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Wheaton Theology Conference Speakers
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Jeremy Begbie |
Jeremy Begbie is the inaugural holder of the Thomas A. Langford Research Professorship in Theology at Duke Divinity School, North Carolina. He teaches systematic theology, and he specializes in the interface between theology and the arts. His particular research interest is the interplay between music and theology. He is also Senior Member at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculties of Divinity and Music at the University of Cambridge. Previously he has been Associate Principal at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews where he directed the research project, Theology Through the Arts at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts.
He is author of a number of books, including Voicing Creation’s Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts (T & T Clark); Theology, Music and Time (CUP), and most recently, Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music (Baker/SPCK) which won the Christianity Today 2008 Book Award in the Theology/Ethics Category. He has taught widely in the UK, North America and South Africa, specializing in multimedia performance-lectures.
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Markus Bockmuehl |
| Markus Bockmuehl is a Fellow of Keble College and Professor of Biblical and Early Christian Studies in the University of Oxford, having previously held professorships at the Universities of Cambridge and St. Andrews, and before that taught in Canada. Among his books are The Epistle to the Philippians (Hendrickson, 1998); Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics (Baker Academic, 2003); and Seeing the Word: Refocusing New Testament Study (Baker Academic, 2006). Most recently he has edited volumes on Messianism (Redemption and Resistance (T&T Clark, 2007) ed. with James Carleton Paget), on the New Testament and Christian dogmatic theology (Scripture’s Doctrine and Theology’s Bible (Baker Academic, 2008) ed. with Alan Torrance) and on Jewish and Christian ideas of Paradise in antiquity (Cambridge University Press, 2010 forthcoming), ed. with Guy Stroumsa). |
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Richard B. Hays |
Richard B. Hays is the George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School. He is internationally recognized for his work on the letters of Paul and on New Testament ethics. His scholarly work has bridged the disciplines of biblical criticism and literary studies, exploring the innovative ways in which early Christian writers interpreted Israel’s Scripture.
His book The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation was selected by Christianity Today as one of the 100 most important religious books of the twentieth century. His most recent books are The Art of Reading Scripture (2003, co-edited with Ellen Davis ), The Conversion of the Imagination (2005), and Seeking the Identity of Jesus: A Pilgrimage (2008, co-edited with Beverly Roberts Gaventa).
Professor Hays has lectured widely in North America, Great Britain, Europe, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. An ordained United Methodist minister, he has preached in settings ranging from rural Oklahoma churches to London’s Westminster Abbey. Professor Hays has chaired the Pauline Epistles Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, as well as the Seminar on New Testament Ethics in the Society for New Testament Studies, and has served on the editorial boards of several leading scholarly journals.
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Edith M. Humphrey |
| Edith M. Humphrey is the William F. Orr Professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, wife to Chris, mother of three daughters, and grandmother to four grandchildren. A Canadian by birth, she did graduate studies at McGill University with N. T. Wright, whom she honours as a beloved mentor. She is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church, while retaining close ties with her Anglican and evangelical colleagues with whom she has worked for renewal for over 25 years. Speaking frequently at academic and church events, she writes in the areas of New Testament studies (especially literary and rhetorical method), Pseudepigrapha, Biblical theology and issues facing the Church today. Her books include The Ladies and the Cities (1995), Joseph and Aseneth (2000), Ecstasy and Intimacy (2005), and And I Turned to See the Voice (2007). Currently she is completing research for a book provisionally entitled, Grand Entrance: Worship on Earth as in Heaven (Brazos, 2010). |
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Sylvia Keesmaat |
| Dr. Sylvia C. Keesmaat completed her D.Phil at Oxford under the supervision of N.T. Wright, after which she taught Biblical Studies and Hermeneutics at the Institute for Christian Studies for ten years. In 2004 she left full-time academia to pursue her interests in sustainable living. Currently, she is an adjunct professor at the Institute for Christian Studies and at the Toronto School of Theology. She is also an instructor in the Creation Care Studies Program in Belize. Dr. Keesmaat is the author of Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire (with Brian Walsh, [2004]), Paul and His Story: (Re)Interpreting the Exodus Tradition (1999), and editor of The Advent of Justice (1994 She is currently writing a book on the Epistle to the Romans, and preparing to write one on creation in the New Testament. Dr. Keesmaat lives on an organic solar-powered farm with her husband, Brian Walsh, and their homeschooled children. |
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Nicholas Perrin |
| Nicholas Perrin (Ph.D., Marquette University) holds the Franklin S. Dyrness Chair of Biblical Studies at the Wheaton Graduate School (Wheaton, Illinois). Between 2000 and 2003, he was research assistant for N. T. Wright and has since authored and edited numerous articles and books, including, Thomas: The Other Gospel (Westminster John Knox, 2007); and Lost in Transmission: What We Can Know about the Words of Jesus (Thomas Nelson, 2007). His most recent work is a forthcoming book on the historical Jesus, entitled Jesus the Temple (SPCK; Hendricksen). Currently, he is doing research on Irenaeus and second-century Gnosticism. |
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Marianne Meye Thompson |
Marianne Meye Thompson, the George Eldon Ladd Professor of New Testament, joined the School of Theology faculty in 1985. She is author of A Commentary on Colossians and Philemon (The Two Horizons Commentary, 2005), The God of the Gospel of John (2001), and The Promise of the Father (2000), and co-author of Introducing the New Testament (2001). She has also published numerous articles and reviews in scholarly journals. Thompson is currently working on a commentary on the Gospel of John
A member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, Thompson has participated in various projects at the Center of Theological Inquiry (in Princeton, NJ), including “The Scripture Project” and “The Identity of Jesus,” as well as consultations on “Children in the Scriptures,” sponsored by the Valparaiso Project on Childhood Studies, Theology, and Ethics, and “Teaching the Bible in the 21st Century,” at the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning. Thompson has served on various editorial boards, including Theology Today and New Testament Studies. She is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church (USA). |
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Kevin J. Vanhoozer |
Kevin J. Vanhoozer (Ph.D., Cambridge University) is currently Blanchard Professor of Theology at the Wheaton College Graduate School. Previously he was Research Professor of Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (1998-2009) and Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (1990-98).
He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical-Linguistic Approach to Christian Theology (Westminster John Knox, 2005 - named best theology book of 2006 by Christianity Today) and, most recently, Remythologizing Theology: Divine Action, Passion, and Authorship (Cambridge University Press).
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Brian Walsh |
| Brian J. Walsh is a Christian Reformed campus minister at the University of Toronto. He has co-authored with J. Richard Middleton, The Transforming Vision: Shaping a Christian World View (IVP, 1984), and Truth is Stranger than it Used to Be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age (IVP, 1995). With Sylvia Keesmaat he has written Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire (IVP, 2004). And with Steve Bouma-Prediger he wrote Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in a Culture of Dislocation (Eerdmans, 2008). Brian Walsh and Sylvia Keesmaat and their two children live at Russet House Farm in Cameron, Ontario. |
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N. T. Wright |
| Bishop Tom Wright, a native of Northumberland, read Greats and Theology at Oxford and obtained his D. Phil for a thesis on St Paul and his D. D. for books on the New Testament and, in particular, Jesus in his historical context. He taught New Testament studies in Cambridge, McGill and Oxford Universities, and worked as a College Chaplain, before becoming Dean of Lichfield in 1994, Canon of Westminster in 2000 and Bishop of Durham in 2003. Dr Wright has written over 40 books and hundreds of articles at both scholarly and popular levels, and has broadcast frequently on radio and TV. He is married with four children and two grandchildren, and lists music, poetry, hill-walking and golf among his recreations. |
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