Peter J. Leithart (born 1959) is an American author, minister, theologian and Senior Fellow of Theology and Literature as well as Dean of Graduate Studies at New Saint Andrews College and holds a doctorate from Cambridge University. He was selected by the Association of Reformed Institutions of Higher Education to be one of the organization's 2010-2012 Lecturers.[1] He is the author of commentaries on the Book of Kings and the Book of Samuel, as well as a Survey of the Old Testament. Other works include books on topics such as Dante's Inferno, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen. He is also the author of a book of children's bedtime stories titled Wise Words based on the Book of Proverbs.
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Leithart is a faculty member at New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho and has written numerous books and commentaries regarding literature and theology. He is a frequent contributor to such ecumenical and Trinitarian publications as First Things, Touchstone, and Credenda/Agenda, as well as theological journals such as Westminster Theological Journal. He is currently an adjunct professor at Knox Theological Seminary.
Leithart is ordained in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). He ministers out of bounds at Trinity Reformed Church in Moscow, ID, a member of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches.
His book Solomon Among the Postmoderns received a positive review in the journal First Things.[2]
Leithart is an advocate of Federal Vision theology.[1] In June of 2011, Leithart was tried by his presbytery for heresy in connection to these views, and in October was exonerated on all charges.[2]
The thrust of many of his recent works has been to show the practical application of typology.
Peter Leithart and his wife have ten children.[3]
"In the West, the Church is surrounded by the spiritual lethargy that accompanies a surfeit of wealth and aimless ease." From The Pagan West, First Things.
“Modernity has for many moderns been a singularly joyless place...And no wonder: If the burden of reducing the world to order fell on you; if you were tasked to construct a theory of everything and then write out the equation; if you had to be on constant patrol along the empty razor-wire borders between religion and politics, art and life, theology and philosophy, nature and society, us and them; if you had to ensure that the trinity of control, freedom, and progress remained in place for all ages—if you had all this to do, you might not exactly be bubbling buoyantly with childish glee.” Solomon Among the Postmoderns.