Dr. Morales is currently serving as the Chair of Biblical Studies and professor of Old Testament and Great Works at Florida’s Reformation Bible College, a position he has held since 2011. He has been associate pastor at Grace Presbyterian Church (PCA), Stuart, Fla., since 2010.
The Board of Trustees of Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary appointed Dr. L. Michael Morales to the full-time resident faculty in 2015. Dr. Morales will be teaching New Testament Biblical Theology during the Winter Term and Old Testament Biblical Theology during the Spring term. He has been teaching the latter as an adjunct professor at GPTS.
“I am thrilled that Dr. Morales is joining the faculty of Greenville Seminary,” said Dr. Joseph A. Pipa, Jr., president of GPTS. “I have known Dr. Morales for a number of years. He brings a number of pluses to our ministry. He is a godly man with a very good family. He is committed to experimental Calvinism. He is a very able scholar, and he shines in the classroom. He has a number of years of pastoral experience and is a very edifying preacher. He is committed to mentoring students. These are the criteria for new professors at Greenville Seminary, and we thank God for bringing Dr. Morales to us.”
Dr. Morales is currently serving as the Chair of Biblical Studies and professor of Old Testament and Great Works at Florida’s Reformation Bible College, a position he has held since 2011. He has been associate pastor at Grace Presbyterian Church (PCA), Stuart, Fla., since 2010. Having grown up in Miami, Fla., he earned his B.A. in Business Administration at Palm Beach Atlantic University in 1996. He received an M.A. in Religion at Emmanuel School of Religion in 2000. Dr. Morales went to seminary for a Master of Arts in Northeast Tennessee and served as pastor there for four years before returning to South Florida to earn a Master of Divinity degree. His M.Div. with awards in Old Testament, New Testament, systematic theology, church history, Christianity & culture, and pastoral promise, was received from Knox Theological Seminary in 2007. After completing Ph.D. studies in the Pentateuch (Trinity College/University of Bristol, U.K., 2011), he and his family moved to Sanford, Fla., for his work at Reformation Bible College.
\He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the Dante Society of America. He has also been an adjunct instructor at Reformed Theological Seminary. His books include: Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of Yahweh?: A Biblical-Theology of the Book of Leviticus; Cult and Cosmos: Tilting Toward a Temple-Centered Theology; and The Tabernacle Pre-figured: Cosmic Mountain Ideology in Genesis and Exodus. He has written articles including “Crouching Demon, Hidden Lamb: Resurrecting an Exegetical Fossil in Gen. 4:7,” “The Great Commission in the Old Testament,” “Law, Grace and Redemption in Les Miserables,” “Jesus and the Psalms,” and “Teach Your Children.” For a complete curriculum vitae, go here.
Dr. Morales and his wife Elise have been blessed with four boys: Armando, Diego, Alejandro, and Andres. The family plans to relocate to the Greenville area in the coming months.
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