Dr. James Merrick

Dr. James Merrick is a Lecturer in the Department of Theology at Benedictine College and Manager of Academic Content for the Pontifical Josephinum College’s Diaconate Institute. A convert to Catholicism after a decade of ministry in the Anglican tradition, Dr. Merrick completed graduate degrees in theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A. in Biblical Theology; Th.M. in Church History) and a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland with a dissertation on the hiddenness of God and the visibility of the Church in Karl Barth’s early thought. Before teaching theology at Benedictine, Dr. Merrick was an Assistant Professor of Theology at Grand Canyon University, Director of Emmaus Academic Press, and a Lecturer at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He was for several years the Reviews Editor of Nova et Vetera and with Bishop Robert Barron and Scott Hahn, he co-edited Engaging Catholic Doctrine (2023). His essays have appeared in the New Dictionary of Theology (IVP 2016), Scottish Journal of Theology, Trinity Journal, Catholic World Report, and the National Catholic Register. He lives in Atchison with his wife and their six children.

 Education

Ph.D., (King’s College, University of Aberdeen, 2013)