Joshua Coutts

• 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)
• NT7201: Advanced Greek Readings

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)
• Sessional lecturer at Edinburgh Theological Seminary, Ambrose Seminary, and Prairie College

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

• 2023 Review Panelist for the launch of The End of Dispensationalism (Lexham, 2023) by Brian Irwin with Timothy Perry, Providence Theological Seminary.
• 2021 “John’s Gospel as Isaiah’s Report: The Vocalization of Isaiah’s Witness in John.” Paper at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (Johannine Literature Section)
• 2020 “Harnessing Difficulty for Discipleship.” Paper and Panelist at Providence Theological Seminary Bible and Theology Department, “The Church Post-Pandemic Forum.”
• 2020 “ ‘Living According to the Lord’s Day’: The Formative Role of Worship in Early Christianity.” Lecture in Regent College Evening Public Lectures
• 2019 “ ‘My People will Know my Name’: Jewish Identity and the Name of God in John’s Gospel.” Paper at Annual Meeting of the Institute for Biblical Research.
• 2019 “Formed by the Word in an Age of Information: Recovering a Christian Approach to Scripture.” Paper at Providence Theological Seminary Bible and Theology Department Symposium.
• 2019 “Beholding the Glory: The Reception of Exodus in John’s Gospel.” Paper at Upper Midwest Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (St. Paul).
• 2019 “A Dangerous Religion? Earliest Christianity in Pluralistic Roman Society.” Lecture in Providence Public Lectures Series.
• 2018 “Naming God in Earliest Christianity.” Lecture in Regent College Evening Public Lecture Series.
• 2018 “John’s Use of Isaiah: A Lesson in Hermeneutics.” Invited Lecture at Providence Seminary.
• 2017 “The Antagonistic Use of Scripture as a Catalyst for John’s Gospel.” Paper at the Annual Seminar on the Old Testament in the New Testament (Hawarden).
• 2015 “Associative Concepts in the LXX of Deutero-Isaiah.” Paper at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (LXX Isaiah Section).
• 2015 “Kept in the Shared Name: Exploring Backgrounds for the Name-giving in John 17.11-12.” Paper at the Annual Seminar on Old Testament in the New Testament (Hawarden).
• 2014 “John’s Indebtedness to the Divine Name Concept in Deutero-Isaiah.” Paper at the Biblical Studies Seminar, School of Divinity, Edinburgh.
• 2014 “I Have Come in My Father’s Name”: John 5.43 in the Context of John’s Name-Christology.” Paper at the Annual British New Testament Society Conference (Manchester).
• 2014 “The Family Name and the Name’s Family: John’s Indebtedness to Isaiah’s Divine Name Concept.” Paper at the Annual Seminar on Old Testament in the New Testament (Hawarden).
• 2012 “Glory from Qumran in the Gospel of John?” Paper at the Annual British New Testament Society Conference (London).
• 2010 “By Whose Authority Do You Pray these things? The Believer’s Use of Psalm 2:1-2 in Acts 4:25-26.” Paper at the Annual Academic Symposium, Regent College.

Books

• 2023 It’s About Life: The Formative Power of Scripture, ed. Bernard Bell, Joshua Coutts, Joseph Lee, Jesse Nickel. Vancouver: Regent Publishing.
• 2017 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

• Forthcoming “John’s Gospel as Isaiah’s Report: The Vocalization of Isaiah’s Witness in John,” Journal of Theological Interpretation.
• Forthcoming “Formed by the Word in an Age of Information,” Didaskalia.
• 2023 “Freed From the World to be for the World: John 12 and the Promise of Biblical Scholarship,” in It’s About Life: The Formative Role of Scripture, ed. Bernard Bell, Joshua Coutts, Joseph Lee, Jesse Nickel (Vancouver: Regent Publishing), 141-57.
• 2021 “Revelation, Provision, and Deliverance: The Reception of Exodus in Johannine Literature,” p. 269-86 in The Reception of Exodus Motifs in Jewish and Christian Literature: ‘Let My People Go!’, ed. Beate Kowalski and Susan E. Docherty. TBN30. Leiden: Brill.
• 2021 “‘Living According to the Lord’s Day’:The Formative Role of Worship in Early Christianity,” Didaskalia 29:2-19.
• 2018 “God’s Personal Name,” in Lexham Survey of Theology, ed. Mark Ward et al. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
• 2017 “Scriptural Conflict and Interpretation: Lessons from Mark and John,” Crux 53:14-24.
• 2017 “‘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): 248-60.
• 2008 “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.