Lynn H. Cohick is an American New Testament scholar and author. Since January 2021 she has been
Provost, Academic Dean and Professor of
New Testament
The New Testament grc, Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. ; la, Novum Testamentum. (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christ ...
at
Northern Seminary
Northern Seminary is a Baptist Christian seminary in Lisle, Illinois. It is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA. Its president is William D. Shiell.
History
It was founded in 1913 by the Second Baptist Church of Chicago as ''Northe ...
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Education
Cohick holds a BA from
Messiah College
Messiah University is a private interdenominational evangelical Christian university in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
History
The school was founded as Messiah Bible School and Missionary Training Home in 1909 by the Brethren in Christ Church. O ...
in Religious Studies.
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* '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series
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program at the University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...
where she looked at the relationship between Jews and Christians in the ancient world, in particular the second century figure Melito of Sardis
Melito of Sardis ( el, Μελίτων Σάρδεων ''Melítōn Sárdeōn''; died ) was the bishop of Sardis near Smyrna in western Anatolia, and a great authority in early Christianity. Melito held a foremost place in terms of bishops in Asia d ...
and his work Peri Pascha
Peri Pascha (English title On the Pascha) is a 2nd-century homily of Melito of Sardis written between A.D.160 and 170 in Asia Minor. It was discovered last century and first published in 1940. It describes Christian doctrine on the Paschal mystery ...
. Her subsequent book, ''The Peri Pascha Attributed to Melito of Sardis: Setting, Purpose, and Sources,'' is one of the only major studies on this work.
Career
Cohick taught pastors and church leaders at the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology in Kenya
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.[ Her international teaching also includes courses at ]Brisbane School of Theology
Brisbane School of Theology is a Bible college in Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
BST is a Bible-centred, interdenominational and formational training college. It welcomes residential, non-residential, full-time and part-time stude ...
and Ridley College
Ridley College (also known as RC, Ridley) is a private boarding and day university-preparatory school located in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, 20 miles (32 km) from Niagara Falls. The school confers the Ontario Secondary School Diploma ...
in Australia and Regent College
Regent College is an interdenominational evangelical Christian College of Christian studies, and an affiliated college of the University of British Columbia, located next to the university's campus in the University Endowment Lands west of Van ...
in Canada.
Cohick taught New Testament
The New Testament grc, Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. ; la, Novum Testamentum. (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christ ...
at Wheaton College from 2000-2018, sequentially serving as Vice-Chair of the Faulty, chairing the Bible and Theology Department, and as interim dean of Humanities and Theological Studies, in her three last years at Wheaton College.
Cohick was Provost, Dean and Professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary
Denver Seminary is a private, Evangelical Christian seminary with its main campus in Littleton, Colorado, an online global campus, and an extension campus in Washington, DC. It offers Master of Arts (MA), Master of Divinity (M.Div.), Doctor of M ...
from 2018 to 2020. On January 19, 2021, she commenced at Northern Seminary
Northern Seminary is a Baptist Christian seminary in Lisle, Illinois. It is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA. Its president is William D. Shiell.
History
It was founded in 1913 by the Second Baptist Church of Chicago as ''Northe ...
in Chicago
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as Provost, Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of New Testament after a national search attracting 15 diverse applicants. Cohick was involved in launching a new Master's degree program in Women's Studies at Northern Seminary in April 2021.
Cohick is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society
The Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) is a professional society of Biblical scholars, educators, pastors, and students "devoted to the inerrancy and inspiration of the Scriptures and the gospel of Jesus Christ" and "dedicated to the oral excha ...
, the Institute for Biblical Research
The Institute for Biblical Research established in 1973 is "an organization of evangelical Christian scholars with specialties in Old and New Testament and in ancillary disciplines". It describes its vision as "to foster excellence in the pursuit ...
, the North American Patristics
Patristics or patrology is the study of the early Christian writers who are designated Church Fathers. The names derive from the combined forms of Latin ''pater'' and Greek ''patḗr'' (father). The period is generally considered to run from ...
Society and the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.[ She became President of the Institute for Biblical Research in 2019.][ She has also been involved with the Langham Partnership. In 2020, Cohick joined the Board of Trustees of ]Biola University
Biola University () is a private, nondenominational, evangelical Christian university in La Mirada, California. It was founded in 1908 as the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. It has over 150 programs of study in nine schools offering bachelor's, ...
, located in La Mirada, CA.
Cohick's research has focused on the Christian faith in its ancient Hellenistic
In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in ...
setting within the Roman Empire
The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post-Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediterr ...
. She believes the apostle Paul's teaching on women has been taken out of context. She believes there has been an "evangelical shortsightedness" and lack of "historical memory" that does not acknowledge the significant roles of women in the church throughout the whole of church history
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Church history or ecclesiastical history as an academic discipline studies the history of Christianity and the way the Christian Church has developed since its inception.
Henry Melvill Gwatkin defined church history as "the spiritual ...
. She has written a number of books and commentaries on Pauline epistles
The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle, although the authorship of some is in dispute. Among these epistles are some of the earliest extan ...
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From 2017 to 2018, Cohick co-hosted a weekly podcast called ''Theology for Life'' with ]Ed Stetzer
Edward John Stetzer (born 1966) is an American author, speaker, researcher, pastor, church planter, and Christian missiologist. Stetzer is Billy Graham Distinguished Chair of Church, Mission, and Evangelism at Wheaton College and Executive Direc ...
. Since 2021, Cohick co-hosts a weekly podcast, ''The Alabaster Jar,'' with Northern Seminary colleagues Ingrid Faro and Beth Felker Jones on current issues impacting women in theology and ministry.
Personal life
Cohick is married; her husband is a musician.[
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References
External links
Cohick on Women in the Roman world
Northern Seminary
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Messiah University alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Wheaton College (Illinois) faculty
New Testament scholars
American biblical scholars
American academic administrators
Women academic administrators
Female biblical scholars