Jonathan Marko

Dr. Jonathan Stevens Marko is passionate about teaching, discipleship, and research. Before attending seminary, he worked as a mechanical engineer for two years. Following seminary, he served as a pastor for more than two years before moving to Grand Rapids to pursue doctoral studies at Calvin Theological Seminary. During his second year in the program, he joined the faculty at Cornerstone University.

Dr. Marko has taught philosophy and theology courses in Cornerstone’s traditional undergraduate program and at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary. He is committed to integrating academic scholarship with Christian faith and discipleship.

Books

• John Locke’s Theology: An Ecumenical, Irenic, and Controversial Project (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023)
• “Measuring the Distance Between Locke and Toland: Reason, Revelation, and Rejection During the Locke-Stillingfleet Debate” (Pickwick Publications, 2017)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• “Religious Controversies in Doctrinal Context” [10,200 words], Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and Sciences, ed. by Dana Jalobeanu & Charles T. Wolfe (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2021), forthcoming online & forthcoming in print.
• “Early Modern Discussions of Grace” [7,400 words], Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and Sciences, ed. by Dana Jalobeanu & Charles T. Wolfe (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022), 770‒81
• “Reason and Revelation in Early Modern Protestantism” [6,600 words], Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and Sciences, ed. by Dana Jalobeanu & Charles T. Wolfe (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022), 1774‒84
• “Locke-Stillingfleet Controversy” [4,000 words], Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and Sciences, ed. by Dana Jalobeanu & Charles T. Wolfe (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022), 1138‒44
• “Special Providence in Jonathan Edwards’s Miscellanies, Part II: Grace,” The Miscellanies Companion, vol. 2 (Fortworth: Jonathan Edwards Society Press, 2021), 305‒20
• “Special Providence in Jonathan Edwards’s Miscellanies, Part I: Arbitrary Operations and Miracles,” The Miscellanies Companion, vol. 2 (Fortworth: Jonathan Edwards Society Press, 2021), 287‒304
• “Supplementing Contemporary Treatments of Doctrinal Mysteries with Largely Forgotten Voices from the Enlightenment,” Trinity Journal 39, no. 1 (2018): 23‒42
• “Edwards on Reason, Revelation, and Mystery,” The Miscellanies Companion, vol. 1 (Fortworth: Jonathan Edwards Society Press, 2018), 65‒77.
• “Edwards on Reasonable Christianity and Necessary Revelation,” The Miscellanies Companion, vol. 1 (Fortworth: Jonathan Edwards Society Press, 2018), 79‒88.
• Why Locke’s ‘Of Power’ Is Not a Metaphysical Pronouncement: Locke’s Response to Molyneux’s Critique (Philosophy and Theology, 29(1), 2017).
• “The Brave New World of Discordant Voices into Which Jonathan Edwards Was Born,” A Collection of Essays on Jonathan Edwards, ed. by Robert Boss (Fortworth: Jonathan Edwards Society Press, 2017), 85–92
• “The Promulgation of Right Morals: John Locke on the Church and the Christian as the Salvation of Society,” Journal of Markets and Morality 19, no. 1 (2016): 41–59
• “Above Reason Propositions and Contradiction in the Religious Thought of Robert Boyle,” Forum Philosophicum 19, no. 2 (2014): 227–39
• “Justification, Ecumenism, and Heretical Red Herrings in John Locke’s The Reasonableness of Christianity,” Philosophy and Theology 26, no. 2 (2014): 245–66
• “Revisiting the Question: Is Anthony Collins the Author of the 1729 Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity?,” Philosophy and Theology 22, nos. 1 & 2 (2010): 77–104
• “‘Free Choice’ in Calvin’s Concepts of Regeneration and Moral Agency: How Free Are We?,” Ashland Theological Journal 42 (2010): 41–60

Encyclopedia Articles, Book Reviews and Popular Publications

• “‘Above Reason:’ Its Meaning and Usefulness,” Modern Reformation (2022)
• Review of The Theological Origins of Liberalism by İsmail Kurun, Journal of Markets and Morality 21, no. 2 (2018): 409–11
• “Deism,” A Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia, ed. by Harry S. Stout (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017), 136–38
• “Empiricism,” A Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia, ed. by Harry S. Stout (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017), 195–96
• “Socinianism,” A Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia, ed. by Harry S. Stout (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017), 536–38
• Review of Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works by James K. A. Smith, Calvin Theological Journal 49, no. 1 (2014): 141–43
• Review of Hold Fast the Faith: A Devotional Commentary on the Westminster Confession by Matthew Everhard, Modern Reformation 22, no. 4 (2013): 53
• Review of The Pretenses of Loyalty: Locke, Liberal Theory, and American Political Theology by John Perry, Calvin Theological Journal 47, no. 2 (2012): 360–61
• Review of Philosophy for Understanding Theology by Diogenes Allen and Eric O. Springsted, Ashland Theological Journal 42 (2010): 142–44
• “‘Above Reason:’ Its Meaning and Usefulness,” Modern Reformation (published online 2022)