Rev Dr Matthew Baines

• Systematic Theology
• Historical Theology
• Church History
• Ethics
• The Long Reformation
• Dutch Reformed Theology
• Medieval and Early Modern Theology and Philosophy

Books:

• Co-editor, Reformation and Education: Confessional Dynamics and Intellectual Transformations. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (2022)

Book Chapters and Journal Articles:

• “Direct or Indirect Scotism? Seventeenth-Century Scottish Scholasticism and the Case of James Sibbald.” Journal of Scottish Philosophy 21, no. 2 (2023): 131–49
• “Gisbertus Voetius on Meditation and Learned Ignorance: Mysticism, the Devotio Moderna and the Nadere Reformatie.” Reformation & Renaissance Review 24, no. 3 (2022): 161–87
• “Prison and Hospital Chaplains in the Sydney Anglican Diocese from 1950 to 1980.” Lucas: An Evangelical History Review 2, no. 10 (2017): 101–28
• “The Identity and Fate of the Kings of the Earth in the Book of Revelation.” Reformed Theological Review 75, no. 1 (2016): 73–91

Book Reviews:

• Review of Matthias Mangold, Towards a Reformed Enlightenment: Salomon Van Til (1643–1713) and the Cartesio-Cocceian Debates in the Early Modern Dutch Republic (Leiden: Brill, 2024), Intellectual History Review 36, no. 2 (2026): 391‒93
• Review of Michael T. Black, The Spirit of the Corporation: A Theological History (London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2024), Expository Times 136, no. 12 (2025): 560
• Review of Karen Eline Hollewand and Floris Verhaart, Hadriaan Beverland’s De Peccato Originali (On Original Sin 1679), annotated, edited and translated into English (Leiden: Brill, 2023), Intellectual History Review 35, no. 2 (2025): 359–61
• Review of Kyle J. Dieleman, Navigating Reformed Identity in the Rural Dutch Republic: Communities, Belief, and Piety (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023), Journal of Reformed Theology 19, nos. 1–2 (2025): 198–99
• Review of Matthew Barrett, The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church: An Intellectual and Theological History (Grand Rapids, Zondervan, 2023), Journal of Reformed Theology 19, nos. 1–2 (2025): 196–97
• Review of Larry Hart, Mystical Spirituality for Christians Today: A Grammar of Holy Mystery: Classical Christian Spirituality (Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2023), Expository Times 135, no. 3 (2023): 125–26
• Review of Miikka Ruokanen, Trinitarian Grace in Martin Luther’s Bondage of the Will (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), Expository Times 134, no. 2 (2022): 92–3
• Review of James Bryson, The Christian Platonism of Thomas Jackson (Leuven: Peeters, 2016), Reformation and Renaissance Review 23, no. 2 (2021): 191–93

Academic Papers Presented:

• “The Reception of Llullism in Early Modern Protestantism: The Case of Giulio Pace (1550–1635).” Presented to the Congrés Internacional Ramon Llull 2025, the University of the Balearic Islands, Majorca, November 20, 2025
• “The History and Future of Theological Aesthetics.” Presented to the History of Christianity Research Seminar, the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, November 3, 2025
• “Conciliarism in the Dutch Republic: Gisbertus Voetius’s (1589–1676) Defence of Synodical Government and Constitutional Monarchy.” Presented to the Ecclesiastical History Society Summer Conference 2025: Creeds, Councils and Canons, Edinburgh, July 16, 2025
• “Scotist Aesthetics in the Reformation Era: Soundings in William Ames (1576–1633), Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676) and Paul Voetius (1619–1667).” Presented to the final conference of the research project: A Disregarded Past: Medieval Scholasticism and Reformed Thought, the University of Geneva, Geneva, September 10, 2024
• “Changing to Stay the Same: Gisbertus Voetius’s (1589–1676) Modifications to William Ames’s (1576–1633) Theology and Philosophy.” Presented to the conference: Between the Old and the New World: William Ames and the Shaping of Reformed Theology and Spirituality, Theologische Universiteit Apeldoorn, Rotterdam, February 28, 2024
• “A ‘Synthetic Peregrination’: Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676) and His Quest for Further Reformation.” Paper presented to the History of Christianity Research Seminar, the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, March 13, 2023
• “Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676) and Ramist Method.” Paper presented to the Edinburgh University Intellectual History Research Group Forum, the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, April 22, 2022
• “The Influence of Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) on Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676).” Paper presented to the International Medieval Congress, the University of Leeds, Leeds, July 9, 2021
• “Faith and Reason at the Dawn of Modernity: Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) and Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676).” Paper presented to the New College Postgraduate Colloquium, the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, May 18, 2021

Online Publications:

• “A Network Approach to the Reformation: Protestant and Catholic”, in response to Prof. David Hempton’s Gifford Lecture on “Religious Networks in the Reformation Era”, hosted by the University of Edinburgh, October 6, 2021
• “Freedom and Faith: Scotland’s Lockdown”, Australian Church Record, April 20, 2021
• “Church under Coronavirus: Edinburgh North Church”, Australian Church Record, May 12, 2020
• “The Evangelical Church in Scotland: An Interview with Matt Baines”, Australian Church Record, November 18, 2018

Church Talks:

• “Knowing God”, Edinburgh North Church, June 1, 2025
• “Loving God”, Edinburgh North Church, June 8, 2025

Public Lectures:

• 3 lectures on “Beholding our God: The Heartbeat of Theology”, Faith Mission Bible College, September 25 to October 9, 2023
• 2 lectures on “Christian Piety through the Ages”, Faith Mission Bible College, February 27 to March 3, 2023
• 1 lecture on “The Holy One in Our Midst: A Systematic Theology of Holiness”, Faith Mission Bible College, November 1, 2021
• 1 lecture on “A Systematic Theology of Hospitality”, Faith Mission Bible College, February 28, 2022

Para-Church Training:

• 4 lectures on “An Introduction to Early Church History”, Cornhill Scotland, January 11, 2023
• 1 seminar on “Participation and the Beatific Vision”, Cornhill Scotland, February 24, 2023
• 4 lectures on “Martin Luther: Medieval Mindset, Background, Theology and Legacy”, Cornhill Scotland, November 4, 2022
• 4 lectures on “Martin Luther: Background, Theology and Legacy”, Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF) Scotland staff team training day, April 29, 2022

Podcasts and Interviews:

• Interview on Gisbertus Voetius’s (1589–1676) doctrine of participation for “The London Lyceum” podcast, 19 June 2024