James P. Byrd
Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research
Assistant Professor of American Religious History
Fellow in the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture
B.A., Gardner-Webb (1988)
M.Div., Duke (1991)
M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt (1997, 1999)
Email: james.p.byrd@vanderbilt.edu
Curriculum
Vitae
James Byrd's research interests center on theology and biblical interpretation
in American history, religion and war, and the history of Baptists in
America.
His course offerings include:
- Religion and War in American History
- History and Polity in the Baptist Tradition
- Theology in America, 1630-1865
- The Puritan Movement in New England
- The Theology of Jonathan Edwards
His publications include:
- Jonathan Edwards for Armchair Theologians (Westminster John Knox Press: September, 2008).
- The
Challenges of Roger Williams: Religious Liberty, Violent Persecution,
and the Bible (Mercer University Press, 2002)
- a chapter in Vanderbilt
Divinity School: Education, Contest, and Change (Vanderbilt
University Press, 2001) that examines theological education at Vanderbilt,
1915-1960
- "Christianity in the United States," and other articles
in the Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity (Cambridge University
Press, forthcoming).
He is writing two books: a study of the Bible in relation to colonial
American wars and Jonathan Edwards for Armchair Theologians,
under contract with Westminster John Knox Press. He is working on a study of the Bible in relation to colonial American wars, and he is collaborating with other scholars in editing a modern edition of Baptist historian Morgan Edwards’s Materials Towards A History of the Baptists and Customs of Primitive Churches.
