Scott J. Hafemann is Reader in New Testament at St. Mary's College, School of Divinity, at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). Previously, he was the Mary F. Rockefeller Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, having served for nine years as the Gerald F. Hawthorne Professor of New Testament and Greek, Wheaton College and Graduate School. He is the author of the NIV Application Commentary on 2 Corinthians; Suffering and Ministry in the Spirit in the Paternoster Biblical Monograph series; and a study of biblical theology, The God of Promise and the Life of Faith. His current interests are in the Petrine Epistles and the doctrine of justification.