Ronald E. Heine was educated at Lincoln Christian Seminary and the University of Illinois. His areas of research and teaching include Patristics, early Christian history and theology, the use and study of the Bible in the early church, and New Testament. He has taught at Christian colleges and seminaries in the U.S. and England, and was Director of the Institut zur Erforschung des Urchristentums in Tübingen, Germany for eleven years. He has specialized in the study of the third century church father, Origen.