Paul N. Anderson

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Paul N. Anderson is affiliated with the following schools: Malone University, George Fox University, Portland State University, Trinity Lutheran Seminary

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According to Wikipedia, Paul N. Anderson is an American New Testament scholar conducting research on the historical, cultural, and theological background of the Gospel of John, the historical Jesus, Quakers and Spirituality studies. He is Professor of Biblical and Quaker Studies at George Fox University since 1989 and was a founding member of the John, Jesus, and History Project at the Society of Biblical Literature . He also serves as Extraordinary Professor of Religion at North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa and has served as a visiting professor or researcher at Haverford College, Yale Divinity School, Princeton Theological Seminary, the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, the Radboud University of Nijmegen, and Chapman University.

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Paul N. Anderson's Published Works

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Published Papers

The Having-Sent-Me Father — Aspects of Agency, Encounter, and Irony in the Johannine Father-Son Relationship (1999) (20)
Front Matter -- Quaker Religious Thought, no. 110 (2003) (17)
The Meeting for Worship in which Business is Conducted- Quaker Decision-Making Process as a Factor of Spiritual Discernment (2006) (14)
The Sitz im Leben of the Johannine Bread of Life Discourse and Its Evolving Context (1997) (9)
Religion and Violence: From Pawn to Scapegoat (2003) (7)
Gradations of Symbolization in the Johannine Passion Narrative: Control Measures for Theologizing Speculation Gone Awry (2006) (6)
Federalism as a Tool of Conflict Resolution (2017) (5)
From One Dialogue to Another: Johannine Polyvalence from Origins to Receptions (2008) (5)
Jesus and Peace (1994) (4)
Jesus the Word According to John the Sectarian : a Paleofundamentalist Manifesto for Contemporary Evangelicalism, Especially its Elites, in North America - Book Review (2005) (4)
Riddles of the Fourth Gospel (2011) (4)
A Theology of Presence (1993) (4)
Genocide or Jesus: A God of Conquest or Pacifism? (2003) (4)
The Gospel According to Mark -- Chapter 3 of "From Crisis to Christ: A Contextual Introduction to the New Testament" (2014) (4)
The Christology of the Fourth Gospel (2010) (3)
John and Mark: The Bi-Optic Gospels (2001) (3)
The Cognitive Origins of John’s Christological Unity and Disunity (1995) (3)
Why this Study is Needed, and Why it is Needed Now (from John, Jesus, and History, vol. 1) (2007) (3)
Anti-Semitism and Religious Violence as Flawed Interpretations of the Gospel of John (2017) (3)
Acts 4:19-20—An Overlooked First-Century Clue to Johannine Authorship and Luke’s Dependence upon the Johannine Tradition (2010) (3)
Why the silence? (1996) (3)
On Jesus: Quests for Historicity, and the History of Recent Quests (2000) (3)
Aspects of Historicity in the Gospel of John: Implications for Investigations of Jesus and Archaeology (2006) (3)
The Johannine Logos-Hymn: A Cross-Cultural Celebration of God’s Creative-Redemptive Work (2016) (2)
The Jesus of History, the Christ of Faith, and the Gospel of John (2013) (2)
Moving the Conversation Forward: Open Questions and New Directions (Chapter in Communities in Dispute : Current Scholarship on the Johannine Epistles) (2014) (2)
A Dynamic Christocentricity -- The Center of Faithful Praxis (2005) (2)
Review of The Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible: New Revised Standard Version with Deuterocanonical Books (2005) (2)
Was the Fourth Evangelist a Quaker (1991) (2)
Foreword to John's Gospel in New Perspective (2015) (2)
On “Seamless Robes” and “Leftover Fragments”—A Theory of Johannine Composition (2016) (2)
Observations on God's agent and agency in John 5-9. Tradition, exposition, and glimpses into history (2016) (2)
John Bellers (1654–1725): ‘A Veritable Phenomenon in the History of Political Economy’ (2019) (1)
Philip: A Connective Figure in Polyvalent Perspective (Chapter in Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel) (2013) (1)
Identity and Congruence: The Ethics of Integrity in the Johannine Epistles (Chapter in Biblical Ethics and Application) (2017) (1)
The Johannine Community (2015) (1)
Continuing Revelation – Gospel or Heresy? (2016) (1)
Front Matter -- Quaker Religious Thought, nos. 116-117 (2006) (1)
A Fourth Quest for Jesus: So What, and How So? (2010) (1)
The Community That Raymond Brown Left Behind: Reflections on the Johannine Dialectical Situation (2013) (1)
The Journey that Changed the World (2014) (1)
The Spiritual Formation of Young John Woolman (2003) (1)
The "Fires" of Southern California (1981) (1)
The Present Leadership of the Resurrected Lord (1990) (1)
On Following Jesus (1994) (1)
Antichristic Crises: Proselytization Back into Jewish Religious Certainty--The Threat of Schismatic Abandonment (2007) (1)
Jesus and Transformation (2004) (1)
The John, Jesus, and History Project—New Glimpses of Jesus and a Bi-Optic Hypothesis (2010) (1)
Second Criticality— An Interdisciplinary Approach to the New Testament and its Contexts (2015) (1)
Capps' "Jesus: A Psychological Biography" - Book Review (2002) (1)
Foreword to A Catechism and Confession of Faith (2001) (1)
Jesus: His Life from the Perspectives of Mary and Caiaphas (Pt. 2) (2019) (1)
Aspects of Interfluentiality Between John and the Synoptics: John 18-19 as a Case Study (2007) (1)
Foreword to the 2007 Edition in Cadbury’s "The Peril of Modernizing Jesus" (2007) (1)
Jesus Matters: A Response to Professors Borg, Powell and Kinkel (2002) (1)
Ethiopian Lives Matter -- The Social Conscience of The Saint John's Bible III (2016) (1)
An Apology for Authentic Spirituality (2010) (1)
A People of Vision (1994) (1)
Review of Jesus (2002) (1)
The World As Influenced by Quaker Convictions (1995) (0)
Dunn's "The Theology of Paul the Apostle" - Book Review (1999) (0)
Jesus: His Life from the Perspectives of Mary Magdalene and the Apostle Peter (Pt.4) (2019) (0)
Antidocetic Christology in the Gospel of John: An Investigation of the Place of the Fourth Gospel in the Johannine School -- Book Review (1995) (0)
John and Qumran: Discovery and Interpretation over Sixty Years (2008) (0)
Aspects of Historicity in John 5-12: A Response (from John, Jesus and History, vol. 2) (2009) (0)
Quaker Worship from "The New Westminster Dictionary of Liturgy & Worship" (2002) (0)
Is "Nontheist Quakerism" a Contradiction of Terms? (2012) (0)
The Rock of the Church (Day Four of "Seven Days with Pope Francis and the St. John's Bible") (2015) (0)
The Mission of the Christ-Centered Quaker College (2009) (0)
On Spirituality... and Human Sexuality (1992) (0)
On Finding Jesus: A Review of the CNN Episodes (2016) (0)
Voyages with John: Charting the Fourth Gospel – By Robert Kysar (2007) (0)
Quakers and Science- Myths, Realities and the Science- Religion Dialogue (2003) (0)
Embracing the Silence (1991) (0)
A Theology of Friendship (1982) (0)
"Continuing Revelation—Gospel or Heresy?” in Good and Evil: Quaker Perspectives (2007) (0)
Lewis' "The Gospel According to John and the Johannine Letters" - Book Review (2006) (0)
Christmas Lights... and the Light of Christmas (1990) (0)
I Didn't Know Jesus Was Lost (2015) (0)
Contributors -- Quaker Religious Thought, nos. 106-107 (2006) (0)
Carter's "John: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist" - Book Review (2007) (0)
Peter and the Beloved Disciple: Figures for a Community in Crisis -- Book Review (1991) (0)
The Scandal of the Flesh-Becoming Word (1996) (0)
“Cadbury, Henry J" in Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus (2008) (0)
Contributors -- Quaker Religious Thought, no. 113 (2008) (0)
Finding John the Baptist (And Jesus too) (2015) (0)
Anything Against Anyone (1994) (0)
On Turning the World Around... At the Turning of the Age (1991) (0)
Truth and Liberation 1 (2016) (0)
Foreword to "Jesus: What Manner of Man" by Henry J. Cadbury (2008) (0)
From Mainz to Marburg: A Dialectical Engagement with the Master of Diachronicity (2010) (0)
The Great Commission in Quadriphonic Sound (1992) (0)
Will Son of God Change the World (2014) (0)
Honest to John! A Response to the Reviews of The Fourth Gospel and the Quest for Jesus (2008) (0)
A Tribute: Remembering Arthur O. Roberts (2017) (0)
Judas -- Traitor or Hero? (2015) (0)
The Search for Ultimate Reality: Intertextuality between the Genesis and Johannine Prologues – By Dan Lioy (2007) (0)
The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple: A Work in Two Editions – By Herman C. Waetjen (2007) (0)
A Response from the Editor (2002) (0)
Foreword to Henry Cadbury’s "The Making of Luke-Acts" (1999) (0)
John, Jesus, and History, Volume 2 (2009) (0)
Compassionate Concern—Seeing Truth in the Face of the Other (2016) (0)
Early Quakers and their Theological Thought, 1647-1723 (2017) (0)
Title Page and Table of Contents of Truth's Bright Embrace (1996) (0)
In Memory of Wilmar Cooper, 1920-2008 (2008) (0)
Primitive Christianity Revived—The Original Quaker Vision (2018) (0)
Contributors -- Quaker Religious Thought, nos. 89 (1997) (0)
Illuminating the Social Conscience of the Bible's Challenge to Forgive (2015) (0)
Seven Days with Pope Francis and The Saint John’s Bible (2015) (0)
Lioy's "The Search for Ultimate Reality: Intertextuality between the Genesis and Johannine Prologues" - Book Review (2007) (0)
Quaker Theological Discussion Group, 1990-2008 (2008) (0)
Jesus: His Life—Perspectives of Joseph and John the Baptist (Pt. 1) (2019) (0)
In Person and In Print: Engaging in Theological Discussion as Friends (2009) (0)
Wahlde's "The Gospel and Letters of John" - Book Review (2013) (0)
Books Received but not Reviewed in this Issue (2007) (0)
National Geographic’s "Jesus the Man"—A Review (2010) (0)
"Truth, Power, and Christ" (2007) (0)
From Ichabod to Ebenezer (1993) (0)
Testimonies of Truth: What Have Quakers Believed through 350 Years? (2016) (0)
The Relation between Content and Experience In George Fox's Theology of Encounter (1996) (0)
Donahue's "Life in Abundance: Studies in John’s Gospel in Tribute to Raymond E. Brown" - Book Review (2006) (0)
A Resource for Worship (1980) (0)
On Gems and Ashes (1984) (0)
Discernment-Oriented Leadership in the Johannine Situation—Abiding in the Truth versus Lesser Alternatives (Chapter in Rethinking the Ethics of John: Implicit Ethics in the Johannine Writings) (2012) (0)
On Bone Boxes and the Brother of Jesus (2015) (0)
Anatomies of the Gospels and Beyond: Essays in Honor of R. Alan Culpepper (2018) (0)
On Truth & Recognition (2019) (0)
Probing Questions for a Forward-Looking People (1987) (0)
Paul, the Philippians, and Rational-Emotive Behavioural Therapy: A Cognitive-Critical Biblical Analysis (2021) (0)
When Tempted by Sanity... (1992) (0)
Will Noah Sink or Swim? The Buoyancy of the Latest Bible Film (2014) (0)
On Vias Negativa and Positiva in John’s Dialectical Theology—Apophatic and Kataphatic Thrusts in Philo and Within the Johannine Tradition (2020) (0)
"Christian Unity Under the Lordship of Jesus Christ: A New Vision of Catholicity?" (2006) (0)
An Incarnational Sacramentalogy (2007) (0)
The Light of Christ Leads Followers in the Process of Individual and Corporate Discernment (2008) (0)
The Social Conscience of the Saint John's Bible II -- On Syrian Refugees and the Reversals of Christmas (2015) (0)
Authentic Worship — Glimpsing the Truth of God (2016) (0)
Thompson's "The God of the Gospel of John" - Book Review (2003) (0)
Foreword to The Itinerary of The Prophet-King (2017) (0)
God's Promises to Abraham ... and the World (Day Two of "Seven Days with Pope Francis and the St. John's Bible") (2015) (0)
On Worshiping in Spirit and in Truth (1991) (0)
Encounter, Dissonance, and Reflection in the Dialectical Development of Paul’s Theology (2018) (0)
The Trial of Pilate - A Touchstone to the Death of Jesus (2017) (0)
Review--Quaker Religious Thought, no. 81 (1993) (0)
Why the Gospel of John is Fundamental to Jesus Research (2019) (0)
Reflections on the George Fox Commemorative Conference (1991) (0)
The Lord's Prayer as a Transformative Pattern (2018) (0)
The Outpouring of the Spirit (Day Seven of "Seven Days with Pope Francis and the St. John's Bible") (2015) (0)
Highlights of QRT #S 95-111 (2000-2008) (2008) (0)
Foreword in George Fox's 'Book of Miracles' (2000) (0)
Forty Years of Celebration of Discipline: An Interview with Richard Foster (2018) (0)
Harstine's "Moses as a Character in the Fourth Gospel: A Study of Ancient Reading Techniques" - Book Review (2005) (0)
Mentors Model Leadership, Train Disciples, and Transmit Love (1998) (0)
Hitting Evil From All Sides (1993) (0)
The Formative Spirituality of John Punshon (1935–2017) (2017) (0)
The Feeding of the Multitudes (Day Five of "Seven Days with Pope Francis and the St. John's Bible") (2015) (0)
Contributors -- Quaker Religious Thought, nos. 99-100 (2003) (0)
Foreword to Henry Cadbury’s "The Book of Acts in History" (2004) (0)
On the Healing and Re-deeming Power of Jesus Christ (1992) (0)
Commandments of Love (Day Three of "Seven Days with Pope Francis and The St. John's Bible") (2015) (0)
A Concern for a World Gathering of Young Friends (1984) (0)
Truth and Liberation 1.2: A Part of My Story (2016) (0)
On Christmas... and the Character of Sacramentality (1992) (0)
A Member of the Crew (1993) (0)
The Fulfilled Word in the Gospel of John: A Polyvalent Analysis (2020) (0)
Cassidy's "John's Gospel in New Perspective: Christology and the Realities of Roman Power" - Book Review (1994) (0)
A WAY FORWARD IN THE Sc 1 ENTIF 1 c INVESTIGATION OF GOSPEL TRADITIONS : COGNITIVE-CRITICAL ANALYSIS (2015) (0)
John’s Relationship with Mark: An Analysis of John 6 in the Light of Mark 6 and 8 – By Ian D. Mackay (2007) (0)
On the Sovereignty of Nations... and the Kingdom of God (1991) (0)
On Finding Jesus ... and Divorcing Mary Magdalene (2015) (0)
A Tribute: Remembering John Punshon (1935-2017) (2017) (0)
Quakers As Radical Christians -- Maurice Creasey's Theological Assessment of Essential Quakerism (2013) (0)
Front Matter -- Quaker Religious Thought, no. 89 (1997) (0)
Spotlight: The Spirituality of Jesus as a Calling, Part II (2017) (0)
Dandelion's "The Liturgies of Quakerism" - Book Review (2006) (0)
An Interview with a Working Mom (1991) (0)
Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment (2008) (0)
Preface and "Thank You, Arthur!" (1996) (0)
John Punshon (1954) Obituary (2016) (0)
Foreword to A Place to Stand (2014) (0)
"For this I was Born..." Jesus (1992) (0)
Response to Four Reviews of The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel (2011) (0)
Mark, John, and Answerability: Interfluentiality and Dialectic between the Second and Fourth Gospels (2013) (0)
Jesus in Johannine Perspective: Inviting A Fourth Quest for Jesus (2021) (0)
Queries on Radical Stewardship (1993) (0)
Foreword to The Testament of Jesus, A Study of the Gospel of John in the Light of Chapter 17 (2017) (0)
Webster's "Ingesting Jesus: Eating and Drinking in the Gospel of John" - Book Review (2005) (0)
One Response after Another (2006) (0)
Seven Days of Illumination—The Mission of Pope Francis and The Saint John’s Bible (2015) (0)
The Quest for the True Cross of Jesus (2015) (0)
A Way Forward in the Scientific Investigation of Gospel Traditions: Cognitive-Critical Analysis (2004) (0)
Introduction to Part 2: Aspects of Historicity in John 5-12 in John, Jesus and History, Volume 2 (2009) (0)
Truth and Liberation 1.2: But, How Do We Proceed? (2016) (0)
Truth and Liberation 2: Personal Transformation (2016) (0)
“A Few Bones to Pick: Peter and His Significance”—A Fifth Review of CNN’s “Finding Jesus 2” Series (2017) (0)
Matthew 25:1-13 Exegetical Perspective (2013) (0)
A God Who Laughs... And Weeps (1993) (0)
On the Virgin Mary, Inclusive Ministry, ... and Christmas (1991) (0)
Revelation 17:1–14 (2009) (0)
On Biblical Forgeries and Imagined Communities—A Critical Analysis of Recent Criticism (2020) (0)
Kysar's "Voyages with John: Charting the Fourth Gospel" - Book Review (2007) (0)
Waetjen's "The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple: A Work in Two Editions" - Book Review (2007) (0)
Front Matter -- Quaker Religious Thought, no. 99-100 (2003) (0)
On Crossing Oceans and Mud Puddles (1990) (0)
Contributions of this Volume and the De-Johannification of Jesus (Chapter in John, Jesus, and History, Volume 3) (2016) (0)
Keener's "The Gospel of John: A Commentary (2 Volume Set)" - Book Review (2006) (0)
Gospel of Life: Theology in the Fourth Gospel -- Book Review (1993) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
On Changing the Letters... in the Quaker Alphabet Soup (1990) (0)
Second John and Women (2016) (0)
Confessions Within a Guilt-Denying Society (1985) (0)
Open Worship as Corporate Altar (1991) (0)
Is "Nontheist Quakerism (2012) (0)
The Social Conscience of the Saint John's Bible I -- the Invitation to Forgive, Today and Always (2015) (0)
John: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist – By Warren Carter (2007) (0)
Addressing the Johannine Riddles—A New Introduction to John (2011) (0)
Review of Quakering Theology by David L. Johns (2015) (0)
lnterfluential, Formative, and Dialectical - A Theory of John's Relation to the Synoptics (2002) (0)
John: The Mundane Gospel and its Archaeology-Related Features (2018) (0)
Comments on Lauren King's Essay (1995) (0)
Mackay's "John’s Relationship with Mark: An Analysis of John 6 in the Light of Mark 6 and 8" - Book Review (2007) (0)
Transvaluation: the Way of the Kingdom (1981) (0)
Review of The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies (2014) (0)
Matthew 25:14-30 Exegetical Perspective (2013) (0)
Response to the Reviews of Following Jesus (2014) (0)
On Asking Better Questions... and Finding Better Answers (1992) (0)
Antichristic Errors: Flawed Interpretations Regarding the Johannine Antichrist (2007) (0)
The Present Christ (1982) (0)
Moloney's "The Gospel of John: Text and Context" (2006) (0)
Christ, The Center (1982) (0)
Roberts' "Exploring Heaven and Prayers at Sunset" - Book Review (2003) (0)
Matthew 25:31-46 Exegetical Perspective (2013) (0)
Jesus: His Life from the Perspectives of Judas and Pilate (Pt. 3) (2019) (0)
Contributors -- Quaker Religious Thought, nos. 105 (2000) (0)
Alternatives to Violence—Leadership and Truth (2016) (0)