Biography

After completing his doctorate in 1982 (at Wycliffe), Terry Donaldson taught for seventeen years in Saskatoon at the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad, the Anglican seminary on the campus of the University of Saskatchewan. In 1999, he returned to Wycliffe where he taught full-time until 2016, when he began an active retirement. His teaching and research interests include Matthew; Paul; hermeneutics; Second Temple Judaism; Gentilization of early Christianity, and early Christian-Jewish relations. As well as books, he has published about forty journal articles or chapters, and many reviews. His current research project has to do with ethnicity, identity and the emergence of Gentile Christianity. As a scholar, he is fascinated with the process by which the early church, from its beginnings as an eschatological renewal movement entirely within the Jewish environment, developed within a century or so into a largely Gentile religion, separate and distinct from the synagogue. As a Christian educator and layperson, he is concerned to lead students (and others) to a richer appreciation of the gospel that stands at the heart and center both of the Bible and of the grand and richly diverse tradition of the church. Outside work Terry enjoys banjo-playing, ballroom dancing, bread-baking, camping, and cycling. He and his wife, Lois, live in downtown Toronto and are members of St Aidan’s parish. They have two adult children, two children-in-law and three grandchildren.

* Note to potential PhD students: Dr. Donaldson no longer takes any new PhD students.