Award: Dr. Bray won an Award of Merit in the 2013 Christianity Today Book Awards for his book, God is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology.

Dr. Warren A. Gage

Books: Spring of 2013

The Romance of our Redemption (with Chris Barber)

Preaching morning services: May 24-26, 2013

Corpus Christi Christian Fellowship, conference with Pastor Don Leavell.

Teaching: June 20-25, 2013

Teaching “Gospel Hermeneutics 1” at the Logos Bible Software Headquarters

Bellingham, WA

July 14-19, 2013

Lamplighter Guild for the Creative Arts, conference with Mark Hamby, Dr, Jeff Myers, and Michael Card.

Mohonk Mountain House (New York)

August 7-13

Pyungkang Chiel Church (Dr. Abraham Park).

Conference with Dr. Bruce Waltke

Seoul, Korea

Lecturing for the Christian Union: September 12, 2013

Columbia University

September 13, 2013

Yale University

Teaching Trip: November 15-24, 2013

Knox Seminary & Rio Vista Holy Land Study Tour to Israel. Students can receive course credit for the trip.

Dr. Sam Lamerson

Teaching: Continuously in 2013

Sunday School at Cross Community Church

Deerfield Beach, FL

Preaching: Dr. Sam Lamerson’s latest sermon preached at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church:

Blog: Follow Dr. Lamerson on his blog.

Dr. Michael Allen

Speaking: April 11-12

Bible Backgrounds

Pastorum LIVE

Chicago, IL

Dr. Jim Belcher

Books: In Search of Deep Faith

Pre-order on Amazon

Due out in September 2013

Speaking: May 1

Biola–Torrey Honors Institute

Preaching: May 3

Biola Chapel

Dr. Jono Linebaugh

Speaking: March 4-6, 2013

Cathedral Church of the Advent’s Lenten Series

Birmingham, AL

All of Dr. Linebaugh’s sermons from this series can be accessed here.

Publications:

God, Grace, and Righteousness in Wisdom of Solomon and Paul’s Letter to the Romans: Texts in Conversation (Novum Testamentum Supplements, Brill, 2013).

Preaching: Dr. Jonathan Linebaugh’s latest sermon preached at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church:

Speaking: February 21-24, 2013

 Liberate 2013 Conference

Dr. Scott Manor

Speaking: 

July 7-11

Society of Biblical Literature 2013 International Meeting

“Diversity or Disharmony: Patristic Writers on the Different Accounts of Jesus’ Cleansing of the Temple”

Saint Andrews, Scotland

Dr. Daniel A. Siedell

Speaking:

April 9, 2013

“God in the Gallery Five Years Later”

Wheaton College

Wheaton, IL

April 17, 2013

“Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis”

The King’s College

New York, NY

April 17, 2013

“Vocation and the Artist’s Studio”

Center for Faith & Work

Redeemer Presbyterian Church

New York, NY

April 19, 2013

“Death and Life in the Artist’s Studio”

Mockingbird Ministries Conference

New York, NY

May 1, 2013

“Who’s Afraid of Modern Art?”

Christ Episcopal Church

Charlottesville, Virginia

May 5, 2013

“Art and the Church”

Trinity Presbyterian Church

Charlottesville, Virginia

Blog: Follow Dr. Siedell on CULTIVARE at Patheos.

Pastor Tullian Tchividjian

Speaking: April 18-20, 2013

Mockingbird Ministries Conference

New York, NY

April 26-27

ABC Conference

Watch Pastor Tullian at LIBERATE 2013

The New City Catechism Project: Video Series from Knox Theological Seminary

In our cities people are trained to be consumers and competitors. Our culture forms our children to be individualistic and anxiety ridden. Modern Americans tend to bounce back and forth between being outright nihilists and cocky optimists. How do churches mold and form men and women, adults and children in this time and place to live and die like Christians? How do Christian communities instill the virtues of faith and hope, and live in these kinds of contexts? Most of all, how can we constantly shape our lives such that Christ is the center of ourselves and our societies? Throughout the centuries, churches have turned to catechisms as tools for formation in the face of habits and practices contrary to the gospel. In the time of the Protestant Reformation, when there were so many challenges to faithful Christian living, catechisms were a potent tool in the hands of pastors and parents. Catechisms employ a question and answer format where Christians and their children may study and even memorize the great, glorious truths of the gospel. In so doing catechisms help to shape not only our minds and worldviews but–by God’s grace–our imaginations and passions.

The New City Catechism was developed last year by Redeemer Presbyterian Church of Manhattan, pastored by Dr. Tim Keller. They drew from and adapted questions from four great catechisms of the Reformation tradition: Calvin’s Geneva Catechism, the Heidelberg Catechism, the Westminster Larger Catechism, and the Westminster Shorter Catechism. The New City Catechism employs 52 questions and answers to survey the great truths of the Christian faith. It includes three parts: God, creation and fall, law (part one); Christ, redemption, grace (part two); and Spirit, restoration, growing in grace (part three). It draws on the catholic heritage affirmed by all Christians and exemplified in the three-part structure of the great ecumenical creeds. It focuses on the Reformational emphases upon salvation and life being found in Christ alone, by grace alone, and through faith alone. It communicates this catholic and Reformational teaching in an accessible key, so that adults and children can use it. It has been circulated widely on the web.

Knox Theological Seminary desires to provide theological resources for Christians and churches. To that end, we have launched The New City Catechism Project. Dr. Michael Allen, Kennedy Professor of Systematic Theology and Dean of Faculty at Knox Theological Seminary, will offer video reflections on each question and answer of the New City Catechism. In each video Dr. Allen points back to the biblical teaching regarding each question and its answer, explains its significance, and unpacks its application to Christian faith and practice in contemporary life. In an introductory video, Dr. Allen explains the reason for the Reformational use of catechisms to bring about missional change in the beliefs and practices of men and women, adults and children. He also explains the specific shape of the New City Catechism and its usefulness for Christian discipleship in twenty-first century culture.

The first question addressed by the New City Catechism is “What is our only hope in life and death?” Dr. Allen has also offered an explanation of this profound question that cuts to the very heart of our existence and the only hope for our life and our death.

Over the course of the next year we will be posting Dr. Allen’s reflections on each of the 52 questions to the New City Catechism. These videos will appear every Wednesday on the Knox blog so be sure to check back weekly for new additions. We invite you to watch, share the links, and make use of them in the spiritual rhythms of your own Christian life and that of your church.

The second question addressed by the New City Catechism is “What is God?” God is the creator and sustainer of everyone and everything.

The third question addresses the doctrine of the Trinity.

The fourth question: “How and why did God create us?”

The fifth question: “What else did God create?”

The sixth question: “How can we glorify God?”

The seventh question: “What does the law of God require?”

The eighth question: “What is the law of God stated in the Ten Commandments?”

The ninth question: “What does God require in the first, second, and third commandments?”

The tenth question: “What does God require in the fourth and fifth commandments?”

Dr. Jonathan Linebaugh, Assistant Professor of New Testament, teaches one of the required courses in the newly-launched theological exegesis concentration of the Doctor of Ministry at Knox Theological Seminary.

Dr. Linebaugh’s teaching and writing ministry focuses largely on reading the epistles of the apostle Paul with the benefit of the witness of the Protestant Reformers. In his doctoral dissertation, published articles, and in forthcoming work, he tries to take Martin Luther seriously as a biblical interpreter before anything else and to listen attentively to Luther’s witness as a vibrant resource for reading the text of Scripture itself.

Dr. Linebaugh, along with Dr. Michael Allen, is currently editing a volume entitled Reformation Readings of Paul. This book will provide an introduction to the way the Protestant Reformers read some of the most influential Pauline texts, and it will then offer guidance in how to faithfully and critically appropriate their work in our own context. This kind of approach – renewing the church by retrieving her vital tradition of biblical exegesis – marks the way that the theological exegesis concentration seeks to shape men and women for contemporary biblical study.

One of the required classes in the concentration is called “Scripture and Doctrine,” and it is taught by Dr. Linebaugh. There he hopes to show students how doctrine is teased out from the Scriptures, yet it is also meant to lead back to and aid further reading of the Bible. Doctrine is not a surrogate for or supplement to the Bible; rather it is an aid and help in better engaging the Bible. By looking at various case studies, Dr. Linebaugh will help students grow in their facility to move from Bible to doctrine and back again.

You may find more resources about this exciting new program at Knox Theological Seminary here. If you are interested in the theological exegesis track with Logos Bible Software, please visit dmin.me.

The course was designed to be a study of the Epistle to the Hebrews that focuses on its literary and canonical argument, drawing on the history of interpretation and considering its implications for Christian doctrine and ministry. In so doing, they considered a number of major issues in theology and ministry: the work of Christ, the relation of the Old and New Covenants, the objective and subjective aspects of the Christian life, suffering and perseverance, assurance, and the nature of faith.

To learn more about the Theological Exegesis track in the Doctor of Ministry program and to watch an introductory video with Dr. Allen, please click here.

Check out the photo album from the course here:

Dr. Bray has devoted many years to making the writings of the early church fathers and the Reformers accessible to us. He was the most prolific translator and editor in the acclaimed Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture series, for which he edited the volumes on Romans, 1-2 Corinthians, James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, and Jude. More recently, he edited the inaugural volume in the new Reformation Commentary on Scripture series on Galatians and Ephesians. He has also recently published English translations of Ambrosiaster’s commentaries on the Pauline Epistles. In addition to his editorial work, Dr. Bray wrote the first full-scale book on the history of biblical interpretation from an evangelical perspective. His Biblical Interpretation: Past and Present provided a baseline for the bustling activity that has followed in the last two decades.

In the theological exegesis track, Dr. Bray teaches a core course called “Reading the Bible with the Dead: Using the History of Exegesis.” There he familiarizes students with the biblical interpretation of the patristic, medieval, and Reformation writers, enabling them to faithfully and critically use those resources in their interpretive and pastoral work. Armed with resources from Logos Bible Software, students will be prepared to employ the best of the Christian tradition for their ongoing work in exegesis and teaching.

You may find more resources about this exciting new program at Knox Theological Seminary here. If you are interested in the theological exegesis track with Logos Bible Software, please visit dmin.me.

For further reflection on these three commitments, see the video of Dr. Allen:

Theological interpreters of the Bible read each passage in light of the wider context of the scriptural canon: they see how each piece fits in the wider gospel message of Jesus Christ and his kingdom. While many modern scholars break the Bible down into bits and pieces, viewing each text in its autonomy, we find that this fails to do justice to their unity and their common nature as the single Word of the living God.

Theological exegetes read the Bible attuned to the witness of the communion of the saints: they use the creeds and confessions of the church past and present as prompts to refine their interpretive work. While many contemporary Bible readers and ministry workers treat the past as no more than prologue, we see that the way to renewal is through retrieval and that the past is a constant presence for a community of faith.

Finally, theological readers of the Word of God listen for its contemporary significance as it addresses real men and women, societies and cultures, in our own contexts. Much thoughtful biblical scholarship fails to touch the real life issues that arise in ministry in its unique contexts, so we strive to ask how an ancient word continues to address powerfully very modern questions and struggles.

Here at Knox Theological Seminary, we believe that the Word of God is living and active. In the theological exegesis concentration of the DMin program, we seek to fashion and form more faithful readers, men and women able to keep their eye on the big picture of the Bible, to attune their ear to the witness of the past, and to fix their heart upon the neighbors and communities around them.

You can find more information about the Theological Exegesis track here and the Knox/Logos joint program in theological exegesis at dmin.me.

In recent years the world of biblical and theological scholarship has focused on one issue with fervor equal to and seemingly greater than any other: “theological interpretation of Scripture” or “theological exegesis.” Fed up with the sterile scholarship of much modern biblical criticism and concerned by the lack of biblical engagement in so much Christian faith and practice, men and women from a variety of backgrounds in the Christian world have pursued a new way by returning to old paths. Theological exegesis has been viewed as a way behind more recent alternatives like exegesis as technique or exposition as therapy. The unique gift that Christians have to speak truth to our world is the Holy Scripture, and yet this biblical text is a unique book that must be read in its own terms. Thus, we need to learn and practice a theological exegesis if we are to be sustained by it and steward it well for others.

So far theological exegesis has been addressed and practiced in academic formats. New commentary series, like the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible or the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, have been released to great acclaim. New book series have also been launched, such as the Studies in Theological Interpretation series. The Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible has been award-winning and best-selling in recent years. Academic journals have launched: for example, the Journal of Theological Interpretation. PhD programs have begun with great success in places like Wheaton College and the University of St. Andrews. And, of course, conference events occur every year to talk about theological exegesis. The buzz is palpable.

Hear what Dr. Allen has to say about this new track in Theological Exegesis: 

What is taught in the new Theological Exegesis track at Knox?

Knox Theological Seminary is pleased to announce that it will launch the world’s first Doctor of Ministry concentration in theological exegesis in 2013. This track is specifically designed to equip students in the art of theological exegesis of the Bible, and it is uniquely shaped to form men and women for the practice of reading the Bible in this way, taking what has been mostly an academic conversation and connecting it to the lives and communities of Christians around the globe. The coursework and final project foster a commitment and ability to read the Bible in a canonical, creedal, and contextual way. Our professors have been and continue to be involved notably in these theological conversations, and they are eager to guide students deeper into this practice. Over the course of the next several weeks, further posts will highlight some of the ways Knox professors have approached theological exegesis and how these will translate into a world-class education through this DMin concentration. Until then, you may find out more about the Theological Exegesis track here and the Knox/Logos joint program in exegesis at dmin.me.

Win the $18,000 John Piper Scholarship

If you’ve ever thought about studying the Bible at the highest academic level, you owe it to yourself to check out the DMin’s comprehensive John Piper Scholarship. You’ll get:

• A world-class biblical education and a terminal degree
• Logos 5’s enormous, smart Portfolio library
• $1,000 in Logos credit for additional books
• Our academic discount, which multiplies that $1,000’s value

The winner can choose either the popular Biblical Preaching and Teaching Track or the new Theological Exegesis Track.

And because you’ll do almost all your studying from home, you won’t have to give up your current priorities as you earn your doctorate—free.

The entry deadline is December 31. Enter to win the John Piper Scholarship now!