Introduction to New Testament*

Before coming to Trinity, the Rev. Dr. Jacob Rodriguez served for twelve years across Ethiopia, Oxford, and Washington, DC in theological education, discipleship mobilization for Muslim background believers, and pastoring. In each context, he saw the Lord working through well-trained missionaries and pastors who mentored him in faithful gospel service. He subsequently sensed a call to train the next generation within the global Anglican communion. As a New Testament scholar with missional and pastoral experience across three continents, he trains aspiring leaders to interpret Scripture faithfully as the foundation of effective ministry.

While Dr. Rodriguez finds great joy in classroom dialogue—engaging difficult questions through the whole counsel of Scripture—he believes the deepest formation happens in one-on-one office hours, the weekly Greek reading group he leads, prayer lunches with advisees, and early morning runs with students. As Associate Director of the Stanway Institute, he models a love for Scripture rooted in regular immersion in the biblical text, especially in its original languages. What he treasures most is communal life shared in daily office, lunchtimes in the commons, talent shows, flag football, and running into Trinity friends at local Ambridge coffee shops. His threefold hope for students: that they articulate the one gospel as proclaimed across the New Testament, understand it within the storyline of the whole biblical canon, and see how it addresses every issue of our day. He loves playing piano for worship—and noodling jazz on the out-of-tune commons piano.