STEVE WALTON

Professor of New Testament

BSc (Birmingham) MA (Cantab) PhD (Sheffield)

Areas of special interest: Luke-Acts, Paul and New Testament Greek

Steve served on a church staff, in student ministry with UCCF, advised people on God's call with the Church Pastoral Aid Society, was a househusband, a bishop's chaplain, and lectured at Bedford College and St John’s College, Nottingham. He came to LST in 1999 and was made Professor of New Testament in 2011.

Steve’s passion is to help others engage with the NT for themselves, and he is therefore an enthusiastic teacher of Greek. He co-authored a Gospels and Acts textbook, Exploring the New Testament, Vol.1, which is now in a second (revised) edition (2011), as well as writing a scholarly study of Acts and 1 Thessalonians, Leadership and Lifestyle, and a book on vocation for all Christians, A Call to Live. Steve has also published numerous scholarly articles.  He is working on the Word Biblical Commentary on Acts.

Steve is married to Ali, a former LST student, and they live with their cat and dog. He is a retired international volleyball referee and now works in training and developing other referees, which takes him around the world from time to time.

Steve is interested in supervising research students in New Testament, particularly in the theology and critical study of Luke and Acts, Mark, Jesus, and Paul (particularly, but not exclusively, Philippians and 1 and 2 Thessalonians). He also has interests in textual criticism, NT understandings of God, Christology and pneumatology, theological readings of Scripture (including biblical theology and hermeneutics), narrative criticism, the appropriation of the OT in the NT, Greek grammar and syntax, and has also joint-supervised theses in Christian-Muslim issues.

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