Rutledge E. Etheridge

Rutledge ("Rut") Etheridge pastored the Providence RPC in Pittsburgh for seven years.  Prior to finishing his Master of Divinity degree at RPTS in 2006, he taught senior high Bible for five years at a college-prep Christian school in Indianapolis.  He and his wife Evelyn have five children:  Isaiah (16), Caroline (14), Calvin (12), Josiah (10) and Sylvia (6).  They are members of the First RPC Beaver Falls congregation.    

Disciplines/Field of Instruction

• Biblical Studies

Degrees Received:

• Master of Divinity, The Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 2006
• B.S., Bible, pastoral studies emphasis, minor: philosophy of religion

Courses Taught:

• BIB 112 – OT Survey
• BIB 113 – NT Survey

Presentations:

• Frequent speaker at youth conferences and church family camps in various denominations
• Speaker, Annual Conference on Reformed Theology, Lisbon, NY 2016
• Speaker, WAY Seminar, Ottawa – spring 2014, 15
• Speaker, annual Westminster Confession of Faith into the 21 ^st Century Conference, September 2011 and June 2012

Publications in The Reformed Presbyterian Witness:

Imitating God, Gentle Reformation column, July 2016

Standing Next to the Skyscraper, Geneva feature, May 2016

Speed Limit for Cyber Speech, Gentle Reformation column, November 2012

Social Justice: Who’s Responsibility is It? August 2011

The Emerging Church, May, June, July, August 2009

• The Emerging Church (Part 1 of 4)
• The Emerging Church (Part 2 of 4)
• The Emerging Church (Part 3 of 4)
• The Emerging Church (Part 4 of 4)

Wilder than God, interview, January 2005

Other Publications:

“The Phantom Wall” in The Christian Statesman, Sept.-Oct. 2007

God Breathed: Connecting Through Scripture to God, Others, the Natural World, and Yourself, Crown and Covenant, 2019.

"Privacy, Please: How Calvin's Christocentric Pneumatology Fortified Protestant Polemics in the Fight for Private Judgment," The Reformed Presbyterian Theological Journal, February 2024.

Awards and Distinctions Received:

Cedarville College: Graduated with honors, Academic Scholarship, Dean’s Honor List

Who’s Who Among High School Teachers, 2002

Affiliations:

Ordained Teaching Elder in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America

Associate member of the Evangelical Theological Society

Miscellaneous:

Blackbelt in Gosoku Ryu Karate, International Karate Association, 1999

Enjoys the ocean, reading, research and writing, basketball, and coffee, and more coffee…