Christianity In The 21st Century Seminar

Rev. Dr Samuel Ling ( 林慈信牧師) will be doing these seminars in Malaysia. He is president of China Horizon (www.chinahorizon.org), a Reformed teaching ministry in theology and apologetics. His passion is in teaching doctrine; Biblical theology; church history; Cornelius Van Til’s apologetics; Puritanism; and biblical (nouthetic) counseling. Rev. Stephen Tong calls him “the most consistent Reformed thinker in the Chinese community.” Currently he and China Horizon conduct regular courses in Washington DC, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.

林慈信牧師是中華展望的總幹事 (www.chinahorizon.org) ，中華展望是一個改革宗神學與護教學的教導事工。林牧師致力傳授改革宗教義、聖經神學、教會歷史、范泰爾的護教學、清教徒神學、與（亞當斯的）聖經輔導學；被唐崇榮牧師譽為「華人教會最貫徹改革宗（歸正）的思想家」。目前固定在華盛頓，洛杉磯，香港，檳城，吉隆坡，與新加坡等地舉辦神學課程。

Rev. Ling received his A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania; the M.Div. and Th.M. from Westminster Theological Seminary; and Ph.D. in history (church history) from Temple University. His doctoral dissertation dealt with the interaction of the church with the Anti-Christian Movement among China’s intellectuals. He is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America, and did church planting in New York City, and served as senior pastor of a historic Chinese church in Chicago.

林牧師畢業於賓州大學，威敏斯特神學院（道學碩士，神學碩士），和獲天普大學歷史系哲學博士，博士論文研究中國教會與中國知識份子「非（反對）基督教運動」的關係。被美國（改革宗）長老會按立，曾在紐約市種開拓教會和在芝加哥華人聯合教會任主任牧師。

He is professor of historical and systematic theology at International Theological Seminary under Dr. Joseph Tong, and has lectured in Westminster, Covenant, Regent, Alliance, Wheaton, Fuller, and other seminaries in Asia and North America. He is author of 500 articles and edited a number of books. He is the founder of ChinaSource, a research-based catalyst for partnership in Christian service. Since 1997, he and his family live in Los Angeles.

林牧師在洛杉磯唐崇懷牧師領導之下的國際神學研究院任歷史與系統神學正教授，先後在威敏斯特、聖約、維真、惠敦、宣道會，福樂和亞洲各神學院任客座講師，創辦華僕資源，鼓勵各類事工之間的合作。著有文章500篇以上，目前與家人定居洛杉磯。