Blessed be the tie that binds...Seminaries and Ruling Elders

Dr. David Garner, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, talks about the relationship between seminary and church, focusing on how ruling elders and seminary professors can help the church thrive in godly knowledge and grace.

You can read Dr. Garner's article “Strings Attached: The Church, The Seminary, and Abraham Kuyper’s Animating Ecclesiology” in the most recent Westminster Theological Journal, WTJ 87 (2025): 123-48. A video of the Krahe Lecture from April 2025, is available to watch online here.

Dr. Garner’s recommended reading.

• The Wonderful Works of God by Herman Bavinck, Westminster Seminary Press, 2020.
• The Certainty of Faith by Herman Bavinck, Westminster Seminary Press, 2025.
• A Word Fitly Spoken, A Theology of Communication by Aaron Garriott, Ligonier, 2025.
• An Explication of the Shorter Catechism by John Thomson, Edited by S. A. Fix, Westminster Seminary Press, 2025.