Clifton Black is Otto A. Piper Professor of Biblical Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary. He is a renowned New Testament scholar with more than thirty years of teaching experience, shaping theological education and ecclesial leaders in mainline denominations. He is an ordained elder in the Western North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church. He has authored or edited twenty books and more than two hundred essays, articles, and reviews, including The Lord’s Prayer in the Interpretation series and The Rhetoric of the Gospel: Theological Artistry in the Gospels and Acts, Second edition. He was elected to the presidency of the American Theological Society (2022–2023).
In A Three-Dimensional Jesus, Clifton Black offers a fresh, critically sympathetic reading of the New Testament’s first three Gospels: Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Intelligent and accessible, conversational and whimsical, this volume helps readers consi...
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In Exploring the Gospel of John, scholars of international standing gather to honor D. Moody Smith by examining the trails he has blazed in Johannine scholarship. Every aspect of the study of John is represented in this book, including the historica...
C. Clifton Black provides a thorough analysis of the most famous prayer in the Christian church, the Lord’s Prayer. He begins with an impressionist painting of how the ancients prayed during Jesus’ time in order to set the context for understanding ...
While most books on biblical rhetoric focus primarily on the epistles, this volume from prominent scholar C. Clifton Black considers the variety of rhetorical critical approaches now being applied to the Gospels (including Luke-Acts). This updated e...