Vinh Nguyen

Accomplished leader and entrepreneur bringing more than 13 years of expertise in cultivating, building, and maintaining relationships with people. Successful in building and establishing programs and processes for efficient operations. Has found success in a couple start up businesses and understands the day to day struggles for small business. Highly accomplished at public speaking at both personal and professional levels. From counseling care to presenting research at many national and regional conferences. Accomplished researcher and writer and has published several journal articles in peer-reviewed journals, Also experienced in copy-editing, indexing, and gathering sources for publications.

• Presented Paper at ETS 2016 Conference: Presented a paper in front of the top scholars in the field entitled 'Verbal Aspect Theory with Relation to Galatians 3.'
• Zondervan Hebrew Award for Hebrew
• Outstanding Grad Student Award with 4.0 GPA
• 2 PhD Program offers
• Town Award for developing inclusivity in sports for local residents.

1. Graduate/Teaching/Research Assistant

Graduate Assistant for Dr. Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College (Fall 2018-Fall 2019)

Graduate Assistant for Dr. Phil Zylla (Spring 2019), McMaster Divinity College (Spring 2019)

Teaching Assistant for Dr. Craig Price, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

(Fall 2012 – Spring 2016)

Grader Dr. Craig Price and Dr. Harold Mosely, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (Fall 2012 – Summer 2015)

Publications, Conference Papers, Reviews, and Presentations

1. Publications

“Temperance or Tyranny? An Appraisal of Power in Plato’s Republic and Paul’s Letter to the Romans,” Essay in New Testament Texts and the Roman World, Edited by Renate Viveen Hood and William Craig Price

“Power and Authority as Apostolic Strategy: An Assessment of Pauline Ideology in 1 Corinthians 4,” Essay in Methods and Approaches to the Greek New Testament, Edited by David I. Yoon and Chris Stevens (forthcoming)

“The Function of Scripture in Forming Early Christian Identity: Text, Context, and Perspicuity According to Irenaues,” (forthcoming – under review)

“The Integrity of Philippians: An Examination of Letter Collection Practices in Antiquity,” (forthcoming – under review)

2. Conference Papers and Presentations

“Prominence and Markedness in the Rhetorical Questions of Galatians 3:1-5,” Evangelical Theological Society Regional Meeting, Dallas, TX, April 2016.

“Paul and the Kingdom Program: A Test Case for Critical Discourse Analysis in Systematic Theology,” Evangelical Theological Society National Meeting, Denver, CO, November 2018.

“Critical Discourse Analysis Revisited: An Appraisal of the Royal Ideology in Romans 14:13–23,” Bingham Conference, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Fall 2018.

“Reverberations from Torah to Matthew: An Intertextual (Re)Constructing of the Beatitudes with Hoey’s Lexical Priming Theory,” Evangelical Theological Society Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Spring 2019.

“Differently-Abled: Why Rethinking ‘Disability’ is significant for the Role of the Ecclesial Community,” A Deeper Communion: Church with People with Disabilities Conference, Toronto, CA, Winter 2019.

“Power and Authority as Apostolic Strategy: An Assessment of Pauline Ideology in 1 Corinthians 4” Society of Biblical Literature National Meeting, Biblical Language and Linguistics Section, San Antonio, TX, November 2021.

“The Integrity of Philippians: An Examination of Letter Collecting Practices in Antiquity,” Society of Biblical Literature National Meeting, Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds Section, Denver, CO, 21 November 2022.

Professional Affiliations/Memberships

Evangelical Theological Society (2016-present)

Society of Biblical Literature (2017-present)

Institute for Biblical Research (2017-present)

Linguistic Circle (2017-present)

• Blake Hawthorn, Owner of It’s HIS turf Landscaping, Hot Springs, Arkansas, (501) 617-8102
• Tady Emmanuel Engulu, Seminary Student at Denver Seminary, Denver, Colorado, (817) 909-0560, tee_obu12@yahoo.com
• Matt Rose, Minister at Elevation Church, North Carolina, (501) 944-9468
• Jay Adkins, Senior Pastor at First Baptist Church Westwego, Westwego, Louisiana, (504) 220-9021, Jay@firstwego.org
• Shawn Barnard, Senior Pastor at Crossgate Church, Hot Springs, Arkansas, (501) 318-8187 or (501) 760-8538, pastorshawn@crossgate.org