Dr Stephen Travis - St John's College

Dr Stephen Travis

MA, PhD Visiting Lecturer APPOINTMENTS 1969-2005 1988-2005 2005

Lecturer in New Testament, St John’s College Vice-Principal Visiting Lecturer

DEGREES • •

BA (First class), University of Cambridge (1965), MA (1969) PhD, University of Cambridge (1970) Thesis title: “The Place of Divine Retribution in the Thought of Paul”

SUBJECTS TAUGHT • •

New Testament Contemporary Communications Media as a Context for Preaching

MEMBERSHIP AND OTHER ACTIVITIES • • • • • • • • • •

Methodist local preacher, 1967Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical and Theological Research, 1967Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, 1971Visiting Lecturer, Union Biblical Seminary, Yavatmal, India, 1974 Visiting Lecturer, Bible College of Victoria, Australia, 1986 Chairman, Cliff College General Committee, 1988-99 Adviser on New Testament to producers of two animated film series, The Story Keepers and The Miracle Maker Methodist representative in Formal Conversations between the Church of England and the Methodist Church, 1998-2001 Leader, annual British Theological Students’ visit to Tantur Ecumenical Institute, Israel, 1999-2008 Consultant, Foundations21 on-line Christian learning course (www.foundations21.com), 2004-

PUBLICATIONS • • • • • •

The Galilee that Jesus Knew, Cambridge: Grove Books, 2011 Exploring the New Testament 2: Letters and Revelation (with H Marshall and I Paul), London: SPCK, 2002 Christ and the Judgement of God: The Limits of Divine Retribution (revised and expanded, Milton Keynes: Paternoster/Peabody MS: Hendrickoson, 2009 Consultant to The New Lion Handbook to the Bible, Oxford: Lion, 1999 Starting with the Bible, Oxford: Lion, 1999 Consulting Editor, The Macmillan Dictionary of the Bible, London Macmillan, 1998

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Articles on ‘Psychology’ and ‘Resurrection’ in Dictionary of the Later New Testament and its Developments, Leicester: IVP, 1997 Assistant Consultant Editor, The NIV Thematic Study Bible, London: Hodder, 1996 End of Story?, Leicester: IVP, 1997 Editor, All Things to All People – Mission Beyond 2000, Nottingham: St John’s College, 1995 Church Under Fire, Oxford: Bible Reading Fellowship, 1995 The Bible as a Whole, Oxford: Bible Reading Fellowship, 1994, revised 2000 ‘Christ as Bearer of Divine Judgement in Paul’s Thought about the Atonement’, in J B Green and M B Turner (ed), Jesus of Nazareth: Lord and Christ, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994; reprinted in J Goldingay (ed), Atonement Today, London: SPCK, 1995 Article on ‘Judgment’ in Dictionary of Paul and his Letters, Leicester: IVP, 1994 ‘The Doctrine of the Atonement: a Question and an Affirmation’, Epworth Review 20, 1993 Article on ‘Wrath of God (NT)’ in Anchor Bible Dictionary, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1992 Article on ‘Judgment’ in Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, Leicester: IVP, 1992 Articles on ‘Eschatology’, ‘Hope’ in New Dictionary of Christian Theology, Leicester: IVP, 1988 Getting to Know the New Testament, Oxford: Mowbray, 1987; reissued Toronto: Clements, 2004 Christ and the Judgment of God, Basingstoke: Marshall Pickering, 1986 ‘The Problem of Judgment’, Themelios 11, 1985-86 ‘The Life of the World and Future Judgment’, Churchman 97, 1983 I Believe in the Second Coming of Jesus, London: Hodder, 1982; revised edition entitled Christ Will Come Again, 1997; re-issued Toronto: Clements, 2004 More Difficult Sayings of Jesus (with William Neil), Oxford: Mowbray, 1982 Introducing the Bible (with Gerald Hughes), Tring: Lion, 1980 Christian Hope and the Future of Man, Leicester: IVP, 1980 ‘The Value of Apocalyptic’, Tyndale Bulletin 30, 1979 ‘Religion and the Gospel’, Epworth Review 2, 1975 ‘Worship in the New Testament’, in J Stacey, ed., About Worship, London: Methodist Publishing House, 1973 ‘Paul’s Boasting in 2 Corinthians 10-12’, Studia Evangelica 6, 1973

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION •

Preaching on Hope and Judgement (contribution to a book on preaching from the New Testament, forthcoming IVP, 2013