Nicholas Cumming

Books

• Francis Turretin (1623-87) and the Reformed Tradition. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History (Leiden: Brill, 2020).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• “Foreword” in François Turrettini, Institución de Teología Eléntica (Dort Publicaciones, in press; 8,000 words).
• “‘Oliver Cromwell is a Devil!’ Religious Radicalism and Political Turmoil in Geneva during the English Civil Wars.” The Seventeenth Century 39.3 (2024), pp. 1-19.
• “Luther vs. the Lutherans (and Catholics): The Reception and Authority of Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon in Francis Turretin’s (1623-87) Institutio Theologiae Elencticae.” Church History and Religious Culture 103.1 (2023), pp. 60-83.
• “‘Sin as Punishment of Sin’: Francis Turretin’s (1623-87) Reformed Doctrine of Sin.” Reformation and Renaissance Review 22.1 (2020), pp. 48-63.
• “Finger on the Pulse: Armenian Identity and Religiosity in Southern California,” co-authored with Dyron B. Daughrity, in A. Agadjanian (ed.), Armenian Christianity Today: Identity Politics and Popular Practice (Ashgate, 2014), pp. 233-52.

Encyclopedia Entries

• “Predestination in World Christianity,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (De Gruyter, in press).
• “Punishment in World Christianity,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (De Gruyter, in press).
• “Real Presence in World Christianity,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (De Gruyter, in press).

Book Reviews

• Bruce Gordon, Zwingli: God’s Armed Prophet (New Haven, 2021), pp. 349, in The Stone-Campbell Journal (in press).
• Trevin Wax, The Thrill of Orthodoxy: Rediscovering the Adventure of Christian Faith (Downers Grove, 2021), pp. 240, in Teleois Journal 1.1 (in press).
• Gary W. Jenkins, Calvin’s Tormentors: Understanding the Conflicts that Shaped the Reformer (Grand Rapids, 2019) pp. 190, in The Stone-Campbell Journal 22.2 (2019).
• Martin Heale, The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England (Oxford, 2016) pp. 416, in Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, 86.2 (2017).

• American Academy of Religion, Member

• American Society of Church History, Member

• Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Member

• Calvin Studies Society, Member

• Small Conference Grant, King's College London, 2016 

• Small Research Grant, King's College London, 2014

• Promising Scholar Award, Stone Campbell Journal, 2013

• Respondent, “Review of R. Ward Holder’s Calvin and the Christian Tradition” at the Sixteenth Century Society Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, October, 2023.
• Chair, “Figuring and Refiguring Charles Stuart,” at the Sixteenth Century Society Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, October, 2023. I proposed, submitted, and convened this panel.
• “Luther vs. the Lutherans (and Catholics): The Reception and Authority of Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon in Francis Turretin’s (1623-87) Institutio Theologiae Elencticae.” Invited lecture at the Korean Institute for Reformed Studies at Kosin University in Busan, South Korea, May 2023.
• Chair, “Experimental Authority in Medieval Christian Thought and Practice,” at the American Society of Church History Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, January 2023.
• “This Just King Died in a Bed of Honour, not of Men, but of God! Reactions to the Execution of King Charles I in the Republic of Geneva,” at the Sixteenth Century Society Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 2022.
• Chair, “Models for the Faithful: Pagans, Saints, and Relics”, at the Sixteenth Century Society Annual Conference, San Diego, California, October 2021.
• “Between Evangelical and Enlightened: Religious Communities in Seventeenth-Century Geneva”, at the Sixteenth Century Society Annual Conference, San Diego, California, October 2021.
• “Between Evangelical and Enlightened: Religious Communities in Seventeenth-Century Geneva”, at the Sixteenth Century Society Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, October 2020. (Postponed due to Covid-19)
• “Geneva Among the Reformed: The Pastoral, Political, and Academic Contexts of the City of Geneva in the mid-Seventeenth Century”, at the Reformation Research Consortium (RefoRC) Annual Conference, Warsaw, Poland, May 2018.
• “‘Our Illustrious Calvin’: The Reception and Appeal to John Calvin in Seventeenth-Century Scholastic Theology,” at the Reformation Research Consortium (RefoRC) Annual Conference, Wittenberg, Germany, May 2017.
• “‘As Commonly Asserted by the Orthodox’: The Nature of Reformed Self-Understanding in Seventeenth-Century Geneva,” at the American Society of Church History/American Historical Association Winter Meeting, Denver, Colorado, January 2017.
• “‘Sin is Rightly Called the Punishment of Sin’: Francis Turretin (1623-87) and the Doctrine of Sin in the Early Modern Reformed Tradition,” at the American Society of Church History Spring Meeting, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, April 2016.
• “‘According to His Good Pleasure’: Francis Turretin and the Predestination Debates in Seventeenth-Century Geneva,” at the European History 1500-1800 Seminar, Institute for Historical Research, University of London, November 2015.