Melvin Tinker

The Reverend Melvin Tinker is senior minister of St John, Newland, Hull, UK. He has contributed a number of articles to Themelios over the years and is the author of several books, his latest being Intended for Good: The Providence of God (IVP, 2012).

Articles

The priority of Jesus: a look at the place of Jesus’ teaching and example in Christian ethics

by Melvin Tinker

Truth, myth and incarnation

by Melvin Tinker

Purpose in pain?—Teleology and the problem of evil

by Melvin Tinker

Last Supper/Lord’s Supper: More than a Parable in Action?

by Melvin Tinker

Evil, Evangelism and Ecclesiastes

by Melvin Tinker

Living in a World where Life is Cheap: The Relevance of the Book of Deuteronomy and the Sixth Commandment for the Debate on the Sanctity of Human Life.

by Melvin Tinker

The Servant Solution: The Co-ordination of Evangelism and Social Action

by Melvin Tinker

Friends: The One With Jesus, Martha, And Mary; An Answer To Kierkegaard

by Melvin Tinker

He was the youngest son of elderly parents. His childhood was secluded and unhappy, which might in some measure account for his lifelong melancholy...

Secularisation: Myth or Menace? An Assessment of Modern ‘Worldliness’

by Melvin Tinker

In 1983 the Christian social critic Os Guinness commented, ‘Christians are always more culturally shortsighted than they realise...

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