Ronald Heine, Ph.D.

Professor, Biblical Studies

Phone: 541-684-7315

Office: PFB 214

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I am a native of Illinois but I have lived and taught in several areas of the United States, including Texas, Tennessee, and Washington. I have also taught in Birmingham England where I met my wife Gillian. Shortly after our marriage we moved to Tuebingen, Germany where, for eleven years, I was Director of the Institute for the Study of Christian Origins. I am an ordained minister of the Christian Churches and have served as youth minister and minister for churches in the mid-west.

My areas of academic interest are the New Testament and the early Church. My research has focused especially on how the Bible was read and used by Christians of the first three centuries. My special area of interest is in the Alexandrian Church Father named Origen, and Christianity in Alexandria in the first three centuries. I enjoy being able to introduce students to ways the early Christians understood the Bible in the various Bible classes I teach at NCU.

My wife and I enjoy the outdoors, and Oregon promises many interesting times exploring it. We also enjoy several sports.

Educational Background
1974	Ph.D., University of Illinois
1968	M.A., University of Illinois
1966	B.D., Lincoln Christian Seminary
1963	M.A., Lincoln Christian Seminary
1961	A.B., Lincoln Christian College (magna cum laude)

Selected Publications and Writings
2010	Origen: Scholarship in the Service of the Church. Christian Theology in Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2009	"Origen," in The Routledge Companion to Early Christian Thought, ed. D. Jeffrey Bingham, 188-203. London and New York: Routledge.
2007	Reading the Old Testament with the Ancient Church: Exploring the Formation of Early Christian Thought. Evangelical Ressourcement Ancient Sources for the Church's Future. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic.
2004	Chapters 11, "The Alexandrians," 12, "The Beginnings of Latin Christian Literature," 13, "Hippolytus, Pseudo-Hippolytus and the early Canons," 14, "Cyprian and Novatian," and 18, "Articulating Identity," in The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature, eds. F. Young, A. Louth and L. Ayres. Cambridge University Press.
2002	The Commentaries of Origen and Jerome on St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Memberships in Professional Organizations
Society of Biblical Literature
North American Patristics Society
International Association of Patristic Studies

Ordinations
1960	Christian Church (Independent), at Akers Chapel Church of Christ