All Things New

John David Kwamena Ekem (dr Theol., magna cum laude, University of Hamburg) is professor of New Testament Studies and Director, Centre for Mother Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics at Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Accra, Ghana. He is also the Seminary’s Vice-President responsible for Academic Affairs. An ordained minister of The Methodist Church Ghana, he also occupies the Seminary’s Kwesi Disckson-Gilbert Ansre Distinguished Chair of Biblical Exegesis & Mother Tongue Hermeneutics, and serves as Translation Consultant for The Bible Society of Ghana. He has supervised the translation and revision of the Bible into several major Ghanian languages and continues to do so. A member of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (Society for New Testament Studies), he has authored several books on mother-tongue biblical interpretation, including New Testament Concepts of Atonement in an African Pluralistic Setting (Accra: SonLife Pres, 2005); Early Scriptures of the Gold Coast (Ghana) (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura / Manchester: St Jerome Publishing, 2011); and, most recently, A Simplified Greek-English Commentary on the Epistle to the Colossians (Accra: SonLife Press, 2017), adapted from original commentaries he wrote in the Asante-Twi and Mfantse dialects of Ghana.

SHIRLEY S. HO (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is Filipino-Chinese, and has lived in Taiwan for the past eleven years. She is currently Assistant Professor of the Old Testament at China Evangelical Seminary, Taipei, Taiwan, and teaches courses on Biblical Hebrew, the Old Testament, and Research and Writing. Shirley is currently writing her post-doctoral project on Proverbs, and has presented her article, The Journey of a Son: Narrative Reading of Proverbs 1–9, at the 2017 SBL International Meeting, at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

James Henry Owino Kombo (PhD, Stellenbosch University) is a Kenyan Anglican minister and Professor of Theological Studies at Daystar University, Nairobi, Kenya. His outstanding publications include The Doctrine of God in African Christian Thought (Leiden: Brill, 2007) and Theological Models of the Doctrine of the Trinity: The Trinity, Diversity and Theological Hermeneutics (Carlisle, UK: Langham Global Library, 2016). Though focused on theological studies, Prof. Kombo continues to serve in the senior management of Daystar University, having been Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs) for ten years and acting Vice-Chancellor since November 2015. He is an active member of the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology (ASET) and editor of the Africa Journal of Evangelical Society. James is married to Pamela and together they have three children: Leonida, Philip and Samuel.

D. Stephen Long (PhD, Duke University) is Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA. He is an ordained United Methodist minister in the Indiana Conference. He works at the intersection between theology and ethics and has published over fifty essays and fifteen books on theology and ethics, including Divine Economy: Theology and the Market (New York: Routledge, 2000); The Goodness of God: Theology, Church and Social Order (Grand Rapids:BrazosPress, 2001); John Wesley’s Moral Theology: The Quest for God and Goodness (Wolfeboro, NH: Kingswood, 2005); Calculated Futures (Baylor: Baylor University Press, 2007); Christian Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: OUP, 2010); Saving Karl Barth: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Preoccupation (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014); The Perfectly Simple Triune God: Aquinas and His Legacy (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2016); and Augustinian and Ecclesial Christian Ethics: On Loving Enemies (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2018).

Nelson R. Morales Fredes (PhD Theological Studies/New Testament, Trinity International University) is professor of New Testament and Hermeneutics at Seminario Teológico Centroamericano, Guatemala. Originally from Chile, he has lived, studied, and taught in Guatemala since 1993. He has written several articles in the journal Kairós, encyclopedia entries, a commentary on 2 Corinthians in Comentario Bíblico Contemporáneo (San Sebastián: Certeza Unida / Buenos Aires: Ediciones Kairós), and Poor and Rich in James: A Relevance Theory Approach to James’s Use of the Old Testament in the Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement Series (University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2018). He is also a board member of the Evangelical Society for Socio-Religious Studies (SEES) in Guatemala.

ALDRIN M. PEÑAMORA earned his PhD in Christian Ethics from Fuller Theological Seminary, California, USA. He is the Executive Director of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC) Justice, Peace and Reconciliation Commission and PCEC Theological Commission. He is also Executive Director of the PCEC-affiliated Center for the Study of Christian-Muslim Relations, and teaches theology and ethics at Asia Graduate School of Theology, International Graduate School of Leadership and Asian Theological Seminary in Manila, Philippines.

Alberto F. Roldán (Dr Theo., Instituto Universitario Isedet) is from Argentina. He is Postgraduate Studies Director of Instituto Teológico Fiet, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and visiting professor at Lee University, Semisud, Ecuador, South African Theological Seminary, Bryanston, South Africa, and Universidad Adventista del Plata, Libertador San Martin, Argentina. He is a prolific writer, having authored or edited thirty books, including ¿Para qué sirve la teología? (Grand Rapids: Libros Desafío, 2011); Reino, política y misión (Lima: Ediciones Puma, 2011); Atenas y Jerusalén en diálogo: Filosofía y teología en la mediación hermenéutica (Lima: Ediciones Puma, 2015); Hermenéutica y signos de los tiempos (Buenos Aires: Teología y Cultura, 2016); La teología de la cruz como crítica radical a la teología de la prosperidad, Aportes Teológicos 3 (San José: UBL, 2018). He is a member of Fraternidad Teológica Latinoamericana (FTL) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), and was awarded “Theological Personality of 2016” by the Asociación Evangélica de Educación Teológica en América Latina” (AETAL). Roldán is also the Director of Teología y Cultura: www.teologos.com.ar.