Jonathan Linebaugh
Jonathan Linebaugh serves Beeson Divinity School as the Anglican Chair of Divinity. Previously, he served the University of Cambridge, where he was a professor of New Testament and a fellow of Jesus College. His research and teaching focus on the texts, contexts, and history of reading Paul’s letters, as well as the history and theology of the Reformation. Linebaugh also serves as the director of the Institute of Anglican Studies and teaches courses in New Testament, Reformation theology, and Anglican history, doctrine, and worship.
Linebaugh, an ordained minister, has had an extensive preaching and education ministry in churches throughout the worldwide Anglican communion, especially in England and North America. He also served on the Council of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Examination in Theology/Lambeth Research Degrees in Theology and is a Teaching Fellow for the Wittenberg Center for Reformation Studies. He has also served on the Board of Trustees for Ridley Hall, an evangelical theological seminary in the Church of England.
Prior to Cambridge, he was an associate professor of New Testament at Knox Theological Seminary in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he also directed the Doctor of Ministry program in the History, Doctrine, and Worship of the English Reformation. He serves on the editorial advisory board for the Library of Pauline Studies and is a member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Word of the Cross: Reading Paul and God’s Two Words: Law and Gospel in the Lutheran and Reformed Traditions.
He is married to Megan, and they have three children: Liam, Callie, and Anna.