The Scot McKnight Festschrift

A couple of weeks ago, Nijay Gupta announced the publication of a festschrift (i.e., celebratory writing) for Scot McKnight, entitled, Living the King Jesus Gospel: Discipleship and Ministry Then and Now, edited by Nijay K. Gupta, Tara Beth Leach, Matthew W. Bates, Drew J. Strait.

Scot McKnight is a brilliant scholar who has been teaching, mentoring, and writing for over thirty years. He was also an examiner for my PhD thesis - which he passed! Since then he has helped me get established in scholarship and given me many opportunities to edit and write for a variety of audiences. Scot has been a terrific collaborator, encourager, friend, and mentor to me. Like me, he’s also an Anglican convert, so we have many topics to talk about - esp. warning passages in Hebrews and Calvinism. He’s faithful to Jesus, his family, and his long-suffering Chicago Cubs! Seriously, Scot is one of the best guys I know in biblical studies, combining faith and scholarship. So I was naturally elated to hear that he was receiving a festschrift and I was enthused to contribute to it.

In the next post I’ll describe my contribution to this volume.

Notably, Scot has written a steady stream of both academic works but also popular-level books for the church. If you don’t know, his commentaries on Galatians, Colossians, Philemon, and James are superb, I still like his book Jesus and His Death, then there’s his book The Jesus Creed and with his daughter, Laura Barringer A Church Called Tov. His Reading Romans Backwards is a stimulating and thought-provoking book as well. Great works that merit adding to your collection.

You can also follow Scot at his substack page.