Paul Feinberg

Paul David Feinberg (August 13, 1938 – February 21, 2004) was an American theologian, author, and professor of systematic theology and philosophy of religion at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

Education and family Feinberg was born on August 13, 1938, to Charles Lee and Anne Priscilla (née Fraiman) Feinberg. His family moved from Dallas, Texas to Los Angeles, California in 1948 when his father became the first dean of Talbot Theological Seminary. Feinberg graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.A. in history in 1960. For the next four years, he studied divinity at Talbot Theological Seminary, completing his B.D. in 1963 and Th.M. in 1964. He completed doctoral studies at Dallas Theological Seminary, graduating with a Th.D. in 1968. He completed additional studies in philosophy at Roosevelt University, completing an M.A. with a thesis on the verification principle in 1971.

Feinberg was married in 1967 to Iris Nadine (née Taylor), whom he met at Moody. Paul's brother John (born 1946) served as the chair of the Department of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

Career Feinberg taught from 1966 to 1970 at Moody Bible Institute, then from 1970 to 1972 at Trinity College. From 1972 through 1974, he served as a field representative for the American Board of Missions to the Jews, and then joined the faculty of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where he taught the rest of his life.

Feinberg was also an ordained minister in the Evangelical Free Church of America, and in 1977 he helped found the Village Church (EFCA) of Lincolnshire, Illinois.

Chapters

- and responses to other views.

He also contributed articles to Baker's Dictionary of Christian Ethics and the Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia, as well as a chapter in Inerrancy by Norman Geisler.

Journal articles

Death Feinberg died of congestive heart failure on February 21, 2004, in Highland Park, Illinois, after earlier falling and fracturing a hip at Trinity.