Ken Schenck

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Kenneth Schenck (born 1966) is a

Paul, Philo, philosophy, and the New Testament in general. His New Testament Survey (Triangle Publishing) has sold over 10,000 copies, and his “brief guide” to Philo (Westminster John Knox) has been translated into Russian, Korean, and Hungarian. He has also written a philosophy textbook. His blog also engages heavily with issues in hermeneutics, ecclesiology, and philosophy on both a popular and scholarly level.[1]

He taught philosophy and New Testament at

Houghton College
to become Vice President for Planning and Innovation.

Education

Schenck was awarded a PhD degree in 1996 from the

University of Durham, England, where he studied under James D. G. Dunn, holds an MA degree in Classical Languages and Literature from the University of Kentucky, an MDiv degree from Asbury Theological Seminary, and an AB degree from Southern Wesleyan University. He is an ordained minister in the Wesleyan Church since 1991 and a Professor of Bible at Indiana Wesleyan University since 1997. He has also taught for the University of Notre Dame and Asbury Theological Seminary
.

Scholarship

His work on Hebrews was the first to engage the book extensively from the standpoint of its narrative substructure, and is part of a recent wave that sees the sermon more as a response to the

Jerusalem temple than a polemic against the Levitical cultus per se.[2]

In

Christian orthodoxy, as well as the fragmentation of Protestantism
. Schenck maintains that only a balance between the trajectory of the historical meaning and the Spirit-led consensus of Christendom can sustain both orthodox Christian faith and an understanding of the Bible as Christian Scripture.

Publications

References

  1. ^ "Home". kenschenck.blogspot.com.
  2. ^ Cosmology and Eschatology in Hebrews: The Settings of the Sacrifice, Westminster John Knox, 1998.
  3. ^ Who Decides What the Bible Means?, CafeTutor Publishing, 1998, and extensively at [1].

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