Holiness and Ecclesiology in the New Testament is the working title of a volume of essays being compiled in honor of Dr. Alex R. G. Deasley, NTS Professor Emeritus of New Testament. Friends, colleagues and former students of Deasley were in attendance in an NTS chapel on Thursday, April 7 to honor him, surprising him with the announcement of this work to be published by Eerdmans.
The essay project was introduced by Dr. Andy Johnson, NTS Professor of New Testament, and Dr. Kent Brower, Vice-Principal and Senior Lecturer in New Testament at Nazarene Theological College (NTC), Manchester. Johnson and Brower, respectively Dr. Deasley’s successors at NTS and at NTC, are co-editors of this volume as well as authors of individual essays contained therein. Other essay authors include friends, former students, and colleagues in Deasley’s academic field, including Dr. Roger Hahn, NTS Dean of the Faculty and Professor of New Testament.
Download a list of authors and their essay titles. (PDF - 95KB)
Dr. Paul Bassett, NTS Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity, wrote a special dedication to be read in the chapel service in honor of Deasley, his friend and colleague. Of Deasley and this volume of essays, Bassett shared, “Musicologists have long noted that at the end of his religious pieces, Johann Sebastian Bach almost always wrote the Latin words Soli Deo gloria—“to God alone be the glory.” I am sure that those who have done the honors in writing for this collection, and the one being honored by them, are no less firm in their yearning that while they have celebrated great gifts by exercising their own gifts it will be the God, from whom those great gifts come, who will indeed alone receive the glory!”
Read Dr. Bassett’s dedication in its entirety. (PDF - 78KB)
The announcement of Holiness and Ecclesiology in the New Testament was a surprise to Deasley, who having been already honored as the NTS 2005 Preacher of the Year was present in the morning’s chapel service to preach one of a week-long series of challenging sermons to the NTS community.
Click here to listen to Deasley’s four sermons in his series titled “Proclaiming the Faith."
Posted on
Tue, April 12, 2005
by NTS News