Richard Bauckham

Richard Bauckham (b. September 22, 1946) is aNew Testamentscholar and professor of New Testament studies at St. Mary's College, Universityof St. Andrews, Scotland. "Bauckham is perhaps best known for his studies of thebook of Revelation and for his commentaries onJude and2 Peter. He is also a thoughtfultheologian who has written an introduction to the theology ofJürgen Moltmann. In his bookGod Crucified (1999), Bauckhamdisplays the craft of both a careful exegete and a deft theologian as heexplores the riddle of how the radicallymonotheistic Jews whocomposed the earliest church could have come to call Jesus 'Lord'."^ [1]^ HisbookJesus and the Eyewitnesses won the 2007 Book Award in Biblical StudiesfromChristianity Today. ^ [2]^

Multimedia

• The Four Gospels and the Other Gospels: Is Our Canon Right?(MP3), at Westminster Seminary, CA
• Bauckham debates James Crossley on the Gospels,Part 1,Part 2(Quicktime)
• Richard Bauckham talks about Jürgen Moltmann(YouTube Video)

Background

"Richard Bauckham studied at the University of Cambridge, where he read historyat Clare College (1966-72) and was a Fellow of St. John's College (1972-75). Hetaught theology for one year at the University of Leeds, and for 15 years at theUniversity of Manchester (1977-1992), where he was lecturer, then reader in theHistory of Christian Thought, before moving to St. Andrews in 1992. He iscurrently a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society ofEdinburgh, and a member of the Doctrine Commission of the Church of England."^[3]^

Selected publications

• The Gospel of John and Christian Theology, ed. with Carl Mosser (Eerdmans,
• The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple: Narrative, History, and Theology inthe Gospel of John (Baker Academic, 2007)
• Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospel As Eyewitness Testimony (Eerdmans,
• Bible and Mission: Christian Witness in a Postmodern World (Baker Academic,
• God and the Crisis of Freedom: Biblical and Contemporary Perspectives(Westminster John Knox, 2002)
• God Will Be All in All: The Eschatology of Jürgen Moltmann (Fortress, 2001)
• The Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Book of Revelation (T&T Clark, 1999)
• God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament (Eerdmans,
• The Gospels for All Christians: Rethinking the Gospel Audiences (Eerdmans,
• The Theology of Jürgen Moltmann (T&T Clark, 1995)
• The Book of Acts in Its Palestinian Setting (Eerdmans, 1995)
• The Theology of the Book of Revelation (Cambridge, 1993)
• 2 Peter, Jude. Word Biblical Commentary (Thomas Nelson, 1983)

Notes

1. ? Richard Floyd, "Review: God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in theNew Testament",Theology Today (2001)
2. ?Christianity Today 2007 Book Awards
3. ?Payton Lectures - 2003

External links

• Richard Bauckham's website
• Bauckham retires
• They Really Saw Him,interview byGary Burge
• Review ofJesus and the Eyewitnesses,by Chris Tilling (includes guest posts/replies by Bauckham)
• Interview: Richard Bauckham onJesus and the Eyewitnesses,by Chris Tilling

Online writings

• Paul's Christology of Divine Identity(PDF)
• The Relatives of Jesus
• For whom were Gospels written?
• Universalism: a historical survey
• Weakness - Paul's and ours
• 'Only the Suffering God Can help'. divine passibility in modern theology