Richard J. Erickson
Associate Professor of New Testament
Contact Information:
rje@fuller.edu
206-284-9000
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Education:
BA, Washington State University
BD, Lutheran Brethren Seminary
ThM, Princeton Theological Seminary
PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary
Biographical Information:
Rich Erickson serves as associate professor of New Testament
for Fuller Online and at Fuller Seminary Northwest in Seattle, Washington. A
faculty member since 1984, he played an active role in the development of
Fuller's first off-campus cohort-based MDiv program. In the fall of 2010, he received a Kern Family Foundation grant for developing online curriculum at Fuller.Erickson has over 30 years of teaching,
administrative, and pastoral experience in the U.S., Canada, Japan, Colombia,
Mexico, the Netherlands, China, and Cameroon. He has also published various
articles on New Testament studies, and a textbook, A Beginner’s Guide to New
Testament Exegesis: Taking the Fear Out of Critical Method (InterVarsity,
2005), also available in Italian and Chinese. He has translated into English various
Swedish-language publications, including Jean Paillard, In Praise of the
Inexpressible: Paul's Experience of the Divine Mystery (Hendrickson, 2003)
and Lena Malmgren, Barbed Wire and Thorns (Hendrickson, 2007), and
currently underway, a commentary on the Letters of John by Birger Olsson (with
Wipf and Stock). He is an ordained minister in the Church of the Lutheran
Brethren.
Courses Taught:
NE502 -Exegetical Method and Practice
NE567- Romans (English Text)
NE567- Ephesians (English Text)
NE567- Revelation (English Text)
NS500- New Testament 1: Gospels
NS501- New Testament 2: Acts to Revelation
ST511- Orientation to Theological Studies
Areas of Expertise, Research, Writing, and Teaching:
Romans, Matthew, Ephesians, Revelation, biblical linguistics and semantics, exegetical method, narrative analysis, discourse analysis, translation
Additional Information:
Dr. Erickson's
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