by A. Donald MacLeod
“One of the most important events in the life of the church since World War II has been the evangelical rediscovery of the university. Generations of students at secular universities have heard the gospel for the first time or had their faith strengthened and deepened through the dedicated efforts of ministries such as InterVarsity Fellowship. An ideal way to tell this important story is through the life and ministry of a dynamic, pioneering figure at the center of it all, C. Stacey Woods. Professor Donald MacLeod was not only on the scene himself for part of this story, but he is also one of the greatest evangelical biographers working today. He has given us a well researched, insightful study that is full of both grace and truth.” ( link to InterVarsity Press )
Timothy Larsen
McManis Professor of Christian Thought
...on the biography of
W. Stanford Reid, An Evangelical Calvinist in the Academy
"...The church, of course, has faced acute moments of challenge before and done so with prophetic vigor: Augustine in the fourth century, the Reformers of the 16th century, and more recently Barth and Bonhoeffer between the First and Second World Wars. Closer to home, Walter Bryden in those difficult decades for Presbyterians after 1925. Who might help us discern our way today? Often we are prodded by iconoclasts, people who penetrate the surface of things and send us back to reexamine our core convictions as a community of faith. One such voice is that of Stanford Reid. Through the lens of Donald MacLeod's remarkable biography, W. Stanford Reid: An Evangelical Calvinist in the Academy, we meet an articulate, often outspoken, individual who had a running battle to reform the church he persisted in loving but from which he experienced mostly rejection..."
"Discernment : Articulating Faith--Stanford Reid wanted his church to recover its theological clarity".
by Arthur Van Seters
March 2008 The Presbyterian Record
Rev. Art Van Seters is Principal Emeritus of Knox College, Toronto and was moderator of the 125th General Assembly.
I am glad that a friend and former student of Stanford Reid, Donald Macleod, took on this task of being his biographer, a task that he has accomplished superbly. This book not only presents the life of a distinguished Christian scholar, but it also provides a model for biographical writing. It blends the personal details that are a necessary part of biography along with the intellectual assessment of his work and influence. Here was an evangelical Calvinist who not only maintained his faith in academia but who showed that adhering to confessional Christianity was no barrier to becoming a noted scholar.
Allan Harman in Reformed Theological Review
Professor Allan Harman is the past moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Australia
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: NPC: Rutherford House, Newton Corner, Mass:
Edinburgh
Publication Date: 1996
by Judith MacLeod
Bibliographic Details
ISBN: 0967516803
Publisher: Interserve, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1999
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Don MacLeod [Curriculum Vitae] ( is the son of Presbyterian missionaries to China and Taiwan. After a childhood spent in the turbulent Far East of the 'forties and 'fifties, he returned to attend Stony Brook School on Long Island and from there complete an Honours History degree at McGill under the direction of W Stanford Reid. Awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences he then proceeded to complete theological studies at Westminster Seminary, Philadelphia. On graduation he was appointed by the Presbyterian Church in Canada to what became a seven point charge in rural Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
In 1967 he was asked by the Presbytery of East Toronto to plant a church which would be distinctively Evangelical in suburban Scarborough. This became the Bridlewood Presbyterian Church. Over a seven year period he began services in a high school, gathered a congregation, built a first unit and saw the congregation grow to about two hundred members and adherents. During that time he was also President of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (1973-5) and organized its 1975 Christian Leadership Seminar at York University. That same year he accepted a five year appointment as General Director of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada.
In 1980 he went on to be Associate Minister of Knox Church, Toronto, and helped form The Renewal Fellowship of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Inaugurated on 8 May 1982, for five years he was its Chair and de facto Director. Called to Boston in 1987 to be Senior Minister of the historic Newton Presbyterian Church, he returned to Canada in 1997 to St. Andrew's Church, Trenton, Ontario, and also to teach at Tyndale Theological Seminary, Toronto.
Since that time he has been Chair of the denomination's Committee on History and was a 2002 nominee to be Moderator of the General Assembly. He has been recommended by the faculty of Tyndale to its Board to become Research Professor, effective January 2006. He inaugurated the Reid Lectureship at Tenth Church, Philadelphia, in November 2005 under the auspices of the Religious and Theological Studies Fellowship Canada. He has an honourary Doctorate of Divinity from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in suburban Boston.
Don enjoys a variety of interests, including stamp-collecting and antiques. He loves classical music and art history. The MacLeods live alongside the Murray Canal in Brighton, Ontario, and share a family home in Applethwaite, Keswick, Cumbia, England..