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“Louisville Seminary reaches its sesquicentennial year able to celebrate a rich history and ready to fulfill a vision for the future. …As it has sought to remain relevant to a changing world, Louisville Seminary has done so as a means to serve the church. …May the Seminary never lose that focus, for it is the people who sit in pews and struggle to be faithful who need ministers prepared to preach the ancient gospel to this modern world.”
--Rick Nutt, Many Lamps, One Light: Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary – A 150th Anniversary History

Dr. Rick Nutt is professor of religion at Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio, where he has taught since 1988. In his teaching he brings together an expertise in areas of Early, Medieval, Reformation, and Modern Church History, theological ethics, and biblical studies. He has served as chair of the Religion and Philosophy Department for two terms as well as other administrative committee responsibilities.

Nutt is also an alumnus of Louisville Seminary, where he earned the Master of Divinity degree in 1980 and was awarded the American Bible Society Award for Outstanding Achievement in Biblical Studies. In addition to his connection with LPTS, it was his thorough knowledge of and love for the study of religion and culture in the United States, religion in the South, and Presbyterianism in America that distinguished him as the chosen writer for the 150th history of the Seminary.

Following his seminary studies, Nutt was an instructor at Auburn University and completed his Ph.D. in United States Religious History in 1986 at Vanderbilt University.

He has written several books on American Protestantism and the Presbyterian Church, including The Whole Gospel for the Whole World: G. Sherwood Eddy and American Protestant Social Mission (Mercer University Press, 1997); Toward Peacemaking: Presbyterian in the South and National Security, 1945-1983 (University of Alabama Press, 1994); Contending for the Faith: The First Two Centuries of the Presbyterian Church in the Cincinnati Area (The Presbytery of Cincinnati, 1991); and his newest publication, Many Lamps, One Light: The 150th Anniversary History of Louisville Seminary (Eerdmans, 2002).

In addition to his publications, Nutt has been a contributor to the Presbyterian Presence Series by Coalter, Mulder and Weeks, eds. (Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992) and on topics of religion in encyclopedias. His published book reviews and papers have been presented before the American Society of Church History and the American Academy of Religion.

Rick Nutt is married to Mary Gene Boteler, an alumna of Louisville Seminary (M.Div. ’78) and pastor of Brighton Presbyterian Church in Zanesville, Ohio.