Lecture Series - Robert E. Cooley Center for Early Christianity

Lecture Series


Jesus in the Light of Archaeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls (2023)

Dr. Craig A. Evans

John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins, Houston Baptist University, and Founding Dean, Houston Theological Seminary


Fall Event – Cooley Center Vision Update (2021)

Dr. Donald Fairbairn

Robert E. Cooley Professor of Early Christianity

 

 

 


Gospels from Start to Finish (2021)

Dr. Darrell L. Bock
Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary

 


Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Early Church: What Did it Mean to Win? (2020)

Dr. Donald Fairbairn

Robert E. Cooley Professor of Early Christianity

 


The Gospel in the Land (2020)

R. Steven Notley
Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins
Nyack College

 


Household Archaeology: My Career Lies in Ruins (2019)

Dr. Robert E. Cooley
President Emeritus and former Professor of Biblical Studies and Archaeology of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary


Can We Know the Exact Words of God? (2019)

Dr. Peter J. Williams
Principal, Tyndale House, Cambridge


Axum: Quest for the Land and Queen of Sheba (2018)

Dr. SeJin Koh

 


God’s Worshiping People: Then and Now (2018)

Dr. Daniel I. Block
Gunther H. Knoedler Professor Emeritus of Old Testament, Wheaton College

 


From the Shema to the Nicene Creed: The Role of Creeds in the Articulation of Christian Orthodoxy  (2017)

Dr. Donald Fairbairn
Robert E. Cooley Professor of Early Christianity

 


Round Table Discussion: Unchanging Witness: The Consistent Christian Teaching on Homosexuality in Scripture and Tradition (2016)

Dr. Donald Fortson
Professor of Church History at Reformed Theological Seminary and an Adjunct Professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

 

 

Dr. Rollin Grams
Academic Dean, Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life, Former Professor of Biblical Theology and Ethics at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

 


The New Testament Text: Reliability, Technology and Discovery (2016)

Dr. Daniel B. Wallace
Senior Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary and the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts


The Cultivated Olive Tree and Ingrafted Branches: Re-Thinking Israel and the Church (2015)

Dr. Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.
Distinguished professor emeritus of Old Testament and president emeritus of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts


 

The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of Gnosticism (2014)

Dr. Nicholas Perrin
Franklin S. Dryness Professor of Biblical Studies at Wheaton College

 


Paul in Athens and in Caesarea: His Speeches Before the Areopagus Council and Before a Roman Governor and Jewish King (2013)

Dr. Eckhard J. Schnabel
Mary F. Rockefeller Distinguished Professor of New Testament Studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary


Scripture Then and Now (2011)

Dr. Michael W. Holmes
University Professor of Biblical Studies and Early Christianity at Bethel University


Jesus Wars? Listening for the early Church’s Consensus About Christ (2010)

Dr. Donald M. Fairbairn
Robert E. Cooley Professor of Early Christianity 

 


Archaeology and the Historical Jesus (2010)

Dr. Craig A. Evans
John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins, Houston Baptist University


The Exodus and Sinai Events (2009)

Dr. James K. Hoffmeier
Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School


The Land of Israel From Archaeology to Theology (2009)

Dr. Robert E. Cooley
President Emeritus and former Professor of Biblical Studies and Archaeology of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary


What Have They Done With Jesus (2008)

Dr. Ben Witherington, III
Amos Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary and on the doctoral faculty at St. Andrews University in Scotland


Early Christianity at Corinth (2007)

Dr. Russel P. Spittler
Former Provost Emeritus and Senior Professor of New Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary


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