Dr. Jonathan T. Pennington has served for over 20 years as Professor of New Testament Interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and serves as a Teaching Pastor at Sojourn East in Louisville, KY. He has published a wide variety of books and articles including The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing and Jesus the Great Philosopher. He has also served as a contributor to the Institute for Faith, Work, & Economics and the Harvard Human Flourishing Program.
He earned a B.A. in History as well as a Teaching Certificate from Northern Illinois University. He received the Master of Divinity degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Chicago). He holds the PhD in New Testament Studies from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland (in St. Mary’s College), where he wrote a thesis entitled “Heaven and Earth in the Gospel of Matthew.” Dr. Pennington is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Evangelical Theological Society, the Tyndale Fellowship (Cambridge), and the Institute for Biblical Research.
