Joshua D. A. Bloor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Manchester), Visiting Lecturer in Church History and Biblical Studies, Nazarene Theological College.
Thesis title: ‘Purifying the Consciousness: Cult, Defilement, and the Perpetual Heavenly Blood of Jesus in the Epistle to the Hebrews.’ Published as Purifying the Consciousness in Hebrews: Cult, Defilement and the Perpetual Heavenly Blood of Jesus, LNTS (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2023).
Joshua finished his doctoral thesis in 2021 under the supervision of Dr Svetlana Khobnya & Dr Kent Brower. His thesis argued that the purification of the consciousness of sin, via Jesus' perpetual heavenly blood offering, is a vital motif for understanding Hebrews' sacrificial argumentation, and vice-versa. It was published as Purifying the Consciousness in Hebrews.
Joshua is a Visiting Lecturer at Nazarene Theological College. He is also a Pastor in Manchester and the Leadership Programme Director for the Pioneer UK Network of Churches.
Select Publications:
Purifying the Consciousness in Hebrews: Cult, Defilement and the Perpetual Heavenly Blood of Jesus (The Library of New Testament Studies 675; London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2023).
“New Directions in Western Soteriology.” Theology 118 (May/June 2015); 179–187.
“Revisiting Wesley’s Ethics and his Ministry to the Poor: Social, Economical, and Medical Solutions.” Wesleyan Theological Journal 50:2 (Autumn: 2015); 80–95.
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