Scholarship
Featured Publication
On Being Presbyterian: Our Beliefs, Practices,and Stories (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2006)
"Increasing numbers of Christians are seeking to transcend the spirituality of private preference and enter into meaningful community with other believers: past, present, and future. For conservative Presbyterians, Lucas provides a most helpful, inspiring account of both the what and the why of our church identity."
-- Richard D. Phillips
Senior Pastor, First Presbyterian Church of Coral Springs, Margate, FL.
Books
All for Jesus: A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Covenant Theological Seminary, co-editor with Robert A. Peterson. Fearn, Tain, Great Britain: Christian Focus, 2006.
The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards: American Religion and the Evangelical Tradition, co-editor with D. G. Hart and Stephen J. Nichols. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2003.
On Being Presbyterian: Our Beliefs, Practices, and Stories. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2006.
Robert Lewis Dabney: A Southern Presbyterian Life. American Reformed Biography Series. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2005.
What is Presbyterian Church Government? Basics of Reformed Faith series. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, forthcoming.
Articles
“Christianity at the Crossroads: E. Y. Mullins, J. Gresham Machen, and the Challenge of Modernism,” The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 3 (Winter 1999): 58-79.
“‘Divine Light, Holy Heat’: Jonathan Edwards, the Ministry of the Word, and Spiritual Formation,” Presbyterion 34, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 1-12.
“God and Country: Wendell Berry’s Theological Vision,” Christian Scholar’s Review 32 (2002): 73-92.
“J. Gresham Machen, Ned B. Stonehouse, and the Quandary of Reformed Ecumenicity,” Westminster Theological Journal 62 (2000): 197-222.
“Jonathan Edwards Between Church and Academy: A Bibliographic Essay,” in The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards: American Religion and the Evangelical Tradition, co-editor with D. G. Hart and Stephen J. Nichols. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2003.
“‘A Man Just Like Us’: Jonathan Edwards and Spiritual Formation for Ministerial Candidates,” Presbyterion 30, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 1-10.
“‘Our Church Will Be On Trial’: W. M. McPheeters and the Beginnings of Conservative Dissent in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.,” Journal of Presbyterian History 84 (2006): 52-66.
“Presbyterians in America: Denominational History and the Quest for Identity,” in American Denominational History: Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the Future, ed. Keith Harper. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2008.
“‘What is the Nature of True Religion?’: Religious Affections and its American Puritan Context,” in All for Jesus: A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Covenant Theological Seminary, co-editor with Robert A. Peterson. Fearn, Tain, Great Britain: Christian Focus, 2006.
Reviews
Many reviews in a variety of scholarly and popular journals.
Presentations
Many presentations, seminars, workshops, lectures, and sermons in a variety of settings and venues.
Professional Societies and Memberships
- American Society of Church History
- Conference on Faith and History
- Evangelical Theological Society