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Richard M. Sharp
Dr. Richard (Rick) M. Sharp earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, a Master of Divinity from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, Memphis, and a Doctor of Philosophy and Fellow in the Oxford Society of Scholars, Oxford Graduate School, Dayton, Tennessee.
Dr. Sharp served as Vice President for Recruitment and adjunct professor of Hermeneutics and Communication at Oxford Graduate School/American Centre for Religion/Society Studies (Tennessee). He was an adjunct professor with Bryan College’s Adult Education program teaching Bible and Group and Organizational Behavior classes. In addition, Rick taught at The Jubilee Memorial Bible College in Madras, India; The Presbyterian Bible College in Tyumen, Siberia; and The Pentecostal Seminary of Bangkok, Thailand. He has lectured in Israel, England, Russia, Vietnam, China, Kenya, Fiji, Cuba, Cambodia, Tanzania, Uganda, Bolivia and the United States.
Dr. Sharp was founder and President of The House of Stephanas, a non-profit humanitarian organization, for nearly fifteen years. He died of glioblastoma, a stage IV brain cancer, in January 2019 and is survived by his wife, Theresa, two daughters and their husbands – Jason and Angela Miller and Thad and Jennifer Wilhoit; four grandchildren – Cohen Miller, Seth Wilhoit, Levi Miller and Leah Wilhoit; five brothers, two sisters, many nieces, nephews, and worldwide friends.
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The Four Cups of Betrothal
Richard M. Sharp
Tracing the Jewish roots of Christianity in the ancient writings, Dr. Richard Sharp examines how the ancient ritual of betrothal has framed the meta-narrative of God’s relationship with man. “Meta” is situated behind or beyond (Webster, 1996); it is this notion that there exists a story of betrothal behind or beyond a simple narrative of a particular story in the Bible that is implied. It is that meta-narrative that ties the sixty-six books of the Bible together, not as single pieces of literature, but as stories which fit within a grander story. This ritual of betrothal is suggested by scriptural texts from Genesis to Revelation and suggests that a formal wedding between God and man is in the offing, and that the legal marriage has already occurred through the act of betrothal. By His death on the cross, the barrier between Jew and Gentile has been removed through faith in Jesus, and we are builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit (Ephesians 2: 14-22). Nothing and no one can ever come between the covenant of marriage established as betrothal on the cross for all who have embraced Jesus.
ISBN: 978-1-950839-08-7
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