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Paul Anderson has been teaching in the School of Theology since January 1989. A student of D. Elton Trueblood in seminary, Anderson became fascinated with the Gospel of John, and in addressing the tensions in John’s Christology in his doctoral work, found himself applying cognitive-critical analysis to the history and development of Gospel traditions. That provided an interdisciplinary approach to some of the Johannine riddles that have 

Professor Anderson was a founding member of the John, Jesus, and History Project (SBL since 2002) and has coedited four of its volumes: Vol. 1, Critical Appraisals of Critical Views (), Vol. 2, Aspects of Historicity in the Fourth Gospel (), Vol. 3, Glimpses of Jesus through the Johannine Lens (), and Communities in Dispute (.

His own book on the subject, , argues for a more nuanced view, arguing also a new paradigm for understanding John’s composition, relations to other traditions, and likely contributions to the quest for Jesus. His approach to John's "dialogical autonomy" builds upon his new paradigm for seeing John as an independent Jesus tradition, alongside the others (“").

Anderson's new contextual introduction to the New Testament () builds bridges between original contexts of biblical writings and today's contexts, and his book on  poses a dynamic view of radical discipleship.

The author of more than 200 published essays, he is editor of three book series: Biblical Interpretation (), the Johannine Monograph Series, and Quakers and the Disciplines ().

In addition to teaching at Â鶹´«Ã½ Fox, Anderson has served as a visiting associate professor at Yale Divinity School, a visiting scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary, a DAAD professor at the University of Mainz, and a Fulbright Specialist at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. He also serves as extraordinary professor of religion at North-West University of Potchefstroom, South Africa. 

Academic Background

PhD, Glasgow University
MDiv, Earlham School of Religion
Graduate studies, Trinity Lutheran Seminary and Portland State University
BA, Malone University