Philip H. Kern
Academic background and interests
Present Position
1998– |
Lecturer, Moore College |
Qualifications
1985 |
B.Sc. ( Emmaus Bible College ) |
1989 |
M.Div. ( Trinity Evangelical Divinity School ) |
1990 |
M.A. ( Trinity Evangelical Divinity School ) |
1994 |
Ph.D. ( University of Sheffield ) |
Previous Experience
1991–1992 |
Tutor in Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield |
1991–1992 |
Greek editor, Sheffield Academic Press |
1994–1995 |
Proofreader, Tyndale House, Cambridge |
1995–1998 |
Lecturer, Emmaus Bible College , Sydney |
Professional Activities
1994–1999 |
Member, Society of Biblical Literature |
1994– |
Member, Tyndale Fellowship |
1995–1996 |
Member, Society for the Study of Early Christianity |
1995–1998 |
Member, Academic Board, Sydney College of Divinity |
Recent Postgraduate Teaching Experience
Supervised ACT masters project: ‘We beheld his glory: John 1 and 2’.
Taught ACT coursework masters unit: Fourth Gospel as Narrative Theology.
Galatians as Pauline Argumentation (an investigation of Paul’s rhetoric).
Christology
Publications
Books
Rhetoric and Galatians: Assessing an Approach to Paul’s Epistle. Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 101. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Articles and Research Papers
‘Paul’s Conversion and Luke’s Portrayal of Character in Acts 81-10’. Tyndale Bulletin 54.2 (2003): 63-80.
‘The Cultural Context of Paul’s Gospel: the Cross and Suffering in Galatians’. Presented to the 2003 Moore College School of Theology.
‘Justification by Faith in the Letter to the Galatians’. In Explorations 10: Justification and Christian Assurance. Edited by R. J. Gibson. Sydney: Lancer, 1996.
Review of Duane Litfin, St Paul’s Theology of Proclamation. Evangelical Quarterly 68 (1996): 161–62.
Review of Daniel Patte, The Ethics of Interpretation. Beacon Book Reviewer (1996): 2–3.
Review of John Barclay, Obeying the Truth: Paul’s Ethics in Galatians. Journal for the Study of the New Testament 48 (1992): 125.
Research
Study Leave 2003: investigated the relationship between rhetoric, philosophy and gospel proclamation in apostolic Christianity. At Moore College, Sydney.
‘Galatians, Scholarship and Rhetoric’. Ph.D. thesis. University of Sheffield, 1994.
‘Where is Rhetoric Taking Galatians’. Seminar presented to the University of Sheffield Biblical Studies Seminar, March 1992.
‘Sinner or Transgressor: Searching for Linguistic Consistency in Galatians 2:15–21’. Seminar presented to the University of Sheffield Biblical Studies Seminar, April 1991.
‘The “I” of Galatians 2.15–21’. M.A. thesis. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1990.
Current Research
First Century Christians as Public Speakers and Apologists (for the Eerdmans Series First Century Christians in the Graeco–Roman World).
Jacob in Biblical Theology.
Definitions of ‘gospel’ in current NT studies.
‘Seed’ in Galatians and Biblical Theology.