Ken Schenck

Ken Schenck (born 1966) is a New Testament scholar whose primary focus has been the book of Hebrews, although he has also published on Paul and Philo. His New Testament Survey (Triangle Publishing) has sold nearly 10,000 copies, and his “brief guide” to Philo (Westminster John Knox) has been translated into both Russian and Korean. His blog also engages heavily with issues in hermeneutics, ecclesiology, and philosophy on both a popular and scholarly level. After serving as Dean of Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University for six years, he returned to be Professor of New Testament and Ancient Languages in Indiana Wesleyan University's School of Theology and Ministry.

Education

Schenck was awarded a Ph.D. degree in 1996 from the University of Durham, England, where he studied under James D. G. Dunn, holds an M.A. in Classical Languages and Literature from the University of Kentucky, an M.Div from Asbury Theological Seminary, and an A.B. from Southern Wesleyan University. He is an ordained minister in the Wesleyan Church since 1991 and a Professor of Bible at Indiana Wesleyan University since 1997. He has also taught for the University of Notre Dame and Asbury Theological Seminary.

Scholarship

His work on Hebrews was the first to engage the book extensively from the standpoint of its narrative substructure, and is part of a recent wave that sees the sermon more as a response to the destruction of the Jerusalem temple than a polemic against the Levitical cultus per se.[1]

In hermeneutics, Schenck has argued consistently that the traditionally Protestant approach to Scripture, which places the locus of the Bible’s authority solely on the historical meaning, deconstructs itself not only because it leads to an atomization of biblical meaning but also because the Bible itself—the putative authority—does not employ this method.[2] The ironic result is a trajectory toward theological liberalism and away from Christian orthodoxy, as well as the fragmentation of Protestantism. Schenck maintains that only a balance between the trajectory of the historical meaning and the Spirit-led consensus of Christendom can sustain both orthodox Christian faith and an understanding of the Bible as Christian Scripture.

Publications

References

  1. Cosmology and Eschatology in Hebrews: The Settings of the Sacrifice, Westminster John Knox, 1998.
  2. Who Decides What the Bible Means?, CafeTutor Publishing, 1998, and extensively at .

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