Joel E. Kim
Assistant Professor of New Testament

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.Div., Westminster Seminary California; Ph.D. Candidate, Calvin Theological Seminary.

Rev. Kim is the son of a pastor in the Christian Reformed Church. He has served on the English Ministry pastoral staff of Korean-American churches during his M.Div. studies at WSC and subsequent to his graduation in 1997, in California and Michigan. He is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and has served as Associate Pastor of Segaero Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles. He taught historical and systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary and International Theological Seminary in Los Angeles, as well as in Taiwan and Indonesia.

Rev. Kim's doctoral dissertation, “The True and Genuine Sense: Arminius and the Interpretation of Romans 7 in its Historical Context,” is in progress under the supervision of Professor Richard Muller.

Rev. Kim and his wife, Sharon, reside in Escondido with their two children.

Resident Faculty
  Steven M. Baugh
  R. Scott Clark
  Bryan D. Estelle
  W. Robert Godfrey
  Michael S. Horton
  Dennis E. Johnson
  Hywel R. Jones
  Joel E. Kim
  Julius J. Kim
  Elizabeth E. Park
  David M. VanDrunen
  Joshua J. Van Ee

Professors Emeriti
  Derke P. Bergsma
  Robert B. Strimple

Scholar in Residence
  Peter R. Jones

Visiting Faculty
  Iain M. Duguid
  Darryl G. Hart
  Samuel D. S. Ling
  Richard Lints
  Alfred J. Poirier
  Kimball Riddlebarger
  Philip G. Ryken
  R. C. Sproul