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Father Frank W. Hughes, Ph.D.

Priest in Residence

Father Frank has served Episcopal Churches in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Louisiana. He has most recently been Interim Rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Nacogdoches, Texas.

A graduate of Texarkana, Arkansas, High School, he graduated from Hendrix College in 1975, with a major in religion. His Master in Divinity degree is from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, and he also earned the M.A. in New Testament and Early Christian Literature from the University of Chicago in 1981 and the Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1984. He was also a Fulbright scholar at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany. He is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. He is secretary-treasurer of the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars. He has taught New Testament in training programs in four dioceses of the Episcopal Church. He was Senior Lecturer in New Testament at Codrington College in Barbados, in affiliation with the University of the West Indies. During his time in the Caribbean, he was an Appointed Missionary of the Episcopal Church.

Dr. Hughes’ research has focused on the letters of the Pauline corpus in the New Testament and how they used rhetoric. His work frequently combines rhetorical criticism, form criticism, and historical criticism in order to illuminate the historical situations in which Paul and others wrote the letters attributed to Paul. Dr. Hughes is the author of one book, co-author of another book, and author of sixteen articles and eight reviews.