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.

Dr. Tim Jacobs

PhD, University of St. Thomas, TX

Tim L. Jacobs is Dean and Professor of Philosophy at Davenant Hall. He is co-author of Four Views on Christian Metaphysics, Lexham Bible Dictionary, and The Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia. His articles have appeared in Credo Magazine, Ad Fontes, Lex Naturalis, and others. He holds an M.Div. and Th.M. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a PhD in philosophy from the University of St. Thomas, Houston. He lives with his wife and three kids in South Carolina. Follow him at TimThinks.com.

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 Professor of Philosophy at Davenant Hall. 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 professor 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.

Dr. Grant Sutherland

Ph.D, Australian Catholic University

Grant M. Sutherland is a theologian whose primary area of research is Trinitarian theology, specifically within the early Christian and early medieval periods. His work also explores the intersection of philosophy and theology, Scripture, and Christology. He lives in British Columbia, Canada, with his wife and their five 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.

Christian Finnigan

JD, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University; PhD Candidate, McGill University

Christian D. Finnigan is Associate Professor and Chair of Politics, Philosophy, and History at Cairn University. He is also a Senior Fellow at The John Jay Institute. 

Finnigan previously served as an assistant professor of history and politics at Colorado Christian University, adjunct professor of government at Patrick Henry College, an instructor in history at Sacred Heart University, and a teaching fellow in history at Yale University. He has also been a fellow at the Centennial Institute and an Emo F.J. Van Halsema Fellow at the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies at Calvin University.

His academic work includes a chapter he recently contributed to From Generation to Generation: Writings in Honour of Douglas F. Kelly (Mentor, 2023), and papers presented at conferences such as the Sixteenth Century Studies Society, the Society for Reformation Studies, and the Southern Political Science Association.

Finnigan holds a BA in religious studies from Randolph-Macon College, an MA in the history of political thought and intellectual history from University College London, an MLitt in Reformation studies from the University of St Andrews, an MDiv from Reformed Theological Seminary, a ThM in historical theology from Erskine Theological Seminary, and a JD with a concentration in homeland and national security law from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. He is currently a PhD candidate at McGill University, where his dissertation explores the political thought of the Protestant reformer Martin Bucer.

James Pocta

Jim Pocta is a counselor from Dallas where he lives with wife of 47 years, Linda. They have three sons and six grandchildren. Pocta Counseling works with gender and sexuality issues. His articles can be found at Modern Reformation and Gospel Coalition. He’s an elder at New St. Peter’s Presbyterian.