Heath A. Thomas

Heath Thomas (PhD, University of Gloucestershire) is President and Professor of Old Testament at Oklahoma Baptist University. He is associate fellow of the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge (UK). His recent work includes Reading the Old Testament as Christian Scripture (with Mark Gignilliat, Baker Academic), The Minor Prophets (with Craig Bartholomew, IVP Academic), Habakkuk (Eerdmans), Faith Amid the Ruins (Lexham), The Gospel of Our King (with Bruce R. Ashford; Baker Academic), Poetry and Theology in the Book of Lamentations (Sheffield Phoenix). He is the editor of: Reading Lamentations Intertextually (with Brittany Melton, Bloomsbury), A Manifesto for Theological Interpretation (with Craig G. Bartholomew; Baker Academic), Holy War in the Bible: Christian Morality and an Old Testament Problem (with Paul Copan and Jeremy Evans; IVP Academic), Great is Thy Faithfulness? Toward Reading Lamentations as Christian Scripture (with Robin Parry; Pickwick Press). Thomas explores theology and suffering, biblical prophecy, the challenge of divine violence, and the theology of prayer. Heath enjoys fly-fishing and reading the prose of Umberto Eco and Paulo Coelho (and recently the works of Chinua Achebe).