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Joel R. Beeke | |
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| Born | December 9, 1952 Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States |
| Alma mater | Westminster Theological Seminary (PhD) |
| Occupation(s) | Pastor, Theologian, Professor, Seminary Chancellor |
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| Spouse | Mary Kamp (m. 1989) |
| Children | 3 |
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| Era | Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries |
| Tradition or movement | Reformed |
| Main interests | Puritans, Calvinism, Reformation and Post-Reformation Theology, Nadere Reformatie, Experiential Piety, Systematic Theology, Historical Theology, Homiletics, Assurance (theology), Christian Living |
Joel Robert Beeke (born December 9, 1952) is an American Reformed theologian who is a pastor in the Heritage Reformed Congregations and the chancellor of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. Under the oversight of the Heritage Reformed Congregations, Beeke helped found Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary in 1995, where he served as president until he assumed the chancellorship in 2023. He teaches there as the professor of homiletics, systematic theology, and practical theology. Beeke has also taught as adjunct faculty at Reformed Theological Seminary and Grand Rapids Theological Seminary (now Cornerstone Theological Seminary); he was an adjunct professor of theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1993 to 1998; he lectured in homiletics at Westminster Seminary California in Escondido, California from 1995 to 2001; and he has lectured at dozens of seminaries around the world.
Beeke founded Reformation Heritage Books in 1994. He was the president and editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books from 1994 to 2022 and has been the board chairman since 2022. He is the editor of the Puritan Reformed Journal and The Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth magazine, the periodical of the Heritage Reformed Congregations; he is the president of Inheritance Publishers, a ministry that republishes sermons in the Reformed tradition from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries; and he is the vice president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society.[1]
Beeke has written extensively on systematic and historical theology, particularly on the Puritans, Calvinism, holiness, assurance, and the doctrines of grace, as well as on pastoral ministry, biblical family life, and Christian living. Through his preaching, teaching, speaking, writing, and seminary leadership, Beeke promotes the experiential piety and preaching of the Puritans as well as the Reformers, the seventeenth-century Scottish Presbyterians, and the Dutch divines of the Nadere Reformatie. In recognition of Beeke’s contributions to the church and the academy, particularly his impact on the renaissance of interest in Puritan theology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, a Festschrift entitled Puritan Piety: Writings in Honor of Joel R. Beeke was published in 2018, including contributions from Richard A. Muller, Chad Van Dixhoorn, Michael A. G. Haykin, Sinclair B. Ferguson, and W. Robert Godfrey.[2]