Professor of New Testament Interpretation
Editor of the Westminster Theological Journal

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Education

• BS, California Institute of Technology, 1966
• PhD, Harvard University, 1970
• MDiv, Westminster Theological Seminary, 1974
• ThM, Westminster Theological Seminary, 1974
• MLitt, University of Cambridge, 1977
• DTh, University of Stellenbosch, 1981

Teaching

• Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Fresno State College, 1970–1971
• Teaching Staff, Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1972, '74, '75 and '77
• Westminster, 1976- 

Other Affiliations

"Introducing a Westminster Education"

Author

• Redeeming Science: A God-Centered Approach
•  Philosophy, Science and the Sovereignty of God
•  Symphonic Theology: The Validity of Multiple Perspectives in Theology
•  Understanding Dispensationalists
•  Science and Hermeneutics: Implications of Scientific Method for Biblical Interpretation
•  The Shadow of Christ in the Law of Moses
•  God-Centered Biblical Interpretation
•  The Returning King: A Guide to the Book of Revelation
• The Gender-Neutral Bible Controversy: Muting the Masculinity of God’s Words (co-author)
• The TNIV and the Gender-Neutral Bible Controversy (co-author)

Contributor

• The Foundations of Christian Scholarship
• Hermeneutics, Inerrancy and the Bible
• The New Testament Student and His Field
• Inerrancy and Hermeneutic: A Tradition, A Challenge, A Debate
• Theonomy: A Reformed Critique
• Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
• New Geneva Study Bible
• Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible
• The Practical Calvinist
• Resurrection and Eschatology: Theology in Service of the Church
• ESV Study Bible

Representative Articles

• “The Use of the Intersentence Conjunctions De, Oun, Kai, and Asyndeton in the Gospel of John,” Novum Testamentum, 1984
• “Reforming Ontology and Logic in the Light of the Trinity: An Application of Van Til’s Idea of Analogy,” Westminster Theological Journal 57, 1995
• “Why Scientists Must Believe in God: Divine Attributes of Scientific Law,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 46/1, 2003

Redeeming Science: A God-Centered Approach

Understanding Dispensationalists

Shadow of Christ in the Law of Moses

God-Centered Biblical Interpretation

Returning King: A Guide to the Book of Revelation

Symphonic Theology: The Validity of Multiple Perspectives in Theology

Philosophy, Science, and the Sovereignty of God

TNIV and the Gender-Neutral Bible Controversy

The Book of Revelation: A Guide for Understanding

The Supremacy of God in Interpretation

Using Multiple Thematic Centers in Theological Synthesis