Dr. N. Scott Amos, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor of History
434/544-8328
Amos.n@lynchburg.edu
Degrees and Certifications
University of St. Andrews:
Ph.D. in Church History, 2003
Field of Study: The English and Continental Reformations; Tudor England
Westminster Theological Seminary:
Th.M. in Church History and Historical Theology, 1996
Field of Study: The Swiss Reformation
M. Div. with First Honors, 1993
The College of William and Mary:
M.A. in History, 1986
Field of Study: Tudor England
Old Dominion University:
B.A. in History, Graduated Summa Cum Laude, 1980
Other Educational Experience:
University of Cambridge:
Visiting Scholar, Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies
Cambridge, England, Sept. 2000 – Dec. 2001
Université de Genève:
Institut d’histoire de la Réformation
Genève, June 1999
Course of Study: The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages and the Reformation
Teaching Experience:
Lynchburg College: Fall 2002, Fall 2003 – Spring 2004, Fall 2005 – present
Center for Christian Study, Charlottesville, Virginia: Fall 2003 – present
St. Mary’s College, University of St. Andrews: Fall 1998
St. Andrews Reformation Studies Institute, University of St. Andrews: Spring 1997
Honors and Awards
Overseas Research Scholarship, University of St. Andrews
University Research Studentship, University of St. Andrews
Edwin L. Jones Graduate Fellowship, Westminster Theological Seminary
Graduate Assistantship, College of William and Mary
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Professional and Research Interests
English Reformation, ca. 1520-1660
Continental Reformation, especially Southwest Germany and Switzerland
The Northern Renaissance, especially Erasmus of Rotterdam
The Italian Renaissance
History of Christianity
Tudor England
Professional Associations and Affiliations
American Academy of Religion
American Society of Church History
The Historical Society
Renaissance Society of America
Sixteenth Century Society
Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical and Theological Research
Publications
Books
The Exegete as Theologian: Martin Bucer’s 1550 Cambridge Lectures on Ephesians and His Interpretation of Paul as a Theologian (under contract to Springer Verlag)
The Education of a Christian Society: Humanism and the Reformation in Britain and the Netherlands, Co-Editor, with Andrew Pettegree and Henk van Nierop, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd, 1999.
Articles, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Journals
"Perkins, William;" "Preston, John;" Prynne, William;" "Ranters;" "Robinson, John;" "Sibbes, Richard;" "Smyth, John;" "Travers, Walter;" "Ussher, James;" "Van, Sir Henry;" "Wake, William;" "Whitgift, John." Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 4th ed. (Tübingen, 2004).
"Strangers in a Strange Land: the English Correspondence of Martin Bucer and Peter Martyr Vermigli." Peter Martyr Vermigli and the European Reformations, edited by Frank James III (Leiden, 2004).
"Babington, Francis".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).
"Bucer, Martin". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).
"Bucer among the Biblical Humanists: The Context for His Practice in the Teaching of Theology in Strasbourg, 1523-1548." Reformation and Renaissance Review 6.2 (August 2004): 134-154.
"New Learning, Old Theology: Renaissance Biblical Humanism, Scripture, and the Question of Theological Method." Renaissance Studies 17/1 (March, 2003): 39-54.
"The Alsatian among the Athenians: Martin Bucer, Mid-Tudor Cambridge and the Edwardian Reformation." Reformation and Renaissance Review 4.1 (June, 2002): 94-124.
"The Use of Canon and Civil Law and their Relationship to Biblical Law" in De Regno Christi. Martin Bucer und das Recht, edited by Christoph Strohm (Geneva, 2002).
"’It is Fallow Ground Here’: Martin Bucer as Critic of the English Reformation." Westminster Theological Journal 61/1 (1999): 41-52.
Book Reviews
Joint review of Martin Bucer: A Reformer and His Times, by Martin Greschat, tr. by Stephen E. Buckwalter; Eucharistic Sacrifice and Patristic Tradition in the Theology of Martin Bucer 1534-1546, by Nicholas Thompson. Renaissance Quarterly 58/4 (Winter 2005): 1362-1364.
Joint review of The Confessionalization of Humanism in Reformation Germany, by Erika Rummel; Renaissance Humanism in Support of the Gospel in Luther’s Early Correspondence: Taking all things Captive, by Timothy P. Dost. Journal of Ecclesiastical History 54/2 (2003).
Review of Martin Bucer (1491-1551); Auf der Suche nach Wiederherstellung der Einheit; Begleitbuch zur Ausstellung im Universitätsmuseum Heidelberg, 9. November 2001 – 24. January 2002, edited by Albert de Lange and Thomas Wilhelmi. Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 64 (2002): 755-756.
Review of Biblical Interpretation in the Era of the Reformation: Essays Presented to David C. Steinmetz in Honor of His Sixtieth Birthday, ed. By Richard A. Muller and John L. Thompson. Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology 19/2 (2001): 240-242.
Review of Calvin’s First Catechism: A Commentary by I. John Hesselink. Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology 19/1 (2001): 101-102
Review of Martin Luther’s Theology: Its Historical and Systematic Development by Bernhard Lohse. Westminster Theological Journal 62/2 (2000): 319-322.
Review of Marriage and Divorce in the Thought of Martin Bucer by H. J. Selderhuis. Westminster Theological Journal 62/1 (2000): 149-150
Review of Thomas Cranmer: A Life, by Diarmaid Mac Culloch. History 83 (January 1998): 152.