Richard C. Gamble

Richard C. Gamble (born January 12, 1955) is an American Reformed theologian, pastor, and professor of systematic theology. He is known for his scholarship on John Calvin and for authoring the three-volume systematic theology The Whole Counsel of God. Gamble has held faculty positions at Westminster Theological Seminary, Calvin Theological Seminary, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He is an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

Early life and education Gamble received his B.A. from Westminster College; his M.A. from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary; and his Ph.D. from the Universität Basel, where he studied Reformation theology.

Academic career Gamble began teaching church history at the Freie Evangelisch-Theologische Akademie (now STH Basel) from 1979 to 1981. He then served as Associate Professor of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary from 1981 to 1987. He remained there until 1997. From 1997 to 2005, he taught at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.

Teaching and theological approach Gamble teaches systematic theology, historical theology, Reformed confessions, Calvin's theology, and hermeneutics. He also was executive director of the Philadelphia branch of the Christian Action Council, an anti-abortion organization, in the mid-1980s.

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