Dr John Dennis

John is from the USA and is married to Julia (from Germany). He is a graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Boston University.

John came to ICC in 2006 from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (in Belgium) where, for eight years, he was involved in studying for the doctorate, research, teaching and ministry in the International Church of Evangelicals in Leuven (ICEL).

John’s Leuven PhD dissertation is published under the title, Jesus’ Death and the Gathering of True Israel: The Johannine Appropriation of Jewish Restoration Theology (Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck 2006).  He has also been involved in research and teaching concerning pseudo-Christian cults.

John enjoys the guitar, good music in general and good coffee (the “good” is defined only by him of course!)

Areas of Research Interest / Supervision
The Theology and Christology of John’s Gospel
Jewish Backgrounds to John’s Gospel
Cosmology in the New Testament
New Creation in John and the New Testament
Jesus’ death in the New Testament

Publications & Papers
Forthcoming (2011): Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (Revised), eds. J. B. Green, J.K. Brown, N. Perrin (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press):
“The Death of Jesus” (Major Article), “Lamb of God,” “Glory,” “Bread”

2010: “The Letter, the Spirit and the Heart in 2 Corinthians 3.6 & Romans 2.29: A Test-Case in Pauline Theologizing.” In Studies on 2 Corinthians 1-9. Biblical Tools and Studies. Ed. Reimund Bieringer, et.al. (Leuven: Peeters Press)

2008: “Cosmology in the Petrine Literature and Jude.” In Cosmology and New Testament Theology. Eds. Sean M. McDonough and Jonathan Pennington. Library of New Testament Studies 355. (London: T&T Clark)

2007: “‘The lifting up of the Son of Man’ and the Dethroning of ‘the Ruler of this World’: Jesus’ Death as the De-feat of Israel’s Eschatological Enemy in John 12:20-36.” In The Death of Jesus and John’s Gospel Ed. Gilbert Van Belle (Leuven: Peeters Press)

2006: Jesus’ Death and the Gathering of True Israel: The Johannine Appropriation of Restoration Theology in the Light of John 11.47-52. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2/257. (Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck)

2006: “Jesus’ Death in John’s Gospel: A Survey of Research from Bultmann to the Present with Special Reference to the Johannine hyper Texts.” Currents in Biblical Research 4/3, pp. 327-360.

2005: “Restoration in John 11:47-52: Reading the Key Motifs in their Jewish Context.” Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 81, pp. 122-151.

2005: “The Presence and Function of Second Exodus – Restoration Imagery in John 6.” Studien zum Neuen Testament und seiner Umwelt 30, pp. 105-123.

2004: “Conflict and Resolution: John 11.47-53 as the Ironic Fulfillment of the Main Plot-Line of the Gospel (John 1.11-12),” Studien zum Neuen Testament und seiner Umwelt 29, pp. 23-39.

2002: “The Function of the חטאת Sacrifice in the Priestly Literature: An Evaluation of the View of Jacob Milgrom,” Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 78, pp. 108-129.