Don Westblade Professor, Dept of Religion,
Hillsdale College, 1988- Home: 4333 South Dr, Hillsdale,
MI 49242 Office: 517-607-2381 Cell:
517-610-9612 Email: dwestblade@hillsdale.edu |
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Education Ph.D. cand. (abd) Yale University, New
Haven, CT
Religious
Studies (New Testament)
M.Phil., 1987 Yale
University, New Haven, CT
Religious
Studies (New Testament)
M.A., 1983 Yale
University, New Haven, CT
Religious
Studies (New Testament)
Spec. Stud., 1981 Denver
Seminary, Denver, CO
Hebrew
3me Degr,
1980 Alliance Francaise, Paris, France
French
Mittelstufe II, 1980 Goethe
Inst., Freiburg/Berlin, FRG
German
M.Div., 1978
Fuller
Theol. Seminary, Pasadena, CA
New
Testament
B.A., 1974 Williams
College, Williamstown, MA
Political
Economy, Magna cum Laude
Diploma, 1970 South
High School, Denver, CO
Salutatorian
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Background 1997- Professor,
Introduction to Islam (biennial
course)
in Islam 2016 Hillsdale
College Dept of Religion
2003 Organized
Honors Program summer travel itinerary
for 4-week trip through historical sites in Turkey
2004-08 Led 20-25 Honors Students
annually on trip to Turkey
2008 Developed
summer program for Hillsdale Hostel
Islam and the West
2008-16 Instructor, Islam and
the West Hostel Program
2009-16 Instructor in Islam,
Road Scholar Hostel, Michindoh
2014 Directed
private trip to Turkey for community adults
2015 Lecture
to Hillsdale International Club on Islam
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Professional 2002-16 Cushwa
Society, Notre Dame
Responsibilities, 2010-16 Steering
Committee, American Christianity, ETS
National 1997-09 Steering
Committee, Jonathan Edwards Study Grp, ETS
1994-98 Chair, Exegesis of
Biblical Texts on Ethical Themes, SBL
Professional 1989-16 Chair, Faith in Life
Lectureship, Hillsdale College
Responsibilities, 1990-16 Faculty Advisor, Theta
Alpha Kappa Rel Honorary
Local 2013-16 Steering Committee, Gershom Lectureships
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Academic 2006 Emily
Daugherty Award for Senior Teaching Excellence
Honors 2003-08 Director, Hillsdale
College Honors Program
1982 Rotary
Foundation Finalist, Colorado
1980 University
Fellowship, Yale (4-year)
1979 Danforth
Foundation Honorable Mention
1974 Rhodes
Finalist, Colorado
1974 John
Edmund Moody Fellowship (Oxford), 1st Alt.
1974 Carroll
A. Wilson Fellowship (Oxford), 1st Alternate
1974 David
A. Wells Prize for Political Economy
1973 Phi
Beta Kappa Society
1973 Williams
College Purple Key Society, President
1970 National
Council of Teachers of English Award
1970
Gates
Rubber Company Foundation Scholarship
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Publications A Biblical View of the Family, Hillsdale
Forum, February 29, 2012.
Alexandria Troas, Biblical Archaeological Review, November, 2011.
The Sovereignty of God in the
Theology of Jonathan Edwards. For the
Fame of God's Name: Essays in Honor of John Piper, edd.
Samuel Storms and Justin Taylor. Crossway, 2010.
The Bondage of
the Will and Divine Election in Paul, The
Grace of God and the Bondage of the Will, edd. Thomas R. Schreiner and Bruce Ware.
Baker Book House, 1994.
Re-issued in: Still Sovereign, edd. Thomas R. Schreiner
and Bruce Ware. Baker Book House, 2000.
Review of One Holy and Happy Society: The Public Theology of Jonathan Edwards
by Gerald McDermott. Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1992. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 38/2(1996), 453-54.
Offline 32: Report on the Packard
Humanities Institute CD-ROM, Bulletin of
the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion (March, 1991).
repr.:
Religious Studies News (March/April,
1991), p. 15.
Review of America's Theologian: A Recommendation of Jonathan Edwards by
Robert W. Jenson. Journal
of the Evangelical Theological Society 33(1990), 403-405.
Review of Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography by Iain Murray. Journal of the
Evangelical Theological Society 32 (1989),
408-10.
The View at the Margin, Hillsdale Collegian, Feb,
1989.
Reprinted
in The Hillsdale Magazine, Spring,
1989.
Review of Briefformular und rhetorische
Disposition im 1. Korintherbrief by Michael Buenker, Religious
Studies Review 11/3(July, 1985), 292.
Review of Ministering in the Pauline Churches by Pheme Perkins,
Religious Studies Review 10/1(January, 1984), 71.
Indices for Steven
D. Fraade, Enosh and His
Generation, SBLMS 30. Chico, CA:
Scholars Press, 1984.
B. B. Warfield and Inspiration, Studia Biblica et Theologica 10(1980), 27-43.
Word and Spirit in the Works of
Jonathan Edwards, Studia Biblica et Theologica 9(1979), 49-60.
Policy Paper on Organized Crime, publ.
for circulation in Washington, D. C., 1974
Papers Response to Paul Helseth: The Legacy of John Witherspoon and the Founding
of
read Princeton Theological
Seminary: Samuel Stanhope Smith, Ashbel Green, and
the Contested Meaning of Enlightened Education, ETS, November 18, 2015
Response to Andrew Grosso, Help My Unbelief: Michael Polanyi and the
Challenge of Faith in the Modern World, Hillsdale College, March 24, 2015
Response to Eduardo
Echeverria, Double Predestination in Dutch Neo-Calvinism, Hillsdale College,
February 8, 2015
Address on National
Day of Prayer, Hillsdale College, May 1, 2014
Chapel address,
University of Northwestern, St Paul, Jonathan Edwards on Justification, April
22, 2014
Can a Good
Christian Endorse the Morality of Capitalism? Hillsdale College Liberal
Arts Forum, October 19, 2012
Ancient Hittites and
Our Modern Constitution, Hillsdale Rotary Club, Feb 27, 2013
Leviticus Alive! Ritual and Redemption, Cincinnati Bible Conference (6 lectures),
October 13-16, 2012.
Faculty Roundtable:
The U. S. Supreme Court, Hillsdale College CCA, September 2012.
Commencement Address. Veritas Academy, Worthington, OH, June 2, 2011.
The Abgar Inscription, Hillsdale College CCA, November, 2011.
The
Power of the Cross, Pastors Conference, Fellowship of Independent Reformed
Evangelicals (3 lectures), November 9-10, 2011.
Christianity and Evolution: Can One
Believe Both? Liberal Arts Forum, October 21, 2011.
Josef
Pieper on the Liberal Arts, Hillsdale College Honors Program Retreat, (3
lectures), August 26-27, 2011.
The Churchs
Upside-Down Mission, First Presbyterian Church of Hillsdale, Mission Project
(5 lectures), August, 2011.
What
is Leadership, Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Symposium, February 18, 2011.
Commencement Address.
Christian Academy, Indianapolis, IN, June, 2010.
Faculty Roundtable:
Biography and Historiography, Hillsdale College CCA, November 13, 2008.
Alexandria Troas: Location. Location,
Location, The Ephesus Meeting, Ephesus, Turkey, May, 2008
For the Love of
Honor, The Ephesus Meeting, Ephesus, Turkey, May, 2007
Faculty Roundtable:
Great Economists of the 20th Century, Hillsdale College CCA, February 2, 2006.
Calvin in the Hands
of a Not-So-Angry Jonathan Edwards, Evangelical Theological Society, November,
2005
Edwards and
Justification, Conference at Bethlehem Baptist Church, June 2005
"Adolescents
Under God," Annual Hillsdale Exchange Club Citiwide
Prayer Breakfast, November 23, 2004.
Response to Bill
Evans, Edwards in Context: Salvation and Union with Christ,
Evangelical
Theological Society, November, 2001
Jonathan Edwards on
Justification by Faith, Evangelical Theological Society, November, 2000
The Work of the Holy
Spirit, U of Michigan (IVCF) Graduate School Fellowship, October 9, 1999.
Christian Philotimia:
Hellenistic Honor in a New (Testament) Context, Regional Meetings, Eastern
Great Lakes Biblical Society, Columbus, OH, April 15-16, 1999.
The Bible and the
Role of Women in the Church, IVCF Michigan Regional Meetings, February 12-14,
1999; Ann Arbor Christian Reformed Church, March 3,
1996.
One Nation Under
God, Annual Hillsdale Exchange Club Citiwide Prayer
Breakfast, November 25, 1997.
Interpreting Paul's
Letter to the Colossians, IVCF Michigan Regional Meetings, November 7-9, 1997.
Why Be Good? Paul and
the Hellenistic Moral Tradition, Regional Meetings, Eastern Great Lakes
Biblical Society, Columbus, OH, April 11-12, 1996.
Form and Function in
Luke's Use of Literary Chiasm, Regional Meetings, Eastern Great Lakes Biblical
Society, Pittsburgh, PA, April 6-7, 1995.
Faculty
Essay, Hillsdale College Parents Newsletter. Fall,
1995, Vol. 1, no. 2.
Delighting in the
Law, Tentmakers Youth Ministry, Wilderness North, Brimson,
MN, August 12-14, 1995.
Discipleship
in the Gospel of Mark, Tentmakers Youth Ministry Training Program,
Minneapolis, MN. June 28, 1994.
Academic Networking
for Un(der)supported or Institutionally Unaffiliated
Scholars: Making the Electronic Connection, Computer Assisted Research Group,
Society of Biblical Literature, November 23, 1991.
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Civic Chair, City of Hillsdale Hospital
Finance Authority
Involvement Member,
Patient Rights Advisory Committee, Hillsdale Hospital
Member,
Ethics Committee, Hillsdale Hospital
Chair,
Long Range Planning Committee, Will Carleton Academy
Chair,
Hillsdale Area Young Life Committee
Elder,
College Baptist Church, Hillsdale, MI
Pulpit
Supply: various area churches
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Personal Wife:
Joni Westblade, R.N. (Operating Room), married 33 years
Son/Daughter-in-Law:
Lucas & Shannon, Young Life Area Director, Big Sky, MT
Daughter:
Julia, grad student in Library Science, Wayne State Univ,
Detroit
Daughter:
Kirsten, senior, University of Northwestern, St. Paul, MN, Kinesiology
Extra
daughter: Anna (from Moldova, for 3 years of high school)
Grandson:
Gideon James Theophilus Westblade, Big Sky MT (b.
June, 2016)