J. Richard Middleton
J. Richard Middleton is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Roberts Wesleyan College with a joint-appointment as Associate Professor of Bible and Culture at Northeastern Seminary, both in Rochester, NY. He has coauthored (with Brian Walsh) The Transforming Vision: Shaping a Christian World View (InterVarsity Press, 1984) and Truth is Stranger Than It Used to Be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age (InterVarsity Press/SPCK, 1995), which received a Book-of-the-Year award from Christianity Today magazine. He has published scholarly and popular essays on biblical creation theology, the problem of evil and the theology of popular music. His essay “Let’s Put Herod Back into Christmas” was awarded the Canadian Church Press prize for best inspirational theological reflection (1993) and another essay “Why the ‘Greater Good’ Isn’t a Defense: Classical Theodicy in Light of the Biblical Genre of Lament” received the annual Fall essay award of the Princeton Graduate Theological Forum (1997). Middleton’s new book The Liberating Image: Humanity Created as “Imago Dei” in Genesis 1:26-28 is being published by Brazos Press and he is presently working on a volume on 1 and 2 Samuel for the Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries. Before coming to Roberts Wesleyan College, he taught at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School (Rochester, NY), Redeemer University College (Ancaster, ON) and the Institute for Christian Studies (Toronto, ON), and served as campus minister at four universities in Canada and the U.S.