Chris Tilling

My blogs

About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Religion
Occupation	New Testament Tutor
Location	London, United Kingdom
Links	Wishlist
Introduction	I am New Testament Tutor for St Mellitus College and St Paul's Theological Centre, London. Less well known is that I am also the original writer of the now famous song “Beans, beans, good for your heart…”, and inventor of the “you must have fallen out of the stupid/ugly tree” repertoire of insults. I am the main proponent of the Human Faecal Matter for Brains Opening in chess (actually not what I wanted to call my brilliant and original opening Knight manoeuvre 1.Na3, 2.Nc1), and I also claim to have independently discovered the haiku™ poetry form (© Copyright Chris Tilling 2007) without any help from the Japs. My blog, Chrisendom, is primarily occupied with biblical and theological themes – especially those Apostle Paul shaped, but I try as best as I can to squeeze in a decent amount of inappropriate baloney on the way.
Interests	Chess, good coffee, the bible, theology, eating squirrels, hermeneutics, Apostle Paul, Christology, liberal christianity, scratching my ear, the emerging church, the charsimatic movement, evangelicalism
Favorite Movies	Mad Axe Kurt Goes Nuts, Bikini Car Wash 4, Blood Bath Jimmy III, Blade meets Bambi (this one had me in tears of laughter), The Matrix
Favorite Music	Death trance, death chillout, death christian rock, death wesleyan hymns, death monastic chants
Favorite Books	The Bible, Jesus and the Victory of God (Wright), The Spirit’s Relation to the Risen Lord in Paul (Fatehi), Models for Scripture (Goldingay), God Crucified (Bauckham), Jesus and the Eyewitnesses (Bauckham), St Paul (Deissmann), 1 Corinthians (Thiselton), Hogfather (Pratchett), The Evangelical Universalist (MacDonald), The Theology of the Apostle Paul (Dunn), Old Testament Theology vol. 1 (Goldingay), What Saint Paul Really Said (Wright), Romans Commentary (Wright), How to Reassess your Chess (Silman), Between Two Horizons (ed. by my own supervisor), Paul: Fresh Perspectives (Wright), Lord Jesus Christ (Hurtado), The Interpretation of the NT (1861-1986), Re:Mission (Perriman), Reading Paul (Gorman), Perspectives Old and New on Paul (Westerholm), Inspiration and Incarnation (Enns), The Trinity and the Kingdom (Moltmann), The Beginning of All Things (Küng), Colossians and Philemon (Thompson), The Climax of the Covenant (Wright), The Rhythm of Doctrine (Colwell), Götter 'Götzen' Götterbilder (Woyke), etc.