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James Dunn (theologian)

January 07, 2023

James Douglas Grant Dunn FBA (21 October 1939 – 26 June 2020),[8] also known as Jimmy Dunn, was a British New Testament scholar, who was for many years the Lightfoot Professor of Divinity in the Department of Theology at the University of Durham. He worked broadly within the Methodist tradition and was a member of the Church of Scotland and the Methodist Church of Great Britain during his life.

James Dunn

FBA
Born
James Douglas Grant Dunn

(1939-10-21)21 October 1939
Birmingham, England
Died26 June 2020(2020-06-26) (aged 80)
Chichester, West Sussex, England
NationalityBritish
Other namesJimmy Dunn
Known forNew Perspective on Paul
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe Baptism in the Holy Spirit[1] (1968)
Doctoral advisorC. F. D. Moule[2]
InfluencesE. P. Sanders[3]
Academic work
DisciplineBiblical studies
Sub-disciplineNew Testament studies
InstitutionsUniversity of Durham
Doctoral students
Notable worksThe New Perspective on Paul (2007)
Influenced

Biography

Dunn was born on 21 October 1939[9] in Birmingham, England.

He had the following degrees:

Dunn was licensed as a minister of the Church of Scotland in 1964.[10] He was chaplain to overseas students at Edinburgh University in 1968-70.[10]

In 1970, Dunn became a lecturer in divinity at the University of Nottingham,[10] and was promoted to reader in 1979.[10] Whilst at Nottingham, he served as a Methodist local preacher.[10]

He became professor of divinity at Durham University in 1982,[10] and in 1990 became Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at Durham.[11][12] He retired in 2003,[11] and was succeeded as Lightfoot Professor of Divinity by John M. G. Barclay.[13]

For 2002, Dunn was the President of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, an international body for New Testament study. Only three other British scholars had been made President of the body in the preceding 25 years. In 2006 he became a Fellow of the British Academy.[14]

In 2005 a Festschrift was published dedicated to Dunn, comprising articles by 27 New Testament scholars, examining early Christian communities and their beliefs about the Holy Spirit in Christianity.[15] In 2009 another Festschrift was dedicated to Dunn for his 70th birthday, consisting of two forewords by N. T. Wright and Richard B. Hays and 17 articles all written by his former students who went on to have successful careers in either academic and ministerial fields around the world.[16]

Dunn was especially associated with the New Perspective on Paul, along with N. T. Wright and E. P. Sanders.[17]

Dunn took up Sanders' project of redefining Palestinian Judaism in order to correct the Christian view of Judaism as a religion of works-righteousness. One of the most important differences to Sanders is that Dunn perceives a fundamental coherence and consistency to Paul's thought. He furthermore criticizes Sanders' understanding of the term justification, arguing that Sanders' understanding suffers from an "individualizing exegesis".

Works

Dunn wrote or edited numerous books and papers, including:

Books

  • Dunn, James D. G. (1970). Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Studies in Biblical Theology Second Series. Vol. 15. London: SCM Press.
  • ——— (1975). Jesus and the Spirit. London: SCM Press.
  • ——— (1985). The Evidence for Jesus. Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Press. ISBN 978-0-664-24698-3.
  • ——— (1980). Christology in the making: a New Testament inquiry into the origins of the doctrine of the incarnation. Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Press. ISBN 0-664-24356-8.
  • ———, ed. (1986). The Kingdom of God and North East England. London: SCM Press. ISBN 0334008379.
  • ——— (1988). Romans 1-8, 9-16. Waco, TX: Word Books. ISBN 0-8499-0252-5.
  • ——— (1990). Jesus, Paul, and the Law: studies in Mark and Galatians. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 0-664-25095-5.
  • ——— (1990). Unity and diversity in the New Testament: an inquiry into the character of earliest Christianity. London: SCM Press. ISBN 0-334-02436-6.
  • ——— (1991). The Partings of the Ways between Christianity and Judaism and their Significance for the Character of Christianity. London: SCM Press. ISBN 0-334-02508-7.
  • ——— (1993). The Epistle to Galatians. Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson Publishers. ISBN 1-56563-036-X.
  • ——— (1993). Paul for Today. The Ethel M. Wood Lecture, 10 March 1993. London: University of London. ISBN 9780718711061. OCLC 877271473.
  • ———; Suggate, Alan M. (1994). The justice of God: a fresh look at the old doctrine of justification by faith. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN 0-8028-0797-6.
  • ——— (1996). The Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon: a commentary on the Greek text. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN 0-8028-2441-2.
  • ——— (1996). The Acts of the Apostles. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International. ISBN 9781563381928. OCLC 36519627.
  • ——— (1998). The Theology of Paul the Apostle. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN 0-8028-3844-8.
  • ———, ed. (2003). The Cambridge companion to St. Paul. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-78694-0.
  • ———; Rogerson, John W., eds. (2003). Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN 0-8028-3711-5.
  • ——— (2003). Christianity in the Making: Vol. 1, Jesus Remembered. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN 0-8028-3931-2.
  • ——— (2005). A New Perspective On Jesus: What The Quest For The Historical Jesus Missed. Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. ISBN 0-8010-2710-1.
  • ——— (2007). The New Perspective On Paul. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-4562-7.
  • ——— (2008). Christianity in the Making: Vol. 2, Beginning from Jerusalem. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-3932-9.
  • ——— (2009). The Living Word (second ed.). Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press. ISBN 978-0-8006-6355-1.
  • ——— (2010). Did the first Christians worship Jesus?. London - Louisville, KY: Society for promoting Christian knowledge. ISBN 978-0-281-05928-7.
  • ——— (2011). Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-6645-5.
  • ——— (2013). The Oral Gospel Tradition. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-6782-7.
  • ——— (2015). Christianity in the Making: Vol. 3, Neither Jew nor Greek: A Contested Identity. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-3933-6.
  • ——— (2019). Jesus according to the New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-7669-0.

Chapters

  • ——— (1974). "Paul's Understanding of the Death of Jesus". In Banks, Robert J. (ed.). Reconciliation and Hope. New Testament Essays on Atonement and Eschatology Presented to L.L. Morris on his 60th Birthday. Carlisle, UK: The Paternoster Press. pp. 125–141.
  • ——— (1977). "Demythologising - The Problem of Myth in the New Testament". In Marshall, I. Howard (ed.). New Testament Interpretation: Essays on Principles and Methods. Carlisle, UK: The Paternoster Press. pp. 285–307. ISBN 0853644241.

Journal articles

  • ——— (July 1979). "'They believed Philip preaching' (Acts 8:12): a Reply". Irish Biblical Studies. 1 (3): 177–183.
  • ——— (January 1981). "Demythologizing the Ascension - A Reply to Professor Gooding". Irish Biblical Studies. 3 (1): 15–27.

References

  1. ^ Dunn, James Douglas Grant (1968). The Baptism in the Holy Spirit: A Re-Examination of the New Testament Teaching on the Gift of the Spirit in the Light of Pentacostalism Today (PhD thesis). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Oropeza, B. J.; Robertson, C. K.; Mohrmann, Douglas C. (2009). "Editors' Preface". In Oropeza, B. J.; Robertson, C. K.; Mohrmann, Douglas C. (eds.). Jesus and Paul: Global Perspectives in Honour of James D. G. Dunn for His 70th Birthday. London: T&T Clark. p. xxi. ISBN 978-0-567-62953-1.
  3. ^ Marshall, I. Howard; Travis, Stephen; Paul, Ian (2002). Exploring the New Testament: A Guide to the Letters & Revelation (2nd ed.). Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-8308-6940-4.
  4. ^ McGrath, James F. (3 August 2014). "James D. G. Dunn on Gaza". Religion Prof. Patheos. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  5. ^ a b McKnight, Scot (1995). The NIV Application Commentary: Galatians. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan (published 2014). ISBN 978-0-310-57144-5.
  6. ^ Oropeza, B. J. (26 June 2020). "Memories of My Doktorvater, James D. G. Dunn (1939-2020)".
  7. ^ Alaniz, Manny (2013). Deficiencies in the Justification of the Ungodly: A Look at N. T. Wright's View of the Doctrine of Imputed Righteousness. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-62189-778-1.
  8. ^ Rest in Peace, Jimmy
  9. ^ DUNN, Prof. James Douglas Grant, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Appointments", University of Durham Gazette, vol. 27, no. Epiphany Term 1983, p. 3
  11. ^ a b "Professor James Dunn FBA", The British Academy, retrieved 11 December 2019
  12. ^ Metts, Michael; Wiesner, Robert (9 February 2016), "A Brief Literary Biography of James D. G. Dunn", Jesus and Paul and the New Testament
  13. ^ "Professor John Barclay, Lightfoot Professor of Divinity in the Department of Theology and Religion", Durham University, retrieved 11 December 2019
  14. ^ "Professor James Dunn, Lightfoot Professor of Divinity Emeritus, University of Durham", British Academy, archived from the original on 22 July 2012
  15. ^ Graham N. Stanton, Bruce W. Longenecker & Stephen Barton (editors) (2004). The Holy Spirit and Christian origins: essays in honor of James D. G. Dunn. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. ISBN 0-8028-2822-1. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  16. ^ Oropeza, B. J.; Robertson, C. K.; Mohrmann, Douglas C., eds. (2009). Jesus and Paul: Global Perspectives in Honour of James D. G. Dunn for His 70th Birthday. London: T&T Clark. ISBN 978-0-567-62953-1.
  17. ^ Scot McKnight and B. J. Oropeza, eds., Perspectives on Paul: Five Views. Grand Rapdis: Baker Academic, 2020, pp. 1-23. Richard N. Longenecker, Introducing Romans: Critical Issues in Paul's Most Famous Letter, p. 327, at Google Books. Eerdmans, 2011. ISBN 978-0802866196

External links

  • Professional page, Durham University
  • The New Perspective on Paul
  • James D. G. Dunn in-depth interview on "Beyond Evangelical"
Professional and academic associations
Preceded by President of the Studiorum
Novi Testamenti Societas
2002 		Succeeded by

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James Douglas Grant Dunn FBA 21 October 1939 26 June 2020 8 also known as Jimmy Dunn was a British New Testament scholar who was for many years the Lightfoot Professor of Divinity in the Department of Theology at the University of Durham He worked broadly within the Methodist tradition and was a member of the Church of Scotland and the Methodist Church of Great Britain during his life James DunnFBABornJames Douglas Grant Dunn 1939 10 21 21 October 1939Birmingham EnglandDied26 June 2020 2020 06 26 aged 80 Chichester West Sussex EnglandNationalityBritishOther namesJimmy DunnKnown forNew Perspective on PaulAcademic backgroundAlma materUniversity of GlasgowClare College CambridgeThesisThe Baptism in the Holy Spirit 1 1968 Doctoral advisorC F D Moule 2 InfluencesE P Sanders 3 Academic workDisciplineBiblical studiesSub disciplineNew Testament studiesInstitutionsUniversity of DurhamDoctoral studentsHelen Bond Simon J Gathercole James F McGrath 4 Scot McKnight 5 B J Oropeza 6 Ken Schenck Graham TwelftreeNotable worksThe New Perspective on Paul 2007 InfluencedScot McKnight 5 N T Wright 7 Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 2 1 Books 2 2 Chapters 2 3 Journal articles 3 References 4 External linksBiography EditDunn was born on 21 October 1939 9 in Birmingham England He had the following degrees BSc Economics and Statistics at University of Glasgow class II Honours 1961 10 BD at University of Glasgow 1964 with distinction 10 PhD at University of Cambridge 1968 10 DD at University of Cambridge 1976 10 Dunn was licensed as a minister of the Church of Scotland in 1964 10 He was chaplain to overseas students at Edinburgh University in 1968 70 10 In 1970 Dunn became a lecturer in divinity at the University of Nottingham 10 and was promoted to reader in 1979 10 Whilst at Nottingham he served as a Methodist local preacher 10 He became professor of divinity at Durham University in 1982 10 and in 1990 became Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at Durham 11 12 He retired in 2003 11 and was succeeded as Lightfoot Professor of Divinity by John M G Barclay 13 For 2002 Dunn was the President of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas an international body for New Testament study Only three other British scholars had been made President of the body in the preceding 25 years In 2006 he became a Fellow of the British Academy 14 In 2005 a Festschrift was published dedicated to Dunn comprising articles by 27 New Testament scholars examining early Christian communities and their beliefs about the Holy Spirit in Christianity 15 In 2009 another Festschrift was dedicated to Dunn for his 70th birthday consisting of two forewords by N T Wright and Richard B Hays and 17 articles all written by his former students who went on to have successful careers in either academic and ministerial fields around the world 16 Dunn was especially associated with the New Perspective on Paul along with N T Wright and E P Sanders 17 Dunn took up Sanders project of redefining Palestinian Judaism in order to correct the Christian view of Judaism as a religion of works righteousness One of the most important differences to Sanders is that Dunn perceives a fundamental coherence and consistency to Paul s thought He furthermore criticizes Sanders understanding of the term justification arguing that Sanders understanding suffers from an individualizing exegesis Works EditDunn wrote or edited numerous books and papers including Books Edit Dunn James D G 1970 Baptism in the Holy Spirit Studies in Biblical Theology Second Series Vol 15 London SCM Press 1975 Jesus and the Spirit London SCM Press 1985 The Evidence for Jesus Philadelphia PA Westminster Press ISBN 978 0 664 24698 3 1980 Christology in the making a New Testament inquiry into the origins of the doctrine of the incarnation Philadelphia PA Westminster Press ISBN 0 664 24356 8 ed 1986 The Kingdom of God and North East England London SCM Press ISBN 0334008379 1988 Romans 1 8 9 16 Waco TX Word Books ISBN 0 8499 0252 5 1990 Jesus Paul and the Law studies in Mark and Galatians Louisville KY Westminster John Knox Press ISBN 0 664 25095 5 1990 Unity and diversity in the New Testament an inquiry into the character of earliest Christianity London SCM Press ISBN 0 334 02436 6 1991 The Partings of the Ways between Christianity and Judaism and their Significance for the Character of Christianity London SCM Press ISBN 0 334 02508 7 1993 The Epistle to Galatians Peabody Mass Hendrickson Publishers ISBN 1 56563 036 X 1993 Paul for Today The Ethel M Wood Lecture 10 March 1993 London University of London ISBN 9780718711061 OCLC 877271473 Suggate Alan M 1994 The justice of God a fresh look at the old doctrine of justification by faith Grand Rapids MI Eerdmans ISBN 0 8028 0797 6 1996 The Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon a commentary on the Greek text Grand Rapids MI Eerdmans ISBN 0 8028 2441 2 1996 The Acts of the Apostles Valley Forge PA Trinity Press International ISBN 9781563381928 OCLC 36519627 1998 The Theology of Paul the Apostle Grand Rapids MI Eerdmans ISBN 0 8028 3844 8 ed 2003 The Cambridge companion to St Paul Cambridge UK Cambridge University Press ISBN 0 521 78694 0 Rogerson John W eds 2003 Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible Grand Rapids MI Eerdmans ISBN 0 8028 3711 5 2003 Christianity in the Making Vol 1 Jesus Remembered Grand Rapids MI Eerdmans ISBN 0 8028 3931 2 2005 A New Perspective On Jesus What The Quest For The Historical Jesus Missed Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology Grand Rapids MI Baker Academic ISBN 0 8010 2710 1 2007 The New Perspective On Paul Grand Rapids MI Eerdmans ISBN 978 0 8028 4562 7 2008 Christianity in the Making Vol 2 Beginning from Jerusalem Grand Rapids MI Eerdmans ISBN 978 0 8028 3932 9 2009 The Living Word second ed Minneapolis MN Fortress Press ISBN 978 0 8006 6355 1 2010 Did the first Christians worship Jesus London Louisville KY Society for promoting Christian knowledge ISBN 978 0 281 05928 7 2011 Jesus Paul and the Gospels Grand Rapids MI Eerdmans ISBN 978 0 8028 6645 5 2013 The Oral Gospel Tradition Grand Rapids MI Eerdmans ISBN 978 0 8028 6782 7 2015 Christianity in the Making Vol 3 Neither Jew nor Greek A Contested Identity Grand Rapids MI Eerdmans ISBN 978 0 8028 3933 6 2019 Jesus according to the New Testament Grand Rapids MI Eerdmans ISBN 978 0 8028 7669 0 Chapters Edit 1974 Paul s Understanding of the Death of Jesus In Banks Robert J ed Reconciliation and Hope New Testament Essays on Atonement and Eschatology Presented to L L Morris on his 60th Birthday Carlisle UK The Paternoster Press pp 125 141 1977 Demythologising The Problem of Myth in the New Testament In Marshall I Howard ed New Testament Interpretation Essays on Principles and Methods Carlisle UK The Paternoster Press pp 285 307 ISBN 0853644241 Journal articles Edit July 1979 They believed Philip preaching Acts 8 12 a Reply Irish Biblical Studies 1 3 177 183 January 1981 Demythologizing the Ascension A Reply to Professor Gooding Irish Biblical Studies 3 1 15 27 References Edit Dunn James Douglas Grant 1968 The Baptism in the Holy Spirit A Re Examination of the New Testament Teaching on the Gift of the Spirit in the Light of Pentacostalism Today PhD thesis Cambridge England Cambridge University Press Oropeza B J Robertson C K Mohrmann Douglas C 2009 Editors Preface In Oropeza B J Robertson C K Mohrmann Douglas C eds Jesus and Paul Global Perspectives in Honour of James D G Dunn for His 70th Birthday London T amp T Clark p xxi ISBN 978 0 567 62953 1 Marshall I Howard Travis Stephen Paul Ian 2002 Exploring the New Testament A Guide to the Letters amp Revelation 2nd ed Downers Grove Illinois InterVarsity Press p 52 ISBN 978 0 8308 6940 4 McGrath James F 3 August 2014 James D G Dunn on Gaza Religion Prof Patheos Retrieved 23 October 2018 a b McKnight Scot 1995 The NIV Application Commentary Galatians Grand Rapids Michigan Zondervan published 2014 ISBN 978 0 310 57144 5 Oropeza B J 26 June 2020 Memories of My Doktorvater James D G Dunn 1939 2020 Alaniz Manny 2013 Deficiencies in the Justification of the Ungodly A Look at N T Wright s View of the Doctrine of Imputed Righteousness Eugene Oregon Wipf amp Stock p 7 ISBN 978 1 62189 778 1 Rest in Peace Jimmy DUNN Prof James Douglas Grant Who s Who 2014 A amp C Black 2014 online edn Oxford University Press 2014 a b c d e f g h i j Appointments University of Durham Gazette vol 27 no Epiphany Term 1983 p 3 a b Professor James Dunn FBA The British Academy retrieved 11 December 2019 Metts Michael Wiesner Robert 9 February 2016 A Brief Literary Biography of James D G Dunn Jesus and Paul and the New Testament Professor John Barclay Lightfoot Professor of Divinity in the Department of Theology and Religion Durham University retrieved 11 December 2019 Professor James Dunn Lightfoot Professor of Divinity Emeritus University of Durham British Academy archived from the original on 22 July 2012 Graham N Stanton Bruce W Longenecker amp Stephen Barton editors 2004 The Holy Spirit and Christian origins essays in honor of James D G Dunn Grand Rapids MI William B Eerdmans Publishing Co ISBN 0 8028 2822 1 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a author has generic name help Oropeza B J Robertson C K Mohrmann Douglas C eds 2009 Jesus and Paul Global Perspectives in Honour of James D G Dunn for His 70th Birthday London T amp T Clark ISBN 978 0 567 62953 1 Scot McKnight and B J Oropeza eds Perspectives on Paul Five Views Grand Rapdis Baker Academic 2020 pp 1 23 Richard N Longenecker Introducing Romans Critical Issues in Paul s Most Famous Letter p 327 at Google Books Eerdmans 2011 ISBN 978 0802866196External links EditProfessional page Durham University The New Perspective on Paul James D G Dunn in depth interview on Beyond Evangelical Professional and academic associationsPreceded byTjitze Baarda President of the StudiorumNovi Testamenti Societas2002 Succeeded byHans Josef Klauck Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title James Dunn theologian amp oldid 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