Education
A.B. University of Michigan, M.Div. Western Theological Seminary, Ph.D. Princeton Theological Seminary
jim.brownson@westernsem.edu

Courses
BF100 New Testament Greek
BF101 New Testament Translation and Interpretation
BF102 New Testament Life and Witness
BF531 Seminar in the Synoptics
BF532 The Gospel According to John
BF535 Interpreting the Parables
BF613 Greek Reading
BF617 The Ordination of Women: Exploring Biblical Authority and Church Order

I try to teach the New Testament in a way that helps students understand the gospel more deeply. That means understanding both the central message of Christian faith and the different ways in which that faith was lived out in the New Testament church. Understanding the unity and diversity of the New Testament is critical to understanding how Christians are to minister today.

Background
What is the gospel, and how does it address and transform our lives? This is the question that has shaped Jim Brownson's academic and theological work. Jim's teaching and thinking tends to move between close and careful readings of the biblical text and wide - ranging exercises in theological imagination that bring the biblical text into conversation with life in the modern and postmodern world.

His passion is to equip students to understand the gospel both in its stunning simplicity and in its incredibly diverse applications to our lives. His scholarly and teaching interests include the Gospel of John, the Synoptic Gospels, biblical hermeneutics, contextual theology, and theology in service to the church. Dr. Brownson served Western eight years as Academic Dean and has contributed significantly to recent revisions in Western's M.Div. curriculum.

He is deeply involved in service to the Reformed Church in America, both in theological scholarship and in theological education. He is a long-standing member of the Gospel and Our Culture Network and a contributor to its ongoing research and publication.

Dr. Brownson is the author of Speaking the Truth in Love: New Testament Resources for a Missional Hermeneutic, and a co-author of Stormfront. He often contributes to a variety of journals and magazines as well.