John Anthony Dunne

About John Anthony Dunne

John holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews, where he studied under Professor N. T. Wright. He currently serves as Associate Professor of New Testament and the Director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Bethel Seminary (St. Paul, MN).

Women Be Silent in Church! …Uhm, Did Paul Actually Write 1 Corinthians 14:33b-36?

Mar 20, 2012

What I want to discuss here is controversial. Additionally, what I want to address is not novel. Here is the thought I’d like to ‘think aloud,’ so to speak, in the provocative world of the blogosphere: Is 1 Corinthians 14:33b-36 original? I should say up front that my focus is not on Complementarianism vs. Egalitarianism per se. There are Egalitarians and Complementarians who take 1 Cor 14.33b-36 to be original, yet each have different interpretations about...

Amillennialism: Rethinking and Critiquing My Eschatology After Five Years

Mar 6, 2012

Back in May 2007 I posted a little blurb on my silly little blog (Dunne’s Discourses) about how I had become an Amillennialist. The main person responsible for my conversion was Pastor Kim Riddlebarger of Christ Reformed Church in Anaheim, CA. His book A Case for Amillennialism is one of the best at defending the position from a Reformed perspective. Since it is almost the fifth anniversary of my eschatological conversion from Dispensational Premillennialism to Reformed Amillennialism...

Thinking Inside The Box: Theodicy & The Tree of Life

Feb 21, 2012

This upcoming Sunday is Oscar Sunday. The 84th annual Academy Awards ceremony will announce the best efforts in the film industry from 2011. Perhaps the most coveted award, Best Picture, will be decided among 9 nominees. The only film from 2011 to be nominated that I saw was The Tree of Life (I should have been able to include Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two in this list… Biggest snub of the year). The Tree of Life has also been...

Around the Town: Weekly Round Up

Feb 19, 2012

Jeremy Lin is the newest feel good story in sports. Lin, a point guard for the New York Knicks, is also a Christian. Is Lin the Tim Tebow of basketball? Carl Park from the Gospel Coalition shares his thoughts about Lin’s Christianity. Here is a similar post by Timothy Gombis. Additionally, here is an opinion piece by David Brooks from The New York Times. Ben Witherington offers a critique of John Piper’s recent statements that...

Race 2 Barcelona: Lessons Learned While Hitch-Hiking

Feb 16, 2012

I have just recently returned to St Andrews from a wild couple of weeks that included a hitch-hiking competition. Every year, the University of St Andrews Charities Campaign puts on an event called “Race 2.” The goal of the competition is to get from point A to point B as fast as you can. Only there’s one catch: you can’t spend any money. The destinations change each year and this year 83 teams of 2-3...

NT Wright Interview: How God Became King (New Book)

Feb 7, 2012

NT Wright’s new book, How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels, is due out this upcoming March. I was able to send Prof. Wright a few questions about this forthcoming book for the blog and he graciously agreed to answer them for The Two Cities. My questions are highlighted in bold: 1) Where does your new book, How God Became King, fit within your previous works? In one sense it simply fills in some...

Looking Like the World

Jan 31, 2012

I can recall growing up being told that I should avoid ‘looking like the World.’ The idea was more assumed than ever really explained. Consistently though I was told I was out of line in regards to music. At the Christian school I attended in Jr. High and High School we were told that electrical instruments were evil; the most vile of all being the drums. The problem was that I was a budding electric...

Esther & Cover-up?

Jan 17, 2012

[Update (2/14/2014)—My new book Esther and Her Elusive God: How A Secular Story Functions As Scripture is now available. My posts on this site represent stages in the development of my thinking about Esther. For the full argument check out the book]. Over the last three weeks I’ve been looking at the book of Esther. In post #1 I addressed the book’s canonicity. In post #2 I looked at evidence of impiety (compromise). And last week in...

Around the Town: Weekly Round-up #2 (2012)

Jan 15, 2012

We have a new logo courtesy of Steve Feld. Thanks so much for the awesome design! This week a spoken word poet named Jefferson Bethke went viral with his video: Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus. The guys over at Resurgence posted this about the video: “We don’t post poetry very often, but we do when it’s pretty good. Check out this poem on how the gospel of Jesus is the good news that breaks...

Esther & Covenant?

Jan 10, 2012

[Update (2/14/2014)—My new book Esther and Her Elusive God: How A Secular Story Functions As Scripture is now available. My posts on this site represent stages in the development of my thinking about Esther. For the full argument check out the book]. Over the last two weeks I’ve discussed the enigmatic nature of the book of Esther. Initially, I focused on the fact that Esther has been handed down to us within the canon of Christian scripture...

About John Anthony Dunne

Women Be Silent in Church! …Uhm, Did Paul Actually Write 1 Corinthians 14:33b-36?

Amillennialism: Rethinking and Critiquing My Eschatology After Five Years

Thinking Inside The Box: Theodicy & The Tree of Life

Around the Town: Weekly Round Up

Race 2 Barcelona: Lessons Learned While Hitch-Hiking

NT Wright Interview: How God Became King (New Book)

Looking Like the World

Esther & Cover-up?

Around the Town: Weekly Round-up #2 (2012)

Esther & Covenant?

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