Samuel T. Logan Jr.

Samuel T. Logan Jr. is Associate International Director of the World Reformed Fellowship. He served as Special Counsel to the President at Biblical Seminary in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, from 2006 through 2013, and he was on the faculty of Westminster Theological Seminary (PA) from 1979 to 2006. He served as President at Westminster from 1991 to 2005. He earned a B. A. from Princeton University (1965), an M. Div. from Westminster (1968), and Ph.D. in Theology and Literature from Emory University (1972). He is an ordained minister of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Dr. Logan loves Jonathan Edwards and, with his wife Susan, spends as much time as possible in the Scottish Highlands.

On September 9, 2019, New Growth Press Published Dr. Logan's THE GOOD NAME: THE POWER OF WORDS TO HURT OR HEAL. Details about this book may be found both on the website of New Growth Press and elsewhere on the Amazon.com website.

Dr. Logan’s other publications include the following:

1. Author of articles on “Justification” and “Old Lights” in THE JONATHAN EDWARDS ENCYCLOPEDIA , edited by Harry S. Stout at the Jonathan Edwards Center of Yale University (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2017).

2. Editor of and contributor to REFORMED MEANS MISSIONAL: FOLLOWING JESUS INTO THE WORLD (Greensboro, North Carolina: New Growth Publishing Company, 2013).

3. Editor of CONFRONTING KINGDOM CHALLENGES (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway Publishing Company, 2007).

4. Co-editor of and contributor to SERMONS THAT SHAPED AMERICA: REFORMED PREACHING FROM 1630 to 2001 Phillipsburg, New Jersey: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 2003).

5. Editor of and contributor to THE PREACHER AND PREACHING: REVIVING THE ART IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (Phillipsburg, New Jersey: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1986). [This volume was published in Korean in 1990.]

6. “Justification and Evangelical Obedience,” in JONATHAN EDWARDS AND JUSTIFICATION, edited by Josh Moody (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2012)

7. "Theological Decline in Christian Institutions and the Value of Van Til’s Epistemology," in THE WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, Spring, 1995

8. "Shoulders to Stand On," in DECISION, February, 1993

9. "Academic Freedom at Christian Institutions," in THE CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR’S REVIEW, Fall, 1991

10. Articles on the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Gilbert Tennent, William Tennent, the Log College, John Witherspoon, Joseph Bellamy, and Antinomianism in THE DICTIONARY OF CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA, edited by Daniel Reid, Robert Linder, Bruce Shelley, and Harry Stout (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1990)

11. "New England Puritans and the State," in THEONOMY: A REFORMED CRITIQUE , edited by William Barker and Robert Godfrey (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1990)

12. "Where Have All the Tulips Gone, Being a Brief Treatise Discovering the Causes of the Decline of the Calvinistical Religion in New England Between 1630 and 1776," in THE WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, Spring, 1988

13. "Bible Authority: When Christians Do Not Agree" (with George C. Fuller), in INERRANCY: A TRADITION, A CHALLENGE, A DEBATE, edited by Harvie M. Conn (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House), 1988.

14. "The Origins of Modern Attacks on Biblical Authority," in THE WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, Spring, 1987

15. "Transition to the New World," in PRESING TOWARD THE MARK: ESSAYS COMMEMORATING FIFTY YEARS OF THE ORTHODOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, edited by Charles H. Dennison and Richard C. Gamble (Philadelphia: The Orthodox Presbyterian Church, 1986)

16. “Jonathan Edwards and the Northampton Awakening," in PAPERS OF THE WESTMINSTER CONFERENCE (London: 1984)

17. “ Is America Christian?" in NEW HORIZONS, October, 1984

18. "The Doctrine of Justification in the Theology of Jonathan Edwards," in THE WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, Spring, 1984

19. "Poetry in the Parsonage?" in THE BULLETIN OF WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Spring, 1981

20. "The Hermeneutics of Jonathan Edwards," in THE WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, Fall, 1980

21. "Theology and Literature: A Linguistic Approach," in THE WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, Spring, 1974

Dr. Logan’s other professional experience includes the following:

May, 2012, and June, 2014: Chair of Consultations on Global Theological Education sponsored by the Fellowship of Evangelical Seminary Presidents, the International Council for Evangelical Theological Education, the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, the Overseas Council, the Langham Partnership, the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance, and the World Reformed Fellowship, held in June of 2012 in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, and in June of 2014 in Sao Paulo, Brazil

October, 2010: Delegate to the Third Global Congress of the Lausanne Movement held in Cape Town, South Africa

2009 – 2011: Member of the Board of Directors of the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics in Dallas, Texas

1998 – 2011: Member of the Board of Directors of the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1988 - 2006: Member and Chair of On-Site Accreditation Teams for the Association of Theological Schools, the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

1993 - 1998: Member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Theological Schools and Secretary of the Association

1990 – 1998: Member and Chair of the Research Grants Selection Panel of the Association of Theological Schools

1993: Member of the Steering Committee to Review Characteristics of Excellence in Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools