Nicholas Perrinis president of Trinity International University, Deerfield, Illinois. Previously, he held the Franklin S. Dyrness Chair of Biblical Studies at the Wheaton College Graduate School. Between 2000 and 2003, he was research assistant for N.T. Wright. He is the author and editor of numerous articles and books, including Thomas: The Other Gospel (Westminster John Knox, 2007), Lost in Transmission: What We Can Know about the Words of Jesus (Thomas Nelson, 2007), Jesus the Temple and (Baker Academic and SPCK, 2010).