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Josh Moody is a British theologian, former Jonathan Edwards Fellow at Yale University, and currently the senior pastor of College Church in Wheaton, Illinois.

Background and education
Josh Moody grew up in Greater London, England, in an Anglican family and attended Felsted School.

Moody received an MA (Cantab) in History and PhD in Theology from University of Cambridge where he was president of the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union.

He did a Research Fellowship at Yale Divinity School.

Career
Moody served with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in the Republic of Georgia and in Azerbaijan. He was on pastoral staff at Romford Evangelical Church in London and at Eden Baptist Church in Cambridge.

In 1999, Moody became senior pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in New Haven, Connecticut. At the time, the church had fewer than 30 members, but by 2006 it had grown to more than 300.

From 2007-2011, he was a Fellow of Jonathan Edwards College at Yale University. His doctoral dissertation, later published as Jonathan Edwards and the Enlightenment: Knowing the Presence of God, was based in part on unpublished manuscripts of Jonathan Edwards that Moody had access to through the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University.

In 2009, he became senior pastor of College Church in Wheaton.

He is an author and writes a monthly column for Evangelicals Now.

Moody is the Founder and president of God Centered Life Ministries, whose Ministry Council members include David Dockery, Phil Ryken, Bill Pollard, Douglas Moo, Greg Thornbury, Andreas Kostenberger, Duane Litfin, Ed Stetzer.

Books

 * John 1-12 For You, The Good Book Company, 2017.
 * 7 Days to Change Your Life, Abingdon Press 2017.
 * How Church Can Change Your Life, Christian Focus 2015.
 * Burning Hearts, Christian Focus 2014.
 * Journey to Joy, Crossway 2013.
 * Jonathan Edwards and Justification, (editor), Crossway 2012.
 * No Other Gospel: 31 Reasons from Galatians Why Justification by Faith Alone Is the Only Gospel, Crossway, 2011.
 * Authentic Spirituality; Finding God Without Losing Your Mind, 2009.
 * The God-Centered Life: Insights from Jonathan Edwards for Today, 2007.
 * Jonathan Edwards and the Enlightenment: Knowing the Presence of God, University Press of America, 2005.