BIODATA – Samuel Ling, Ph.D.
林慈信牧師简界
林慈信牧師是中華展望的總幹事
(www.chinahorizon.org) ，中華展望是一個神學與
護教學的教導事工。 林牧師畢業於賓州大學，威
敏斯特神學院（道學碩士，神學碩士），和獲天
普大學歷史系哲學博士，博士論文研究中國教會
與中國知識份子「非基督教運動」的關係。林牧
師被美國長老會(PCA, www.pcanet.org) 按立，曾
在紐約市開拓教會和在芝加哥華人聯合教會任主
任牧師。
林牧師先後在威敏斯特、聖約、維真、惠敦、
宣道會、福樂、和亞洲各神學院任客座講師。目
前在洛杉磯國際神學研究院(www.itsla.edu)任歷史
與系統神學正教授，并與家人定居洛杉磯。
林牧師致力傳授改革宗教義、聖經神學、教
會歷史、范泰爾的護教學、清教徒神學、與（亞
當斯的）聖經輔導學；被唐崇榮牧師譽為「華人
教會最貫徹改革宗（歸正）的思想家」。目前 固
定在華盛頓，洛杉磯，香港，檳城，吉隆坡，與
新加坡等地舉辦神學課程。
Rev. Samuel Ling is president of China Horizon
(www.chinahorizon.org), a teaching ministry in theology and
apologetics. Rev. Ling received his A.B. from the University
of Pennsylvania; the M.Div. and Th.M. from Westminster
Theological Seminary; and Ph.D. in history (church history)
from Temple University. His doctoral dissertation dealt with
the interaction of the church with the Anti-Christian Movement
among China’s intellectuals. He is an ordained minister in the
Presbyterian Church in America (www.pcanet.org), and did
church planting in New York City, and served as senior pastor
of Chinese Christian Union Church in Chicago (1992-95).
He lectured in Westminster, Covenant, Regent,
Alliance, Wheaton, Fuller, and other seminaries in Asia and
North America, and is now a professor of historical and
systematic theology at International Theological Seminary
(www.itsla.edu). He is author of numerous articles and edited a
number of books. Since 1997, he and his family live in Los
Angeles.
His passion is in teaching doctrine; Biblical theology;
church history; Van Til’s apologetics; Puritanism; and biblical
(nouthetic) counseling. Rev. Stephen Tong calls him “the most
consistent Reformed thinker in the Chinese Christian
community.” Currently he and China Horizon conduct regular
courses in Washington DC, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Penang,
Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.