Scot McKnight

Scot McKnight is a New Testament scholar who has written widely on the historical Jesus, Christian spirituality, and the Emerging Church. He is the Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University. Prior to joining the NPU faculty in 1994, he was a professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He considers himself an anabaptist.

McKnight was awarded the B.A. degree from Grand Rapids Baptist College (now known as Cornerstone University), an M.A. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and in 1986, the Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham.

One of McKnight's more popular books, The Jesus Creed, won the Christianity Today book award for 2004 in the area of Christian living. McKnight's blog, Jesus Creed, has been a popular site for evangelicals to have discussions on various issues. He and his wife, Kristen, live in Libertyville, Illinois.

Publications

• One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow (Zondervan, 2010)
• The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible (Zondervan, 2008)
• A Community Called Atonement (Abingdon, 2007)
• The Real Mary: Why Evangelical Christians Can Embrace the Mother of Jesus (Paraclete, 2006)
• Praying with the Church: Following Jesus Daily, Hourly, Today (Paraclete, 2006)
• The Story of the Christ, with Philip Law (Baker, 2005)
• Jesus And His Death: Historiography, the Historical Jesus, And Atonement Theory (Baylor, 2005)
• The Historical Jesus in Current Study, ed. with James Dunn (Eisenbraun’s, 2005)
• Embracing Grace: A Gospel for All of Us (Paraclete, 2005)
• The Face of New Testament Studies, ed. with Grant Osborne (Baker, 2004)
• The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others (Paraclete, 2004)
• Turning to Jesus: The Sociology of Conversion in the Gospels (Westminster John Knox, 2002)
• The Synoptic Gospels: An Annotated Bibliography, with Matthew Williams (Baker, 2000)
• A New Vision for Israel: The Teachings of Jesus in National Context (Eerdmans, 1999)
• 1 Peter, NIV Application Commentary (Zondervan, 1996)
• Galatians, NIV Application Commentary (Zondervan, 1993)
• Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, ed. with Joel Green & I. Howard Marshall, (IVP, 1992)
• A Light among the Gentiles (Fortress, 1992)
• Introducing New Testament Interpretation (Baker, 1989)
• Interpreting the Synoptic Gospels (Baker, 1988)

External links

• Jesus Creed -- Scot McKnight's personal blog
• Scot McKnight biography from Theopedia
• North Park University
• A Review of McKnight's FASTING
• Review of McKnight's The Blue Parakeet
• Off The Map Episode 4 Scot McKnight Talk from Missional Matrix in 2007