Kenneth Bailey: A Scholar With a New Way of Looking at the New Testament
(A guest commentary by Michael Parker, The Presbyterian Outlook.) At a General Assembly luncheon in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2006, the then executive presbyter of Shenango Presbytery, David Dawson, introduced Kenneth Bailey as “the most important New Testament scholar in our generation.” He recalled this introduction at Bailey’s memorial service in California last May, admitting that at…