Jennifer Powell McNutt

Rev. Dr. Jennifer Powell McNutt is the Franklin S. Dyrness Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies and Professor of Theology and History of Christianity at Wheaton College’s Litfin Divinity School. Dr. McNutt is an award-winning author and professor and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She has received the Leland Ryken Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities at Wheaton College, as well as the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize and the Sydney E. Mead Prize from the American Society of Church History. 

Dr. McNutt’s recent work has included co-editing The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation with Herman J. Selderhuis (Oxford University Press, 2025), co-writing Know the Theologians with David W. McNutt (Zondervan, 2024), and authoring ECPA Book of the Year Finalist The Mary We Forgot: What the Apostle to the Apostles Teaches the Church Today (Brazos, 2024). Her research in Bible history has received numerous grants and fellowships, including at Trinity Hall College, University of Cambridge, and the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany.

Dr. McNutt serves as a Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church along with her husband, Rev. Dr. David McNutt. They run a co-ministry called McNuttshell Ministries, which serves as a bridge between the church and the academy.