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20/02/2012

What is progress in New Testament Studies?


The inaugural lecture by Professor Steve Walton

New Testament Studies is in something of a crisis today. People in the churches find much of what goes on in university departments of Theology to be irrelevant to their concerns and needs. People who study the New Testament in universities and theological colleges find that scholars are asking a baffling array of different questions, and there seems no agreement about what is important, or which approaches to studying the New Testament are right or wrong, good or bad. On the other hand, those who teach and study the New Testament professionally sometimes find statements by church leaders and members about the New Testament’s view of something to be superficial or missleading, if not wrong. How does the discipline move forward today?

In his inaugural lecture, Professor Steve Walton addressed the state of New Testament Studies by focusing on what progress is in this area of study. Asking:

  • why studying the New Testament is important, especially in an academic setting;
  • what ‘progress’ is in general and to what extent it is desirable;
  • the relationship of believers’ and academic reading of the New Testament;
  • what is most important in studying the New Testament;
  • where New Testament Studies might go in the future..

Here is the video of the lecture:

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