Andrew Keith Malcolm Adam (born September 10,1957),known as A. K. M. Adam,is a biblical scholar,theologian,author,priest,technologist and blogger. He is Tutor in New Testament and Greek at St. Stephen's House at Oxford University. He is a writer,speaker,voice-over artist,and activist on topics including postmodern philosophy,hermeneutics,education,and the social constitution of meaning.
Adam received a bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College (1979) majoring in philosophy. He earned an M.Div. (1986) and S.T.M. (1987) from Yale Divinity School and was ordained as an Episcopal priest. He received a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University in 1991,where he developed his thesis,"New Testament Theology and the Problem of Modernity" under Dan O. Via. After receiving his doctorate from Duke,he went to become assistant professor of religious studies at Eckerd College from 1991 to 1994. He was appointed assistant professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary,where he taught for five years (1994–1999). From 1999 to 2008,Adam was professor of New Testament at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary.
At the Conference on Theology and Pedagogy,hosted at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in 2001,he presented "The Disseminary:What Theological Educators Need to Learn from Napster."[4] In October 2003,he presented at BloggerCon on the topics of "Weblogs and Education," and "Weblogs and Spirituality,"[5] At Ars Electronica 2008 he presented "The Obscure Convergence of Theological Publishing and Technological Innovation".[6]
Works
Adam has published work on theology,hermeneutics,technology,philosophy,truth and meaning,Biblical interpretation,community,digital identity,digital rights,and collaborative spaces in education. His books to date have primarily been concerned with the postmodern implications of understanding and processing the text and meaning of the New Testament.
Thesis
Adam, A. K. M. (1991). New Testament Theology and the Problem of Modernity (Ph.D.). Duke University.
Taylor NH. Faithful Interpretation: Reading the Bible in a Postmodern World. By A. K. M. Adam. Heythrop Journal. 2009;50(1):173-174. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2265.2009.00438_61.x
Briggs RS. Reading Scripture with the Church: Toward a Hermeneutic for Theological Interpretation. By A. K. M. Adam, Stephen E. Fowl, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Francis Watson Tradition, Scripture, and Interpretation: A Sourcebook of the Ancient Church (Evangelical Ressourcement: Ancient Sources for the Church’s Future). Ed. D. H. Williams Sacred Scripture: The Disclosure of the Word. By Francis Martin The Language of Symbolism: Biblical Theology, Semantics, and Exegesis. By Pierre Grelot. Heythrop Journal. 2009;50(1):119-120. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2265.2009.00438_2.x
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