Professor of Systematic Theology
Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Dr. Gamble is in his 45th year of seminary teaching and has taught at RPTS since 2005. He explains his teaching philosophy: “When a student comes into a systematic theology class, he comes into holy ground. As Moses took off his sandals, so should we. Theology is heavy and weighty, yet sweet and the stuff of life. While I do not give a sermon for lectures, my hope is that the lectures will ‘preach.’” He has been a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian and Christian Reformed churches and is presently a minister in the RPCNA. He has served congre gations in Switzerland, Michigan, Florida, and Pennsylvania.
Past president of the Calvin Studies Society, Dr. Gamble is the author of The Whole Counsel of God, Vol I: God’s Mighty Acts in the Old Testament, The Whole Counsel of God, Vol II: The Full Revelation of God, and Augustinus Contra Maximinum: An Analysis of Augustine’s Anti-Arian Writings. He is currently working on The Whole Counsel of God, Vol III: God’s People in God’s World. He is the editor of the 14 volume ENCY CLOPEDIA: Articles on Calvin and Calvinism, co-editor and contributor to Pressing Toward the Mark: Essays Commemorating 50 years of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and contributing editor for Eerdmans’ Calvin’s Old Testament Commentaries. He has contributed over 20 chapters to books and festschrifts, including “Calvin Bibliog raphy” in Tributes to John Calvin: A Celebration, “From the Early Church through Constantine” in Revolutions in World View, “The Doctrine of the Atonement from the Westminster Assembly to the 20th Century” in The Faith Once Delivered: Essays in Honor of Wayne Spear, “The Relationship between Biblical Theology and System atic Theology” in Always Reforming: Explorations in Systematic Theology, “Calvin and Vermigli: A Study in the Foundations of Reformed Eucharistic Theology” in Peter Martyr Vermigli and the European Reformations: Semper Reformanda (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions), and “Calvin’s Controversies” in The Cambridge Companion to John Calvin.
A prolific writer, Dr. Gamble has written over 75 articles and book reviews that have appeared in scholarly journals including 16th Century Journal, Westminster Theological Journal, Calvin Theological Journal, Archive für Reformationsgeschichte, Reformed Theo logical Journal, Theologische Zeitschrift, Renaissance Quarterly, and Themelios as well as publications for a general audience such as The Christian Statesman, Presbyterian Jour nal, The Banner, Reformed Quarterly, The Reformed Presbyterian Witness, Urban Mission, Presbyterian Layman, Eternity, and Tabletalk.
| Basel Christian Fellowship, Basel, Switzerland – Stated Supply | 1978 - 1980 |
| Blue Bell Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA – Stated Supply | 1983 - 1984 |
| Burton Heights Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, MI – Associate Pastor | 1987 - 1992 |
| Lake Odessa Christian Reformed Church, Lake Odessa, MI – Associate Pastor | 1992 - 1997 |
| Cornerstone Reformed Presbyterian Mission Church, Chuluota, FL – Church Planter | 1998 - 2000 |
| College Hill Reformed Presbyterian Church, Beaver Falls, PA – Senior Pastor | 2008 - 2010 |
| Freie Evangelisch-Theologische Akademie, Basel, Switzerland – Instructor of Church History | 1979 - 1981 |
| Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA – Associate Professor of Church History | 1981 - 1987 |
| Center for Urban Theological Studies, Philadelphia, PA | 1981 - 1983 |
| Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, MI – Professor of Historical Theology | 1987 - 1997 |
| Director, H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, Calvin College and Seminary, Grand Rapids, MI | 1987 - 1997 |
| Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, FL – Professor of Systematic Theology and Department Chair | 1997 - 2005 |
| Akademie fuer Reformatorische Theologie, Marburg, Germany – Adjunct Professor of New Testament | 1998 - 2002 |
| Scholar-in-Residence, Great Lakes/Gulf Presbytery, RPCNA | 2002 - 2005 |
| Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, MI – Adjunct Professor of Historical Theology | 2017 |
| Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA – Adjunct Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology | 2017 - Present |
| PhD (Theology), Universität Basel, Switzerland |
| MA, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary |
| BA, Westminster College |
Dr. Richard Gamble is Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is internationally recognized as a Calvin scholar and has been the author, editor or contributor to over 75 publications. He holds a degree from Westminster Theological Seminary and his doctorate from the University of Basel, Switzerland.
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