Revd Prof Steve Walton, BSc, MA, PhD

Senior Research Fellow in New Testament

Revd Prof Steve Walton’s passion is to help others engage with the New Testament for themselves. He acts as a research supervisor for Trinity, and has supervised sixteen PhD students to successful completion across a wide range of areas in New Testament, and at the interfaces of New Testament and theology, practical theology, and Islamics. He has also examined forty doctoral theses covering a breadth of topics, including: Luke and Acts, the Gospels, Paul, Hebrews, the role of Bishops in the UK House of Lords, church growth, the interface of Islamics and New Testament studies, and hermeneutics.

His major current research project is the Word Biblical Commentary on Acts. His most recent book is Reading Acts Theologically. He has wide interests outside Acts, including the synoptic Gospels (especially Mark and Luke), New Testament theology, narrative approaches to the New Testament, the appropriation of the Old Testament in the New Testament, Greek language and linguistics, New Testament textual criticism, and Paul (especially, but not exclusively, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, Philippians, and Galatians), and the interfaces between New Testament and other theological disciplines. He blogs about New Testament Studies at Acts and More (http://stevewalton.info)

Steve has served as Secretary of the British New Testament Society, and on the steering committees of the Society of Biblical Literature Book of Acts and Biblical Lexicography sections. He also served on the Editorial Board of the Library of New Testament Studies series (Bloomsbury T & T Clark). He is a member of the SNTS (the premier international New Testament society), the Center of Theological Inquiry (Princeton, NJ), the Society of Biblical Literature, the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical and Theological Research, the Institute for Biblical Research, and is a senior research fellow of the Kirby Laing Centre.

Steve has served on church staff, in student ministry, advised people on God’s call with the Church Pastoral Aid Society, was a househusband, a bishop’s chaplain, and has taught at Bedford College, St John’s College, Nottingham, London School of Theology, and St Mary’s University, Twickenham—the latter two as Professor. He is married to Ali, who is associate rector of Emmanual Church, Loughborough, and they live with their Border Terrier, Flora. Steve is a retired international volleyball referee and trainer of other referees, and was an Olympic torchbearer in 2012.

Select publications

(View a full CV of Prof Walton’s work here)

Authored books

[with David Wenham] Exploring the New Testament, vol. 1: The Gospels and Acts (London: SPCK/Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2001; second edition, 2011; third edition 2021).

Leadership and Lifestyle: The Portrait of Paul in the Miletus Speech and 1 Thessalonians (SNTS Monograph Series 108; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Edited books