Professor Andrew Clarke

Biography

• Senior Lecturer in New Testament at the University of Aberdeen (1995-2015)
• Research Librarian at Tyndale House, Cambridge (1990-1995)

External Memberships

Boards, Councils & Committees

• Secretary of SNTS – Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (2016- ; Assistant Secretary: 2010-15)
• Member of the Tyndale House Trust Board (1999-; Chair: 2005-12; Tyndale House Trustee: 2015-; Chair of the Tyndale House Academic Board: 2010-)
  
• Associate of the Aberdeen University Centre for Ministry Studies (2014-)
• Member of the Baptist Union of Scotland Board of Ministry (2015-)

Editorial Boards

• Member of the Editorial Board of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS Monograph Series and New Testament Studies journal, in conjunction with Cambridge University Press – Assistant Secretary 2010-15)
• Editorial Board member of the Tyndale Bulletin
• Editorial Board member of the Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership
  

Research Overview

My research focuses on the social and historical questions impinging on the life, leadership and legacy of the earliest Christian communities. I am especially interested on the impact of this research on the worship and witness of Christian communities in today’s contexts.

Monographs:

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; 2^nd edition; Paternoster Biblical Monographs; Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2006) [190pp].

Journal 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, ‘An Interview with Paul: What Might the Apostle say about the Church Today?’, The Pneuma Review 13 (2010) pp. 46-50.

Andrew D. Clarke, ‘The Healthy Church: Embodying Leadership’, Catalyst 30 (2003) pp. 1-3.

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.

Chapters in Multi-Author Volumes:

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 á¼°διÏŽτης 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, ‘A Strange Silence …?: Leadership in the New Testament’, in A. Rollinson (ed.), Transforming Leadership: Essays Exploring Leadership in a Baptist Context (Glasgow: Baptist Union of Scotland, 2008) pp. 8-14.

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.

Edited Volumes:

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).

Bruce W. Winter, Seek the Welfare of the City: Christians as Benefactors and Citizens (First-Century Christians in the Graeco-Roman World; Andrew D. Clarke [editor]; Grand Rapids/Carlisle: Eerdmans/Paternoster, 1994).

Bruce W. Winter and Andrew D. Clarke (editors), The Book of Acts in its Ancient Literary Setting (The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting volume 1; Grand Rapids/Carlisle: Eerdmans/Paternoster, 1993).

Andrew D. Clarke and Bruce W. Winter (editors), One God, One Lord: Christianity in a World of Religious Pluralism (2nd edition; Grand Rapids/Carlisle: Baker Book House/Paternoster, 1992).

Andrew D. Clarke and Bruce W. Winter (editors), One God, One Lord in a World of Religious Pluralism (Cambridge: Tyndale House, 1991).

Dictionary Articles:

Andrew D. Clarke, ‘Apostleship’, in S.E. Balentine (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology, Vol 1 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015) 51-54.

Andrew D. Clarke, ‘Slave, Servant’, in J.B. Green (ed.), Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (2^nd edn; Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2013) pp. 869-74.

Andrew D. Clarke, ‘Alexandria’, ‘Alexandrian Library’, and ‘Alexandrian Scholarship’, in C.A. Evans and S.E. Porter (eds.), Dictionary of New Testament Background (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2000) pp. 23-29.

Andrew D. Clarke, ‘Leadership’, in T.D. Alexander & B.S. Rosner (eds.), New Dictionary of Biblical Theology (Leicester: Inter Varsity Press, 2000) pp. 636-40.