James B. Jordan

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James B. Jordan is a Calvinist theologian and author. He is director of Biblical Horizons ministries, a think tank in Niceville, Florida that publishes books, essays and other media dealing with Bible commentary, Biblical Theology, and liturgy.

1 Biography
2 Publications
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Jordan was born in Athens, Georgia and attended the University of Georgia, where he received a B.A. in comparative literature and participated in Campus Crusade for Christ. He served as a military historian in the United States Air Force and attended Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi but ultimately earned an M.A. and Th.M. from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a master's thesis on slavery in the Bible. In 1993, he received a D.Litt. from the Central School of Religion for his dissertation on the dietary laws of Moses. From 1980 to 1990 Jordan was an associate pastor of a Presbyterian church in Tyler, Texas.

Jordan was a part of Christian Reconstructionism but has left the movement, and he has been involved in a controversy over Federal Vision theology.

[edit] Publications

Jordan has written on many articles and books including:

James B. Jordan and Gary North, eds. (1982). Symposium on the Failure of the American Baptist Culture. Geneva Divinity School. ISBN 0939404044.
James B. Jordan (1984). The Law of the Covenant: An Exposition of Exodus 21-23. Institute for Christian Economics. ISBN 978-0930464028.
James B. Jordan [1985] (1999). Judges: A Practical and Theological Commentary, a reissuing of Judges: God’s War Against Humanism. Wipf & Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1579102494. Retrieved on 2007-04-02.
James B. Jordan, ed. (1985). The Reconstruction of the Church. Geneva Ministries.
James B. Jordan [1986] (1999). The Sociology of the Church: Essays in Reconstruction. Wipf & Stock. ISBN 978-1579102487. Retrieved on 2007-04-02.
Gary North and James B. Jordan (1987). Healer of the Nations. Dominion Press. ISBN 978-0930462215.
James B. Jordan [1988] (2000). Through New Eyes. Wipf & Stock. ISBN 978-1579102593. Retrieved on 2007-04-02.
James B. Jordan (1989). Covenant Sequence in Leviticus and Deuteronomy: Literary Order or Chaos?. Institute for Christian Economics. ISBN 0930464222.
John Calvin (James B. Jordan, ed.) [1583] (1990). Covenant Enforced: Sermons on Deuteronomy 27 and 28. Institute for Christian Economics. ISBN 0930464338.
James B. Jordan (1994). The liturgy trap: The Bible versus mere tradition in worship. Transfiguration Press. ISBN 978-1883690045.
James B. Jordan (1999). Creation in Six Days: A Defense of the Traditional Reading of Genesis One. Canon Press. ISBN 978-1885767622. A defense of Young Earth creationism against the framework interpretation of Genesis 1.
James B. Jordan (2001). Primeval Saints: Studies in the Patriarchs of Genesis. Canon Press. ISBN 978-1885767868.