Douglas Estes
Author—Biblical Scholar—Pastor

Douglas Estes

Welcome!

I'm Lead Pastor of Trinity Church in Mesa, AZ, an adjunct professor at Phoenix Seminary, and the author of several books on biblical scholarship and the church. My focus is the intersection of text, church, and world.

For more info about my background, please check out my CV. I'd love to hear from you; please connect with me via email/social media!

Education

  • Dominican Biblical Institute

    PostDoc in NT

  • University of Nottingham

    PhD in Theology

  • Southeastern Seminary

    ThM & MDiv

  • Virginia Military Institute

    BS in Chemistry

Networks

  • Society of Biblical Literature

  • Evangelical Theological Society

  • Institute of Biblical Research

  • Society for the Advancement of Ecclesial Theology

Interests

  • Johannine Literature
  • NT Greek
  • Rhetoric
  • Ecclesiology
  • 2nd Century Literature
  • Temporality/Science
  • Minutiae of Dogmatics
  • The Questions of Jesus in John

  • The Questions of Jesus in John

    In The Questions of Jesus in John Douglas Estes crafts a theory of question-asking based on insights from ancient rhetoric and modern linguistics in order to investigate the logical and rhetorical purposes of Jesus' questions in the Fourth Gospel.

  • SimChurch

  • SimChurch

    The virtual church is here, and it’s poised for explosive growth as a generation comfortable with virtual worlds cultivates faith communities online. What is the virtual church, and what possibilities and concerns does it create? This must-read book opens a dialog no culturally aware Christian passionate about the church and evangelism can afford to miss.

    Culture Book of the Year, Outreach Magazine

  • The Temporal Mechanics of the Fourth Gospel

  • Temporal Mechanics

    By redefining narrative temporality in light of modern physics, this book advances a unique and innovative approach to the deep-seated temporalities within the Gospel of John—and challenges the implicit assumptions of textual brokenness that run throughout Johannine scholarship.

    “Few books in biblical scholarship can truly be called groundbreaking. This is one of them.” —David Rensberger, Biblical Interpretation

  • Better Habits, Better Life: How to Coach Yourself to Life Change

  • Better Habits, Better Life

    Co-authored with Matthew Reed, Better Habits, Better Life: How to Coach Yourself to Life Change explores the way people move through real change in spiritual transformation.

    This book is under contract with Cascade and due out sometime 2014.

  • Questions and Rhetoric in New Testament Greek

  • Questions and Rhetoric in New Testament Greek

    This book in progress is a Greek language resource for students, scholars and pastors.

    It is under contract with Zondervan and due out sometime 2015.

Brief Bio

Douglas Estes (PhD, University of Nottingham; PostDoc, Dominican Biblical Institute) is Lead Pastor of Trinity Church in Mesa, AZ. He is the author of several books, including The Questions of Jesus in John (Brill, 2012), and SimChurch (2009).

Douglas lives in Mesa with his wife, Noël, and their three children.

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