Joel Robert Beeke (born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, December 9, 1952) is an American Reformed pastor and theologian. He is a minister of the Heritage Reformed Congregation in

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, and President of

Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary (PRTS) is a Reformed seminary located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The seminary started in 1995 as a school of the Heritage Reformed Congregations, a church association that originated in 1993 from the Netherla ...

, where he is also the professor of Systematic Theology and Homiletics. He is an expert on the

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. Beeke studied at

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, Thomas Edison College, the Netherlands Reformed Theological School and

Westminster Theological Seminary Westminster Theological Seminary is a Protestant theological seminary in the Reformed theological tradition in Glenside, Pennsylvania. It was founded by members of the faculty of Princeton Theological Seminary in 1929 after Princeton chose to t ...

. In 2018, a ''

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'' was published in his honor. ''Puritan Piety: Writings in Honor of Joel R. Beeke'' included contributions from

Sinclair B. Ferguson Sinclair Buchanan Ferguson (born 21 February 1948) is a Scottish theologian known in Reformed Christian circles for his teaching, writing, and editorial work. He has been Chancellor's Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Sem ...

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, Richard Muller,

Leland Ryken Leland Ryken (born May 17, 1942) is professor of English emeritus at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He has contributed a number of works to the study of classic literature from the Christian perspective, including editing the comprehensive ...

, and

Chad Van Dixhoorn Chad B. Van Dixhoorn (born 1971), a Canadian-born theologian and historian, is the editor of the five-volume ''The Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly: 1643-1652'' published by Oxford University Press in 2012. In 2013 he was elected a F ...

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