Dr. Chad Van Dixhoorn, Associate Pastor
Since 2008 Chad Van Dixhoorn has served as associate pastor at Grace Presbyterian Church where he shares in the weekly preaching and teaching ministry of the church. Previously he lived a double-life as associate minister of Cambridge Presbyterian Church and as a British Academy Post-doctoral fellow in the history department of the University of Cambridge.
A Canadian by birth, Pastor Van Dixhoorn received his BA from the University of Western Ontario and his Master of Divinity and Master of Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary. While in Philadelphia he met Emily, a native of Princeton, New Jersey and in 1998 they were married in Princeton’s Miller Chapel. That same year he was licensed to preach by the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Three years later they moved to Cambridge, England where he completed a PhD in the history and theology of the Westminster assembly (1643-1652). Upon completion of his PhD he was ordained to serve as an Orthodox Presbyterian minister in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of England and Wales.
Dr Van Dixhoorn has authored historical and theological essays for the church and the academy. His current research project is a major edition of the minutes and papers of the Westminster assembly with Oxford University Press. He organizes his free time by working on the Westminster assembly project, providing the public with access to rare manuscripts and books by the assembly and its members www.westminsterassembly.org.
He has taught theology and history at the University of Cambridge, the University of Nottingham, Westminster Seminary in California, Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia and Reformed Theological Seminary in D.C. A generous supply of annual study leave from Grace Church permits him to continue as a visiting professor at these three seminaries and as a Senior Research Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.