Experts on "Bible"

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David Talley

Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies
Interim Co-Chair, Biblical Studies and Theology
  • Bible
  • church leadership
  • counseling
  • discipleship
  • doctrine
  • gender and theology
  • God
  • guilt
  • issues within the church community
  • Jesus
  • leadership
  • ministry
  • Old Testament
  • pastoring
  • preaching
  • theology
 

David Horner

Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies
  • abortion
  • ancient philosophy
  • appologetics
  • Bible
  • bioethics
  • character development
  • Christianity and spirituality
  • Christian thought
  • church
  • church history
  • Christian worldview
  • ethics
  • euthanasia
  • evil
  • faith and reason
  • homosexuality
  • integration of faith and learning
  • medieval philosophy
  • morality
  • moral relativism
  • music
  • philosophy
  • philosophy of religion
  • postmodernism
  • religion
  • religion and American culture
  • resurrection
  • sex
  • philosophy
  • truth
  • worship
 

Henry Holloman

Professor of Systematic Theology
Chair, Systematic and Historical Theology Department
  • spirituality
  • spiritual formation
  • theology
 

John Bloom

Professor of Physics
  • apologetics
  • archaeology of the Bible
  • astronomy and space
  • computers
  • creation
  • energy
  • evolution
  • Intelligent Design
  • philosophy of science
  • physical science
  • physics
  • prophecy
  • religion and science
  • science
 

Marla Campbell

Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies
Program Director, Ph.D. Program
  • Biblical integration
  • character development
  • communication
  • Christian education
  • education
  • cross-cultural education
  • cultural diversity
  • intercultural studies
  • integration
  • missions
  • multicultural issues
  • spiritual formation
  • teaching
  • women's issues
 

John Hutchison

Professor of Bible Exposition
Chair, Bible Exposition Department
  • Bible
  • Bible Interpretation
  • Biblical teaching on the role and purpose of trials and suffering
  • Jesus
  • Life of Christ
  • New Testament
  • Old Testament
  • trials and suffering
 

Leonard N. (Len) Bartlotti

Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies
  • Asia
  • Church planting
  • cross-cultural issues
  • Culture
  • Evangelism
  • Faith-based organizations
  • Healing
  • Holy Spirit
  • Intercultural Studies
  • Islam
  • Middle East Studies
  • Missions
  • Para-Church organizations
  • religion
  • Spiritual Warfare
  • World Religions
  • Afghanistan
  • Pakistan
  • folklore
  • Central Asia
  • ethnicity
  • Pashtuns
  • Taliban
  • Muslims
  • Christian-Muslim relations
  • Pashto (language)
  • North West Frontier Provence
 

Craig Hazen

Associate Professor of Comparative Religion and Apologetics
Director, M.A. Program in Christian Apologetics
  • apologetics
  • Christian thought
  • Church history
  • comparative religion
  • cults
  • doctrine
  • evil
  • evolution
  • faith
  • faith-based organizations
  • God
  • healing
  • Hinduism
  • Historical Jesus
  • homosexuality
  • intelligent design
  • Islam
  • Jehovah's Witnesses
  • Jesus
  • miracles
  • moral relativism
  • Mormonism
  • New Age
  • New Testament
  • occult
  • para-church organization
  • philosophy
  • philosophy of religion
  • philosophy of science
  • pop culture and Christianity
  • postmodernism
  • religion
  • religion and American culture
  • religion and science
  • resurrection
  • salvation
  • science
  • scientology
  • spiritual formation
  • theology
  • world religions
 

Kenneth Berding

Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies
  • Bible (Paul in particular)
  • Bible interpretation
  • Biblical languages (Greek)
  • Holy Spirit
  • New Testament
  • Spiritual gifts
 

Ronald Pierce

Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies
  • Arab-Israeli conflict
  • Bible Interpretation
  • gender and theology
  • Old Testament
  • Palestinians
  • women
  • world religions and religious issues
 

Richard Rigsby

Professor of Old Testament and Semitics
Director, Talbot/Bible Lands Program
  • Old Testament
  • Hebrew
  • Post-Exilic profpets
  • Bible lands
 

Edward Curtis

Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies
  • Old Testament
  • Genesis
  • Song of Solomon
  • Job
  • Old Testament Wisdom Literature
 

Matt Jenson

Assistant Professor of Theology
Torrey Honors Institute
  • Sin
  • Salvation
  • Theology
 

Clinton Arnold

Professor of New Testament Language and Literature
Chair, New Testament Department
  • The Bible
  • Original Bible manuscripts
  • Modern Bible translations
  • New Testament
  • The Bible in Graeco-Roman Context
  • Folk Belief and Animism in Biblical Context
  • Gnosticism
  • Spirits, Angels, and the Supernatural
  • Spiritual Warfare
 

Joseph Henderson

Assistant Professor
  • Africa
  • arts and humanities
  • Bible
  • Bible Interpretation
  • Biblical languages
  • English
  • hermeneutics
  • literary criticism
  • literature
  • Old Testament
  • rhetoric
 

Leland Wilshire

Professor of History
  • Church history
  • Theology
  • History
 

Alan Hultberg

Assistant Professor of Bible Exposition and New Testament
  • Bible Exposition
  • Apocalypse
  • New Testament
  • New Testament use of the Old Testament
 

K. Erik Thoennes

Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies
  • apologetics
  • arts and humanities
  • attributes of God
  • Bible
  • character development
  • character of God
  • Christian Education
  • Christian view of sports, competition, and play
  • Christian thought
  • church
  • church growth
  • church planting
  • clergy
  • competition
  • counseling
  • culture
  • cultural diversity
  • death
  • discipleship
  • doctrine
  • eating disorders
  • emotions (God's and human)
  • evangelism
  • evil
  • exercise
  • faith
  • faith-based organizations
  • gender and sexuality
  • gender and theology
  • God
  • Godly jealousy
  • guilt
  • health
  • hermeneutics
  • Hinduism
  • Holy Spirit
  • theology of humor
  • India
  • jealousy
  • Jesus
  • leadership
  • marriage
  • mentoring
  • ministry
  • miracles
  • missions
  • moral relativism
  • nature of God
  • New Testament
  • Old Testament
  • para-church organizations
  • pastoring
  • pop culture and Christianity
  • postmodernism
  • preaching
  • prophecy
  • racial issues
  • religion
  • religion and American culture
  • resurrection
  • revival
  • salvation
  • sex
  • sin
  • spirituality
  • spiritual formation
  • sports and fitness
  • sports ministry
  • theology of sports/play
  • teaching
  • theology
  • trinity
  • uniqueness of Jesus
  • war
  • worship
 

Albert Lin

Associate Professor
  • Biblical languages
  • biological sciences
  • medicine
  • neuroscience
  • nutrition
  • pharmacology
 

R. Douglas Geivett

Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Ethics
  • apologists
  • Christian thought
  • cinema
  • culture
  • debate
  • evil
  • film
  • God
  • historical Jesus
  • home schooling
  • Jesus
  • miracles
  • movies
  • philosophy
  • philosophy of religion
  • pop culture and Christianity
  • postmodernism
  • religion
  • religon and American culture
  • religion and science
  • resurrection
  • soul
  • spirituality
 

Clay Jones

Christian Apologetics Faculty
  • apologetics
  • Bible
  • Christianity and Spirituality
  • demons
  • homosexuality
  • Problem of evil
  • God
  • Jesus
  • marriage
  • marriage and family
  • morality
  • radio
  • Resurrection
  • suffering
  • spirituality
  • spiritual formation
  • spiritual warfare
  • world religions and religious issues
  • PETCA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
 

Greg Peters

Assistant Professor of Torrey Honors Institute
  • Byzantine history and thought
  • church history
  • medieval theology
  • spirituality
  • spiritual formation
  • theology
 

Michelle Lee-Barnewall

Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies
  • New Testament
  • Body of Christ
  • Paul
 

J.P. Moreland

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
  • abortion
  • apologetics
  • artificial intelligence
  • brain research
  • creation
  • ethics
  • euthanasia
  • evolution
  • existence of God
  • God
  • healing
  • Historical Jesus
  • intelligent design
  • miracles
  • moral relativism
  • philosophy
  • philosophy of science
  • postmodernism
  • physician-assisted suicide
  • science and religion
  • soul
 

Walter Russell

Professor of Bible Exposition
  • Exegesis
  • Hermeneutics
  • New Testament
  • Evangelism
  • Spiritual growth
  • University teaching
  • Collegiate ministries
  • Church planting
  • Pastoring
 

Robert Lister

Assistant Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies
  • Bible
  • Family
  • Gender and Theology
  • God
  • Marriage
  • Parenting
  • Sex
  • Theology
 

Victor Rhee

Associate Professor of New Testament Language and Literature
Director, Korean Talbot Institute of Biblical Studies
  • Bible
  • Bible interpretation
  • Biblical languages
  • cross-cultural issues
  • cultural diversity
  • discipleship
  • pastoring
  • preaching
  • teaching
 

Thomas Crisp

Associate Professor
  • evil
  • God
  • morality
  • moral relativism
  • philosophy
  • philosophy of physics
  • philosophy of science
  • philosophy of religion
  • soul
  • time
 

Thomas Finley

Professor of Old Testament and Semitics
Chair, Old Testament and Semitics Department
  • Aramaic
  • archaeology of the Bible
  • Biblical languages
  • Biblical languages
  • Dead Sea Scrolls
  • Genesis
  • Old Testament
  • Prophets (Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Micah)
 

Robert Llizo

Lecturer
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Christian Thought
  • Church History
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • Medieval philosophy
  • Early and Modern philosophy
  • History of Monastic movements
  • hagiography
  • Religion
  • Spirituality
  • Theology
  • World history
  • Worship