Cor is passionate about training and inspiring people to think theologically, critically and contextually in order to prepare them for service in the church and the world. Cor has taught New Testament Studies at SAIACS, a postgraduate seminary in India (2002-2013), Union School of Theology in the UK (2013-2021), and at LST since 2021. He writes for both the academy and church: see https://lst.academia.edu/CornelisBennema

Cor’s research interests include: 

• The Johannine literature 
• The canonical Gospels
• Character studies in biblical narrative
• Early Christian ethics
• The Spirit 

Cor welcomes enquiries from prospective doctoral students in those areas. 

• Grace Andrews, ‘The Divine Necessity of Suffering in Luke-Acts’ 
• Tim Ingrum, ‘Knowledge in the Gospel of John: A Study in Johannine Epistemology’ 
• Stefanus Kristianto, ‘Jesus’s Use of Hyperbole in the Gospel of Matthew’ 
• Joel MacInnes, ‘Unveiling Wisdom: A Literary and theological Study of Wisdom Traditions in the Book of Revelation’ 
• Richard Maggard, ‘Images of the Church in the Gospel of John’ 

For a complete list, see https://lst.academia.edu/CornelisBennema

•  Imitation in Early Christianity: Mimesis and Religious-Ethical Formation (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2025). 
• ‘The Christology of the Johannine Prologue’. Pages 163-175 in T&T Clark Handbook of Christology. Ed. Darren Sumner and Chris Tilling. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2025. 
• ‘A Model of Johannine Ethics’, Studies in Christian Ethics 35 (2022): 433-456. 
• ‘Paul’s Paraenetic Strategy of Example and Imitation in 1–2 Thessalonians’, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 98 (2022): 219-238. 
• ‘How Readers Construct New Testament Characters: The Calling of Peter in the Gospels in Cognitive-Narratological Perspective’, Biblical Interpretation 29 (2021): 430-451. 
• ‘A Shared (Graeco-Roman) Model of Mimesis in John and Paul?’, Journal for the Study of the New Testament 43 (2020): 173-193. 
• ‘Whose Spirit is Eager? The Referent of Πνεῦμα in Mark 14:38 and the Intended Comparison’, Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 110 (2019): 104-114. 
• Mimesis in the Johannine Literature: A Study in Johannine Ethics (LNTS 498; New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017). 
• A Theory of Character in New Testament Narrative (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014). 
• Encountering Jesus: Character Studies in the Gospel of John (2nd edn; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014).