Timothy Paul Jones (born January 16, 1973) is an American evangelical scholar of apologetics and family ministry.

In a review of Misquoting Truth, Tim Challies stated that Jones had demonstrated that "not only are Ehrman’s arguments far from original, they are also, quite simply fallacious.

"[15] Apologetics writings by Jones have typically emphasized the historical reliability of the New Testament Gospels in contrast to later texts that were produced by sects with little interest in the actual events of Jesus’s life.

Responding to the Conservative Bible Project, spearheaded by Andrew Schlafly and Conservapedia, Jones told the Associated Press, “This is not making scripture understandable to people today, it's reworking scripture to support a particular political or social agenda.”[17] Beginning with his book Why Should I Trust the Bible?, Jones's apologetics approach shifted from evidential apologetics to verificational presuppositionalism, influenced by Francis Schaeffer.

[18] His faculty address "Brothers and Sisters, We Are All Apologists Now" revealed another dimension in his approach, in which the countercultural moral life of the church is central in the defense of the Christian faith.

[19] The Baptist Press article reporting on this address quoted Jones as stating, "Pursuing the Christian way of life will inevitably require a defense of this way of being in the world – not merely for apologists, but for all of us.

He was an early signatory of the Nashville Statement, which declares that a “homosexual or transgender self-conception” is inconsistent “with God’s holy purposes.”[23] Beth Allison Barr criticized Jones on her blog and in her book The Making of Biblical Womanhood because Jones depicted the medieval abbess Hildegard of Bingen as proclaiming the truth but failed to identify Hildegard explicitly as a preacher in his book Christian History Made Easy.

[27] Publishers Weekly featured In Church as It Is in Heaven as a work that faces "the challenge of creating multiethnic congregations.