Scot McKnight is a New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

 scholar who has written widely on the historical Jesus

Historical Jesus

The term historical Jesus refers to scholarly reconstructions of the 1st-century figure Jesus of Nazareth. These reconstructions are based upon historical methods including critical analysis of gospel texts as the primary source for his biography, along with consideration of the historical and...

, Christian spirituality, and the Emerging Church

Emerging Church

The emerging church is a Christian movement of the late 20th and early 21st century that crosses a number of theological boundaries: participants can be described as evangelical, Protestant, Catholic, post-evangelical, anabaptist, adventist, liberal, post-liberal, reformed, charismatic,...

. He is the Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University

North Park University

North Park University is a four-year university located at 3225 W. Foster Avenue on the north side of Chicago, Illinois in the North Park neighborhood. It was founded in 1891 by the Evangelical Covenant Church and shares its campus with the denomination's only seminary...

. Prior to joining the NPU faculty in 1994, he was a professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School is an evangelical Christian seminary located in Deerfield, Illinois. TEDS is one of the largest seminaries in the world, enrolling more than 1,200 graduate students in professional and academic programs, including more than 150 in its PhD programs...

. He considers himself an anabaptist

Anabaptist

Anabaptists are Protestant Christians of the Radical Reformation of 16th-century Europe, and their direct descendants, particularly the Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites....

.

McKnight was awarded the B.A. degree from Grand Rapids Baptist College (now known as Cornerstone University

Cornerstone University

Cornerstone University is an independent, non-denominational Christian university in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The university emphasises the trinitarian belief in the triune God and the literal interpretation of the Bible...

), an M.A. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School is an evangelical Christian seminary located in Deerfield, Illinois. TEDS is one of the largest seminaries in the world, enrolling more than 1,200 graduate students in professional and academic programs, including more than 150 in its PhD programs...

, and in 1986, the Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham

University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...

.

One of McKnight's more popular books, The Jesus Creed, won the Christianity Today

Christianity Today

Christianity Today is an Evangelical Christian periodical based in Carol Stream, Illinois. It is the flagship publication of its parent company Christianity Today International, claiming circulation figures of 140,000 and readership of 290,000...

 book award for 2004 in the area of Christian living. McKnight's blog, Jesus Creed, has been a popular site for evangelicals to have discussions on various issues. He and his wife, Kristen, live in Libertyville, Illinois

Libertyville, Illinois

Libertyville is an affluent northern suburb of Chicago in Lake County, Illinois, United States. It is located west of Lake Michigan on the Des Plaines River. The 2000 census population was 20,742; the 2005 estimate was 21,760...

.

Publications

• One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow (Zondervan, 2010)
• The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible (Zondervan, 2008)
• A Community Called Atonement (Abingdon, 2007)
• The Real Mary: Why Evangelical Christians Can Embrace the Mother of Jesus (Paraclete, 2006)
• Praying with the Church: Following Jesus Daily, Hourly, Today (Paraclete, 2006)
• The Story of the Christ, with Philip Law (Baker, 2005)
• Jesus And His Death: Historiography, the Historical Jesus, And Atonement Theory (Baylor, 2005)
• The Historical Jesus in Current Study, ed. with James Dunn (Eisenbraun’s, 2005)
• Embracing Grace: A Gospel for All of Us (Paraclete, 2005)
• The Face of New Testament Studies, ed. with Grant Osborne (Baker, 2004)
• The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others (Paraclete, 2004)
• Turning to Jesus: The Sociology of Conversion in the Gospels (Westminster John Knox, 2002)
• The Synoptic Gospels: An Annotated Bibliography, with Matthew Williams (Baker, 2000)
• A New Vision for Israel: The Teachings of Jesus in National Context (Eerdmans, 1999)
• 1 Peter, NIV Application Commentary (Zondervan, 1996)
• Galatians, NIV Application Commentary (Zondervan, 1993)
• Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, ed. with Joel Green & I. Howard Marshall, (IVP, 1992)
• A Light among the Gentiles (Fortress, 1992)
• Introducing New Testament Interpretation (Baker, 1989)
• Interpreting the Synoptic Gospels
  Synoptic Gospels
  The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are known as the Synoptic Gospels because they include many of the same stories, often in the same sequence, and sometimes exactly the same wording. This degree of parallelism in content, narrative arrangement, language, and sentence structures can only be...
  
  (Baker, 1988)

External links

• Jesus Creed -- Scot McKnight's personal blog
• Scot McKnight biography from Theopedia
• North Park University
• A Review of McKnight's FASTING
• Review of McKnight's The Blue Parakeet
• Off The Map Episode 4 Scot McKnight Talk from Missional Matrix in 2007