Incomplete Commentary on Matthew (Opus imperfectum) (Ancient Christian Texts)
James A. Kellerman has a doctorate in classical languages and literature from Loyola University. He is the pastor of First Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Chicago and also teaches part time at Concordia University Chicago. He has contributed translations to several volumes of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture.Thomas C. Oden (PhD, Yale University), is the general editor of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture and the Ancient Christian Doctrine series as well as the author ofClassic Christianity, a revision of his three-volume systematic theology. He is the director of the Center for Early African Christianity at Eastern University in Pennsylvania and he formerly served as the Henry Anson Buttz Professor of Theology at The Theological School of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.  Oden is active in the Confessing Movement in America, particularly within the United Methodist Church and serves on the board of the Institute on Religion and Democracy. He suggests that Christians need to rely upon the wisdom of the historical Church, particularly the early Church, rather than on modern scholarship and theology and says his mission is "to begin to prepare the postmodern Christian community for its third millennium by returning again to the careful study and respectful following of the central tradition of classical Christianity."