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Dr KJ Drake

K.J. Drake is Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Historical Theology at Indianapolis Theological Seminary. A Nebraska native, he earned his BA in History, Classics, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Latin from the University of Nebraska in 2008. He attended Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis where he received his M.Div. in 2012 and completed his Ph.D. in Historical Theology at Saint Louis University in 2018 under Michael McClymond. Before ITS, he served as Sessional Assistant Professor of History at Redeemer University and Visiting Instructor of Church History at Covenant Theological Seminary. His research focuses on Christological Dogmatics, the Reformation-era Christological debates, Reformed Scholasticism, Reformed spiritual practice, and the development of the Reformed theological tradition. His first book, The Flesh of the Word: The extra Calvinisticum from Zwingli to Early Orthodoxy, was published in the Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Dr. Drake is a Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church in America having previously served as a Ruling Elder at churches in Missouri and Ontario. He has been married to Heather since 2024.  

 

Research Supervision

Dr. Drake’s areas of research supervision include Reformation-era theology (especially the thought of Ulrich Zwingli, Heinrich Bullinger, John Calvin, and Peter Martyr Vermigli), the development of Reformed Scholasticism, Christology, the Lord’s Supper, and Reformed Spirituality.