James B. Jordan

James B. Jordan to Lecture on "Christianity and Worship" at Erskine Seminary Feb. 15

The Erskine Theological Seminary 2000-2001 Lecture Series will host James B. Jordan, director of Biblical Horizons, Feb. 15 at 11 a.m. in Bowie Divinity Hall on the Erskine Seminary campus. Jordan will speak on "Christianity and Worship."

Biblical Horizons ministries is a theological think tank that publishes books, monographs, essays and taped lectures focused on Bible commentary, Biblical theology and liturgical theology. According to Jordan, "The perspective seeks to be thoroughly Biblical and comprehensively Catholic, while maintaining the distinctive insights of the evangelical and Reformed understanding of the true religion."

Jordan is a native of Athens, Ga., and grew up in a Lutheran church. He attended Roman Catholic school and a Southern Baptist Sunday school. While attending the University of Georgia, where he took a degree in comparative literature, he was active in Campus Crusade for Christ.

During four years in the United States Air force, Jordan served as a military historian, and then attended Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Miss. He completed his studies with an M.A. and Th.M. at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pa. His master's thesis was on slavery in the Bible.

In 1980, Jordan became associate pastor of a Presbyterian church in Tyler, Texas, and began directing Geneva Ministries, an educational foundation that eventually became Biblical Horizons. Since 1990, he has lived in Niceville, Fla. in 1993, the Central School of Religion awarded him a D. Litt. Degree for a dissertation on the dietary laws of Moses.

The author of numerous monographs and several books, Jordan is working on a commentary on the book of Daniel as well as a book on the interrelationships of liturgy, biography and history.