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Lyle D. Bierma
Jean and Kenneth Baker Professor of Systematic Theology
A.B. (Calvin College, 1973)
B.D. (Calvin Theological Seminary, 1976)
Ph.D. (Duke University, 1980)
Lyle Bierma joined the faculty in 1999 after nineteen years of teaching doctrine and church history at Reformed Bible College (now Kuyper College) in Grand Rapids, Michigan. As a child, he spent several years in Nigeria as part of a missionary family, and more recently he has done short-term teaching stints at seminaries in Nigeria, Brazil, India, Serbia, and Indonesia.
Lyle is the translator or co-translator of nine German, Dutch, and Latin books and the author of The Covenant Theology of Caspar Olevianus (1996; 2d ed., 2005), The Doctrine of the Sacraments in the Heidelberg Catechism (1999), and An Introduction to the Heidelberg Catechism (2005). He is currently working on a book on the theology of the Heidelberg Catechism in its historical setting.
Lyle is married with two grown children and one grandchild. His interests include reading, travel, tennis, and playing table tennis with seminary students half his age.
Speaking Topics (show | hide)
- On Being Reformed:
- A Reformed Critique of the "Left Behind" Series
- What is Calvinism?
- Reformed Creeds & Confessions:
- The CRC, Heidelberg Catechism Q/A 80, and the Roman Catholic Mass
- Heidelberg Catechism
- Belgic Confession
- Canons of Dort
- Contemporary Testimony
- Sacraments:
- Infant Baptism
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
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