Education

Dartmouth College, B.A.
Reformed Theological Seminary, MDiv
University of Mississippi, Ph.D.

About Dr. Irving

Dr. David T. Irving serves as President and Assistant Professor of Church History and Pastoral Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. He was appointed to the role in June 2025, following faithful service as Pastor of Woodland Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

A graduate of Reformed Theological Seminary (MDiv, 2015), Dr. Irving also holds a PhD from the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Devote Yourself to Prayer: A Call to Pastors (Reformation Heritage Books, 2023), and brings a rich combination of pastoral experience and academic training to his leadership at RTS Jackson.

With a deep commitment to the church and theological education, Dr. Irving is passionate about preparing students for faithful gospel ministry marked by both doctrinal depth and pastoral care.

He is married to Sarah Grafton Irving, and they have four children.

Publications

BOOKS

 

ARTICLES

  • Editor of and Introduction to “David’s Captains — John L. Girardeau” by Cornelius W. Grafton. Paper presented to the Belhaven Summer School, Synod of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss. June 21, 1922. The Confessional Presbyterian(forthcoming, 2025).
  • “Jeremiah Chamberlain.” In The Mississippi Encyclopedia. Center for the Study of Southern Culture, The University of Mississippi, 2025. May 21, 2025.
  • Review of T&T Clark Handbook of John Owen, edited by Crawford Gribben and John W. Tweeddale. Studies in Puritanism and Piety Journal, Vol. 6 (Winter 2025): 67-70.
  • “Cornelius W. Grafton.” In The Mississippi Encyclopedia. Center for the Study of Southern Culture, The University of Mississippi, 2024. February 19, 2024.
  • “The Teaching Elder and the Ministry of Prayer: The Priority and Practice of Praying.” The Gospel Reformation Network(blog), January 2, 2024.
  • Review of Outposts of Zion: A History of Mississippi Presbyterians in the Nineteenth Century; Citadels of Zion: A History of Mississippi Presbyterians Vol. I:1900-1960; Citadels of Zion: A History of Mississippi Presbyterians Vol. II: 1960-2016, by Robert Milton Winter. The Journal of Mississippi History, LXXXXIV, No. 3 and No. 4 (Fall/Winter 2022):240-242.
  • Review of John Owen and English Puritanism: Experiences in Defeat, by Crawford Gribben. Ad Fontes, 2.5 (January 2018): 6-8.
  • Introduction to A Forty-Three Year Pastorate in a Country Church, by Cornelius W. Grafton, 3. Madison, MS: Log College Press, 2017.