Richard Erickson

Rich Erickson serves as senior associate professor of New Testament for Fuller Online. A faculty member since 1984, he played an active role in the development of Fuller’s first off-campus cohort-based Mdiv program, in Seattle. In the fall of 2010, he received a Kern Family Foundation grant for developing online curriculum at Fuller.

Erickson has over 35 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 Press, 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), Birger Olsson, A Commentary on the Letters of John: An Intra-Jewish Approach (Wipf and Stock, August 2013). He is an ordained minister in the Church of the Lutheran Brethren.