julius J. Kim
Associate Professor of Practical Theology
Dean of Students

B.A., Vanguard University; M.Div., Westminster Seminary California; Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

Prior to taking his current position at Westminster Seminary California, Dr. Kim ministered in a variety of ecclesiastical and academic settings. He has served in Presbyterian Church in America churches in California and Illinois. His current church calling is as Associate Pastor of New Life Presbyterian Church in Escondido. Dr. Kim also continues to serve the broader Christian community as a preacher, speaker, and ministry consultant—especially for the Korean-American church. While in Illinois he taught undergraduate communications at Trinity International University and church history at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Following a brief tenure as Visiting Scholar with the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University, Dr. Kim returned to Southern California to serve as Dean of Students and to teach practical theology at WSC.

Dr. Kim also directs the Center for Pastoral Refreshment at WSC, a unique institute dedicated to help sustain pastoral excellence among Korean-American pastors. In addition to his doctoral concentration on English church history during the Restoration, his research interests include the history of preaching, homiletics, and Asian-American Christianity. His goals are to contribute both to the church and the academy through his teaching, preaching, and writing. He is the author of The Religion of Reason and the Reason for Religion: John Tillotson and the Latitudinarian Defense of Christianity, 1630-1694 and a contributor to Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry: Essays by the Faculty of Westminster Seminary California.

A native of South Korea and California, he and his wife Ji Hee reside in Escondido with their two daughters.
 

Read Dr. Kim's regular letter, From the Dean's Desk.

Resident Faculty
  Steven M. Baugh
  R. Scott Clark
  Bryan D. Estelle
  W. Robert Godfrey
  Michael S. Horton
  Dennis E. Johnson
  Hywel R. Jones
  Joel E. Kim
  Julius J. Kim
  Elizabeth E. Park
  David M. VanDrunen
  Joshua J. Van Ee

Professors Emeriti
  Derke P. Bergsma
  Robert B. Strimple

Scholar in Residence
  Peter R. Jones

Visiting Faculty
  Iain M. Duguid
  Darryl G. Hart
  Samuel D. S. Ling
  Richard Lints
  Alfred J. Poirier
  Kimball Riddlebarger
  Philip G. Ryken
  R. C. Sproul