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faith and doubt by david trim
David J.B. Trim is a historian, archivist, and educator whose specialties are in European military history and religious history. Currently, he is the director of Archives, Statistics, and Research at the World Headquarters of Seventh-day Adventists and a professor at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University.
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- faith and doubt by david trim
- ellen g white and adventist mission by david trim oct 17 2015
- Background
- Career
- Scholarship
- Editorships
- References
ellen g white and adventist mission by david trim oct 17 2015
Background
Trim was born in Bombay, India, in 1969 to British and Australian parents and raised largely in Sydney, Australia. He was educated in Britain: he graduated cum laude from Newbold College with a BA in History; his PhD in War Studies and History is from King's College, London, part of the University of London.
Career
Trim taught for ten years at Newbold College and for two years held the Walter C. Utt Chair in History at Pacific Union College. In late 2010 he was appointed Archivist of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and in 2011 became its Director of Research; currently he is additionally professor of Church History at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Huntington Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Trim has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 2003.
Scholarship
Trim is the editor or co-editor of ten volumes, including: The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of Military Professionalism (Brill, 2003), Amphibious Warfare 1000-1700: Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion (Brill, 2006), European Warfare 1350-1750 (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Pluralism, Parochialism and Contextualization: Challenges to Adventist Mission in Europe 1864-2004 (Peter Lang, 2010), and Humanitarian Intervention: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2011).