Gregory Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Theology; Interim Director and Senior Fellow, The Wheaton Center For Early Christian Studies | Wheaton College
Wheaton, IL, UNITED STATES
Dr. Gregory Lee's first book concerns the appropriation of pre-modern interpreters for contemporary understandings of Scriptural authority.
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Biography
Dr. Gregory Lee's work is driven by an interest in retrieving the Christian tradition for constructive theological ends. After establishing roots in evangelicalism through the undergraduate campus ministries at Princeton University and the M.Div. at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, he began the Ph.D. in Christian Theological Studies at the Duke University Graduate Program in Religion. His time there both strengthened his sense of identification with classic Christianity and broadened his appreciation for Christianity’s rich intellectual heritage. It also sparked a love for Augustine and especially City of God, a remarkable text that has profoundly shaped his thought and will remain central for his future work.
His first book, Today When You Hear His Voice: Scripture, the Covenants, and the People of God, concerns the appropriation of pre-modern interpreters for contemporary understandings of Scriptural authority, drawing especially on Augustine, Calvin, and the Epistle to the Hebrews. His next major project, Sin and Sectarianism: An Augustinian Theology of Ecclesial Division, will explore Augustine’s understanding of ecclesial sin and its implications for church division and the church-world relationship. He has long felt a calling to teach, and he is grateful for the opportunity to engage such highly motivated students at Wheaton. The Department of Biblical and Theological Studies provides many resources for cross-disciplinary inquiry, and The Wheaton Center for Early Christian Studies offers a unique context to explore a kind of evangelical ressourcement.
Education (3)
Duke University: Ph.D. 2010
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School: M.Div. 2003
Princeton University: A.B. 2000
Areas of Expertise and Research Interests (9)
Christianity and Judaism
Doctrine of the Trinity
Doctrine of Scripture
Political Theology
Theology of Augustine
Ecclesiology
Roman Catholic Theology
History of Biblical Interpretation
Theology of Calvin
Professional Affiliations (2)
- American Academy of Religion
- North American Patristics Society
Presentations and Event Appearances (4)
Using the Earthly City: Ecclesiology and Political Action in Augustine
Workshop in Christian Political Thought, hosted by Bryan McGraw Wheaton College; Wheaton, IL
2014-07-31
Suffering the Two Cities: Sin and Sectarianism in Augustine
North American Patristics Society Chicago, IL
2014-05-24
The Spirit’s Self-Testimony: Pneumatology in Basil of Caesarea and Augustine of Hippo
Wheaton Theology Conference Wheaton, IL
2014-04-03
Between the Two Cities: Augustine’s Theology of the Jews and Judaism
North American Patristics Society Chicago, IL
2013-05-23
Academics and Published Research (2)
Courses Taught
- BITH 315 Christian Thought - BITH 371/653 Early Christianity - BITH 371/654 Medieval Christianity - BITH 372 Historical Theology - BITH 375 Theological Ethics - BITH 376 Theologies of Transformation (Wheaton in Chicago) - BITH 381 Spiritual Classics: Augustine’s Confessions - BITH 382 Doctrine of the Church - BITH 392 Doctrine of Scripture - BITH 396 Roman Catholic Theology - BITH 483/558 Theology of Augustine - BITH 489 Advanced Topics in Patristic Thought - BITH 494 Senior Seminar: Global Christianity
Areas of Research
- Theology of Augustine - Ecclesiology - Political Theology - Roman Catholic Theology - Doctrine of Scripture - History of Biblical Interpretation - Doctrine of the Trinity - Theology of Calvin - Christianity and Judaism
Select Articles, Chapters, Reviews, and Other Publications (9)
Augustine of Hippo
Evangelical Dictionary of Theology
Gregory Lee
2017
Israel between the Two Cities: Augustine’s Theology of the Jews and Judaism
Journal of Early Christian Studies
Gregory Lee
2016
Augustine’s Two Cities Revisited: Contemporary Approaches to De ciuitate Dei
Archive of the History of Philosophy and Social Thought
Gregory Lee, Anthony Dupont
2016
Using the Earthly City: Ecclesiology, Political Activity, and Religious Coercion in Augustine
Augustinian Studies
Gregory Lee
2016
The Spirit’s Self-Testimony: Pneumatology in Basil of Caesarea and Augustine of Hippo
Spirit of God: Christian Renewal in the Community of Faith
Gregory Lee
2015
How Does God Relate to the World?
Theology Questions Everyone Asks: Christian Faith in Plain Language
Gregory Lee
2014
Review of Political Augustinianism: Modern Interpretations of Augustine’s Political Thought, by Michael J. S. Bruno
Augustiniana
Gregory Lee
2015
“God’s Recovery,” review of Retrieving Nicaea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine, by Khaled Anatolios
Marginalia Review of Books
Gregory Lee
2015
Review of City of God (Books 1-10), by Augustine, trans. William Babcock
Themelios
Gregory Lee
2013
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