Godfrey, Robert
Dr. Godfrey is an Alliance Council member and has taught church
history at Westminster Seminary California since 1981, having
previously taught at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Stanford
University, and Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.
Currently he serves as the third president of Westminster Seminary
California and is a minister in the United Reformed Churches. As a
professor of Church History he helps students see God's truth alive in
the life of the church, shaping its worship, piety and theology. He
encourages students to reflect on the ways in which different cultures
have influenced the development of the church throughout its history.
He has spoken at many conferences including ones sponsored by the
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, the Philadelphia
Conference on Reformed Theology, and Ligonier Ministries. He is the
author of An Unexpected Journey, Reformation Sketches, Pleasing God in Our Worship, and God's Pattern for Creation. He has written chapters or articles in John Calvin, His Influence in the Western World; Through Christ's Word; Theonomy: A Reformed Critique; The Agony of Deceit; Roman Catholicism; Sola Scriptura!; The Practice of Confessional Subscription; The Coming Evangelical Crisis; and in such journals as Archive for Reformation History, Sixteenth-Century Journal and Westminster Theological Journal.
Dr. Godfrey and his wife Mary Ellen have three grown children.