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Emeritus Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at the
University of Durham, James D. G. Dunn
is a New Testament scholar widely known for his
writings on the Holy Spirit, St. Paul, and Jesus,
as well as for his studies of the evolution of
the historical critical method and the relation
between Christianity and Judaism in the first
century. He was graduated from the University
of Glasgow, where he took both a master's degree
in economics and statistics and a bachelor of
divinity degree, and received his Ph.D. in New
Testament studies from Cambridge University in
1968. A licensed minister of the Church of Scotland,
he served as senior assistant minister of St.
David's Church in Knightswood, Glasgow, and as
chaplain to overseas students in Edinburgh before
beginning his academic career at the University
of Nottingham as a lecturer and then a reader
in theology. Appointed professor of divinity at
Durham in 1982, he was named Lightfoot Professor
in 1990, a post he held for thirteen years. Dr.
Dunn twice chaired Durham's theology department
and was director of its Centre for Theological
Research. He also has been the Sir Derman Christopherson
Foundation Fellow at Durham. A former Joseph McCarthy
Visiting Professor at the Gregorian University
in Rome, he has been a visiting professor at Fuller
Theological Seminary and at New College, Berkeley,
and has delivered invited lectures at numerous
colleges, universities, and seminaries in the
United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia,
and New Zealand. Dr. Dunn was founding chairman
of the Association of University Departments of
Theology and Religious Studies in the United Kingdom
and has served as president of both the British
New Testament Conference and of the Studiorum
Novi Testamenti Societas. He is presently vice
president of St. John's College Council, Durham,
chairman of the Wesley Study Centre Management
Committee, and a member of the advisory board
of the Tantur Ecumenical Institute for Theological
Studies in Jerusalem. Cambridge University has
awarded him honorary bachelor of divinity and
doctor of divinity degrees. A former advisory
editor of the Journal for the Study of the
New Testament and joint editor of SPCK's Biblical
Foundations in Theology Series, Dr. Dunn is editor
of the Cambridge University Press series, Theology
of the New Testament, advisory editor of Horizons
in Biblical Theology and of the Journal for the
Study of the New Testament Supplemental Series,
and advisory editor for the Beihefte zur Zeitschrift
für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft. He
is the author of some 180 articles published in
academic journals, the editor of six books, including
most recently, The Cambridge Companion to St.
Paul (Cambridge University Press, 2003), the
co-author of two books, and the author of twenty-two
others, from the early and influential Baptism
in the Holy Spirit (1970) and Jesus and
the Spirit (1975 and 1997) to the recent Theology
of Paul the Apostle (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1998)
and Jesus Remembered (Wm. B. Eerdmans,
2003), the first volume of a projected three-volume
series entitled Christianity in the Making.
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