Andrew Sandlin
P. Andrew Sandlin is a Christian minister, cultural theologian, and author; the founder and president of the in Coulterville, California; faculty at Blackstone Legal Fellowship of the Alliance Defending Freedom in Phoenix, Arizona; De Yong Distinguished Visiting Professor of Culture and Theology at Edinburg Theological Seminary in Pharr, Texas; and core faculty at of the in Grimsby, Ontario. He was formerly president of the and executive vice president of the Chalcedon Foundation.Education
Sandlin holds a B.A. in liberal studies concentrating in English, history, and political science from the University of the State of New York, an M.A. in English literature from the University of South Africa, and an S.T.D. in Theology and Ecclesiastical History from Edinburg Theological Seminary, United States extension of Universidad Juan Calvino of Mexico City. He also did Ph.D. studies in English at Kent State University in 1994.Ministries
He is a minister in the Fellowship of Mere Christianity and was pastor at Church of the Word, Painesville, Ohio and Cornerstone Bible Church, Scotts Valley, California.Theology
An Evangelical Protestant committed to the neo-Reformational paradigm of Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, Herman Dooyeweerd, and Cornelius Van Til, Sandlin is a critic of both conservative and progressive theological trends. He is considered an extreme Christian Reconstructionist by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. He was by , a program of People for the American Way, for arguing that “Christians Must Be Conservative, And Conservatives Must Be Christian." He advocates a unity of Law and Gospel, traditionally distinguished among Protestant Christians, and he was an early critic of "Biblical Patriarchy."
