John Knox (New Testament scholar)

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John Knox (born December 30, 1901 , † June 25, 1990 in Medford ( New York )) was an American theologian and university professor.

Live and act

Knox was the eldest son of a Methodist minister in the Shenandoah Valley . He had a brother and two sisters, later married as Virginia van Buren and Eva Witte. In 1924 he became a Methodist pastor ordained . As a pastor, in his ecclesiastical office , he was active in various parishes in the Baltimore area . He also took over early on as a teacher of Bible studies at Emory University in Atlanta . From 1929 to 1936 he was chaplain at Fisk University in Nashville . In 1962 he was ordained a bishop priest.

He completed his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1919 at Randolph Macon College in Asland ( Virginia ). His Bachelor of Divinity (BD) from Emory University in 1925. John Knox was at in 1935, University of Chicago doctorate ( Ph.D. ); Title Philemon Among the Letters of Paul; A New View of Its Place and Importance . From 1939 to 1943 he taught at the Divinity School . From 1943 to 1966 he held the Baldwin Professor of Sacred Literature at Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan ; from 1945 to 1957 he was director of studies. In 1966, John Knox retired from chairing the Baldwin Professorship in Spiritual Literature at Union Theological Seminary in New York.

After that he taught and researched until 1971 as Professor of New Testament at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Austin , ( Texas ).

Knox was intermittently editor of the journals Christendom , Christian Century and The Journal of Religion as well as The Interpreter's Bible . He was married and had two sons, John Jr. and Hamilton Knox.

John Knox (1942) was the first to suggest that the ' Marcion Gospel ' etc. a. the Gospel of Luke and the Acts was preceded in time.

He was primarily a specialist in New Testament texts. However, his dissertation did not deal with a New Testament text, but with a contribution to systematic theology . So his attention turned to Christology .

Fonts (selection)

  • Philemon Among the Letters of Paul; A New View of Its Place and Importance. Chicago University Press, Chicago 1935 (dissertation) ( [7] )
  • Never Far From Home. The Story of My Life. Word Books, Waco (Texas) 1975
  • A Glory in It All: Reflections After Eighty. W Pub Group, 1985
  • Chapters in a life of Paul. Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, New York 1950
  • The death of Christ; the Cross in New Testament history and faith. Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, New York 1958
  • Marcion and the New Testament: An Essay in the Early History of the Canon. Chicago University Press, Chicago 1942, ISBN 978-0-4041-6183-5
  • On the Vocabulary of Marcion's Gospel. Journal of Biblical Literature (1939): 193-201.
  • Philemon among the Letters of Paul. Chicago University Press, 1935
  • Humanity and Divinity in Christ: A Study of Pattern in Christianity. Cambridge University Press, 1967

literature

  • Writers Directory. 1980–1982 Springer, 2016, p. 692 ( books.google.de )
  • Jordan Almanzar: He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed. The Life and Works of the American John Knox (= Studies in the Religion and History of Early Christianity, 17). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / New York 2019, ISBN 978-3-631-76632-3

Web links

  • Knox, John (1901-1990). Identifiant IdRef: 177793848 [8]
  • John Knox (2) [1900–1990], LibraryThing [9]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jordan Almanzar: He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed. The Life and Works of the American John Knox (= Studies in the Religion and History of Early Christianity, 17). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / New York 2019, ISBN 978-3-631-76632-3 , text excerpt [1]
  2. ↑ In some literature references the year of birth is given as 1900.
  3. ↑ Dr. John Knox Sr., 89, An Expert on the Bible. June 28, 1990, Section B, Page 12, New York Times [2]
  4. ^ Fellows of the National Council on Religion in Higher Education: Directory, Fall 1955. National Council on Religion in Higher Education (US) The Council, 1955 ( [3] on books.google.de)
  5. ^ Robert T. Handy: A History of Union Theological Seminary in New York. Columbia University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-2310-6455-2 p. 206
  6. ^ Religion online. John Knox (current) [4]
  7. ^ Roy A. Harrisville: Pandora's Box Opened: An Examination and Defense of Historical-Critical Method and Its Master Practitioners. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Cambridge (UK) 2014, ISBN 978-1-4674-404-4-8 , p. 230 ( [5] books.google.de)
  8. ^ Marcion and the New Testament: An Essay in the Early History of the Canon. Chicago University Press, Chicago 1942
  9. ↑ Kenneth L. Carroll: The earliest new testament. The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 38 (September 1955) 45‐57, [6] here p. 48
personal data
SURNAME Knox, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theologian, New Testament scholar, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1901
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1990
Place of death Medford