About Our Faculty
Advanced terminal degrees (earned Ph.D.s or equivalent)
• Harvard University • The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • University of Aberdeen, Scotland • University of Alabama • University of Cambridge, England • University of Michigan • University of Notre Dame • University of Paris-Sorbonne • University of St. Andrews, Scotland • University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto School of Theology • Vanderbilt University
Publications with prestigious houses
• Oxford University Press • Cambridge University Press • IVP Academic • Baker Academic • Yale University Press • T & T Clark • Baylor University Press • Eerdmans Publishing Company • Zondervan Academic
Ordained in their denominations
• Church of England • Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod • Presbyterian Church of America • Presbyterian Church USA • Southern Baptist Convention • United Methodist Church
Varied research interests
• Old Testament studies/criticism • Hebrew exegesis • Biblical theology • The interface of Christian theology and biblical exegesis • History of interpretation/reception • Church renewal in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life and work • Bible translation • Book of Daniel • Early Christian spirituality • Historiography, hagiography • Theodoret of Cyrus • Evangelical Ressourcement movement • Old Testament • Pentateuchal studies • Hebrew • Genesis • Deuteronomy • Gospels and Acts • Pastoral Epistles • The theologies of Karl Barth and T. F. Torrance, with special attention to Christology and soteriology • The relationship between biblical studies and modern higher criticism • History and theology of preaching • Homiletical formation • Wesleyan theology and history • Theological aesthetics • Dietrich Bonhoeffer • English Reformation • Historical theology • History of Christianity • Jonathan Edwards • American religion and culture • Paul and his letters • The material and cultural setting of first century Christianity
Writers of well-known textbooks
• Theology of the Reformers (Timothy George) • Old Testament Theology (Paul House) • Introducing Biblical Hebrew (Allen Ross) • A Commentary on the Psalms (Allen Ross) • Doctrine That Dances: Bringing Doctrinal Preaching and Teaching to Life (Robert Smith Jr.) • Ephesians (Frank Thielman) • Theology of the New Testament: A Canonical and Synthetic Approach (Frank Thielman) • The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement (Douglas Sweeney)
Involvement in boards and committees
• English Standard Version Oversight Translation Committee (Paul House and Frank Thielman) • Crossway Publishers Board of Trustees (Paul House) • Editorial board of the German journal Kerygma und Dogma (Piotr Małysz) • Old Testament editor for T&T Clark’s International Theological Commentary (Mark Gignilliat) • Baptist World Alliance (Timothy George and Stefana Dan Laing) • Editorial board for the international journal Christian Higher Education (Thomas Fuller) • General editor of the Reformation Commentary on Scripture (Timothy George) • Co-chair of Evangelicals and Catholics Together (Timothy George) • Advisory Board of the Center for Pastor Theologians (Douglas Sweeney)