Education
Vrije Universiteit.
Vrije Universiteit.
Formerly, he was the founding Dean and Professor of New Testament at Knox Theological Seminary. Prior to his appointment at Knox Theological Seminary, he taught New Testament and New Testament Greek at Covenant Theological Seminary in Saint Louis, Missouri. A former president of the Evangelical Theological Society, he has also taught and preached the Bible at many other seminaries and churches around the world.
He has authored several works, most notably The Pastoral Epistles and a short commentary of Timothy and Titus as included in the Baker Commentary on the Bible.
He received his theological doctorate from Free University of Amsterdam in 1968. In 1977, he argued in a book about gender roles that the role relationship of men and women is theologically analogous to the subordination of the Son to the Father in the Trinity.
Knight released a response to "evangelical feminists" in a 2009 book Knight"s contributions to the complementarian view of the role relationship of men and women, and especially as it is applied to the issue of the ordination of women to the ministry, have greatly influenced the founding of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, where he continues to serve as a council member.