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Dr. Andrew J. “Drew” Martin
Associate Professor of Systematic Theology
Dr. Andrew J. Martin is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Covenant Theological Seminary. Before coming to Covenant, he served as a pastor and church planter in the PCA for more than fifteen years and taught theology and church history at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Vanderbilt Divinity School, and the School of Theology at Sewanee.
A historical and systematic theologian, Martin studies the development of Reformed theology in the early modern and modern periods. He is particularly interested in the way theological ideas take shape within—and in turn contribute to—their social, political, ecclesial, and cultural contexts. His research focuses especially on covenant theology, ecclesiology, the history of political thought, the theology of the Westminster Assembly, and the historical development of Reformed and Presbyterian Christianity in North America.
Martin’s first monograph, The Covenant with Moses and the Kingdom of God: Thomas Hobbes and the Theology of the Old Covenant in Early Modern England, traces the development of covenant theology in post-Reformation England and explores its relationship to the political thought of Thomas Hobbes and the theologians of the Westminster Assembly. His subsequent research extends these interests into nineteenth- and twentieth-century American Christianity. A particular focus of this work is the Black Reformed and Presbyterian tradition, especially the writings of Francis J. Grimké. Martin examines how the doctrines of creation, salvation, the church, and last things were developed and deployed in the contexts of slavery, segregation, and the pursuit of civil rights.
His second book, Grimké on the Christian Life: Vital Christianity for the Church and World, appears in Crossway’s Theologians on the Christian Life Series. His other publications include contributions to The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, The Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, and Richard Hooker and Reformed Orthodoxy. Across these projects, his work explores the historical development of Reformed Protestant Christianity and the ways its theological convictions have shaped Christian understandings of church, society, and political life.
Education
PhD (Religion & Historical Studies)
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
MDiv & MA (Theology)
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
Hamilton, MA
BA (Political Science & Psychology)
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
Faculty member since 2022
Select Courses
Covenant Theology
Spirit, Church, & Last Things
Reformation & Modern Churh History
Westminster Confession of Faith