Chris Tilling

Graduate Tutor in New Testament Studies | St Mellitus College

Dr. Chris Tilling is Graduate Tutor and Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies at St Mellitus College, the largest theological college in the UK. Chris co-authored How God Became Jesus (2014) with Michael Bird (ed.), Craig Evans, Simon Gathercole, and Charles Hill. He is also the editor of Beyond Old and New Perspectives on Paul (2014). Chris’s first book, the critically acclaimedPaul’s Divine Christology (2012), is now republished with a new Foreword by Eerdmans (2015). He is presently co-editing the T&T Clark Companion to Christology, and working on the new NICNT commentary, The Second Epistle to the Corinthians. Chris has published numerous articles on topics relating to the Apostle Paul, Christology, justification, the historical Jesus, Paul S. Fiddes, Karl Barth, the theology of Hans Küng, and more besides. He likes playing golf and chess, and now works as editor for a couple of chess publishing houses, but he most enjoys spending time with his wife and two children.