Stephen C Barton
Biographic Data
| ID | 713434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen C Barton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen C |
| FAMILY NAME | Barton |
| SIGNATURE | BARTON S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham and Manchester Universities |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5441-3180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Christ and Creation in the Synoptic Gospels
Observing that most scholarly attention to the theme of Christ and creation has taken place in Pauline and Johannine studies, this essay addresses a relatively neglected factor in Synoptic studies. On the assumption that, scripturally speaking, ‘creation’ is a relational category in terms of which time, space, persons, and values are interpreted in relation to God in God’s sovereignty, the essay draws attention to the multiple ways creation, inte…
Mark Vasey-Saunders, Defusing the Sexuality Debate
Matthew's Gospel for today
In this article I offer an interpretation of the Gospel of Matthew in its originating context with a view to making some suggestions about how Matthew may still speak today. Working by inference from the shape and content of the Gospel, I suggest that, against the backdrop of the partings of the ways between synagogue and church, Matthew wrote for the following reasons: to establish and display Jesus' identity; to help his readers understand bett…
Klaus-Peter Adam, Hate and Enmity in Biblical Law
Halvor Moxnes, Memories of Jesus
Mark G. Brett, Locations of God
John S. Kloppenborg, Christ’s Associations
Nijay K. Gupta, Paul and the Language of Faith
Matthew Thiessen, Jesus and the Forces of Death
Simeon Zahl, The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience
Jesus on Justice and Mercy in Constitutional Perspective
This essay places accounts of the mission of Jesus, including his politics, within a wider frame. It does so by offering a constitutional approach. This situates Jesus’ teaching of the kingdom of God in a Mediterranean context of ancient constitutional reflection, as also of certain Palestinian constitutional ideas and forms. An account of three main aspects of Jesus’ mission is offered within this wider, constitutional frame: first, power and au…
Sanctification and Oneness in 1 Corinthians with Implications for the Case of ‘Mixed Marriages’ (1 Corinthians 7.12–16)
This essay is a social-scientific study of Paul's deployment of holiness language in 1 Corinthians. Specifically, an interpretation of holiness is offered to explain Paul's argument in 1 Cor 7.12–16 in favour of non-separation in the case of a believer married to a non-believer. For Paul, holiness involves participation in the oneness of God interpreted christologically. This participation is embodied in the holiness-as-oneness of the church. In …
Marriage, family, the Bible and the gospel
The Christian quest for wisdom in relation to marriage and family is necessarily ongoing, not least in response to significant changes in human patterns of intimacy in modern and postmodern times. This article offers, in a personal way, conclusions I have come to as a biblical scholar about the significance of historical-contextual reasoning for interpreting what the Bible says about marriage and family. My principal constructive suggestion is th…
Memory in the Bible and Antiquity
The volume brings together essays that explore the topic of memory and remembrance in the ancient world, taking into account the Hebrew Bible (Deuteronomy, 1 and 2 Kings), ancient Judaism (1 and 2 Maccabees, Psalms of Solomon, Dead Sea Scrolls), the classical world, the New Testament (Jesus, Synoptic Gospels and Acts, Gospel of John, Pauline letters) and Early Christianity (Petrine tradition). The essays, which focus on a wide range of sources fr…
The Cambridge Companion to St Paul
The apostle Paul has been justifiably described as the first and greatest Christian theologian. His letters were among the earliest documents to be included in the New Testament and, as such, they shaped Christian thinking from the beginning. As a missionary, theologian and pastor Paul's own wrestling with theological and ethical questions of his day is paradigmatic for Christian theology, not least for Christianity's own identity and continuing …
Social-Scientific Criticism
The Believer, the Historian and the Fourth Gospel
Paul's Sense of Place
Recent scholarly study of the early Christian gatherings (or ‘churches’) has rightly emphasized their indebtedness to the household model of association. One only has to think of the use of the house as a place of meeting, the terminology of paternalism and brotherhood, the conversion of whole households, the praise accorded to the practice of hospitality and the endorsement given to contemporary marital and household ethics in the New Testament …
Paul and the resurrection
Paul and the resurrection
Paul's Sense of Place
Recent scholarly study of the early Christian gatherings (or ‘churches’) has rightly emphasized their indebtedness to the household model of association. One only has to think of the use of the house as a place of meeting, the terminology of paternalism and brotherhood, the conversion of whole households, the praise accorded to the practice of hospitality and the endorsement given to contemporary marital and household ethics in the New Testament …
The Believer, the Historian and the Fourth Gospel
Social-Scientific Criticism
The Cambridge Companion to St Paul
The apostle Paul has been justifiably described as the first and greatest Christian theologian. His letters were among the earliest documents to be included in the New Testament and, as such, they shaped Christian thinking from the beginning. As a missionary, theologian and pastor Paul's own wrestling with theological and ethical questions of his day is paradigmatic for Christian theology, not least for Christianity's own identity and continuing …
Memory in the Bible and Antiquity
The volume brings together essays that explore the topic of memory and remembrance in the ancient world, taking into account the Hebrew Bible (Deuteronomy, 1 and 2 Kings), ancient Judaism (1 and 2 Maccabees, Psalms of Solomon, Dead Sea Scrolls), the classical world, the New Testament (Jesus, Synoptic Gospels and Acts, Gospel of John, Pauline letters) and Early Christianity (Petrine tradition). The essays, which focus on a wide range of sources fr…
Marriage, family, the Bible and the gospel
The Christian quest for wisdom in relation to marriage and family is necessarily ongoing, not least in response to significant changes in human patterns of intimacy in modern and postmodern times. This article offers, in a personal way, conclusions I have come to as a biblical scholar about the significance of historical-contextual reasoning for interpreting what the Bible says about marriage and family. My principal constructive suggestion is th…
Sanctification and Oneness in 1 Corinthians with Implications for the Case of ‘Mixed Marriages’ (1 Corinthians 7.12–16)
This essay is a social-scientific study of Paul's deployment of holiness language in 1 Corinthians. Specifically, an interpretation of holiness is offered to explain Paul's argument in 1 Cor 7.12–16 in favour of non-separation in the case of a believer married to a non-believer. For Paul, holiness involves participation in the oneness of God interpreted christologically. This participation is embodied in the holiness-as-oneness of the church. In …
Jesus on Justice and Mercy in Constitutional Perspective
This essay places accounts of the mission of Jesus, including his politics, within a wider frame. It does so by offering a constitutional approach. This situates Jesus’ teaching of the kingdom of God in a Mediterranean context of ancient constitutional reflection, as also of certain Palestinian constitutional ideas and forms. An account of three main aspects of Jesus’ mission is offered within this wider, constitutional frame: first, power and au…
Mark G. Brett, Locations of God
John S. Kloppenborg, Christ’s Associations
Nijay K. Gupta, Paul and the Language of Faith
Matthew Thiessen, Jesus and the Forces of Death
Simeon Zahl, The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience
Halvor Moxnes, Memories of Jesus
Matthew's Gospel for today
In this article I offer an interpretation of the Gospel of Matthew in its originating context with a view to making some suggestions about how Matthew may still speak today. Working by inference from the shape and content of the Gospel, I suggest that, against the backdrop of the partings of the ways between synagogue and church, Matthew wrote for the following reasons: to establish and display Jesus' identity; to help his readers understand bett…
Klaus-Peter Adam, Hate and Enmity in Biblical Law
Mark Vasey-Saunders, Defusing the Sexuality Debate
Christ and Creation in the Synoptic Gospels
Observing that most scholarly attention to the theme of Christ and creation has taken place in Pauline and Johannine studies, this essay addresses a relatively neglected factor in Synoptic studies. On the assumption that, scripturally speaking, ‘creation’ is a relational category in terms of which time, space, persons, and values are interpreted in relation to God in God’s sovereignty, the essay draws attention to the multiple ways creation, inte…
Philosophy (17 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (14 works) · Theology (12 works) · History (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)