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Senior Research Fellow

Revd Dr. Andrew Clarke

Revd Dr. Andrew Clarke is the Leadership Development Lead for the Scottish Baptist Union. Dr Clarke's research interests surround social historical and theological understandings of the nature, understanding, practices and life of the earliest Christian communities, especially their leadership. These also extend to biblical hermeneutical questions in relation to present day patterns of church community.

Memberships and Networks:

Accredited Minister of the Baptist Union of Scotland 2019-
Honorary Professor in School of Divinity, History and Philosophy 2016-
Emeritus Senior Lecturer in School of Divinity, History and Philosophy 2015-
Member of the Baptist Union of Scotland Board of Ministry 2015-
Associate of the Centre for Ministry Studies at Aberdeen University 2014-
Member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS) (Assistant Secretary: 2010-15; Secretary: 2016-20) 2005-
Member of the British New Testament Society (BNTS) (local organiser of annual conferences in 1996 and 2009) 1995-
Member of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical and Theological Research (committee member from 1990-95, 2006-12) 1990-

Publications

Andrew D. Clarke, A Pauline Theology of Church Leadership (Library of New Testament Studies, 362; London: T&T Clark, 2008) [212pp – also ebook ebrary, and pbk].

Andrew D. Clarke, Serve the Community of the Church: Christians as Leaders and Ministers (First-Century Christians in the Graeco-Roman World; Andrew D. Clarke [editor]; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000) [305pp].

Andrew D. Clarke, Secular and Christian Leadership in Corinth: A Socio-Historical and Exegetical Study of 1 Corinthians 1-6 (Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Antiken Judentums und Urchristentums; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1993; 2nd edition; Paternoster Biblical Monographs; Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2006) [190pp].

Articles

Andrew D. Clarke, ‘The Source and Scope of Paul’s Apostolic Authority’, Criswell Theological Review 12 (2015) pp. 3-22.

Andrew D. Clarke, ‘Lexicography and New Testament Categories of Church Discipline’, Tyndale Bulletin 64 (2013) pp. 129-51.

Andrew D. Clarke, ‘“Do not Judge who is Worthy and Unworthy”: Clement’s Warning not to Speculate about the Rich Young Man’s Response (Mark 10.17-31)’, Journal for the Study of the New Testament 31 (2009) pp. 447-68.

Andrew D. Clarke, ‘“Be Imitators of Me”: Paul’s Model of Leadership’, Tyndale Bulletin 49 (1998) pp. 329-60.

Andrew D. Clarke, ‘“Refresh the Hearts of the Saints”: A Unique Pauline Context?’, Tyndale Bulletin 47 (1996) pp. 277-300.

Andrew D. Clarke, ‘Another Corinthian Erastus Inscription’, Tyndale Bulletin 42 (1991) pp. 146-51.

Andrew D. Clarke, ‘The Good and the Just in Romans 5:7’, Tyndale Bulletin 41 (1990) pp. 128-42.

Book Chapters

Andrew D. Clarke, ‘The Church as a Learning Community’, in collected essays from the The Doctine of the Church: Edinburgh Dogmatics Conference 2021 (Eugene: Wipf & Stock, forthcoming).

Andrew D. Clarke and J. Brian Tucker, ‘Social History and Social Theory in the Study of Social Identity’, in J. Brian Tucker & Coleman A. Baker (eds), T&T Clark Handbook to Social Identity in the New Testament (London: T&T Clark, 2014) pp. 41-58.

Andrew D. Clarke, ‘Church Membership and the ἰδιώτης in the Early Corinthian Community’, in J. Laansma et al. (eds.), Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior: Essays on New Testament Theology in the Light of the Church’s Mission in Honor of I. Howard Marshall (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011) pp. 197-211.

Andrew D. Clarke, ‘Equality or Mutuality? – Paul’s Use of “Brother” Language’, in Peter J. Williams, Andrew D. Clarke, Peter M. Head, David Instone-Brewer (eds.), The New Testament in its First Century Setting: Essays on Context and Background in honour of B.W. Winter on his 65th Birthday (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004) pp. 151-64.

Andrew D. Clarke, ‘Jew and Greek, Slave and Free, Male and Female: Paul’s Theology of Ethnic, Social and Gender Inclusiveness in Romans 16’, in P. Oakes (ed.), Rome in the Bible and the Early Church (Carlisle: Paternoster, 2002) pp. 103-25.

Andrew D. Clarke, ‘Rome and Italy’, in David W.J. Gill and Conrad Gempf (editors), The Book of Acts in its Graeco-Roman Setting (The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting volume 2; Grand Rapids/Carlisle: Eerdmans/ Paternoster, 1994) pp. 455-81.