The Board of Directors of the Foundation for Reformed Theology has appointed James C. Goodloe IV to serve as its executive director, beginning November 1. Based in Richmond, Va., where Goodloe resides, the Foundation provides funding, programming, and other resources “to renew the theology, ethos, social vision, and hope of the Reformed and Presbyterian community,” their statement explains.
Goodloe is a graduate of Davidson College, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, and The University of Chicago, with a Ph.D. in historical theology. As a minister of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), he has served pastorates in Georgia, North Carolina. For the past 10 years he has served as pastor of the Grace Covenant Church in Richmond, Va.
In past years he has served on the board of The Presbyterian Outlook for and on the Presbyteries’ Cooperative Committee on Examinations for Candidates. He is married to the former Deborah Campbell, a graduate of Presbyterian School of Christian Education. Their daughter, Campbell, a candidate for the ministry under the care of the Presbytery of the James, is married to Conrad Hackett and is a doctoral student in practical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary.
The Foundation for Reformed Theology was organized in 1998 by The Fund for the Explication and Application of Reformed Theology. In 1982 the late John and Ann Leith organized the fund. John Leith was for many years Pemberton Professor of Theology at Union Theological Seminary (now Union-PSCE). The purpose of the fund is to promote in local church congregations the recovery of the Reformed perspectives that marked American culture in pre-colonial days
This organization primarily aims to strengthen ministers’ understanding of that tradition. It has sponsored graduate training, promoted theological research, helped enlarge the Union-PSCE library, organized lectures, and funded translation and publication of Reformed works. In recent years, it has brought ministers together in about a dozen locations around the country for reading and study of classical Reformed theology.
