President, ScholarLeaders International
Formerly Professor of New Testament at the Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia in Medellín, Colombia
Director of the Faith and Displacement project at the Biblical Seminary of Colombia in Medellín, Colombia
He holds a DPhil in New Testament studies from the University of Oxford. A missionary with the “Theological Education Initiative” of United World Mission, before becoming a missionary scholar, he was a wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Universität Bonn and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow on the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford. In addition, Christopher is a fellow of the Centre for Enterprise, Markets, and Ethics, an Oxford-based think-tank; he is also a research associate of the Department of New Testament at the University of Pretoria. He is author of Luke’s Wealth Ethics (Mohr Siebeck, 2010) and the co-editor of Evangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical Criticism (SPCK/Baker Academic, 2013) and of Sensitivity to Outsiders (Mohr Siebeck, 2014). His research interests include historical criticism, eschatology, and Christian wealth ethics.