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British Baptist Biblical Scholars 12: Helen Paynter

Director, Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence, Bristol Baptist College

 

Publications

___ Reduced Laughter: Seriocomic Features and their Functions in the Book of Kings (Brill, 2016)

___ 'Ahab: Heedless Father, Sullen Son: Humour and Intertextuality in 1 Kings 21', Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 2017 vol. 41(4): 451-474.

___ Immigration and the Church: Reflecting faithfully in our generation (Grove, 2017)

___ ‘Revenge for my Two Eyes’: Talion and Mimesis in the Samson narrative', Biblical Interpretation, 2018 vol. 26: 133-157.

___ 'Participation and goal: Creation and the church’ in Rhythms of Faithfulness: Essays in Honor of John Colwell edited by Andy Goodliff and Paul Goodliff (Pickwick, 2018)

___ ‘Make yourself at home’: Tensions and Paradoxes of hospitality in dialogue with the Bible', Bible and Critical Theory, 2018 vol 14(1):42-61.

___ Dead and Buried: Attending to the voice of the victim in the Old Testament and today: Towards an ethical reading of the Old Testament texts of violence. Oxford: Regents Park College, Whitley Publications, 2018

___ The Strange World of Elijah and Elisha (Grove, 2019)

___ God of violence yesterday, God of love today? Wrestling honestly with the Old Testament. BRF, 2019.

___ 'The Gadarene swine and the conquest of Jericho: an intertextual reading',Pacific Journal of Theological Research, 2019 vol. 14(2): 13-24.

___ 'Porous Borders and Textual Ambiguity: Why ancient Israel is no model for modern nationalism', Journal of European Baptist Studies, 2020 vol.20(1): 117-130.

___ The Bible Doesn’t Tell Me So: Why you don’t have to submit to domestic abuse and coercive control. BRF, 2020

___ 'Towards a Thick Description of Biblical Violence’ in Bible and Violence: A Thick Description edited by Helen Paynter and M. Spalione (Sheffield Phoenix, 2020)

___ Telling Terror in Judges 19: Rape and Reparation for the Levite’s Wife (Routledge, 2020)

___ 'Who is the Wife Whose Virtue is Tested in Numbers 5?' in Attending to the Margins: Essays in Honour of Stephen Finamore edited by Helen Paynter and Petter Hatton (Oxford Centre for Baptist Studies, 2022)

___ ‘Redeeming the Prostitute? Babylon and her fate in Revelation.’ In Violent Biblical Texts: New Perspectives edited by Trevor Laurence and Helen Paynter (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2022).

___ ‘Land, Seed and Promise. Jacob as Mise en Abyme to Israel.’ In Trevor Laurence and Helen Paynter (eds),Violent Biblical Texts: New Perspectives edited by Trevor Laurence and Helen Paynter (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2022)

___ ‘Apologists and Appropriators: Protestant Christian reckoning with biblical violence.’ In Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts edited by Maria Power and Helen Paynter (Palgrave McMillan, 2022)

___ ‘Erasing the troubling teens? What happens to the conquest of Canaan when the non-Deuteronomistic biblical writers tell the story?’ In Map or Compass?: The Bible on Violence edited by Michael Spalione and Helen Paynter (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2022)

___ 'That the Next Generation Might Remember: The Conquest of Canaan in Israel’s Collective Memory and in the Psalms', Journal of Baptist Theology in Context 8 (March 2023)

Paul Fiddes — one of the busiest theologians!

In 2023 Paul will turn 76. He continues to remain busy with writing and leading various projects. In 2021 he published 3 books — one on William Shakespeare, one on C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams, and one on Iris Murdoch, plus an edited collection of essays — Love as Common Ground: Essays on Love in Religion (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021). This last book was the first publication to emerge from the Study of Love in Religion project he leads. The project, started in 2012, is a response to the 2007 Open Letter to Christian Leaders called 'A Common Word' from many Muslim scholars. 

Out late last year was a second book of essays edited by Fiddes: Loving the Planet: Interfaith Essays on Ecology, Love, and Theology. The book once again brings Jewish, Muslim and Christian scholars together, in this collection, focused on what it means to speaking of loving planet earth. Copies are available via Amazon.

A third collection of essays are in preparation.

Paul is currently completing a commentary on Romans in the Wiley Blackwell Commentary Series and then has plans to write a book on the Holy Spirit.

A nearly complete list of his publications can be found here.

 

Gunton to Zizioulas: Theology at King's College London, 1988-2003

With the news that John Zizioulas has died aged 92, there is a passing of a generation of theologians associated with King's College London in the 1990s and early 2000s. They were friends and colleagues. They shaped a way of doing theology for many.

Colin Gunton, who was the linchpin that connected the others, died in 2003. Dan Hardy in 2007. John Webster in 2016. Robert Jenson in 2017. Christoph Schwöbel in 2021. Andrew Walker in 2021. John Zizioulas in 2023. This was an ecumenical grouping — Gunton was a Congregationalist, Hardy and Webster were Anglicans, Jenson and Schwöbel were Lutherans, and Walker and Zizioulas was Eastern Orthodox. (A junior member from the late 1990s Steve Holmes, was a Baptist.)

The conferences of the Research Institute in Systematic Theology (RSIT), regularly featured these theologians, amongst others.* (The significant other is Brian Horne, a lecturer in theology at King's until 2001. Horne is retired, but still semi-active. He has chapter in every volume of the RIST) 

Persons, Divine and Human — Gunton, Zizioulas, Schwöbel 

Trinitarian Theology Today — Jenson, Zzioulas, Gunton, Schwöbel

God and Freedom — Schwöbel, Gunton

The Doctrine of Creation — Jenson, Gunton, Hardy, Schwöbel 

The Theology of Reconciliation — Schwöbel, Webster, Jenson, Gunton

The Doctrine of Christ — Schwöbel, Webster, Jenson

Gunton and Hardy co-edited the Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine and edited together On Being the Church, which featured chapters by them and Schwöbel.

Schwöbel was the co-founder of the RIST, and member of the faculty until 1993.

Gunton and Webster were the founding editors of the International Journal of Systematic Theology in 1999. Webster's involvement at King's came during his time at Oxford, 1996-2003. 

Zizioulas was a Visiting Professor at King's and during the 1990s and early 2000s made semi-regular visits. 

Jenson was Gunton's first doctoral supervisor, and their friendship and collaboration continued throughout their lives, including, in the year of Colin's death, a co-written piece on the Logos Ensarkos. 

Walker was part of the British Council of Churches group on the Trinity in the 1980s with Gunton and Zizioulas, and Gunton would contribute to the Walker edited, Different Gospels. Walker wrote a beautiful foreword to The T & T Clark Companion to Colin Gunton.

* E.g. Alan Torrance, Douglas Farrow, Francis Watson

 

12 Books for 2023

Eleven books I'm keeping any eye out for in 2023.

1. Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar (William Collins, February 2023)
2. Christianity and Racism: Conspiracy or Coincidence? by Robert Beckford (SPCK, March 2023)
3. The Broken Body: Israel, Christ and Fragmentation by Sarah Coakley (Wiley-Blackwell, April 2023)
4. Beyond Immanence by Andrew Torrance and Alan Torrance (Eerdmans, May 2023)
5. Abundantly More by Jeremy Begbie (Baker, June 2023)
6. The New Perspective on Grace: Paul and the Gospel after Paul and the Gift edited by Edward Adams et al (Eerdmans, August 2023)
7. The Eucharist in Four Dimensions by Jessica Martin (Canterbury, August 2023)
8. A Primer in Christian Ethics: Christ and the Struggle to Live Well by Luke Bretherton (Cambridge, 2023)
9. A Jewish Paul: The Messiah's Herald to the Gentiles by Matthew Thiessen (Baker, August 2023)
10. Pilgrim Journey: Instruction in the Mystery of the Gospel by Curtis Freeman (Fortress, September 2023)
11. Awake in Gethsemane by Tim Judson (Baylor, September 2023)
12. Glorification and the Life of Faith by David Ford and Ashley Cocksworth (Baker, October 2023)

Three Welcomes: A Christmas Sermon

(Sing) ‘Welcome everybody, it’s good to see you here.’ Let me say I hope you feel a warm welcome this morning. It is very true today that it’s good to see you here. I wonder if you’ve welcomed anyone recently? Perhaps someone to your home to visit in the last few days, perhaps someone new at work or at school in the last few months, perhaps you have welcomed someone to Belle Vue, perhaps even this morning. I wonder what you said and what you did to make the person feel welcome.

The word welcome means ‘desired guest’? It’s made up of two Old English words — wella meaning desire and cuma meaning guest. I’m talking about welcome because I want to suggest that it is a good way to look at the Christmas story. At the heart of this story is welcome.

At the beginning of the Nativity story, there is the visit of the angel Gabriel to Mary. Gabriel brings news of great joy — of blessing, salvation, of conception. The news though is dependent upon Mary’s welcome: is the son announced, one that she can welcome as a desired guest? It is not altogether clear that the angel’s words are welcome ones. She is young, betrothed, but not yet married, she is a virgin. To accept the angel’s words will have consequences and quite possibly dangerous ones. There is also no sign that Mary is longing for a child, at least at this moment, there is no sign that Mary is ready for a child, if one can ever be ready. And yet Mary determines to be one who welcomes, who welcomes God into her very life, to give her body over as a host of the divine, and carry God within her womb. (Sing) How silently, how silently, the wondrous gift is given, and welcomed. Mary’s welcome is joined with her relative’s Elizabeth’s welcome: Blessed are you, she says to Mary and blessed is your child. This child Mary carries is a desired guest.

Every year Bethlehem gets bad report. We create a story of innkeepers saying there is no room. We create a story of unwelcome. ‘Because there was no room for them in the inn’ is the way these words have often been translated, but the better wording is ‘because there was no room for them in the guest room.’ Joseph and Mary were travelling to Bethlehem because Joseph was from the house of David, He was returning to family — how often would Joseph have travelled to Bethlehem, whenever he made the pilgrimage to Jerusalem? There was no room in the family guest room, because Joseph wasn’t the only one coming to Bethlehem. The whole of Bethlehem was 'surg[ing] with the influx of relatives coming to register, and every corner of every house hosted someone.' The whole town worked to make room for everyone. Luke describes a full house — all the rooms have someone staying in them and the only space left by the time Mary and Joseph arrive is the open stall area among the livestock, where a manger stood. The house was 'bursting at the seams', but Joseph and Mary would have been there for meals around the table, part of the family, welcomed as desired guests. When Mary’s labour began, she would not have been alone, but the other women in the home would have been on hands to help, to be with her as she welcomed her child into the world.* The arrival of Jesus, is welcomed by Mary, by Joseph, by those they were staying with, by all of Bethlehem in the form of shepherds, by all of heaven in the form of angels. Jesus is the desired guest who arrives. He is welcomed as a royal guest, He is welcomed as a promised saviour.

We have explored how Jesus was welcomed, but I want to step back and turn the welcome around, for Christmas is not first how we welcome God, but instead it is the story of God’s welcome of us. God taking human flesh, God being born a baby is the desire of God to welcome us, to see us as a desired guest in creation, in heaven and earth, in the life of God. What we celebrate at Christmas is God reaching out to welcome us. We live in God’s world, we live in God’s story, and the gift of Christmas, the incarnation of Jesus, is to announce God’s welcome: Jesus is God’s welcome in flesh and blood.

Christmas is a lesson in welcome: may we learn from Mary and Bethlehem what it means to welcome God and to welcome one another into our lives. But its more than a lesson it a message to broadcast everywhere: that God welcomes us, welcome is part of the very nature of God and God calls, summons, invites, longs, for us to welcome him. ‘Come and let me be born in you’, Jesus says to each one of you. ‘Come and let me be born among you’, Jesus says to this community.

(Sing) O holy child of Bethlehem, descend to us, we pray; cast out our sin, and enter in;  be born in us today. We hear the Christmas angels  the great glad tidings tell; O come to us, abide with us, our Lord Immanuel.

 

* This section has borrowed from Kelly Nikondeha, The First Advent in Palestine (Broadleaf, 2022), 83-85.

Beverly Gaventa and Paul's Letter to the Romans

Little by little Beverly Gaventa is working her way through her commentary on Paul's letter to the Romans. In 2016 she published a brief book When in Romans (Baker), picking up broad themes of her reading. From 2004 she has been publishing articles exploring sections, words, and themes running through the letter. Below is an attempt to see how her reading of the letter is looking chapter by chapter. Many, if not all, of the articles, are concerned not just with one chapter, but with the whole letter.

1

'Power and Kenosis in Paul’s Letter to the Romans' in Kenosis: The Self-Emptying of Christ in Scripture and Theology edited by Keith Johnson and Paul Nimmo (Eerdmans, 2022)

'"To Preach the Gospel": Romans 1.15 and the Purpose of Romans' in The Letter to the Romans edited by Udo Schnelle (Peeters, 2009), 179-95

"The Mission of God in Paul's Letter to the Romans." Paul as Missionary: Identity, Activity, Theology, and Practice edited by Trevor Burke and Brian S. Rosner (T & T Clark, 2011), 65-75

'Places of Power in Paul's Letter to the Romans', Interpretation 76.4 (October 2022)

'"God Handed Them Over": Reading Romans 1:18-32 Apocalyptically', Australian Biblical Review 53 (2005), 42-53

3

'From Toxic Speech to the Redemption of Doxology in Paul's Letter to the Romans' in The Word Leaps the Gap: Essays on Scripture and Theology in Honor of Richard B. Hays edited by J. Ross Wagner et al (Eerdmans, 2008)

5-8

'The Cosmic Power of Sin in Paul's Letter to the Romans: Towards a Widescreen Edition', Interpretation (July 2004)

'The Rhetoric of Violence and the God of Peace in Paul's Letter to the Romans." Paul, John, and Apocalyptic Eschatology: Studies in Honour of Martinus C. de Boer edited by Jans Krans et al (Brill, 2014).

7

'The Shape of the “I”: The Psalter, the Gospel, and the Speaker in Romans 7' in Apocalyptic Paul: Cosmos and Anthrops in Romans 5-8 edited by Beverly Gaventa (Baylor, 2013) 

8

'Interpreting the Death of Jesus Apocalyptically: Reconsidering Romans 8.32' in Jesus and Paul Reconnected edited by Todd D. Still (Eerdmans, 2007)

"‘Neither Height nor Depth': Cosmos and Soteriology in Paul's Letter to the Romans." Apocalyptic and the Future of Theology: With and Beyond J. Louis Martyn edited by Joshua B. Davis and Douglas Harink (Cascade Books, 2012), 183-99

'The Powers and Paul’s Letter to the Romans' in Life Amid the Principalities edited by Michael Root and James J. Buckley (Wipf and Stock, 2016), 24-37.

9-11

 'Thinking from Christ to Israel: Romans 9-11 in Apocalyptic Perspective' in Paul and the Apocalyptic Imagination edited by John Byron and Joel N. Lohr (Fortress, 2016).

'On the Calling-into-Being of Israel: Romans 9.6-26' in J. Ross Wagner (ed.), Between Gospel and Election (Mohr Siebeck, 2010)

'Questions about Nomos: Answers about Christos: Romans 10:4 in Context.' Torah Ethics and Early Christian Identity edited by Susan J. Wendel and David M. Miller (Eerdmans, 2016).

'The God Who Will Not Be Taken For Granted: Reflections on Paul's Letter to the Romans' in The Ending of Mark and the Ends of God: Essays in Memory of Donald Harrisville Juel edited by Beverley Gaventa and Patrick Miller (Westminster John Knox, 2005)

12

'Gendered Bodies and the Body of Christ' in Practicing with Paul: Reflections on Paul and the Practices of Ministry in Honor of Susan G. Eastman edited by Presian R. Burroughs (Cascade, 2018)

13

“Reading Romans 13 with Simone Weil: Toward a More Generous Hermeneutic.” Journal of Biblical Literature 136 (2017) 7-22.

14-15

'Reading for the Subject: The Paradox of Power in Romans 14.1-15.6', Journal of Theological Interpretation 5.1 (2011)

“The ‘Glory of God’ in Paul’s Letter to the Romans.” Interpretation and the Claims of the Text: Resourcing New Testament Theology edited by Jason A. Whitlark, Bruce W. Longenecker, Lidija Novakovic, and Mikeal C. Parsons (Baylor, 2014), 29-40.

16

 "Paul and the Roman Believers." The Blackwell Companion to Paul edited by Stephen Westerholm (Blackwell, 2011), 93-107.

 

See also:

'Freedom in Apocalyptic Perspective:  A Reflection on Paul's Letter to the Romans' in Quests for Freedom: Biblical, Historical, Contemporary edited by Michael Welker (Cascade, 2019 [2015])

'We, They, All in Paul's Letter to the Romans', Word and the World 39.3 (2019)

 

British Baptist Theologians 23: Darrell Jackson

ThD (Birmingham, 2009)

Mission Advisor, Baptist Union of Great Britain (1996-2003)
Researcher in European Mission and Evangelism, Conference of European Churches (2003-2007)
Director, Nova Research Centre and Lecturer in European Mission, Redcliffe College, Gloucestershire (2007-2011)
Associate Professor of Missiology, Morling College, Sydney (2021-2019)
Associate Professor and Director of Research, Whitley College, Melbourne (2019-)

 

Publications

’Constructing Futures: outlining a transhumanist vision of the future and the challenge to Christian theology of its proposed uses of new and futures developments in technology’, Journal of Faith and Science Exchange (2000)

'Does the future have a denomination?', Baptist Ministers' Journal 277 (Jan. 2002): 18-23

‘Mission-shaped presence in Europe’, International Review of Mission 95 (July/October 2006)

‘Proselytism in a Central and Eastern European perspective’, Journal of European Baptist Studies 8.2 (January 2008): 18-36

’Europe and the migrant experience: transforming integration’, Transformation 28.1 (2011)

‘The futures of missiology: imaginative practices and the transformation of rupture’ in Walk Humbly with the Lord: Church and Mission Engaging Plurality edited by V. Mortensen and A. Neilson (Eerdmans, 2011)

'Imagine a Church without Migrants: a European perspective' in Thinking Christianly about Immigration edited by D. Carroll (Denver Seminary, 2011)

’Intercultural and inter-religious dialogue in Europe’ in Mission in Context: Explorations inspired by Andrew J. Kirk edited by Cathy Ross (Ashgate, 2012)

‘For the Son of Man did not come to lead, but to be led: Matthew 20:20-28 and Royal Service’ in Servantship edited by Graham Hill (Wipf and Stock, 2013)

Love of God, love of neighbour’: is this really an evangelical missiology?’ In The Mission of God: Studies in Orthodox and Evangelical Mission edited by Mark Oxbrow and Tim Grass (Regnum, 2015)

’Conclusion’ in Congregational Transformation in Australian Baptist Church Life edited by Darren Crenshaw and Darrell Jackson (Morling, 2015)

(ed), Cultural Diversity, Worship and Australian Baptist Church Life (Morling, 2016)

'Evangelism as Life-affirming activity in the city’, International Review of Mission 105.1 (2016)

The State of the Churches in Europe’, Review and Expositor 115.2 (2018): 157-74 

’Come on in! The making of many home’ in Reimagining Home edited by Darrell Jackson et al (Morling Press, 2019)

’Re-placing Mission’ in Not in Kansas Anymore: Christian Faith in a Post-Christian World edited by Michael Frost et al (Morling, 2020)

’The Diakonian Dei: service of the world and forms of diaconal ministry among Baptists’ in International Handbook on Ecumenical Diakonia (Regnum, 2021)

(ed.) with Alessia Passarelli, Mapping Migration, Mapping Churches' Responses in Europe 'Being Church Together' (2021 [2008, 2016])

with Rene Erwich, Eleanor Flynn and Titus S. Olorunnisola, 'Equipping Families and Friends to Offer Spiritual Care to People Living with Dementia: Findings from a Meta-Synthesis', Religions 13.5 (2022)

 

 

New Book: Ministry in Conversation: essays in honour of Paul Goodliff

It was a real joy and privilege to edit this book with John Colwell in honour of my father as he retires. See here for more about the book and how to order with a discount until mid-July.

Contents

Ministry and Art — Graham Sparkes
Ministry and Music — Geoff Colmer
Ministry and Poetry — Paul Fiddes
Ministry and Geography - Andy Goodliff
Ministry and History - Stephen Copson
Ministry as Improvisation - Ruth Gouldbourne
Ministry and Wine — Rob Ellis
Ministry as Gardening - Pat Took
Ministry and Travel - Paul Beasley-Murray
Ministry and Education - Sally Nelson
Ministry and Ecumenism - Ruth Bottoms
Ministry and Restorative Justice - Myra Blyth
Ministry and Counselling - Alistair Ross
Ministry and Preaching - Wale Hudson-Roberts
Ministry as Prayer - John Colwell

British Baptist Scholars 11: Christine E. Joynes

The return of Elijah : an exploration of the character and context of the relationship between Elijah, John the Baptist and Jesus in the Gospels (DPhil, Oxford, 1998)

Director, Centre for Reception History of the Bible, University of Oxford (2002-)

Tutorial Fellow in Theology & Director of the Centre for Baptist Studies, Regent's Park College (2018-)

 

Publications

___ 'A Question of Identity: 'Who do People Say I Am?' Elijah, John the Baptist and Jesus in Mark's Gospel' in Understanding, Studying and Reading: New Testament Essays in Honour of John Ashton edited by Christopher Rowland and Crispin Fletcher-Louis (Sheffield, 1998)

___ 'The returned Elijah? John the Baptist's angelic identity in the Gospel of Mark', Scottish Journal of Theology (2005)

___ (ed.), Perspectives on the Passion: encountering the Bible through the Arts (T & T Clark, 2007)

___ 'Introduction' in Perspectives on the Passion: encountering the Bible through the Arts (T & T Clark, 2007)

___ (ed.) with Christopher Rowland, From the Margins 2 : Women of the New Testament and Their Afterlives (Sheffield Phoenix, 2009)

___ 'Wombs and Tombs: The Reception History of Mark 16.1-20' in From the Margins 2 (Sheffield Phoenix, 2009)

___ 'Visualizing Salome’s Dance of Death: The Contribution of Art to Biblical Exegesis' in Between the Text and the Canvas: The Bible and Art in Dialogue edited by J. Cheryl Exum and Ela Nutu (Society of Biblical Literature, 2010)

___ 'The Sound of Silence: Interpreting Mark 16:1–8 through the Centuries', Interpretation 65.1 (2011)

___ 'Still at the Margins?: Gospel Women and their Afterlives' in Radical Christian Voices and Practice: Essays in Honour of Christopher Rowland (Oxford, 2012)

 

___ 'A Place for Pushy Mothers? Visualizations of Christ Blessing the Children' in Biblical Reception 2 edited by J. Cheryl Exum and David Clines (T & T Clark, 2013)

 

___ 'Changing Horizons: Reflections on a Decade at Oxford University’s Centre for Reception History of the Bible', Journal of the Bible and its Reception (2014)

 

___ 'The Reception of the Bible and its Significance' in Scripture and its Interpretation: A Global, Ecumenical Introduction to the Bible edited by Michael Gorman (Baker, 2017)

 

___ 'Re-visioning Women in Mark's Gospel through Art' in Biblical Reception 5 edited by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona (T & T Clark, 2018)

 

___ 'Reception History of the Gospels' in The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels edited by Stephen Barton (2nd Ed., Cambridge, 2021)

 

___ 'Picturing the Parable of the Sower' in The Art of the Biblical Interpretation: Visual Portrayals of Scriptural Narratives edited by Heidi J. Hornik et al (Society of Biblical Literature, 2021)

British Baptist Biblical Scholars (10) Sean F. Winter

DPhil (Oxford, 1997, supervised by N. T. Wright): “‘Worthy of the Gospel of Christ’: The Situation and Strategy of Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians”

Tutor in New Testament, Northern Baptist College (2000-2008)

Associate Professor in New Testament, Pilgrim Theological College (2009-)

 

Publications

More Light and Truth? Biblical Interpretation in Covenantal Perspective. The 2007 Whitley Lecture (Whitley, 2007)

'Ambiguous Genitives, Pauline Baptism and Roman Insulae: Resources from Romans to Support Pushing at the Boundaries of Unity' in A. R. Cross and P. E. Thompson (eds.), Baptist Sacramentalism 2 (Paternoster, 2008), 77-91.

“The Rhetorical Function of John’s Portrayal of the Jewish Law" in  Torah in the New Testament edited by P. Oakes and M. Tait (T & T Clark, 2009)

‘Ambassadors for Christ’ (2 Corinthians 5.20): Ministry in the New Creation' in Questions of Identity: Studies in Honour of Brian Haymes edited by Anthony R. Cross and R. Gouldbourne (Regent's Park College, 2011)

'Reading with Friends: Persuasive Testimony in Baptist Interpretative Communities' in The 'Plainly Revealed' Word of God: Baptist Hermeneutics in Theory and Practice edited by Simon P. Woodman and Helen Dare (Mercer, 2011)

'"A Daring Synagogue Sermon?": Paul's Preaching in 2 Corinthians 3.7–18' in Delivering the Word: Preaching and Exegesis in the Western Christian Tradition edited by William J. Lyons and Isabella Sandwell (Equinox, 2011)

'Word and World: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Biblical Interpretation Today', Pacifica 25.2 (2012)

‘Paul’s “Grace” Language in 2 Corinthians’ in Immense, Unfathomed, Unconfined: The Grace of God in Creation, Church and Community: Essays in Honour of Norman Young edited by Sean Winter (Melbourne: Uniting Academic Press, 2013)

'Paul's Atttitude to the Gentiles' in Attitudes to Gentiles in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity edited by David Sim and James McLaren (T & T Clark, 2013)

'"Present-ing the Word": The Use and Abuse of Bonhoeffer on the Bible’, The Bonhoeffer Legacy: Australasian Journal of Bonhoeffer Studies 2.2 (2014), 19–35.

‘"Obedient to Death”: Revisiting the Rhetorical Function of Philippians 2:6–11’, Australian Biblical Review 63 (2015)

'Journey and rest: Hebrews, pilgrimage, and the work of theological education', Pacifica 28.2 (June 2015), 192-207.

'Friendship Traditions in the New Testament: An Overview', Pacifica 29 (2016): 192–204. 

'"With Him I Believe": Keith Clements on Dietrich Bonhoeffer as Patriot and Ecumenist', Bonhoeffer Legacy (2017)

'Listening for the Word of God: Divine Speech, Scripture, and the Task of Interpretation' in Rhythms of Faithfulness: Essays in Honor of John E. Colwell edited by Andy Goodliff and Paul Goodliff (Pickwick, 2018)

'God Revealed and Hidden: Barth's Exegesis of Romans 11:33–36', Colloquium: The Australian and New Zealand Theological Review, 50.1 (2018): 46-58.

'Paul's Ethics and Paul's Experience: Law and love in Galatians' in Biblical Ethics: Tensions Between Justice and Mercy, Law and Love (Gorgias, Piscataway, 2019), 251-71.

'Suffering, Salvation, and Solidarity in 2 Corinthians 1:3–11' in Suffering in Paul: Perspectives and Implications (Pickwick, 2019), 64-81.

‘He Will Rescue Us Again’: Affliction and Hope in 2 Corinthians 1:8–11', Religions (2020)

'Beyond the Household: The Emergence of Translocal Ministry in the New Testament' in Episkope: The Theory and Practice of Translocal Oversight (SCM, 2020), 3-13.

'N. T. (Tom) Wright (1948–)' in Twentieth Century Anglican Theologians (Wiley Blackwell, 2020), 206-16.

'The Letter, the spirit, and the Letter Again: Reflections on 2 Corinthians 3 and the Work of Biblical Interpretation' in Re-Membering the Body: The Witness of History, Theology, and the Arts in Honour of Ruth M. B. Gouldbourne edited by Anthony R. Cross and Brian Haymes (Pickwick, 2021)

'Re-visioning (the) Love/Command: Law, Authority, and the Logic of Love in the Philosophy of Pamela Sue Anderson and Paul’s Letter to the Galatians' in Contemporary Feminist Theologies: Power, Authority, Love (Routledge, 2021), 158-67.