Cornelis Bennema is senior lecturer in New Testament at the Wales Evangelical School of Theology,UK, and Extraordinary Associate Professor, Unit for Reformed Theology and the Development of the South African Society, Faculty of Theology, North-West University, South Africa. He is the author of The Power of Saving Wisdom,An Investigation of Spirit and Wisdom in Relation to the Soteriology of the Fourth Gospel (2002),A Theory of Character in New Testament Narrative (2014),Encountering Jesus: Character Studies in the Gospel of John,second edition (2014), and co-editor of The Spirit and Christ in the New Testament and Christian Theology (2012).