Dr. Alan D. Strange (MA; MDiv; PhD) is a professor
at Mid-America Reformed Seminary, where he teaches Apologetics and Church
History. Professor Strange served Providence Orthodox Presbyterian Church in
Glassboro, New Jersey, for over nine years before coming to Mid-America. He is
an associate pastor at New Covenant Community Church (OPC) in Joliet, Illinois,
frequently preaching there or speaking in other church and conference settings.
Dr. Strange is active in the Presbytery of the
Midwest and serves on or chairs various OPC committees, including the Committee
on Appeals and Complaints, the Psalter-Hymnal Special Committee, the Committee
on Christian Education and the Board of Trustees of Great Commission
Publications. He served as chairman of the Committee on Creation Views and as
vice-chairman of the Justification Committee, producing substantial reports for
both of those study committees. He teaches the course for the Ministerial
Training Institute of the OPC on the Form of Government and has written
extensively on church polity. He also served as the Moderator of the 75th OPC
General Assembly (2008).
Dr. Strange has been a frequent contributor
to the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) denominational magazines New
Horizons and Ordained Servant and to the Mid-America
Journal of Theology. He has also written for and serves as a contributing
editor to The Confessional Presbyterian. He has contributed essays to
several volumes and has recently published The Doctrine of the Spirituality
of the Church in the Ecclesiology of Charles Hodge (P&R). Another book
on The Imputation of the Active Obedience of Christ at the Westminster
Assembly (RHB) is forthcoming. Dr. Strange is married to Kathy and they
have five children.
