Michael Patrick Barber is Associate Professor of Theology and Scripture at the Augustine Institute in Denver, CO. He has authored scholarly articles for academic journals and has published popular books on the Psalms and the Apocalypse. Barber received his Ph.D. at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA, where he wrote his dissertation on bridging the fields of the study of the Historical Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels with Sacramental Theology and Eschatology.