Mark J. Larson

Mark J. Larson, PhD, majored in biblical studies at Cedarville University and Baptist Bible School of Theology. He studied political theory and international politics at Regent University. He earned a ThM in systematic theology at Westminster Theological Seminary and a PhD in historical theology at Calvin Theological Seminary. He is the author of Abraham Kuyper, Conservatism, and Church and State (2015) and Calvin’s Doctrine of the State: A Reformed Doctrine and Its American Trajectory, the Revolutionary War, and the Founding of the Republic (2009). He is the co-author of The Reformers on War, Peace, and Justice (2019). His most recent book is God and the Civil War: Lincoln in Moral and Theological Perspective (2024). He has contributed to War and Religion: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict; Biblical Interpretation and Doctrinal Formulation in the Reformed Tradition; and Church and School in Early Modern Protestantism. He has been published in several peer-reviewed journals—Westminster Theological Journal; Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology; Bibliotheca Sacra; Journal of Presbyterian History; Reformation and Renaissance Review; Journal of Dispensational Theology; Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal; Foundations: An International Journal of Evangelical Theology; and Puritan Reformed Journal. His articles have appeared in The Banner of Truth, The Outlook, New Horizons, and Christian Renewal. He has served as a high school teacher, pastor, and seminary professor.