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About the Department | Undergraduate Study | Postgraduate Study | Staff Directory | News & Events Dr Andrew Clarke
Dr Andrew Clarke
The University of Aberdeen
School of Divinity, History & Philosophy
Senior Lecturer MA, PhD (Cambridge)
Jump to: BiographyBefore moving to Aberdeen in 1995, I was the Research Librarian at Tyndale House Biblical Studies Research Library in Cambridge during that particularly interesting early phase of development in academic libraries when the benefits of locally-networked computers, CD ROM and online databases, and the internet were being explored and exploited for academic research. I am currently the Chairman of the Tyndale House Council. In recent years I have supervised to completion research dissertations in the following areas: Paul’s use of co-authors in his letters; ‘New Creation’ in the Pauline corpus; Paul’s relationship to the OT Prophetic tradition; Spirit and Judgment in Luke-Acts; Aurality in Mark’s Gospel; Paul’s use of Scripture in Philippians; Perspectives on healing held by Mark, Luke and Paul; Paul’s use of metaphors for church in 1 Corinthians; Luke’s use of speeches by non-Christians in Acts; Luke’s use of the phrase ‘not my will but thine be done’; Paul’s use of phroneo in Romans and Philippians; submission within the godhead and the church in Philippians; reactions to the Roman persona in Paul, Epictetus and Valerius Maximus; Paul’s dependence on the Sermon on the Mount for his teaching about wealth/poverty; the David motif in the New Testament. ^ top Research InterestsMy research has focused especially on the Pauline communities and the ways in which these communities differed from each other in regard to how leadership was exercised. In particular, I have sought to compare styles of leadership within each of these communities with those that were widely adopted in the dominant Greek or Roman surrounding contexts. Most recently, I have sought to distil from the Pauline texts those generic characteristics of leadership that Paul espoused – a kind of systematic theology of church leadership. In this, I was particularly interested in recent hermeneutical debates, which have been probing what agendas may have influenced Paul when he addressed issues of church leadership and what influences us in our interpretation of his statements about church leadership. ^ top Current ResearchI am writing a commentary on 1 Corinthians for the Word Biblical Commentary series; and also exploring the nature and characteristics of the early Christian communities. ^ top PublicationsContributions to JournalsArticles
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