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Christian Mission and Enlightenment Rationality

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Can the church witness in a secular age?

June 8-12, 2026

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Enlightenment critics of Christianity preached a myth of progress, whose reliance on reason, freedom, and mastery came to stamp modern secularism—but not before shaping Protestant accounts of reason, faith, and mission.

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The Rev. Dr. Sam Fornecker

Associate Rector for Teaching and Equipping, St Andrew's Anglican Church, Mount Pleasant, SC

The Rev'd Dr Sam Fornecker brings historical depth and pastoral heart to his work as Instructor and Director of Seminary Programs at The Ridley Institute. After training for ministry at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Sam earned his PhD in historical theology from the University of Cambridge, where his research focused on Anglican identity and conformity in the post-Restoration Church of England. His scholarship includes Bisschop's Bench: Contours of Arminian Conformity in the Church of England, c.1674–1742 (Oxford University Press, 2021), and a forthcoming commentary on the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, co-authored with D.N. Keane, for IVP Academic.

But Sam's finest works are the sheep he tends. As Associate Rector for Teaching and Equipping at St Andrew's Anglican Church in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, he serves alongside an extraordinary staff team, equipping the congregation for gospel ministry. This dual calling, scholar and shepherd, shapes his approach to formation at Trinity, where he relishes the opportunity to build up aspiring gospel workers for their appointed labor in God's world.

Sam and his wife Gina are the proud parents of Brooks, Evelyn Rose, Alder, and Shep.

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Dr. Stephen Griffen

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The Rev. Dr. Sam Fornecker

Associate Rector for Teaching and Equipping, St Andrew's Anglican Church, Mount Pleasant, SC

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Assistant Professor of New Testament

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James Hampson

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John Rodgers

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Dean and President Emeritus, Trinity Anglican Seminary

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The Rev. Edward A. Schroeder

Pastor Amelia Island Chapel (retired)

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