Director for Partnered Projects,
Intercollegiate Studies Institute,
Wilmington, DE

Dr. Darryl G. Hart is the Director for Partnered Projects at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute in Wilmington, DE. Prior to coming to the Institute, he was Academic Dean and Professor of Church History at Westminster Seminary California, Escondido, CA from 2000 to 2003. Dr. Hart also was the Adjunct Professor of Church History, Seminario Teologico Presbiteriano at the McKenzie University, Sao Paulo, S.P. Brazil during 1994 to 2000.

Dr. Hart is a graduate of Temple University (B.A., 1979), Westminster Theological Seminary (M.A.R., 1981), Harvard University (M.T.S., 1983), and Johns Hopkins University (M.A., 1985; Ph.D., 1988).

Dr. D. E. Hart is the author of many books including A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State, Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservation Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham, and Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America; and numerous contributions to books and articles in various publications.

Lecture Title: The Use and Abuse of Christian Liberty

For over two centuries American Protestants have assumed that the ideals of the United States went hand in hand with their religious convictions. The American and Protestant notions of liberty are one important example of this assumption. The Westminster Confession of Faith's chapter on Christian Liberty, however, offers a different perspective. It suggests that important tensions exist between religious and civil notions of liberty. Chapter twenty of the Westminster Confession, the only one of the Reformed creeds from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to address liberty, has significant implications for contemporary efforts to relate faith and politics.