Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Sherman E. Johnson Professor in Biblical Studies
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1983

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1977
M.A., University of Chicago, 1974
S.T.B., The General Theological Seminary, 1965
A.B., University of Chicago, 1962

Phone: 510/204-0719
E-mail: bcountryman@cdsp.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Poetic Anglicanism
• Rhetoric and Spirituality in New Testament Letters; Romans: Rhetoric & Spirituality
• New Testament Spirituality
• Scripture in Anglicanism; Scripture and Sexual Ethics
• Introduction to New Testament
• Elements of NT Greek; Advanced Greek (Septuagint)

Selected Publications

• Living on the Border of the Holy: Renewing the Priesthood of All (Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse, 1999)
• The Poetic Imagination: An Anglican Spiritual Tradition (London: Darton Longman & Todd, 1999; Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2000)
• Gifted By Otherness: Gay and Lesbian Christians in the Church (Harrisburg, PA: Moorehouse Publishing, 2001)
• Forgiven and Forgiving (Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse, 1998)
• Good News of Jesus: Reintroducing the Gospel (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1993)
• Dirt, Greed, and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implications for Today (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988)