Gateway Seminary adds Luke Stamps as an affiliate faculty member

Luke Stamps

ONTARIO, Calif. — R. Lucas Stamps, professor of Christian theology at Anderson University’s Clamp Divinity School, will join the Gateway Ph.D. faculty as an affiliate faculty member beginning in the 2024-2025 academic year.

“We are excited to have a scholar of Dr. Stamps’ caliber teaching our doctoral students,” said Adam Groza, president of Gateway Seminary.

“Dr. Stamps is committed to both academic excellence and faithful ministry in the local church. He is committed to strengthening Southern Baptist churches and our collective efforts for evangelism and missions.”

Stamps earned the master of divinity and doctor of philosophy degrees at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a bachelor of science in history at Auburn University. In addition to teaching theology at Clamp, Stamps is a founder and director of the David S. Dockery and Timothy F. George Center for Baptist Renewal and serves as a fellow for the Research Institute of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.

“Dr. Stamps has already contributed much to Southern Baptist theological education, and we are excited to have him now contributing to Gateway Seminary's Ph.D. program,” said David Rathel, director of the Academic Graduate Studies program and associate professor of Christian theology at Gateway.

“He will bring many of the qualities he has exhibited in his work with the Center for Baptist Renewal—academic excellence, Christian charity, doctrinal fidelity—to Gateway's doctoral students.”

Stamps’ research interests focus on the Trinity, Christology, historical theology and Baptist history and theology. He served as a co-editor of Baptists and the Christian Tradition: Toward an Evangelical Baptist Catholicity alongside Matthew Y. Emerson and Christopher W. Morgan and Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis with Myk Habets. He also contributed to Trinitarian Theology: Theological Models and Doctrinal Application.

At Gateway, affiliated faculty teach seminars in the Ph.D. and Th.M. programs, serve as faculty advisors for students working on dissertations and theses, and participate in Gateway’s academic community while maintaining a primary faculty role at their own institutions. Other current affiliated faculty include David Howard, professor of Old Testament at Bethel Seminary and Christopher W. Morgan, dean of the School of Christian Ministries at California Baptist University.