Dr. Mark A. Garcia
President/CEO | Fellow in Scripture and Theology
Director, Lydia Center for Women and Families
BS, Clearwater Christian College, 1998
MAR, Westminster Theological Seminary, 2000
Postgraduate Study, Westminster Theological Seminary, 2001
PhD, New College, University of Edinburgh, 2004
Greystone's founding President, Dr. Garcia, is also Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Glenside, PA, USA, and was the pastor at Immanuel Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Coraopolis (Pittsburgh) from 2007 to 2021. He has also been Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of History at Cambridge University and Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Over the years he has taught theology at various international Reformed seminaries and institutions. He teaches and writes across the disciplines, and has taught in recent years on the theological-ritual ordering of reality and Christian theory, Reformed catholicity, theological anthropology, New Testament theology, and the nature of Scripture. He has enjoyed research fellowships and awards in Edinburgh, Geneva, and Grand Rapids, MI, and maintains an active research and mentorship program. He was an assistant editor (theological) for the five-volume Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly: 1643-1652 (Oxford University Press, 2012), edited by Chad Van Dixhoorn, and has served in a similar role as support for a project on the idea of independency in the early modern era. He is author of Life in Christ: Union with Christ and Twofold Grace in Calvin’s Theology (Paternoster, 2008) and many journal articles and essays, and is currently researching the theological ontology of the feminine in relation to the biblical divorce and household texts; time, space, and vocation in creation and providence; and has contracted to write a commentary on Romans. Alongside leading Greystone Theological Institute, he is Director of Greystone's Lydia Center for Women and Families and dedicates much of his labors to issues of gender, domestic violence, and the use and abuse of church power. In his free time, Dr. Garcia enjoys literature, music, sports, and—as a credentialed sommelier—delights in, reads and teaches about wine, especially red “left bank” Bordeaux.
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