclopaedie der heilige Godgeleerdheid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198798026.013.27
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Reformed theology in modern Europe (nineteenth and twentieth centuries)
(19 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198723912.013.9
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
三位一体和有机体: 赫尔曼·巴文克之有机主旨新释
(276 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Christian Worldview
(160 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published)