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Brian Blount | |
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| Born | Brian Blount Smithfield, Virginia, US |
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| Discipline | Theology |
| Sub-discipline | New Testament |
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Brian K. Blount (born in Smithfield,Virginia) is a Presbyterian minister,New Testament scholar and past President of Union Presbyterian Seminary. He is a preacher and scholar on the Book of Revelation.
He holds a B.A. from the College of William and Mary,his M. Div from Princeton Theological Seminary,and a Ph.D. from Emory University. [1]
He served as pastor of Carver Memorial Presbyterian Church in Newport News,Virginia,from 1982 to 1988,before studying for his doctorate. He served as the Richard J. Dearborne Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Princeton Theological Seminary for 15 years before being called as President of Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond,Virginia in 2007. He retired as President of Union Presbyterian Seminary on June 30,2023. [2] [3]
Blount is a contributor to The Christian Century. [4]
Union Presbyterian Seminary is a Presbyterian seminary in Richmond,Virginia,and Charlotte,North Carolina,offering graduate theological education in multiple modalities:in-person,hybrid,and online.
Walter Brueggemann is an American Protestant Old Testament scholar and theologian who is widely considered one of the most influential Old Testament scholars of the last several decades. His work often focuses on the Hebrew prophetic tradition and sociopolitical imagination of the Church. He argues that the Church must provide a counter-narrative to the dominant forces of consumerism,militarism,and nationalism.
John Bright (1908–1995) was an American biblical scholar and the author of several books,including the influential A History of Israel (1959),currently in its fourth edition (2000). He was closely associated with the American school of biblical criticism pioneered by William F. Albright,which sought to marry archaeology to a defense of the reliability of the Bible,especially the earlier books of the Old Testament.
Paul John Achtemeier was Herbert Worth and Annie H. Jackson Professor of Biblical Interpretation Emeritus at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia,now Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond,Virginia. He was born in Lincoln,Nebraska in 1927.
Nancy J. Duff is an American professor of theology. Duff worked as the Stephen Colwell Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary,where she taught from 1990 until 2020. Duff is also a Presbyterian minister in the PCUSA denomination. She is married to United Methodist Minister David Mertz. She has taught courses on the Decalogue,Biomedical ethics,human sexuality,liturgy and the Christian life,Dietrich Bonhoeffer,James Cone,types of Christian ethics,and vocation in Christian tradition and contemporary life.
Mark Allan Powell is an American New Testament scholar and professional music critic.
James Franklin Kay is the Joe R. Engle Professor of Homiletics and Liturgics Emeritus,and Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Christopher R. Seitz is an American Old Testament scholar and theologian known for his work in biblical interpretation and theological hermeneutics. He is the senior research professor of biblical interpretation at Toronto School of Theology,Wycliffe College. He is also an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church,and served as canon theologian in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas (2008-2015).
Patrick D. Miller,Jr. was an American Old Testament scholar who served as Charles T. Haley Professor of Old Testament Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1984 to 2005. He was an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
William P. Brown is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church USA,author,biblical theologian,and the William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary.
David Lyon Bartlett was the J. Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz Professor Emeritus of Christian Communication at Yale Divinity School,Distinguished Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary,and an ordained minister of the American Baptist Churches,USA.
Charles B. Cousar was an American Presbyterian minister and Professor of the New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. He was a writer and a New Testament scholar. He is a recipient of the Alumni Distinguished Service Award from Columbia Theological Seminary.
Kathleen M. O'Connor is an American Old Testament scholar and the William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emerita of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. She is widely known for her work in relating trauma and disaster,as well as present-day intercultural and ecumenical issues for biblical studies.
Anna Carter Florence is the Peter Marshall Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). She is known for her work on the historical,theological,aesthetic,and performative dimensions of preaching.
E. Elizabeth Johnson is an American New Testament scholar and the J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. She is widely known for her writings on the New Testament,specifically the Pauline Letters.
James Luther Mays was an American Old Testament scholar. He was Cyrus McCormick Professor of Hebrew and the Old Testament Emeritus at Union Presbyterian Seminary,Virginia. He served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature in 1986.
Stanley P. Saunders is a New Testament scholar,whose particular research interest includes eschatology,creation and the Gospel of Matthew. He is also involved in issues of social justice particularly pertaining to the American criminal justice system and creation care.
Beverly Roberts Gaventa is Distinguished Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Baylor University and Helen H.P. Manson Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis Emerita at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Jacqueline E. Lapsley serves as President,and Professor of Old Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary,and served as Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS). Her research interests lie in various fields,including literary theory,ethics,theological anthropology,and gender theory. These disciplines serve as valuable tools for Lapsley when approaching theological interpretations of the Old Testament.
Elizabeth Rice Achtemeier was an American ordained Presbyterian minister,Bible professor,and author.
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