Dr. Robert Sturdy
Education, Degrees
  • 2020: PhD, Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium.
  • 2012: ThM, Reformed Theological Seminary, Oviedo, Florida, U.S.
  • 2006: BTh, Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K.
  • 2003: BA, The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C.
Academic Positions and Teaching Experience
  • 2020- Present: Affiliated Researcher in Historical Theology, ETF Leuven
  • 2017- Present: Assistant Professor Systematic and Historical Theology, Trinity School for Ministry, Ambridge, P.A.
  • 2012-2017: Director of the Ridley Institute, Charleston, S.C., U.S.
Selected Bibliography

Books

Paper Presentations

  • “Scotist Premotionism? An Exploration of a Scotist Appropriation of a Thomist Term in Samuel Rutherford’s (1600-1661) Doctrine of Divine Concurrence.” Doctoral Colloquium, ETF Leuven, Belgium, 5 September 2019.
  • De Providentia: Samuel Rutherford’s (1600-1661) Doctrine of Divine Providence.” Doctoral Colloquium, ETF Leuven, Belgium, 7 September 2018.
  • “God’s Sovereignty and Meaningful Acts of Human Freedom: The Theological Background to Samuel Rutherford’s Political Theory of the Origins of Government.” Rutherford Redivivus: A Conference Engaging with Samuel Rutherford’s Theology and Historical Context, St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews, UK, 25 May 2018.
  • “Seeing Things that Aren’t There: The Significance of Presence and Vision for the Scientia Abstractiva/Intuitiva Distinction in 16th and 17th Century Scholastic Theology.” Doctoral Colloquium, ETF Leuven, Belgium, 4 September 2017.
  • “Impossible Beasts and Where to Find Them: Hircocervus, Chimera, and Other Impossible Creatures as Treated in Samuel Rutherford’s Doctrine of the scientia dei.” Doctoral Colloquium, ETF Leuven, Belgium, 9 September 2016.
  • “Christian Fate? The Problem of Human Freedom and ‘Fatal’ Events in the Theology of the 17th Century Reformed Scottish Scholastic Theologian Samuel Rutherford.” Doctoral Colloquium, ETF Leuven, Belgium, 3 September 2015.