10 March 2010
The Washington Adventist University Department of Religion presents the
29th Annual G. Arthur Keough Lecture Series
David J. B. Trim
The Keoughs and Key Issues in Adventist Mission and Theology
LECTURE 1: March 19 at 6:30 p.m. "G. D. Keough and Adventist mission to the Middle East: a case study in historical missiology"
LECTURE 2: March 20 at 3:30 p.m. "The sinlessness of the sin bearer: Keough and overlooked voices in early twentieth-century Adventist soteriology and Christology"
David J. B. Trim was born to missionary parents in Bombay, India, raised in Sydney, Australia and educated in United Kingdom at Newbold College and King's College, London. His PhD from the University of London was for a thesis on English soldiers who fought for the Protestant cause in the European wars of religion of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He taught history and theology at Newbold College for over ten years, and held the Walter C. Utt Chair in History at Pacific Union College for two years up to December 2009. He is currently a senior research fellow in the History department at the University of Reading in United Kingdom. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2003 and has held visiting fellowships at the Huntington Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library and the University of California at Berkley.
As an expert in military and religious history, he is the editor or co-editor of seven books, including The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of Military Professionalism (Brill, 2003), Amphibious Warfare 1000-1700: Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion (Brill, 2006), The Development of Pluralism in Modern Britain and France (Peter Lang, 2007), European Warfare 1350-1750 (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Pluralism, Parochialism and Contextualization: Challenges to Adventist Mission in Europe 1864-2004 (Peter Lang, 2010). His other publications include over thirty articles and chapters in scholarly journals and books, and a dozen articles in SDA periodicals such as Liberty Magazine and The Adventist Review. He also edits the Sabbath school section of the Spectrum website, and has been a frequent panelist on the Hope Channel TV program Global Faith and Freedom.