Reformation Bible College is led by R.C. Sproul (president), Keith Mathison (academic dean), and Michael Morales (dean of admissions).

President

Dr. R.C. Sproul is president of RBC and the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries. He is featured daily on Renewing Your Mind, an international radio broadcast that has aired for fifteen years with an estimated two million people tuning in every week on hundreds of radio outlets in the United States and in more than forty countries.

Dr. Sproul is the author of more than seventy books, including expositional commentaries on Romans and the gospel of John. He is general editor of The Reformation Study Bible and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine. As founder of Ligonier Ministries, he has produced more than three hundred lecture series and recorded more than eighty video series on subjects such as the history of philosophy, theology, Bible study, apologetics, and Christian living. He was a signatory of the 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy. Dr. Sproul currently serves as senior minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s in Sanford, Florida.

Dr. Sproul holds degrees from Westminster College, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and the Free University of Amsterdam, and he has had a distinguished academic teaching career at various colleges and seminaries, including Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida, and Jackson, Mississippi.

Professor of Biblical Studies

Dr. Mathison is academic dean of RBC and an associate editor of Tabletalk magazine at Ligonier Ministries. Dr. Mathison earned his MA degree from Reformed Theological Seminary and his PhD from Whitefield Theological Seminary. He is author of From Age to Age: The Unfolding of Biblical Eschatology; Dispensationalism: Rightly Dividing the People of God? Postmillennialism: An Eschatology of Hope; The Shape of Sola Scriptura; and Given for You: Reclaiming Calvin’s Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper. He is editor of When Shall These Things Be: A Reformed Response to Hyper-Preterism and associate editor of The Reformation Study Bible.

Professor of Old Testament

Dr. Morales is professor of Old Testament and Great Works as well as dean of admissions. He is a teaching elder in the PCA who, before coming to RBC, taught for three years at an evangelical seminary. His PhD is in the Pentateuch and was supervised by Old Testament scholar Gordon J. Wenham at Trinity College, UK; he has an MA in Religion (with concentration in doctrine); an MDiv with awards in Old Testament, New Testament, systematic theology, church history, Christianity & culture, and pastoral promise; and is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the Dante Society of America. He and his wife, Elise, have four sons, Armando, Augustine (Diego), Alejandro, and Andres. Having served as a senior pastor for four years, Michael joins a pastoral heart to his commitment for high academic standards.

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Apologetics

In addition to his role as a tutor in our certificate program, Dr. Sproul is a teaching fellow with Ligonier Ministries and serves as director and teacher for Highlands Ministries. He is editor of Every Thought Captive and travels extensively as a conference speaker. He earned his MA in Theological Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, and his DMin from Whitefield Theological Seminary. He has contributed numerous articles to publications such as Chronicles, World, and Homeschool Digest. He has also published several books, including Tearing Down Strongholds, Bound for Glory, Biblical Economics, and Believing God.

Adjunct Professor of Church History

Steve is RBC’s adjunct professor of church history as well as its dean of distance learning, which encompasses the college’s non-degree certificate program and its online study center. Steve has taught church history at Sangre de Cristo Seminary, frequently served as a visiting pastor for numerous churches in the Free Church of Scotland, developed online learning environments, and written for Ligonier Ministries’ Tabletalk magazine. He earned his BS and MS in computer science and mathematics, did doctoral studies in operations research, obtained an M.Div. from Sangre de Cristo Seminary, and is currently pursuing a PhD in historical apologetics at Highland Theological College, Scotland. Steve blends extensive consulting, business, and telecommunication experience together with an educator’s heart and an academic commitment to excellence.

Visiting Professor

Paul Helm was professor of history and philosophy of religion at King’s College, London, 1993-2000. Prior to that he was a reader in philosophy at the University of Liverpool, where he taught for many years. He is now a teaching fellow at Regent College, Vancouver, where he was J.I. Packer Professor of Philosophical Theology 2001-2005. He also teaches at the Highland Theological College. Among his books are Eternal God, The Providence of God, Belief Policies, and three books on John Calvin: John Calvin’s Ideas, John Calvin: A Guide for the Perplexed, and Calvin at the Centre.

Paul has supervised research students in philosophy of religion, systematic theology, and theology of the Reformation. Dr. Helm’s interests are in all aspects of philosophical theology and in any Christian theological views that have philosophical implications.  In particular, he is currently interested in God’s relation to time (with reference to theories of the temporal order) and philosophical aspects of the ideas of John Calvin. He approaches these in an unabashedly analytic mode, and so his intellectual connections and sympathies are more with Reformed orthodoxy and medievalism than with modern “continental” philosophy. He has supervised a wide range of theses, and among his current students are those studying Scottish philosophy and theology, the thought of John Calvin, free-will theologies and their implications, and the religious ideas of David Hume.

Visiting Professor

Dr. Stephen J. Nichols is a professor at Lancaster Bible College and Graduate School. He earned a PhD from Westminster Theological Seminary. He has written several books, including The Pages of Church History, Martin Luther: A Guided Tour of His Life and Thought, An Absolute Sort of Certainty: The Holy Spirit and the Apologetics of Jonathan Edwards and J. Gresham Machen: A Guided Tour of His Life and Work.  A member of the Evangelical Theological Society, he chairs the society’s Jonathan Edwards Study Group. He lives with his wife and two sons in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Visiting Professor

Raised in a Southern Presbyterian home with shared roots in the Moravian ministry, Dr. Rankin graduated summa cum laude from Clemson University in Ceramic Engineering. After working for DuPont at Savannah River Laboratory, where he researched nuclear waste storage in glassy materials and after PhD studies in materials science at the Massachusetts Institutes of Technology, the Lord redirected Duncan’s steps from a successful career in the sciences towards the gospel ministry in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). After completing his master of divinity studies at Covenant Theological Seminary and Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS) in Jackson, Mississippi, he took his PhD at the New College of the University of Edinburgh by writing on “Carnal Union with Christ in the Theology of T.F. Torrance.”

Appointed to the Department of Systematic Theology at RTS, Dr. Rankin served some ten years, teaching courses in dogmatic and historical theology. Active on the Theology and Strategy Working Group of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, as well as a recipient of a John Templeton Foundation 1999 Science and Religion Course Prize, he was guest minister during a sabbatical in 2000 at St. Peter’s Free Church of Scotland in Dundee, the former pulpit of Robert Murray M’Cheyne. After serving as pastor of Lebanon Presbyterian Church in Learned, Mississippi, Dr. Rankin became the minister of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in August 2003, where he, his wife, Shirley, and their three children now live.