Faculty

Dr. Matthew Hoskin

Phd, university of Edinburgh

Dr Matthew Hoskin (PhD, University of Edinburgh) teaches ancient and medieval Christian history for Davenant Hall. His research focusses on manuscripts, monks, popes, canon law, and councils, which all feature in his book The Manuscripts of Leo the Great’s Letters (2022), and he blogs about the historic faith at Classically Christian. He lives on Superior’s northern shore in Thunder Bay, Ontario, with his wife and sons.

Ryan M. Hurd

Doctoral Student, Theologische Universiteit Kampen

Ryan Hurd is a systematic theologian whose area of expertise is doctrine of God, specifically the Trinity. His primary training is in the high medievals and early modern scholastics as well as the 20th century ressourcement movement. He has written a number of articles and regularly does translations of early modern theology sources; but his primary project is writing a systematics of the Trinity. He is currently a doctoral student at Theologische Universiteit Kampen.

Dr. Brad Littlejohn

PhD, University of Edinburgh

Brad Littlejohn is a Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He founded and served for ten years as the President of the Davenant Institute after found it in 2013, and founded Davenant Hall in 2019. Brad regularly teaches core modules on Natural Law and Scriptural Authority and Reformation and the Modern World, and elective classes in Reformation history and Christian ethics. His publications include The Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty: Richard Hooker, the Puritans, and Protestant Political Theology (Eerdmans, 2017), The Two Kingdoms: A Guide for the Perplexed (Davenant Press, 2017), Called to Freedom: Retrieving Christian Liberty in an Age of Licence (B&H, forthcoming 2025), and an ongoing moderinization project of Richard Hooker’s Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (Davenant Press).

Dr. Michael Lynch

PhD, Calvin SeminarY

Dr. Michael Lynch teaches Ancient Language and Humanities at Delaware Valley Classical School in New Castle, DE. He is the author of John Davenant’s Hypothetical Universalism: A Defense of Catholic and Reformed Orthodoxy (Oxford University Press, 2021) and has translated John Davenant’s On the Death of Christ & Other Atonement Writings (Davenant Press, 2024). He and his wife have five children, three girls and two boys.

Dr. Joseph Minich

PhD, The University of Texas at Dallas

Dr. Joseph Minich is a Teaching Fellow with The Davenant Institute. As part of his work, he also co-hosts the Pilgrim Faith podcast. The founding editor of Ad Fontes and former Editor-in-Chief of the Davenant Press, he is the author of Enduring Divine Absence (Davenant Press, 2018) and Bulwarks of Unbelief: Atheism and Divine Absence in a Secular Age (Lexham Press, 2023). His public writing can be found at The Calvinist International, Mere Orthodoxy, Modern Reformation, and Ad Fontes.

Dr. Alastair Roberts

PhD, University of Durham

Dr. Alastair Roberts is a Teaching Fellow of The Theopolis Institute and lecturer for Davenant Hall, a leading evangelical blogger and writer, and one of the hosts of the Mere Fidelity podcast. His personal podcast is Alastair’s Adversaria, where, alongside topical interviews, he currently produces daily reflections upon the whole Bible. He is the author of Echoes of Exodus: Tracing Themes of Redemption Through Scripture (2018). He is married to Susannah, and they divide their time between the UK and the US.

Charles Carman

Charles Carman is an alumnus of The King’s College in New York City. He holds an MA in theology from New St Andrews College where he studied Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and is writing his dissertation at The Catholic University of America on the Syriac theologian, Narsai. He lives in DC with his lovely wife and children. 

Dr. Anthony Cirilla

Associate Professor, College of the Ozarks

Dr. Anthony Cirilla is an Associate Professor of English at College of the Ozarks. He is also associate editor of Carmina Philosophiae, the journal of the International Boethius Society. Originally from Western New York, he lives in Missouri with his wife, Camarie, who writes poetry and fairy tales. Anthony serves as an ordained deacon at St. Joseph Anglican Church in Branson.

Wyatt Graham

Ph.D, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Wyatt Graham serves as the Executive Director of the Gospel Coalition Canada, and as President of the Evangelical Theological Society of Ontario and Quebec. He teaches at various institutions, including Ryle Seminary, Redeemer University, and Heritage College & Seminary. He regularly writes a column called DeTrinitate and at his website, wyattgraham.com. You can follow him on Twitter at @wagraham.

Dr. David Haines

David Haines (PhD, Université Laval), is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Bethlehem College & Seminary, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at VIU, a Visiting Fellow at Davenant Hall, and a lecturer in philosophy at Université de Sherbrooke. He has previously authored Richard Hooker on Natural Theology and Scripture, Natural Theology: A Biblical and Historical Introduction and Defense, co-authored Natural Law: A Brief Introduction and Biblical Defense, and edited Without Excuse: Scripture, Reason, and Presuppositional Apologetics, all with The Davenant Press. 

Tim Jacobs

PhD Candidate, University of St. Thomas, TX

Tim Jacobs is a Lecturer in Philosophy at The Davenant Institute, and a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, TX. He also holds an MDiv and ThM from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He specializes in ancient and medieval philosophy, virtue, natural law, metaphysics, and classical logic, and has published several articles as well as contributed to Four Views on Christian Metaphysics, Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia, and Lexham Bible Dictionary. His lifelong aim is to invest in the health of the church by reviving the unity between philosophy and theology. He lives with his wife and three kids in California. Follow him at TLJacobs.com.

Joshua Shaw

Joshua Shaw teaches in the humanities program for Anthem Classical school in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He did his B.A. at Hillsdale and M.A. at Bryn Mawr in  Classics, where he received a surprise invitation to do his PhD in Germany at Tübingen University in Antiken Kirchengeschichte. He is working to complete his dissertation on Eusebius’s Praeparation for the Gospel (to be published with Mohr Siebeck).  He writes regularly for The Regensburg Forum, an academic blog which supports irenic debate between committed Christians in the Thomistic and Reformed traditions.