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Professor at Willamette University Scholar of the Jesus Seminar |
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The Gospel of Thomas and Jesus The God of Jesus: The Historical Jesus and the Search for Meaning Beyond the Passion: Rethinking the Death and Life of Jesus The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Origins: Essays on the Fifth Gospel The Lost Way: How Two Forgotten Gospels are Rewriting the Story of Christian Origins The Forgotten Creed: Christianity’s Original Struggle against Bigotry, Slavery, and Sexism |
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Early Christianity Historical Jesus Gnostic texts |
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The Grawemeyer Award in Religion, 2020/2021 Fulbright Fellowship, Karls-Ruprecht Universität Heidelberg, 1986-87 |
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Stephen J. Patterson (b. 1957) is an American scholar of the New Testament, early Christian apocrypha, and the origins of Christianity.[1] He is best known for his scholarship on the Gospel of Thomas and the historical Jesus.[2] From 1988- 2010 he was professor of New Testament at Eden Seminary in St. Louis.[3] Since 2010 he has been the George H. Atkinson Professor of Religious Studies at Willamette University in Oregon.[4] Patterson was a prominent member of the Jesus Seminar and chaired the Jesus Seminar on Christian Origins in its early phase.[5] His views on the history of Jesus and Christian origins are largely revisionist.[6][7] Patterson has authored several books, the best known of which is The God of Jesus (1998), which explores the meaning of the historical figure of Jesus for modern life. His 2018 book, The Forgotten Creed,[8] won the 2021 Grawemeyer Award in Religion.[9]
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edit- Patterson, Stephen J. (1993). The Gospel of Thomas and Jesus. Sonoma: Polebridge. ISBN 978-0944344323
- ----- (1998). The God of Jesus: The Historical Jesus and the Search for Meaning. Philadelphia: Trinity. ISBN 978-1563382284
- ----- (2004). Beyond the Passion: Rethinking the Death and Life of Jesus. Minneapolis: Fortress.
ISBN 978-0800660918
- ----- (2013). The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Origins: Essays on the Fifth Gospel. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 84. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-9004250840
- ----- (2014). The Lost Way: How Two Forgotten Gospels are Rewriting the Story of Christian Origins. San Francisco: HarperOne. ISBN 978-0062330482
- ----- (2018). The Forgotten Creed: Christianity’s Original Struggle against Bigotry, Slavery, and Sexism. Oxford and New York: Oxford. ISBN 978-0190865825
- -----; Meyer, Marvin; Kloppenborg, John; and Steinhauser, Michael (1990). A Q-Thomas Reader. Sonoma: Polebridge. ISBN 978-0944344118
- -----; Borg, Marcus; Crossan, John Dominic; and Shanks, Herschel (1994). The Search for Jesus: Modern Scholarship Looks at the Gospels. Smithsonian Seminars. Washington, D. C.: Biblical Archaeology Society. ISBN 978- 1880317143
- -----; Robinson, James M.; and Bethge, Hans-Gebhard (1998). The Fifth Gospel. Philadelphia: Trinity; revised: (2011) London: T. & T. Clark. ISBN 978-0567549068
- -----; Allison, Dale C.; Borg, Marcus J.; Crossan, John D.; and Miller, Robert J. (2001). The Apocalyptic Jesus: A Debate. Santa Rosa: Polebridge. ISBN 978- 0944344897
References
edit- ^ "CAS: Religious Studies: Faculty & Staff - Stephen Patterson". willamette.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
- ^ "Stephen J. Patterson: Jesus the Wisdom Sage". www.earlychristianwritings.com. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
- ^ "CAS: Religious Studies: Faculty & Staff - Stephen Patterson". willamette.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
- ^ "CAS: Religious Studies: Faculty & Staff - Stephen Patterson". willamette.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
- ^ "Westar Institute | Stephen Patterson". www.westarinstitute.org. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
- ^ "Stephen J. Patterson: Jesus the Wisdom Sage". www.earlychristianwritings.com. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
- ^ Cooperman, Jeannette (March 26, 2004). "Going beyond the kiddie version of God". National Catholic Reporter.
- ^ Patterson, Stephen J. (2018-10-01). "The Early Christians Were Focused on Solidarity Across Race, Class and Gender. Then Things Changed". TIME. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
- ^ "Religion – Grawemeyer Awards". 2023-12-13. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
Further Reading
edit"Gentle Heretic" in St. Louis Magazine (August, 2004) by Jeanette Batz Cooperman.