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When Faith Meets Reason
Contributors
Susan M. (Elli) Elliott (Ph.D., Loyola University, Chicago) is an independent scholar living in Red Lodge, Montana. Her first book was Cutting Too Close for Comfort: Paul’s Letter to the Galatians in Its Anatolian Cultic Context (2003). The working title of her current book project is Whose Family Values?—Early Christians Re-Envision the Family, the World, and Everything.
† Robert W. Funk (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) was Director of the Westar Institute and founder of the Jesus Seminar. A Guggenheim Fellow and Senior Fulbright Scholar, his many books and articles include The Five Gospels (1993, with the Jesus Seminar), Honest to Jesus (1996) and A Credible Jesus (2002).
David Galston (Ph.D., McGill University, Montreal) is the former Principal of Iona College, University of Windsor, and a co-founder of Canada’s SnowStar Institute of Religion. In 2001 he left the University to become the Director of the Eternal Spring Learning Centre in Hamilton, Ontario, where he teaches theology and is Minister to a historical Jesus church community.
Charles W. Hedrick (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University) is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University. His books include When History and Faith Collide (1999) and Many Things in Parables: Jesus and His Modern Critics (2004).
Glenna S. Jackson (Ph.D., Marquette University) is Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Otterbein College. Her publications include “Have Mercy On Me”: The Story of the Canaanite Woman in Matthew 15:21–28 (2002) and many articles on women in the first century as well as African parable parallels.
Paul Alan Laughlin (Ph.D., Emory University) is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Otterbein College in Ohio. His books include Remedial Christianity: What Every Believer Should Know about the Faith, but Probably Doesn’t (2000) and Getting Oriented: What Every Christian Should Know about Eastern Religions, but Probably Doesn’t (2005).
Nigel Leaves (Ph.D., Murdock University, Australia) is Director and Dean of Studies at the John Wollaston Anglican Theological College, Perth, Western Australia. His books include Odyssey on the Sea of Faith: the life and writings of Don Cupitt (2004) and The God Problem: Alternatives to Fundamentalism (2006).
Darren J. N. Middleton (Ph.D., University of Glasgow, Scotland) is Associate Professor of Literature and Theology at Texas Christian University. He has published five books. And his sixth, Theology after Reading: Christian Imagination and the Power of Fiction, will be released in 2008.
Robert M. Price (Ph.D., Drew University) is Professor of Theology and Scriptural Studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary and the author of The Widow Traditions in Luke-Acts (1997) and The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man (2004).
James M. Robinson (D.Th., University of Basel, Switzerland, and Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary) is Professor of Religion Emeritus, Claremont Graduate University, and Director Emeritus, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity. Author of The Gospel of Jesus (2006) and The Secrets of Judas (2006).
Mahlon H. Smith (M.S.L., Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto) is Professor Emeritus of Religion and former Chair of the Department of Religion at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. He co-authored The Gospel of Mark: Red Letter Edition and is editor of Forum.
Hal Taussig (Ph.D., The Union Institute) is Visiting Professor of New Testament at Union Theological Seminary in New York, Professor of Early Christianity at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and co-pastor at Chestnut Hill United Methodist Church. His several books include Jesus Before God (1999) and A New Spiritual Home (2006).
Theodore J. Weeden, Sr. (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University) is a retired minister of the United Methodist Church, and has also taught in various undergraduate and graduate academic institutions. Widely known for his Mark-Traditions in Conflict (1971), he has authored articles on Christian faith and New Testament issues.
Walter Wink (Th.D., Union Theological Seminary, New York) is Professor Emeritus at Auburn Theological Seminary and author of Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination (1992) and The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man (2000).