Category: Kent Yinger

Spring 2011 at George Fox Evangelical Seminary

I type this as I sit in the Graduate Reading Room of Suzzallo Library at the University of Washington. Because of the Pacific Northwest libraries’ Orbis Cascade (Summit) alliance, I can check out books from the UW and use its internet—all for free.

 

Suzzallo Library Graduate Reading Room @ the University of Washington

If all goes according to plan, I begin my last semester as a student with George Fox Evangelical Seminary on January 10, 2011. This semester I am doing something directly with the university and the seminary, as opposed to previous semesters where my involvement with George Fox University was more indirect. Here is the lineup for this semester:

  • BIST 545 Greek Readings with Donann Warren, MA (Classics)
  • BIST 565 Master of Arts in Theological Studies Teaching Internship with Laura Simmons, PhD (practical theology)
  • BIST 575 Thesis Continuation with Paul Anderson, PhD, (advisor) and Kent Yinger (faculty of records)
  • BIST 585 Theological German (Seminar in Biblical Studies) with Kent Yinger, PhD
  • CHTH 552 Essentials of Christian Theology with R. Larry Shelton, ThD

The Christian theology class is GFES’s only systematic-theology-type class; this will also be my first and last class with Dr. Shelton. The teaching internship, although listed with Dr. Simmons as the internship director, will be supervised by Dr. Anderson—this is what relates me to GFU more directly this year.

Well, wish me the best and keep me in your prayers! Maybe I can attend a GFU women’s basketball game this year, and hopefully they will bring the championship home again.

Introduction to the New Perspective

I received in the mail yesterday a letter from Wipf and Stock regarding its latest offerings. As I perused the list, I noticed The New Perspective on Paul: An Introduction by Kent L. Yinger, Ph.D, New Testament professor at George Fox Evangelical Seminary. Here is the book description, taken from its page on Wipf and Stock:

Can someone please explain this “New Perspective on Paul”? Where did it come from and will it help or hinder Christian interpreters to grasp the apostle’s writings more clearly? In The New Perspective on Paul: An Introduction, Kent Yinger provides concise, readable, and authoritative answers to these and other questions currently exercising students of Paul.

The book has received endorsements from scholars internationally, quite possibly the most significant is the one coming from J.D.G. Dunn who has written extensively on the New Perspective.

Having taken a full year of New Testament under Dr. Yinger, I have found the New Perspective on Paul more convincing that I once thought. As numerous endorses have stated on the one hand, this book is an introduction and is not out to criticize or defend the New Perspective. On the other hand, based on what I have learned in the classroom from Yinger himself (where he simply presents the New Perspective), I am sure some who read The New Perspective will at least rethink it as something feasible for reading Paul.

George Fox Evangelical Seminary Fall 2010

Long title, I know. I doubt the semester will be as long.

My lineup for this semester by category:

  • Biblical Studies
    • BIST545 Greek Readings with Donann Warren, MA (Classics)
    • BIST 560 Christology of the New Testament with David Ackerman, PhD
    • BIST 572 Research/Thesis in BIST II with Kent Yinger, PhD (faculty of records) and Paul Anderson, PhD (advisor)
  • Spiritual Formation
    • SFAD 585 Spirituality and the Mind with Roger Nam, PhD

So, from first glance, this will not be as crazy as previous semesters. Still busy, but not crazy. If things go well, this is my second to last semester!