Daniel Treier, Ph.D.

Biography

Note: Dr. Daniel Treier sadly passed away on December 22, 2025. As a memorial to him, and in acknowledgement of his tremendous service to the College, we will maintain his faculty profile page for an indefinite period of time.

Dr. Treier served with distinction as the Gunther H. Knoedler Professor of Theology and as the Director of Wheaton’s Ph.D. Program in Theology.

"While we rejoice in our brother’s victory over death through his Lord Jesus Christ, we are grieved by everything this loss means for our campus community. Please pray for Dr. Treier’s colleagues in the Litfin Divinity School, his doctoral students, his many friends in the Department of Biblical and Theological Studies and across campus, and especially his wife Dr. Amy Black—equally beloved as Professor of Political Science—and for their daughter."   
- Philip Ryken, Ph.D.,President of Wheaton College

Education

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Ph.D., Systematic Theology, 2002

Links

• Wheaton Ph.D. Supervisors

Books

• Lord Jesus Christ 
• Introducing Evangelical Theology
• Evangelical Dictionary of Theology
• Theology and the Mirror of Scripture: A Mere Evangelical Account (Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture)
• Proverbs & Ecclesiastes (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible)
• Introducing Theological Interpretation of Scripture: Recovering a Christian Practice
• Virtue and the Voice of God: Toward Theology as Wisdom

Research

• Co-editor with Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture series (IVP Academic)

Courses Taught

• Over twenty different undergraduate and graduate courses
• Current electives focus on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Oliver O'Donovan, Christology, and ecclesiology
• The first-year PhD seminar on hermeneutics

Videos

Professional Affiliations