Profiles

Yudha Thianto is P. J. Zondervan Chair and Professor of History of Christianity and Reformed Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary. He is originally from Indonesia, and taught for more than two decades at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, IL before joining the faculty of CTS in 2022. His current research project focuses on the history of the singing of Genevan psalms in the Dutch East Indies in the seventeenth century. He is the author of The Way to Heaven: Catechisms and Sermons in the Establishment of the Dutch Reformed Church in the East Indies (Wipf & Stock, 2014) and An Explorer’s Guide to John Calvin (IVP, 2022). When he is not in the classroom or working on his research, he spends his time practicing the piano and organ or singing with the Grand Rapids Symphony Chorus.