Office Hours

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Education

MA, Biblical Studies, Reformed Theological Seminary

MA, Latin, University of Nebraska

PhD, Classical Philology, University of Illinois

Curriculum Vitae

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Affiliations

Calvin Studies Society

Sixteenth Century Society

Society for Reformation Research

Research Interests

Dr. Summers’s research interests include Reformation (especially the Reformed/Calvinist movement), Neo-Latin; Roman religion, Lucretius, and Cicero. Currently General Editor for the Peter Martyr Vermigli Loci communes translation project.

Fall 2020 classes:

• LA 301/490 – Health and Well-Being in the Ancient World
• CL 450 (W) – Aristotle: How Stuff Works

Selected Publications

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

1.  Peter Martyr Vermigli, On Original Sin, edited and translated, with introduction (Leesburg, VA: Davenant Press, 2019).

2. Morality after Calvin: Theodore Beza’s Christian Censor and Reformed Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2016); for more info, go here. For a review in Themelios, go here.

3. “Reformation Humanism: Reading the Classics in the New Theology,” Reformation and Renaissance Review, 2018. To view the article and download the PDF, go here.
*Winner of the 2018 Douglas Murray Prize: https://www.reforc.com/kirk-summers-winner-of-the-douglas-murray-prize-reformation-renaissance-review/

4. “Philippians 1:21-22: Revisiting John Calvin’s Innovative Interpretation,” in Calvin Theological Journal 53.1 (2018): 129–153. To view the article, go here. 

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

1. Theodore Beza at 500: New Perspectives on an Old Reformer, ed. w/Scott Manetsch, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, in press.