Established 2019

About The London Lyceum

Analytic, Baptist & Confessional Theology

The premier center for serious theological inquiry — fostering thinking, virtue, and confessional faithfulness for the church.

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Our Mission

Foster Serious Thinking for a Serious Church

The London Lyceum began as a weekly podcast in 2019 and has grown into the premier center for Analytic, Baptist, and Confessional Theology.

Founded by Jordan Steffaniak and Brandon Ayscue, TLL is built around our flagship podcast — featuring theologians, historians, and philosophers from across the Christian world — alongside The Ledger, our online publication for essays and reviews, and Hanover Press, our academic publishing house established in 2023.

Hanover Press publishes original Protestant academic theology, classic Baptist literature, and the peer-reviewed Hanover Review.

Our Values

Four Pillars of Character

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Charity

Engaging every perspective with generosity and good faith.

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Curiosity

Pursuing questions with intellectual honesty and openness.

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Critical Thinking

Rigorous analysis grounded in argument and evidence.

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Cheerful Confessionalism

Robust confessional identity held with joy and warmth.

What We Do

Three Aims

Aim One

We Seek to Inspire Thinking

We publish original research and create resources to stretch the Christian mind.

Original monographs & research
Peer-reviewed essays and reviews
Podcast and reading groups
Classic Baptist literature reprints
Intellectual community events

Aim Two

We Seek to Inspire Virtuous Thinking

Wisdom is to be received with meekness (James 3:17). We model what thoughtful disagreement looks like.

Differing viewpoints welcomed
Friendship as the context for honest disagreement
Love and respect required
Meekness as intellectual virtue

Aim Three

We Seek to Inspire Confessional Thinking

We are anchored in classical Protestantism and Reformed catholicity, recovering the full depth of the tradition.

Classical Protestant theology
Reformed catholicity
The John Gill Project
Confessional Baptist retrieval

The Founders

Meet the Team

Jordan Steffaniak

Founder, President & Editor

PhD Philosophy, University of Birmingham
ThM Philosophy, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
MDiv, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

@jlsteffaniak

Jordan Steffaniak is the founder, president, and editor of The London Lyceum. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Birmingham, an MDiv from SBTS, and a ThM in Philosophy from SEBTS. He is the owner of Professor Lending, a mortgage brokerage in North Carolina, and serves as an adjunct teacher in theology and philosophy. He is married to Sarah, and together they have three sons.

Brandon Ayscue

Vice President & Associate Editor

MDiv & MA Apologetics/Christian Philosophy, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
BA, Campbell University

@AyscueBrandon

Brandon Ayscue serves as Vice President and Associate Editor of The London Lyceum. He is an Associate Pastor at Harriett Baptist Church in Henderson, NC. He holds an MDiv and MA in Apologetics and Christian Philosophy from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a BA from Campbell University. He is married to Caitie, and they have three sons: Coley, Haddon, and Winston.

Selected Writing & Media

Jordan Steffaniak

Popular Publications

Modern Reformation

Everything in Nature Speaks of God: Understanding Sola Scriptura Aright

The Gospel Coalition

What Does Scriptural Sufficiency Mean?

The L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture

The London Lyceum

Media Appearances

The Davenant Institute

Making the Great Tradition Great Again

Doctrine and Devotion

Baptist 21

Baptist Theology and John Gill

The Reluctant Theologian Podcast

Craig Carter and Creatio ex Nihilo: Some Objections with Andrew Hollingsworth

Christ and Culture Podcast

Parker's Pensées

Nicholas Noyola: Theology, Apologetics, Ministry

Debating the Nature of God with R.T. Mullins

Covenant Podcast

The John Gill Project

Two Age Sojourner

Reformed Theology and Credobaptism with the London Lyceum

All Things Bright and Beautiful

The Making of Biblical Womanhood

Peer-Reviewed Articles

"Resurrecting van Inwagen's Simulacrum: A Defense" International Journal of Philosophy of Religion (2023)
"Retrieving Reformed Philosophy of Mind: Herman Bavinck's Eclectic Harmonism as Gateway to Neo-Aristotelianism" Evangelical Quarterly, 94, vol. 1 (2023): 1–25
Craig Carter on Creatio ex Nihilo and Classical Theism: Some Objections with Andrew Hollingsworth Philosophia Christi, 23, no. 2 (2021): 249–69
The Ordered Animal: Accountability, Teleology, and Human Nature Southeastern Theological Review, 13, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 95–107
Saving Masculinity and Femininity from the Morgue: A Defense of Gender Essentialism Southeastern Theological Review, 12, no. 1 (Spring 2021): 15–35
"The God of All Creation: A Critique of Evangelical Biblicism and Recovery of Perfect Being Theology" Journal of Reformed Theology, 14, no. 4 (2020): 358–80
Multi-Church? Analytic Reflections on the Metaphysics of Multi-site and Multi-Service Ecclesiology TheoLogica, 4, no. 1 (2020): 1–27
Reforming Credobaptism: A Westminster Alternative for Baptist Identity Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies, 4, no. 2 (2019): 280–300
Participation in the Divine: The Method and Content of the Religious Epistemology of Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards Studies, 9, no. 1 (2019): 63–83
"Ruled Knowing and the Problem of Evil: Is Free Will Theism Necessary?" Reformed Theological Review, 77, no. 3 (December 2018): 148–71
"Bound by the Word: John Calvin's Religious Epistemology" Puritan Reformed Journal, 10, no. 2 (July 2018): 120–36

What Others Say

Endorsements

Steve Duby, PhD

Associate Professor of Theology
Phoenix Seminary

In our day it can be difficult to find a space for substantive and charitable discussion of serious theological topics. Happily, the London Lyceum aims to go against that current by providing resources for an intellectually robust Christian faith.

Paul L. Gavrilyuk

Founding President, REBUILD UKRAINE
Aquinas Chair, University of St. Thomas

The London Lyceum provides a forum for rigorous and substantive dialogue regarding a broad range of theological and philosophical questions. This dialogue is crucial for the future of ecumenically informed Christian theology.

Thomas R. Schreiner

James Buchanan Harrison Professor of NT
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

London Lyceum is one of my favorite podcasts. Listeners are exposed to important topics and scholars in church history, theology, biblical studies, and philosophy. It is free from the kind of polemics that inform too much of our discourse today.

Brad Littlejohn

President
The Davenant Institute

The London Lyceum has quickly established itself at the forefront of this retrieval movement, as a center for confessionally-anchored but authentically catholic Baptist theology. I heartily commend their resources to anyone seeking to wrestle deeply with the riches of the Christian theological tradition.

Thomas J. Nettles

Senior Professor
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

The London Lyceum is working toward creating a culture of celebration within the realm of mere Christianity — cultivating the art and grace of celebrating our commonly held doctrines in a day that sneers at divine revelation.

Robert A. Kolb

Emeritus Professor of Systematic Theology
Concordia Seminary

Conversations with Jordan and Brandon sparkle with the freshness drawn from the Biblical wellsprings because of their devotion to confessing our faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

About The London Lyceum

Foster Serious Thinking for a Serious Church

Four Pillars of Character

Three Aims

Meet the Team

Jordan Steffaniak

Endorsements

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