Select Publications

Books

• Reading Paul with the Reformers: Reconciling Old and New Perspectives (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017)
• Perspectives on our Struggle with Sin: Three Views of Romans 7 (with Grant R. Osborne, Mark A. Seifrid, and Chad O. Brand; Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2011)
• Conversion at Corinth: Perspectives on Conversion in Paul’s Theology and the Corinthian Church (London & New York: T&T Clark International, 2003)

Other

• ‘“Works Themselves are a Part of Grace”: John Calvin’s Interpretation of Ephesians 2:8-10’ in The New Perspective on Grace: Paul and the Gospel after Paul and the Gift, ed. E Adams, D.H. Bertschmann, S.J. Chester, J. Linebaugh & T. Still (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2023), 236-50.
• ‘Faith and Family: Calvin, the Figure of Abraham, and the New Perspective on Paul,’ in Reformatorische Paulusauslegungen – Reformation Readings of Paul, ed. S. Krauter and M. Nägele, volume of conference proceedings (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023), 479-502.
• Articles on ‘Conversion and Call of Paul’ and ‘Interpretation: Martin Luther’ in the revised edition of Dictionary of Paul and his Letters (Downer’s Grove, IL: IVP, 2023)
• ‘“Consider Yourselves Dead” (Rom. 6:11): Biographical Reconstruction, Conversion, and the Death of the Self in Romans,’ in Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions, ed. Athanasios Despotis and Helmut Löhr (Leiden: Brill, 2022), 342-68.
• “Salvation, the Church, and Social Teaching: The Epistle of James in Exegesis of the Reformation Era,” in Reading the Epistle of James: A Resource for Students, ed. Eric F. Mason and Darian R. Lockett (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2019), 273-90.
• “‘Abba! Father!’ (Gal. 4:6): Justification and Assurance in Martin Luther’s Lectures on Galatians (1531/1535),” in Biblical Research63 (2018), 15-22.
• On Script Podcast (an hour long interview recorded in 2018 about Reading Paul with the Reformers): https://onscript.study/podcast/stephen-chester-reading-paul-with-the-reformers/
• “Interpreting the Bible and Changing the World: The Phenomenon of Martin Luther,” in The Expository Times 129.1 (2017), 3-13.
• “Conversion” in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology Vol. 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 148-51.
• “Apocalyptic Union: Martin Luther’s Account of Faith in Christ,” in In Christ in Paul (ed. M. J. Thate, K. Vanhoozer, and C. Campbell; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014), 375-98.
• “Faith Working through Love (Gal. 5:6): The Role of Human Deeds in Salvation in Luther and Calvin’s Exegesis,” in Doing Theology for the Church: Essays in Honor of Klyne Snodgrass (ed. R.A. Eklund and J.E. Phelan; Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock, 2014), 41-54.
• “Paul and the Galatian Believers,” in The Blackwell Companion to Paul (ed. S. Westerholm; Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2011).
• “Romans 7 and Conversion in the Protestant Tradition,” in Ex Auditu Vol. 25 (2010), 135-71.
• “It is no longer I who live: Justification by Faith and Participation in Christ in Martin Luther’s Exegesis of Galatians,” in New Testament Studies 55.3 (2009), 315-37.
• “Who is Freedom for? Martin Luther and Alain Badiou on Paul and Politics” in Paul, Grace and Freedom: Essays in Honor of J.K. Riches (ed. P. Middleton, A. Paddison, and K. Wennell; London and New York: T&T Clark International, 2009), 95-118.
• ”When the Old Was New: Reformation Perspectives on Galatians 2:16” in The Expository Times 119.7 (2008), 320-29.
• “Paul and the Introspective Conscience of Martin Luther: The Impact of Luther’s Anfechtungen on his Interpretation of Paul” in Biblical Interpretation 14.5 (2006), 508-36.
• “Paul: Archetypal Convert and Disputed Convert” in Finding and Losing Faith: Studies in Conversion (ed. C. Partridge and H. Reid; Carlisle: Paternoster Press, Religion and Culture Series, 2006), 123-49.
• “Divine Madness? Speaking in Tongues in 1 Cor. 14:23” in Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 27.4 (2005), 417-46.