Mark A. Seifrid

Mark A. Seifrid is a scholar of the New Testament letters of Paul, currently working at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.^[1]

He was previously the Ernest and Mildred Hogan professor of New Testament interpretation at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.^[1] He is a graduate of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1990.^[2]

Seifrid has published major works on justification in the New Testament and a commentary on 2 Corinthians, and is currently writing a commentary on Galatians.^[1]

In 2021, a Festschrift was published in his honor. Always Reforming: Reflections on Martin Luther and Biblical Studies included contributions from Oswald Bayer, Robert Kolb, Benjamin L. Merkle, and Thomas R. Schreiner.

Selected works

Books

• Seifrid, Mark A. (1992). Justification by Faith: The Origin and Development of a Central Pauline Theme. Novum Testamentum Supplements. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-9004095212.
• ——— (2000). Christ, Our Righteousness: Paul's Theology of Justification. New Studies in Biblical Theology. Vol. 9. Downers Grove, IL: Apollos. ISBN 978-0-8308-2609-4.
• ———; Carson, D. A.; O'Brien, Peter T., eds. (2001). Justification And Variegated Nomism: Volume 1: The Complexities of Second Temple Judaism. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. ISBN 978-0-8010-2272-2.
• ———; Tan, Randall K. J. (2002). The Pauline Writings: An Annotated Bibliography. IBR Bibliographies. Vol. 9. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. ISBN 978-0-8010-2482-5.
• ———; Carson, D. A.; O'Brien, Peter T., eds. (2004). Justification And Variegated Nomism: Volume 2: The Paradoxes of Paul. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. ISBN 978-0-8010-2741-3.
• ——— (2014). The Second Letter to the Corinthians. Pillar New Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-3739-4.

Articles and chapters

• ——— (1994). "Blind Alleys in the Controversy over the Paul of History". Tyndale Bulletin. 45 (1): 73–96.
• ——— (1996). "The Nature of Christian Community and the Theological Seminary". In Gushee, David P.; Jackson, Walter C. (eds.). Preparing for Christian Ministry: an evangelical approach. Wheaton, IL: Victor Books. ISBN 978-1-5647-6606-9.
• ——— (1999). Is justification forensic?. 51st National Conference of the Evangelical Theological Society, Danvers, MA, November 17–19, 1999. Vol. ETS-5134. Evangelical Theological Society papers. OCLC 45092351.^[3]
• ——— (2000). "The 'New Perspective on Paul' and its Problems". Themelios. 25 (3): 4–18.
• ——— (2000). "In What Sense is 'Justification' a Declaration?". Churchman. 114 (2): 123–36.
• ——— (2003). "Paul, Luther, and Justification in Gal 2:15-21". Westminster Theological Journal. 65: 215–30.
• ——— (2004). "Justification in Protestant Traditions. Luther, Melanchthon and Paul on the Question of Imputation: recommendations on a current debate". In Husbands, Mark; Treier, Daniel J. (eds.). Justification : what's at stake in the current debates. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. ISBN 978-0-8308-2781-7.
• ——— (2015). "The Text of Romans and the Theology of Melanchthon". In Allen, Michael; Linebaugh, Jonathan A. (eds.). Reformation Readings of Paul: Explorations in History and Exegesis. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic. ISBN 978-0-8308-4091-5.

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