Joshua Coutts, Ph.D.

• NT5202 Birth of Christianity
• NT5306/133.32 Encountering Jesus in John’s Gospel
• NT5316 Paul’s Letters: Ephesians
• NT5211 Recovering The Book of Revelation
• NT6201 New Testament Theology
• BI5101 Hermeneutics
• BI5102 Reading the Church’s Bible
• BI7107 The New Testament Interpretation of Scripture
• NT5101/162.21 Intro Greek I
• NT5102/162.22 Intro Greek II
• NT6101/162.31 Reading the Greek New Testament (Intermediate Greek I)
• NT6102/162.32 Studying the Greek New Testament (Intermediate Greek II)

University of Edinburgh (SCT)

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), New Testament Language, Literature and Theology
2016

Regent College (BC)

Master’s Degree (MCS), Biblical Studies
2011

Briercrest College (SK)

Bachelor’s Degree (B.A.), Theology
2006

Present

• Providence Theological Seminary, Faculty
• Regent College Distance Ed, New Testament Instructor

Past

• Regent College, New Testament Lecturer (2017-18)
• Edinburgh Theological Seminary, New Testament Lecturer (2015-16)

Professional Memberships

• Society of Biblical Literature
• Institute for Biblical Research

Awards

• Institute for Religion and Culture Scholarship (2014)
• Edinburgh Divinity School Scholarship (2013-2015)
• The New Testament Prize, Regent College (2011)
• The Biblical Studies Prize, Regent College (2011)

Professional Papers and Invited Lectures

• ” ‘Living According to the Lord’s Day’: The Formative Role of Worship in Early Christianity.” Providence Public Lectures (Winnipeg; Steinbach). Feb, 2020.
• ” ‘My People will Know my Name’: Jewish Identity and the Name of God in John’s Gospel.” Annual Conference of the IBR (San Diego). November, 2019.
• “Formed by the Word in the Age of Information: Recovering a Christian Approach to Scripture.” Providence Theological Seminary BTS Symposium (Otterburne, MB). October, 2019.
• “Beholding the Glory: The Reception of Exodus in John’s Gospel.” UMW Regional Meeting of the SBL (St. Paul, MN). April, 2019.
• “A Dangerous Religion? Earliest Christianity in Pluralistic Roman Society.” Providence Public Lectures (Winnipeg; Steinbach). March, 2019.
• “Naming God in Earliest Christianity.” Evening Public Lecture, Regent College (Vancouver). May, 2018.
• “John’s Use of Isaiah: A Lesson in Hermeneutics.” Guest Lecture at Providence Seminary (Otterburne, MB). January, 2018.
• “The Antagonistic Use of Scripture as a Catalyst for John’s Gospel.” Annual Seminar on OT in NT (Hawarden). April, 2017.
• “Associative Concepts in the LXX of Deutero-Isaiah.” Annual Conference of the SBL (Atlanta). November, 2015.
• “Kept in the Shared Name: Exploring Backgrounds for the Name-giving in John 17.11-12.” Annual Seminar on OT in NT (Hawarden). March, 2015.
• “John’s Indebtedness to the Divine Name Concept in Deutero-Isaiah.” Biblical Studies Seminar (School of Divinity, Edinburgh). October, 2014.
• “I Have Come in My Father’s Name”: John 5.43 in the Context of John’s Name-Christology.” Annual British New Testament Society Conference (Manchester). September, 2014.
• “The Family Name and the Name’s Family: John’s Indebtedness to Isaiah’s Divine Name Concept.” Annual Seminar on OT in NT (Hawarden). April, 2014.
• “Glory from Qumran in the Gospel of John?” Annual British New Testament Society Conference (London). September, 2012.
• “By Whose Authority Do You Pray these things? The Believer’s Use of Psalm 2.1-2 in Acts 4:25-26.” Annual Academic Symposium, Regent College (Vancouver). March, 2010.

Monographs

• The Divine Name in the Gospel of John: Significance and Impetus. WUNT 2/447. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017. Interview on NBN here.

Academic Articles and Book Chapters

• “Exodus in the Gospel of John,” in Let My People Go: The Reception of Exodus Motifs in Jewish and Christian Literature. (contracted with Brill)
• “God’s Personal Name,” in Lexham Theology Survey, ed. Mark Ward et al. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2018.
• “Scriptural Conflict and Interpretation: Lessons from Mark and John,” Crux 53 (Winter, 2017): 14-24.
• “ ‘My Father’s Name’: A Survey of Research on the Use of Onoma with Respect to the Father in the Fourth Gospel,” Currents in Biblical Research 15 (February, 2017): 248-260.
• “Gregory Against Gregory: A Critique of Gregory of Nyssa’s Via Negativa from His Own Theology and What Difference that Makes to Christians Today,” Crux 44 (Spring, 2008): 25-30.

Book Reviews

• Several reviews in the Review of Biblical Literature, Journal of Theological Studies, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Crux, Expository Times, and Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology.