I’m very pleased to share the final cover for Scripting the Son, which will go to print next week in time to be available at ETS/SBL/AAR later this month in San Diego. St. Irenaeus of Lyons is a major player ..read more

Counting down the months to the release of Scripting the Son, but in the meantime, I’m keeping busy with a few other projects. First, I’ve done a fairly thorough (4,000 word) review of Gerald McDermott’s Deep Anglicanism, 2nd edition, over ..read more

I have the privilege of being able to share about my work (in this case, all related to Teaching for Spiritual Formation) in several places this summer. All should be great events, so if you’re in the area of one of these events, I hope you’ll consider checking it out! “Education for Virtue: The Classical Approach” Workshop, Malone University (Canton, OH), June 5, 2024 In this free workshop, I’ll be paired with the wonderful Dr. Nadya Williams to discuss the classical education movement. I’ll be presenting on “Education for Virtue: An Overview of Classical Education” and “Formative Practices ..read more

I am excited to introduce my next book, Scripting the Son, which will be published in the Studies in Early Christology series by Cascade later this year. My last 18 months have been devoted to the research, writing, and editing of this book, and I am happy to share that the manuscript is now complete. By way of introduction, the back-cover summary and table of contents follow below. I look forward to sharing more about this new book in the months to come! Summary In Scripting the Son, Kyle R. Hughes analyzes how dialogical texts in the Old Testament presented early Christian exegetes with ridd ..read more

Here’s to 2024! But before we ring in the new year, a quick update on the status of my work in 2023. My primary focus was drafting the bulk of my new academic book Scripting the Son: Prosopological Exegesis and the Making of Early Christology, forthcoming from Cascade in their Studies in Early Christology series. This project expands and deepens my treatment of the subject of prosopological exegesis in the pre-Nicene period from my doctoral research and subsequent monograph The Trinitarian Testimony of the Spirit: Prosopological Exegesis and the Development of Pre-Nicene Pneumatology (Brill, 2 ..read more

Logos recently published a piece from me on “Navigating Pneumatology: How to Study the Holy Spirit” for their Word by Word blog as part of their recent series on pneumatology. In this piece, I introduce some lexical issues related to the study of the Holy Spirit and then identify three sources of pneumatological reflection in the early church: the Bible, the liturgy of the church, and personal or corporate experience. As I conclude: Our gospel, ultimately, must be Trinitarian in shape: the Father sends the Son, our saving King, who in turn sends the Holy Spirit to indwell and empower his peop ..read more

Summer is here, and I have some speaking engagements that I’m very much looking forward to. If you’re attending one of these events, be sure to drop me a note so we can connect! Common Roots: Ancient Evangelical Future Conference, Robert Webber Center, Trinity School for Ministry, Pittsburgh, PA (June 8-10) I’ll be helping lead a K-12 education ministry focus group as we study the theme of “Beginning with Moses and All the Prophets: Teaching the Christian Faith from the Old Testament.” Repairing the Ruins: Association of Classical Christian Schools Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA (June 21-24 ..read more

Logos recently published a piece from me on “How the Early Church Found the Trinity in the Old Testament” for their Word by Word blog. Their blog has several excellent recent pieces on the doctrine of the Trinity; it was an honor to be asked to contribute. In this piece, I focus on three aspects of the Old Testament that are unknown to or under-appreciated by many modern readers—but were nevertheless critical to early Christians’ developing understanding of the Trinity. Here’s my conclusion: Thus, while it would no doubt be a mistake to say that such an approach to Old Testament interpretatio ..read more

Note: This piece was just published in the spring 2023 of Classis, the journal of the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS). I’m happy to make the piece more broadly available below: What time is it? The importance of such a simple question should not be underestimated. Jesus, after all, castigated his opponents for failing to rightly “interpret the signs of the times” (Matt 16:3), which led them to miss the coming of the Messiah. Much better, then, for us to be like the men of the tribe of Issachar, who rallied to David because they “had understanding of the times” (1 Chr 12:32 ..read more

I recently had the privilege of giving an interview to Blake Adams at Modern Reformation on the subject of “Christian Education as Soulcraft,” which was published online and in the January/February 2023 print issue of the magazine. Our conversation ranged from the intersection of Christian education with monasticism and asceticism to some of the major shortcomings of Christian schooling today. Be sure to check it out! The full interview can be found over at Modern Reformation here ..read more