PhD, Wheaton College
MA, Reformed Theological Seminary
BS, Salisbury State University
Dr. Piotrowski is the President of ITS. Before this, he has also worked with juvenile offenders, taught on the faculty at Crossroads Bible College, and served at a local church. His publications include articles in the Tyndale Bulletin, Currents in Biblical Research, Bulletin for Biblical Research, Mid-America Journal of Theology, Criswell Theological Review, The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, Westminster Theological Journal, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, and online with the Washington Institute, as well as dozen of book reviews in various journals. His books include Matthew’s New David: A Socio-Rhetorical Study of Scriptural Quotations (Brill, 2016) and In All the Scriptures: The Three Contexts of Biblical Hermeneutics (IVP Academic, 2021). His full CV is accessible here.
Dr. Piotrowski has two boys with his wife, Cheryl. They are members at Castleton Community Church.
Dr. Nicholas G. Piotrowski
Courses at ITS
BT 501 Hermeneutics
BT 611 Synoptic Gospels & Acts
BT 614 Johannine Theology
BT 701 Biblical Theology
LA 481 Greek I
LA 482 Greek II
LA 510 Greek Exegesis
PT 750 Academic Theology
ST 604 The Church
Interview: Reflections on How ITS Results in Missions
In 2020 I had the privilege of being interviewed by Gus Pritchard, Associate Pastor at Castleview Church, about the vision of ITS—to answer the big picture why questions—and share a bit of my own testimony and passions that have led in many ways to where ITS is today. It was such an encouraging reflection for me to think about God’s grace in my own life, and it trended in an interesting direction: how ITS results in missions! I hope you’re edified by the conversation as well.
Seminar on Biblical Theology
BOOKS
INTERVIEWS
Dr. Michael Morales interviews Nicholas Piotrowski on his book Matthew’s New David
at the End of Exile.
Overview: Matthew's gospel employs more than half of its Old Testament citations within the gospel's prologue (Matt. 1-4). Although these texts lead Matthew's story, many scholars have long assumed that the scriptural citations have nothing to do with their original OT context. Was Matthew a bumbling hermeneutist? Not so, says Nicholas Piotrowski. In his book, Matthew's New David at the End of Exile (Brill, 2016), Nicholas investigates Matthew's OT quotations and finds that they provide reading and worldview orientation for the gospel's audience. The seven prologue quotations all emerge from OT contexts concerned with David or the end of the exile, or both---a dual theme that provides an interpretative guide for the entire narrative of Matthew's gospel.
David Schrock and Stephen Wellum interview Nicholas Piotrowski on The Exodus He Accomplished at Jerusalem
On the cross Jesus redeems his people. He rescues us from our sins—both the consequence and the dominion of sins. But that is not all we can say. There are many, many dimensions to understanding sin and its effects, and so there are many, many dimensions to our salvation. In short, Jesus accomplished a lot on the cross. And the same is true for the resurrection. The fact that Jesus was historically raised back to life has all kinds of implications for our world today.
I was blessed to share some of my understanding of what Jesus accomplished in the cross and resurrection on the website, Christ Over All. I focus on just one aspect: the exile from God’s presence that sin brings about, as well as Jesus’ ministry that leads us out of exile. The value of seeing this is that it gives us a more expansive understanding of Jesus ministry, and also situates Jesus’ ministry more clearly within the over biblical storyline from Genesis to Revelation.
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