David VanDrunen

ROBERT B. STRIMPLE PROFESSOR OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY AND CHRISTIAN ETHICS

Meet Dr. VanDrunen

Dr. VanDrunen, a minister of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, began teaching at Westminster Seminary California in 2001. He was formerly a pastor of Grace Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Hanover Park, IL, and has served on the Orthodox Presbyterian Church’s Committee on Christian Education since 2005. He was the recipient of the Acton Institute’s Novak Award (2004), a visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University (2009), a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology (201617), and Research Fellow at the Protestant Theological University in The Netherlands (2022).

Dr. VanDrunen is the author or editor of fifteen books, including Politics after Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World (Zondervan Academic, 2020), named Book of the Year (2021) in Politics and Public Life by Christianity Today. His scholarly articles have appeared in many journals, including Journal of Reformed Theology, Journal of Law and Religion, and Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. Dr. VanDrunen and his wife, Katherine, a WSC alum, have one son.

Education

BA Calvin College;
MDiv Westminster Seminary California;
ThM Trinity Evangelical Divinity School;
JD Northwestern University School of Law;
PhD Loyola University Chicago

Other Affiliations

Society of Christian Ethics
International Reformed Theological Institute

What I Want to Instill in My Students

“I want to instill in my students a holistic knowledge of Reformed theology and ethics. But much more than this, I want them to understand how our doctrine and practice emerge from the text of Scripture so that they, too, can defend these truths from the biblical pages. Furthermore, I hope that my teaching will help them to understand what the church is and is called to be, and that this in turn will enable them to be better equipped pastors and teachers.”

Courses you might take with Dr. VanDrunen

Theological Writing (PT502)
Christology (ST602)
Anthropology (ST605)
Soteriology and Eschatology (ST701)
Christian Ethics (ST702)
Full Academic Catalogue

More from Dr. VanDrunen

Books

Edited

Translated

  • Natural Law: A Short Companion (Korean) (Seoul: Revival and Reformation Press, 2024)
  • Politics after Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World (Korean) (Seoul: Revival and Reformation Press, 2020)
  • Divine Covenants and Moral Order (Korean) (Seoul: Revival and Reformation Press, 2018)
  • Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms (Korean) (Seoul: Revival and Reformation Press, 2018)
  • God’s Glory Alone (Portuguese) (São Paulo: Cultura Cristã, 2017)
  • God’s Glory Alone (Korean) (Seoul: Revival and Reformation Press, 2017)
  • Living in God’s Two Kingdoms (Korean) (Seoul: Revival and Reformation Press, 2012)

Articles