Christian Theologies of Scripture: A Comparative Introduction

About the Contributors

About the Contributors Lewis Ayres is Associate Professor of Historical Theology at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. He is the author of Nicaea and Its Legacy and co-editor (with Frances Young and Andrew Louth) of The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature. He is also co-editor of the series Challenges in Contemporary Theology and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Early Christian Studies and Modern Theology. Lewis V. Baldwin is Professor of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University . His recent publications include To Make the Wounded Whole: The Cultural Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.; Toward the Beloved Community: Martin Luther King, Jr. and South Africa; and (with Amiri YaSin Al-Hadid) Between Cross and Crescent: Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Malcolm and Martin. Pamela Bright is Professor of Historical Theology and Chair of the Department of Theological Studies at Concordia University. Her edited volumes include (with Duane W. H. Arnold) De Doctrina Christiana: A Classic of Western Culture and Augustine and the Bible. Her recent studies include “Augustine: The Hermeneutics of Conversion” published in Handbook of Patristic Exegesis, edited by Charles Kannengiesser. Other publications include studies on Tyconius of Carthage, Origen of Alexandria, and Antony of Egypt. Peter M. Candler, Jr., is Assistant Professor of Theology in the Honors College at Baylor University. He is the author of The Grammar of Participation . Pamela D. H. Cochran is a lecturer on American Religious History in Religious Studies and the Communications Director of the Center for 323 Religion and Democracy at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Evangelical Feminism: A History. She is currently in the process of editing a reader of feminist theology. Mary Kathleen Cunningham is Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at North Carolina State University. She is the author of What Is Theological Exegesis? Interpretation and Use of Scripture in Barth’s Doctrine of Election and editor of God in an Evolutionary World. W. T. Dickens is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Franciscan Center for Catholic Studies at Siena College. He is the author of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theological Aesthetics: A Model for PostCritical Biblical Interpretation and Ritualized Readings: The Effects of Liturgies on Scriptural Interpretation. John R. Franke is Associate Professor of Theology at Biblical Theological Seminary. He is the co-author (with Stanley Grenz) of Beyond Foundationalism : Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context and editor of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1–2 Samuel in the series Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture. Jeffrey Hensley is Assistant Professor of Theology at Virginia Theological Seminary. He has published in The Anglican Theological Review, The Journal of Religion, Religious Studies Review, and The Scottish Journal of Theology and is currently working on a book about the concept and practice of adoption from a theological perspective. Mike Higton is Lecturer in Theology at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Christ, Providence and History: Hans W. Frei’s Public Theology and editor of an on-line collection of Frei’s unpublished work. Justin S. Holcomb is a lecturer in the Religious Studies and Sociology departments at the University of Virginia and a lecturer in Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center on Religion and Democracy and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia . 324 About the Contributors Michael S. Horton is Professor of Apologetics and Theology at Westminster Seminary California. His most recent books are Lord and Servant; A Better Way: Rediscovering the Drama of God-Centered Worship; and Covenant and Eschatology: The Divine Drama. He has written articles for Modern Reformation, Pro Ecclesia, Christianity Today, The International Journal of Systematic Theology, and Books and Culture. Gerard Loughlin is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religion at Durham University. He is the author of Telling God’s Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology and Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology. He is also a founding co-editor of the journal Theology & Sexuality , co-editor (with Jon Davies) of Sex These Days: Essays on Theology, Sexuality and Society, and editor of Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body. Mickey L. Mattox is Assistant Professor of Theology at Marquette University . He is the author of “Defender of the Most Holy Matriarchs”: Martin Luther’s Interpretation of the Women of Genesis in the Enarrationes in Genesin...