Dr. Peter Briggs
Biography
Dr. Briggs was Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies and the Dean of the Institute of Church-Based Theological Education at Trinity Southwest University, and also served as Minister of Church-Based Theological Education at The Foothills in Albuquerque NM. Dr. Briggs’ career began as an aerospace engineer working for General Electric and Honeywell, Inc. He founded Daystar Institute of Biblical Theology and Leadership Development which spawned the birth of Daystar Institute / NM and the Walking in the Way of Christ & the Apostles discipleship series. Author, educator, and minister, Dr. Briggs also established Daystar Institute / Africa where his ministry flourishes in East Africa under the direction of his dedicated staff of nationals there.
In the arena of archaeology, he participated in the excavation at Bethsaida in Israel for two seasons in 1995 and 1996. He served as Surveyor & Research Scientist for the Khirbet el-Maqatir Excavation Project in Israel. He also served as Instructor in the Associates for Biblical Research Field School at Yad Hashmonah in Israel. In 2001 he received his Master of Sacred Literature and Doctor of Philosophy in Biblical Studies degrees from Trinity Theological Seminary, Newburg, Indiana. He was a member of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Near Eastern Archaeological Society, and presented papers on his research at the national conferences of both societies in 2000 and 2001.
Dr. Briggs was introduced to Representational Research in 1994 at Trinity Southwest University, and said of this, “To regard the Bible as a representational system which defines reality for the saint was a life-transforming insight that I set about to incorporate into my own teaching from that point onward.”
Dr. Briggs passed into glory and his eternal reward in 2019. His documents on the Representational Research Website are foundational and important.
Articles
Testing the Factuality of the Conquest of Ai Narrative in the Book of Joshua
(uses Dr. Oller’s TNR –True Narrative Representation–theory)
The Spiritual Formation Process: The Apostle Peter’s Outline