Jennifer Powell McNutt

Jennifer Powell McNutt (Ph.D., University of St. Andrews) is the Franklin S. Dyrness Chair of Biblical and Theological Studies and Professor of Theology and History of Christianity at Wheaton College, IL. She is a Fellow in the Royal Historical Society and an award-winning professor and author. She has received both the Sidney E. Mead Prize and the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize from the American Society of Church History for her writing including her first monograph, Calvin Meets Voltaire (Routledge, 2014). Her research interests include the Reformation, John Calvin, the history and theology of the Reformed tradition, and the history of the Bible and its interpretation. She is the author of the forthcoming The Mary We Forgot (Brazos Press, 2024), the co-author of Know the Theologians (Zondervan, 2024), and co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation (Oxford University Press, 2024). She is also an ordained minister in the Presbyterian church and is co-President of McNuttshell Ministries, which bridges the church and the academy.