Prof Paul Helm
I teach options in the MTh and help with the supervision of some PhD students.
I was Professor of the History and Philosophy of Religion at King’s College, London from 1993-2000. Currently I am a Teaching Fellow at Regent College, Vancouver.
My interests are in philosophical theology and in Reformed theology, especially the theology of John Calvin. I’m therefore particularly interested in any philosophical issue in Reformed theology.
Among recent publications are:
Books
John Calvin’s Ideas (Oxford, OUP, 2004)
Calvin – A Guide for the Perplexed (London, T & T Clark, 2008)
Eternal God (2nd Edition), (Oxford, OUP, 2010)
Faith, Form, and Fashion, Classical Reformed Theology and its Postmodern Critics, (Eugene, Or. Cascade Books, forthcoming)
Articles
‘Eternity and Vision in Boethius’, European Journal For Philosophy of Religion, Spring 2009
‘Frame’s Doctrine of God’, in Speaking the Truth in Love, The Theology of John Frame, ed. John J Hughes, (Phillipsburg, NJ, P & R Publishing, 2009)
‘B.B. Warfield’s Path to Inerrancy: An Attempt to Correct Some Serious Misunderstandings’ Westminster Theological Journal, 2009
‘Does Calvinism Have Room for Middle Knowledge?’ (With Terrance Tiessen), Westminster Theological Journal, 2010
‘God, compatibilism, and the authorship of sin’ Religious Studies, 2010
‘The Human Self and the Divine Trinity’ in Jonathan Edwards as Contemporary: Essays in Honor of Sang Hyun Lee ed. Donald Schweitzer (New York, Peter Lang, 2010) ‘Reformed Thought on Freedom: Some Further Thoughts’, Journal of Reformed Theology, 4, 2010
‘Structural Indifference and Compatibilism in Reformed Orthodoxy’, Journal of Reformed Theology, 5, 2011
‘Religion and Reason from a Reformed Perspective’ in Religion in the University, Vol.I edd. Oliver D Crisp and Gavin D’Costa (London, T & T Clark, 2012)
‘Calvin, Indefinite Language, and Definite Atonement’, in From Heaven He Came, edd. David Gibson & Jonathan Gibson (Wheaton, Crossway; 2014)
‘Jonathan Edwards and the Parting of the Ways?’ Journal of Jonathan Edwards Studies, Vol.4 No.1 2014