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Dr. Chris Chun’s doctoral research at St Andrews University was focused on the eighteenth century Edwardsean Baptists in Britain. His Th.M. thesis at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary examined the relationship between Jonathan Edwards’s epistemology and pneumatology.

Chris’s most recent publication appears in the critical edition of The Complete Works of Andrew Fuller, contributing the volume on Universalism and Particular Redemption. He is the author of The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards in the Theology of Andrew Fuller and co-author of Golden Gate to Gateway: A History, published in celebration of Gateway Seminary’s 75th anniversary. Chris also is a co-editor of Expect Great Things, Attempt Great Things: William Carey & Adoniram Judson, Mission Pioneers and Regeneration, Revival, and Creation, the inaugural volume of the JEC conference.

He has contributed chapters to Baptists and Revivals, Jonathan Edwards and Scotland, Crossing Baptist Boundaries, and Understanding Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to America’s Theologian.

His work has published in a wide range of journals, including The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, American Baptist Quarterly, Gateway Journal of Theology, Journal of Baptist Studies, Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Fides et Historia, International Journal of Systematic Theology, Themelios, Edwardseana, and Church History and Religious Culture.

Chris is Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center (West) and Department Chair of History and Theology at Gateway Seminary. He has served as President of the Evangelical Theological Society (Far West Region). He is one of the lead editors of the Jonathan Edwards Studies Journal, published by the JEC at Yale University. An ordained Southern Baptist pastor, Chris is a frequent speaker at churches, conferences, and retreats. He and his wife, Juliann, have two daughters, Karis and Chloe.

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Degrees & Accolades

Ph.D. University of St. Andrews
Th.M. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
M.Div. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
B.A. Western Washington University