June 17, 2007
Guest – Scot McKnight
Program:
Loving God, Loving Neighbor
Scot
McKnight
is the Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North
Park University. The author of more than ten books and numerous articles
and chapters in multi-authored works, McKnight specializes in historical
Jesus studies as well as the Gospels and the New Testament. As an
authority in Jesus studies, McKnight has been frequently consulted by
Fox News, WGN, US News & World Report, Newsweek, TIME, as well as
newspapers throughout the United States
Prior to
joining the Faculty at North Park University (1994), McKnight was a
professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He was awarded a PhD
at the University of Nottingham, England where he studied under James
Dunn. He obtained his Master's degree at Trinity and his bachelor's
degree at Cornerstone University.
 McKnight
wrote a lengthy monograph for Baylor University Press called Jesus
and His Death. His book, The Jesus Creed, won the
Christianity Today book award for 2004 in the area of Christian
living.
Scot
McKnight has taken a great interest in the Emerging church movement,
becoming a proponent of it himself. He posts daily on his blog,
JesusCreed.org, especially on Emerging church issues. |
