Jonathan M. Threlfall

Family

Married to Christa Threlfall, who blogs at Brown Sugar Toast.

Ministry

Lead pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Concord, NH.

Education

Ph.D. and Th.M. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

• Major concentration: Christian Apologetics
• Minor concentration: Biblical Spirituality
• Dissertation: “The Imago Dei and Blaise Pascal’s Abductive Anthropological Argument.” In this dissertation, I explain how the Scripture’s teaching that we are created in the image of God helps make sense of why humans are such a perplexing mixture of greatness and misery. You can access the full text of the dissertation here.

Writings

• Dissertation: “The Imago Dei and Blaise Pascal’s Abductive Anthropological Argument.” Philosophia Christi, 20.2 (2018): 379-400. (View article.)
• Journal Article: “The Doctrine of the Imago Dei: The Biblical Data for an Abductive Argument for the Christian Faith.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 62.3 (2019): 543-61.
• Journal Article: “The imago Dei and Blaise Pascal’s Abductive Anthropological Argument.” Philosophia Christi, 20.2 (2018): 379-400
• Other
  • The Gospel Coalition
    • “Pastor, Prioritize Soul Care.”
    • Curated course on Blaise Pascal at The Gospel Coalition.
  • RootedThinking.com articles
  • Concord Monitor
    • Opinion: “New Hampshirites Are More Than ‘Craggy Individualists’”
  • 9Marks.com
    • Four Benefits of Inviting Evaluation of Your Preaching