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Paul N. Anderson

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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 Works

  • PERIPHERAL NERVE REGENERATION THROUGH GRAFTS OF LIVING AND FREEZE‐DRIED CNS TISSUE (1986) (22)
  • 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)
  • From One Dialogue to Another: Johannine Polyvalence from Origins to Receptions (2008) (7)
  • Gradations of Symbolization in the Johannine Passion Narrative: Control Measures for Theologizing Speculation Gone Awry (2006) (7)
  • Riddles of the Fourth Gospel (2011) (6)
  • Genocide or Jesus: A God of Conquest or Pacifism? (2003) (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)
  • A Theology of Presence (1993) (4)
  • The Gospel According to Mark -- Chapter 3 of "From Crisis to Christ: A Contextual Introduction to the New Testament" (2014) (4)
  • Jesus and Peace (1994) (4)
  • Federalism as a Tool of Conflict Resolution (2017) (4)
  • John and Mark: The Bi-Optic Gospels (2001) (3)
  • Acts 4:19-20—An Overlooked First-Century Clue to Johannine Authorship and Luke’s Dependence upon the Johannine Tradition (2010) (3)
  • On Jesus: Quests for Historicity, and the History of Recent Quests (2000) (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)
  • Aspects of Historicity in the Gospel of John: Implications for Investigations of Jesus and Archaeology (2006) (3)
  • Anti-Semitism and Religious Violence as Flawed Interpretations of the Gospel of John (2017) (3)
  • The Christology of the Fourth Gospel (2010) (3)
  • Why the silence? (1996) (3)
  • 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)
  • On “Seamless Robes” and “Leftover Fragments”—A Theory of Johannine Composition (2016) (2)
  • Foreword to John's Gospel in New Perspective (2015) (2)
  • The Jesus of History, the Christ of Faith, and the Gospel of John (2013) (2)
  • Observations on God's agent and agency in John 5-9. Tradition, exposition, and glimpses into history (2016) (2)
  • Moving the Conversation Forward: Open Questions and New Directions (Chapter in Communities in Dispute : Current Scholarship on the Johannine Epistles) (2014) (2)
  • The Johannine Logos-Hymn: A Cross-Cultural Celebration of God’s Creative-Redemptive Work (2016) (2)
  • Was the Fourth Evangelist a Quaker (1991) (2)
  • John Bellers (1654–1725): ‘A Veritable Phenomenon in the History of Political Economy’ (2019) (1)
  • The Johannine Community (2015) (1)
  • Antichristic Crises: Proselytization Back into Jewish Religious Certainty--The Threat of Schismatic Abandonment (2007) (1)
  • The Spiritual Formation of Young John Woolman (2003) (1)
  • The Journey that Changed the World (2014) (1)
  • Foreword to the 2007 Edition in Cadbury’s "The Peril of Modernizing Jesus" (2007) (1)
  • A People of Vision (1994) (1)
  • On Following Jesus (1994) (1)
  • Jesus Matters: A Response to Professors Borg, Powell and Kinkel (2002) (1)
  • Philip: A Connective Figure in Polyvalent Perspective (Chapter in Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel) (2013) (1)
  • The Community That Raymond Brown Left Behind: Reflections on the Johannine Dialectical Situation (2013) (1)
  • Capps' "Jesus: A Psychological Biography" - Book Review (2002) (1)
  • Identity and Congruence: The Ethics of Integrity in the Johannine Epistles (Chapter in Biblical Ethics and Application) (2017) (1)
  • The Present Leadership of the Resurrected Lord (1990) (1)
  • Aspects of Interfluentiality Between John and the Synoptics: John 18-19 as a Case Study (2007) (1)
  • Second Criticality— An Interdisciplinary Approach to the New Testament and its Contexts (2015) (1)
  • Continuing Revelation – Gospel or Heresy? (2016) (1)
  • The John, Jesus, and History Project—New Glimpses of Jesus and a Bi-Optic Hypothesis (2010) (1)
  • A Fourth Quest for Jesus: So What, and How So? (2010) (1)
  • Jesus: His Life from the Perspectives of Mary and Caiaphas (Pt. 2) (2019) (1)
  • Review of Jesus (2002) (1)
  • Front Matter -- Quaker Religious Thought, nos. 116-117 (2006) (1)
  • Foreword to A Catechism and Confession of Faith (2001) (1)
  • The "Fires" of Southern California (1981) (1)
  • Jesus and Transformation (2004) (1)
  • An Apology for Authentic Spirituality (2010) (1)
  • Ethiopian Lives Matter -- The Social Conscience of The Saint John's Bible III (2016) (1)
  • Encounter, Dissonance, and Reflection in the Dialectical Development of Paul’s Theology (2018) (0)
  • On Asking Better Questions... and Finding Better Answers (1992) (0)
  • Is "Nontheist Quakerism (2012) (0)
  • Antichristic Errors: Flawed Interpretations Regarding the Johannine Antichrist (2007) (0)
  • Primitive Christianity Revived—The Original Quaker Vision (2018) (0)
  • Quakers and Science- Myths, Realities and the Science- Religion Dialogue (2003) (0)
  • Authentic Worship — Glimpsing the Truth of God (2016) (0)
  • Why the Gospel of John is Fundamental to Jesus Research (2019) (0)
  • Preface and "Thank You, Arthur!" (1996) (0)
  • Foreword to A Place to Stand (2014) (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)
  • Dunn's "The Theology of Paul the Apostle" - Book Review (1999) (0)
  • On the Healing and Re-deeming Power of Jesus Christ (1992) (0)
  • On Turning the World Around... At the Turning of the Age (1991) (0)
  • The Relation between Content and Experience In George Fox's Theology of Encounter (1996) (0)
  • Matthew 25:1-13 Exegetical Perspective (2013) (0)
  • Mark, John, and Answerability: Interfluentiality and Dialectic between the Second and Fourth Gospels (2013) (0)
  • Seven Days of Illumination—The Mission of Pope Francis and The Saint John’s Bible (2015) (0)
  • On the Sovereignty of Nations... and the Kingdom of God (1991) (0)
  • Jesus: His Life from the Perspectives of Mary Magdalene and the Apostle Peter (Pt.4) (2019) (0)
  • Testimonies of Truth: What Have Quakers Believed through 350 Years? (2016) (0)
  • Front Matter -- Quaker Religious Thought, no. 99-100 (2003) (0)
  • Jesus: His Life from the Perspectives of Judas and Pilate (Pt. 3) (2019) (0)
  • John and Qumran: Discovery and Interpretation over Sixty Years (2008) (0)
  • In Memory of Wilmar Cooper, 1920-2008 (2008) (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)
  • On Truth & Recognition (2019) (0)
  • Aspects of Historicity in John 5-12: A Response (from John, Jesus and History, vol. 2) (2009) (0)
  • Truth and Liberation 1 (2016) (0)
  • Compassionate Concern—Seeing Truth in the Face of the Other (2016) (0)
  • Second John and Women (2016) (0)
  • Christ, The Center (1982) (0)
  • Comments on Lauren King's Essay (1995) (0)
  • Seven Days with Pope Francis and The Saint John’s Bible (2015) (0)
  • Webster's "Ingesting Jesus: Eating and Drinking in the Gospel of John" - Book Review (2005) (0)
  • Quaker Worship from "The New Westminster Dictionary of Liturgy & Worship" (2002) (0)
  • Contributors -- Quaker Religious Thought, nos. 89 (1997) (0)
  • Alternatives to Violence—Leadership and Truth (2016) (0)
  • Roberts' "Exploring Heaven and Prayers at Sunset" - Book Review (2003) (0)
  • Wahlde's "The Gospel and Letters of John" - Book Review (2013) (0)
  • Gospel of Life: Theology in the Fourth Gospel -- Book Review (1993) (0)
  • Spotlight: The Spirituality of Jesus as a Calling, Part II (2017) (0)
  • Hitting Evil From All Sides (1993) (0)
  • Truth and Liberation 1.2: A Part of My Story (2016) (0)
  • Matthew 25:31-46 Exegetical Perspective (2013) (0)
  • Highlights of QRT #S 95-111 (2000-2008) (2008) (0)
  • Mentors Model Leadership, Train Disciples, and Transmit Love (1998) (0)
  • On Gems and Ashes (1984) (0)
  • John, Jesus, and History, Volume 2 (2009) (0)
  • John: The Mundane Gospel and its Archaeology-Related Features (2018) (0)
  • The Scandal of the Flesh-Becoming Word (1996) (0)
  • National Geographic’s "Jesus the Man"—A Review (2010) (0)
  • Cassidy's "John's Gospel in New Perspective: Christology and the Realities of Roman Power" - Book Review (1994) (0)
  • Thompson's "The God of the Gospel of John" - Book Review (2003) (0)
  • Introduction (2018) (0)
  • Christmas Lights... and the Light of Christmas (1990) (0)
  • Confessions Within a Guilt-Denying Society (1985) (0)
  • Foreword to Henry Cadbury’s "The Book of Acts in History" (2004) (0)
  • Open Worship as Corporate Altar (1991) (0)
  • Is "Nontheist Quakerism" a Contradiction of Terms? (2012) (0)
  • The Trial of Pilate - A Touchstone to the Death of Jesus (2017) (0)
  • Contributors -- Quaker Religious Thought, no. 113 (2008) (0)
  • Contributors -- Quaker Religious Thought, nos. 105 (2000) (0)
  • Foreword to The Itinerary of The Prophet-King (2017) (0)
  • Title Page and Table of Contents of Truth's Bright Embrace (1996) (0)
  • A Way Forward in the Scientific Investigation of Gospel Traditions: Cognitive-Critical Analysis (2004) (0)
  • On Crossing Oceans and Mud Puddles (1990) (0)
  • On Bone Boxes and the Brother of Jesus (2015) (0)
  • On Vias Negativa and Positiva in John’s Dialectical Theology—Apophatic and Kataphatic Thrusts in Philo and Within the Johannine Tradition (2020) (0)
  • A Tribute: Remembering John Punshon (1935-2017) (2017) (0)
  • Dandelion's "The Liturgies of Quakerism" - Book Review (2006) (0)
  • "Continuing Revelation—Gospel or Heresy?” in Good and Evil: Quaker Perspectives (2007) (0)
  • Response to the Reviews of Following Jesus (2014) (0)
  • The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple: A Work in Two Editions – By Herman C. Waetjen (2007) (0)
  • The Mission of the Christ-Centered Quaker College (2009) (0)
  • Response to Four Reviews of The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel (2011) (0)
  • Review of The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies (2014) (0)
  • Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment (2008) (0)
  • On Worshiping in Spirit and in Truth (1991) (0)
  • Foreword to The Testament of Jesus, A Study of the Gospel of John in the Light of Chapter 17 (2017) (0)
  • From Ichabod to Ebenezer (1993) (0)
  • Introduction to Part 2: Aspects of Historicity in John 5-12 in John, Jesus and History, Volume 2 (2009) (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)
  • Truth and Liberation 1.2: But, How Do We Proceed? (2016) (0)
  • Quaker Theological Discussion Group, 1990-2008 (2008) (0)
  • A God Who Laughs... And Weeps (1993) (0)
  • Kysar's "Voyages with John: Charting the Fourth Gospel" - Book Review (2007) (0)
  • The Search for Ultimate Reality: Intertextuality between the Genesis and Johannine Prologues – By Dan Lioy (2007) (0)
  • A Tribute: Remembering Arthur O. Roberts (2017) (0)
  • Forty Years of Celebration of Discipline: An Interview with Richard Foster (2018) (0)
  • Finding John the Baptist (And Jesus too) (2015) (0)
  • An Incarnational Sacramentalogy (2007) (0)
  • Review of Quakering Theology by David L. Johns (2015) (0)
  • Revelation 17:1–14 (2009) (0)
  • Review--Quaker Religious Thought, no. 81 (1993) (0)
  • In Person and In Print: Engaging in Theological Discussion as Friends (2009) (0)
  • "For this I was Born..." Jesus (1992) (0)
  • Foreword to Henry Cadbury’s "The Making of Luke-Acts" (1999) (0)
  • The Feeding of the Multitudes (Day Five of "Seven Days with Pope Francis and the St. John's Bible") (2015) (0)
  • I Didn't Know Jesus Was Lost (2015) (0)
  • The Quest for the True Cross of Jesus (2015) (0)
  • Foreword to "Jesus: What Manner of Man" by Henry J. Cadbury (2008) (0)
  • Honest to John! A Response to the Reviews of The Fourth Gospel and the Quest for Jesus (2008) (0)
  • Judas -- Traitor or Hero? (2015) (0)
  • Embracing the Silence (1991) (0)
  • The Social Conscience of the Saint John's Bible I -- the Invitation to Forgive, Today and Always (2015) (0)
  • Foreword in George Fox's 'Book of Miracles' (2000) (0)
  • Commandments of Love (Day Three of "Seven Days with Pope Francis and The St. John's Bible") (2015) (0)
  • A Member of the Crew (1993) (0)
  • Will Noah Sink or Swim? The Buoyancy of the Latest Bible Film (2014) (0)
  • The Formative Spirituality of John Punshon (1935–2017) (2017) (0)
  • Illuminating the Social Conscience of the Bible's Challenge to Forgive (2015) (0)
  • John Punshon (1954) Obituary (2016) (0)
  • Keener's "The Gospel of John: A Commentary (2 Volume Set)" - Book Review (2006) (0)
  • A Response from the Editor (2002) (0)
  • Jesus: His Life—Perspectives of Joseph and John the Baptist (Pt. 1) (2019) (0)
  • Anatomies of the Gospels and Beyond: Essays in Honor of R. Alan Culpepper (2018) (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)
  • Carter's "John: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist" - Book Review (2007) (0)
  • A WAY FORWARD IN THE Sc 1 ENTIF 1 c INVESTIGATION OF GOSPEL TRADITIONS : COGNITIVE-CRITICAL ANALYSIS (2015) (0)
  • Jesus in Johannine Perspective: Inviting A Fourth Quest for Jesus (2021) (0)
  • The Outpouring of the Spirit (Day Seven of "Seven Days with Pope Francis and the St. John's Bible") (2015) (0)
  • "Truth, Power, and Christ" (2007) (0)
  • Reflections on the George Fox Commemorative Conference (1991) (0)
  • The Social Conscience of the Saint John's Bible II -- On Syrian Refugees and the Reversals of Christmas (2015) (0)
  • “Cadbury, Henry J" in Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus (2008) (0)
  • Contributors -- Quaker Religious Thought, nos. 99-100 (2003) (0)
  • Transvaluation: the Way of the Kingdom (1981) (0)
  • John: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist – By Warren Carter (2007) (0)
  • Waetjen's "The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple: A Work in Two Editions" - Book Review (2007) (0)
  • Moloney's "The Gospel of John: Text and Context" (2006) (0)
  • Matthew 25:14-30 Exegetical Perspective (2013) (0)
  • A Theology of Friendship (1982) (0)
  • Contributors -- Quaker Religious Thought, nos. 106-107 (2006) (0)
  • On Spirituality... and Human Sexuality (1992) (0)
  • On Finding Jesus: A Review of the CNN Episodes (2016) (0)
  • Front Matter -- Quaker Religious Thought, no. 89 (1997) (0)
  • An Interview with a Working Mom (1991) (0)
  • Donahue's "Life in Abundance: Studies in John’s Gospel in Tribute to Raymond E. Brown" - Book Review (2006) (0)
  • Early Quakers and their Theological Thought, 1647-1723 (2017) (0)
  • On Biblical Forgeries and Imagined Communities—A Critical Analysis of Recent Criticism (2020) (0)
  • The Fulfilled Word in the Gospel of John: A Polyvalent Analysis (2020) (0)
  • Probing Questions for a Forward-Looking People (1987) (0)
  • Anything Against Anyone (1994) (0)
  • The World As Influenced by Quaker Convictions (1995) (0)
  • Addressing the Johannine Riddles—A New Introduction to John (2011) (0)
  • Lewis' "The Gospel According to John and the Johannine Letters" - Book Review (2006) (0)
  • When Tempted by Sanity... (1992) (0)
  • Voyages with John: Charting the Fourth Gospel – By Robert Kysar (2007) (0)
  • Harstine's "Moses as a Character in the Fourth Gospel: A Study of Ancient Reading Techniques" - Book Review (2005) (0)
  • "Christian Unity Under the Lordship of Jesus Christ: A New Vision of Catholicity?" (2006) (0)
  • The Great Commission in Quadriphonic Sound (1992) (0)
  • On Finding Jesus ... and Divorcing Mary Magdalene (2015) (0)
  • Paul, the Philippians, and Rational-Emotive Behavioural Therapy: A Cognitive-Critical Biblical Analysis (2021) (0)
  • From Mainz to Marburg: A Dialectical Engagement with the Master of Diachronicity (2010) (0)
  • Truth and Liberation 2: Personal Transformation (2016) (0)
  • On the Virgin Mary, Inclusive Ministry, ... and Christmas (1991) (0)
  • The Present Christ (1982) (0)
  • Quakers As Radical Christians -- Maurice Creasey's Theological Assessment of Essential Quakerism (2013) (0)
  • Lioy's "The Search for Ultimate Reality: Intertextuality between the Genesis and Johannine Prologues" - Book Review (2007) (0)
  • Books Received but not Reviewed in this Issue (2007) (0)
  • “A Few Bones to Pick: Peter and His Significance”—A Fifth Review of CNN’s “Finding Jesus 2” Series (2017) (0)
  • On Changing the Letters... in the Quaker Alphabet Soup (1990) (0)
  • Will Son of God Change the World (2014) (0)
  • Queries on Radical Stewardship (1993) (0)
  • Contributions of this Volume and the De-Johannification of Jesus (Chapter in John, Jesus, and History, Volume 3) (2016) (0)
  • lnterfluential, Formative, and Dialectical - A Theory of John's Relation to the Synoptics (2002) (0)
  • A Concern for a World Gathering of Young Friends (1984) (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)
  • The Light of Christ Leads Followers in the Process of Individual and Corporate Discernment (2008) (0)
  • Peter and the Beloved Disciple: Figures for a Community in Crisis -- Book Review (1991) (0)
  • The Rock of the Church (Day Four of "Seven Days with Pope Francis and the St. John's Bible") (2015) (0)
  • On Christmas... and the Character of Sacramentality (1992) (0)
  • One Response after Another (2006) (0)
  • A Resource for Worship (1980) (0)
  • The Lord's Prayer as a Transformative Pattern (2018) (0)

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