Conference Presentations by Hefin Jones
Papers by Hefin Jones
Religious Studies Review, 2011
A paper presented at "The Gender Conversation" Morling College, 7 September, 20... more A paper presented at "The Gender Conversation" Morling College, 7 September, 2015 and published in "The Gender Conversation" ed. Edwina Murphy & David Starling Morling Press / Wipf & Stock 2016.
A dated (2003) unpublished paper from seminary that presents a reading of the Particular Baptist ... more A dated (2003) unpublished paper from seminary that presents a reading of the Particular Baptist 1644 and '1689' London Confessions of Faith. Close attention is paid to the relationships between these Baptist Confessions of Faith and the Westminster Confession and the Savoy Declaration, situating the production of these confessions in the development of Particular Baptist thought during the Parliamentary, Commonwealth and Restoration period of English history, with some reference to (local) associational confessions from the English Midlands, West Country and Wales.
Thesis Chapters by Hefin Jones
J. Louis Martyn, Martinus C. de Boer, and Douglas A. Campbell are three representative and influe... more J. Louis Martyn, Martinus C. de Boer, and Douglas A. Campbell are three representative and influential scholars who reflect an apocalyptic reading of Galatians. This apocalyptic reading stresses the theocentric and christocentric interpretation of the letter. This thesis asseses two key aspects of the apocalyptical reading, namely, Paul is committed to a cosmological apocalyptic eschatology that consequently reframes and redefines dikaio-terms throughout the letter, and Paul is concerned to teach that cosmic rectification is brought about by the faithfulness of Christ.
Books by Hefin Jones
A TogetherOne Commentary on Ephesians , 2024
A book section from A commentary written by ThM and PhD candidates at Asian Graduate School of Th... more A book section from A commentary written by ThM and PhD candidates at Asian Graduate School of Theology - Philippines. The whole Commentary can be freely downloaded here:
https://bsop.edu.ph/togetheronecommentaryephesians/
A paper presented at "The Gender Conversation" Morling College, 7 September, 2015 and published i... more A paper presented at "The Gender Conversation" Morling College, 7 September, 2015 and published in "The Gender Conversation" ed. Edwina Murphy & David Starling Morling Press / Wipf & Stock 2016.
Book Reviews by Hefin Jones
Themelios, 2021
Thomas Schreiner's Handbook on Acts and Paul's Letters occupies the space, if space there be, bet... more Thomas Schreiner's Handbook on Acts and Paul's Letters occupies the space, if space there be, between a typical New Testament introduction and an exegetical commentary. It represents the first installment in a three-volume series covering the entire NT canon. The series editor, Benjamin Gladd, intends each volume to provide "a snapshot of each New Testament passage without getting bogged down in detailed exegesis, " with "special attention to Old Testament allusions and quotations…. Each volume is theologically and pastorally informed" (pp. ix-x). In fourteen chapters, varying in length from nine to over sixty pages, Schreiner provides us with a book-by-book exegetical overview of Acts and the Paulines. Matters of authorship, origin, destination, recipients, and date are briefly sketched, mainly to orientate the reader to Schreiner's perspective, with the occasional nod towards alternative viewpoints. Luke wrote Acts in the 60s and the thirteen-letter Pauline canon is unequivocally Paul's. With few exceptions, Schreiner does not dwell on the structure of the epistles, satisfied to offer concise outlines. Where he does expend his energy is exactly in the places Gladd told us to expect: each chapter is dominated by a running summary of the exegetical conclusions for significant subsections of each book. These summaries get at the heart of the message of each pericope and frequently highlight Luke's and Paul's use of the OT. There are occasional brief forays into matters of exegesis. From time to time, Schreiner warns the reader that the position he takes on a particular text is not without its detractors, but he generally rests content to direct his readers towards the more detailed commentaries for more information. Each chapter is followed by a fairly extensive list of commentaries, mainly from the 1990s through to the present, and a separate list of select monographs, essays and papers. Some classic works from the Reformation as well as the nineteenth century also appear amongst the commentaries. As one would expect, the book is rounded off with fine indexes of Scripture and ancient writings, as well as the subjects covered. Given Schreiner's extensive track-record of works on how to exegete Paul, a number of volumes of first-rate exegetical commentary, a monograph on the law, as well as a Pauline theology, it will be no surprise that he excels in handling the epistles. His approach follows the text closely without getting lost in the exegetical forest. Many will appreciate being able to get a digest of Schreiner's positions on every passage in Paul, even in letters where he has not yet written a more extensive commentary. It will not come as a surprise that he reads Paul, and for that matter Luke also, in a broadly reformed manner. He stresses both Luke's and Paul's consciousness of salvation-history and their typological handling of the OT, without losing an appropriate degree of anthropological focus. I found his handling of the OT texts and allusions in the first half of Acts especially helpful. However, there is some unevenness to the work. The chapters on Romans and Galatians are generally both more demanding and more incisive than those on, say, Colossians and Titus. This is not entirely surprising given Schreiner's previous publication history. While matters pertaining to the use of the OT are handled well, the format of the work does not really provide scope to discuss alternative approaches to apostolic hermeneutics by scholars such as Richard Hays, Francis Watson, and Matthew Bates. One of my principal concerns is with the notion of the "passage, " or "section, " or even "paragraph. "
Thinking of God, 2016
Reviewing this book is to abuse it. Not that the following is an abusive review. Tony Payne and C... more Reviewing this book is to abuse it. Not that the following is an abusive review. Tony Payne and Col Marshall have followed-up their earlier The Trellis and the Vine with its bigger and beefier brother The Vine Project: Shaping your ministry culture around disciple making. The Vine Project is crucially a 'project' and not a 'book.' It is itself a 'trellis,' a gospel-trellis, designed to support and enable gospel disciple making in our churches. It's really a project that needs to be reflected upon and implemented, rather than a book to be merely read and reviewed. Now I need to not only confess that by only reading the book I'm breaking Tony and Col's own recommendation, but I also have to confess to have never read The Trellis and the Vine in the first place, despite having had an accusing copy sitting on my practical ecclesiology shelf, along with a number of other unread practical ecclesiology texts. The Vine Project is an implementation manual for developing a church 'culture' and the relevant church structures that promote the work of the gospel, from making initial contact with the lost, through to multiplying disciples. For those who don't know their earlier work, The Trellis and the Vine was a bit of a runaway bestseller amongst broadly reformed and conservative evangelicals in North America. A book that put on paper ideas and practices honed at St. Matthias, UNSW's Campus Bible Study, and other related ministries in Australia, found itself and its authors transplanted into a scene where many of these ideas and practices had few precursors. The theology of "Trellis and Vine" was familiar and persuasive, but their practice
Reformed Theological Review, Aug 2012
Teaching Documents by Hefin Jones
A synoptic arrangement in parallel lines the readings of Revelation 22:16-21 from various 16th ce... more A synoptic arrangement in parallel lines the readings of Revelation 22:16-21 from various 16th century editions of the GNT. The collation was done by hand in a single pass with limited revision (i.e. not according to the best practice of double collation and reconciliation), based on the viewing of online digital images of all of the editions presented. While particular attention was given to present the original orthography and word division, no attempt was made to fully represent the particular accentuation or punctuation of each edition.
A short catalogue relating the Gregory-Aland numbers to Vetus Latina numbers of Greek-Latin mss. ... more A short catalogue relating the Gregory-Aland numbers to Vetus Latina numbers of Greek-Latin mss. of the New Testament
Drafts by Hefin Jones
An exploration of the polyvalence of 'Torah-Observance' with Nanos, Rudolph, Fredriksen, and Maso... more An exploration of the polyvalence of 'Torah-Observance' with Nanos, Rudolph, Fredriksen, and Mason along with some reflections on "Christianity" and "Judaism" as both being potentially liable to anachronism.
A coursework review (2023) of Boccaccini, Gabriele, and Carlos A. Segovia, eds. Paul the Jew: Rer... more A coursework review (2023) of Boccaccini, Gabriele, and Carlos A. Segovia, eds. Paul the Jew: Rereading the Apostle as a Figure of Second Temple Judaism. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016.
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