Michael Horton (theologian)
Michael Scott Horton (b. 1964) is Professor of Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California, editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation magazine, and host of the nationally syndicated radio broadcast, The White Horse Inn. He was formerly the president of Christians United for Reformation (CURE), which later merged to become the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals (ACE). From 2001 to 2004 Horton served as the president of ACE, but is now no longer affiliated with the organization. Both Modern Reformation magazine and The White Horse Inn radio broadcast are now entities under the umbrella of White Horse Media, whose offices are located on the campus of Westminster Seminary California.
Horton received a M.A. from Westminster Seminary California, a Ph.D. from Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and Coventry University, and completed a Research Fellowship at Yale Divinity School. He was ordained a deacon in the Reformed Episcopal Church and is currently a minister in the United Reformed Churches in North America in which denomination he has served two churches in southern California.
In 1996 Christianity Today included him on their list of "Up & Comers: Fifty evangelical leaders 40 and under."[1]
Horton has written and edited more than fifteen books, including:
- Putting Amazing Back Into Grace
- The Agony of Deceit: What Some TV Preachers Are Really Teaching[2]
- Made In America: The Shaping of Modern American Evangelicalism
- Power Religion: The Selling Out of The Evangelical Church
- The Law of Perfect Freedom
- Beyond Culture Wars: Is America A Mission Field or Battlefield?
- Where In The World Is The Church: Understanding Culture & Your Role In It
- We Believe: Recovering the Essentials of the Apostle's Creed
- A Better Way: Rediscovering the Drama of God-Centered Worship
- God of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology
- Too Good to be True: Finding Hope in a World of Hype
- Covenant and Eschatology
- Lord and Servant
- Covenant & Salvation: Union with Christ
- People and Place: A Covenant Ecclesiology (2009 Christianity Today Book Award in Theology/Ethics) [3]
- Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church
- Gospel-Driven Life: Sequel to Christless Christianity
- The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way
- For Calvinism
Horton is married and has four young children (including triplets).
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[edit] References
- ^ "Up & Comers, Part 2 | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction". Christianity Today. 1996-11-11. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1996/november11/6td20b.html?start=4. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- ^ "Religion: Heresy on The Airwaves". Richard N. Ostling. Michael P. Harris. Time Magazine. Monday, Mar. 05, 1990.
- ^ "2009 Christianity Today Book Awards | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction". Christianity Today. 2009-01-26. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/february/10.26.html. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
[edit] External links
- Westminster Seminary California - Faculty Page
- The White Horse Inn, Horton's radio program
- Modern Reformation magazine
- theopedia's entry on Michael S. Horton
- Joel Osteen Answers his Critics (60 Minutes story. Horton's appearance: from timestamp 7:20 until 8:35)
- Christian talk show promotion of his Agony of Deceit book
