Brief Biography of

Degrees:

• Doctor of Philosophy, New Testament; Drew University, Madison NJ; May 1993
• Master of Philosophy, New Testament; Drew University, Madison NJ; October 1992
• Doctor of Philosophy, Systematic Theology; Drew University, Madison NJ; May, 1981
• Master of Theological Studies, New Testament; Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton MA; May 1978
• Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy and Religion; History; Montclair State College, Upper Montclair NJ; May 1976

• Society of Biblical Literature
• The Westar Institute (Jesus Seminar; Paul Seminar; Canon Seminar)
• Collegium
• Member, Schleiermacher Colloquium (AAR)
• Editor, The Journal of Higher Criticism
• Historical Consultant, A&E Network "Mysteries of the Bible."

• "A Fundamentalist Social Gospel?," Christian Century, 11/28/79, XCVI # 39
• "Homiletical Hermeneutics in Paul Tillich," Drew Gateway, Fall 79, 50 # 1
• "Author's Response: Wielding the 'Prophetic Ramrod'," Christian Century, 3/5/80 XCVII # 8
• "Punished in Paradise (An Exegetical Theory on 2 Corinthians12:1-10)," Jrnl for the Study of the NT # 7, 1980
• "Devil's Advocates: The New Charismatic Demonology," Agora, Spring 80
• Paradigm-Shifting and the Apologetics Debate," Jrnl of the American Scientific Affiliation, 6/80, 32 # 2
• "The Return of the Navel, The 'Omphalos' Argument in Contemporary Creationism," Creation/Evolution, Fall 80, # 11
• "What's New in Christianity?," Drew Gateway, Fall 80, 51 # 1
• "The Centrality and Scope of Conversion," Jrnl of Psychology and Theology, Spring 81, 9 # 1
• "Charis-Magic: Super-Apostles and the Retreat from Religion to Sorcery," Agora, Spring 81
• "In Defense of the Miraculous: A Clarification," Jrnl of Psychology and Theology, Summer 81, 9 # 2
• "The Personal Savior: Reclaiming the Language of Piety," Reformed Jrnl, 8/81, 31 # 8
• "Counseling for Re-Entry," NICM Jrnl, Fall 81, 6 # 3
• "Numbered Among the Transgressors, The 'Zealot Hypothesis' Reconsidered," Drew Gateway, Fall 81, 51 # 1
• "Niebuhr's Doctrine of Revelation in Contemporary Theology," Themelios 9/81, 7 #1
• "Evangelism as Entertainment," Christian Century, 11/4/81, 98, # 35
• "Some Difficulties in Process Christology," Crux, 12/81, XVII # 4
• "Must We Take a Leap of Faith? (Have We Already?)," American Rationalist, 3-4/82 XXVI # 6
• "Evangelicals and their Separated Brethren," New Conversations, Spr. 82, 6 # 3
• "Old-Time Religion and the New Physics," Creation/Evolution, Summer 82. # IX
• "Risen Indeed? Three Views of the Resurrection," Drew Gateway, Fall 82, 53 #1
• "Neither Gay Nor Straight: Biblical Christianity," Frying Pan, 12/82
• "Scientific Creationism and the Science of Creative Intelligence," Creation/Evolution, Winter 82, # VII
• "Teaching the Bible on a Tightrope: The Secular Classroom," UME Connexion, Spring 83, 11 # 1
• "Inerrant the Wind: The Troubled House of North American Evangelicalism," Evangelical Quarterly, 7/83, LV # 3
• "Masochism and Piety," Jrnl of Religion & Health, Summer 83, 22 # 2
• "An Evangelical Version of the 'Double Covenant': New Possibilities for Jewish-Fundamentalist Dialogue," Jrnl of Ecumenical Studies, Win. 83, 20 #1
• "Evangelism for Young Evangelicals," Religion & Intellectual Life, Fall 84, II #1
• "Creationist and Fundamentalist Apologetics: Two Branches of the Same Tree," Creation/Evolution, Fall 84, # XIV
• "Round Two?," Circuit Rider, 11-12/84, 8 # 10
• "Inerrancy: The New Catholicism?," SBC Today, 8-9/86, 4 # 5
• "Neo-Evangelicals and Scripture, A Forgotten Period of Ferment," Christian Scholar's Review, XV # 4, 1986
• "Born-Again Cults, The Mental Maze of Salvation," American Rationalist, 9-10/86, XXXI # 3
• "Vintage Fundamentalism," Wittenburg Door, 10-11/86
• "Illness Theodicies in the New Testament," Jrnl of Religion & Health, Winter 86
• "The Theological Assumptions of Open-Mindedness," Religious Humanism, Fall 87
• "Half a Loaf: The LARC Study Day on the Eucharist," Cross Current of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina, 11/87
• "Enacted Theology," Cross Current of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina, 2-3/88
• "A Priestly People, Some Basics of Liturgical Theology," Cross Current of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina, 4/88
• "Clark H. Pinnock: Conservative and Contemporary," Evangelical Quarterly, 4/88, LXXXVIII # 2
• "Evangelistic Opportunities Abound," Cross Current of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina, 5-6/88
• "Homosexuality in the Old Testament / Homosexuality in the New Testament," Cross Current of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina, 8/88
• "Major Theological Issues Before the Great War," Mount Olive Review, Spring 88.
• "Is it a Sin to Preach the Gospel?," Voices in the Wilderness, 3-4/89
• "The Sitz-im-Leben of Third John: A New Reconstruction," Evangelical Quarterly, LXI # 2, 4/89
• "The Metaphysics of Murphy's Law," Skeptical Inquirer, 14 # 1, Fall 89
• "Jesus' Burial in a Garden: The Strange Growth of the Tradition," Religious Traditions, 12, 1989
• "Schleiermacher as Historian and Believer," Unitarian Universalist Christian, Fall/Winter 89, 44 # 3-4
• "Suffering Not Witches (Why Evangelical Christians Oppose the Occult)," Christian*New Age Quarterly, 10-12/89
• "The Way, the Truth, and the Life," Christian*New Age Quarterly, 4-6/90
• "Mary Magdalene: Gnostic Apostle?," Grail: An Ecumenical Journal, 6/90, 6 # 2
• "Confirmation and Charisma," Saint Luke's Journal of Theology, 6/90, XXXIII # 3
• "How Much New Age Belief Can Christianity Assimilate?," Christian*New Age Quarterly, 10-12/90
• "Is There a Place for Historical Criticism?" Religious Studies, 27, 1991
• "Corn King Christianity," Christian*New Age Quarterly, 4-6/91
• "Excerpts from the Politically Correct Revised Standard Version," The Door, 9-10/91
• "Intro(se)duction," Introduction to Donald R. Burleson, Begging to Differ: Deconstructionist Readings (Bristol, RI: Hobgoblin Press, 1992)
• "The Christ Myth and the Christian Goddess," Christian*New Age Quarterly, 10-12/92
• "The New PCSV: Excerpts from the Politically Correct Standard Version," On Being, 5/93
• "Fields Unknown: A Thought-Experiment in Extraterrestrial Evangelism," Christian *New Age Quarterly, 7-9/93
• "In the Beginning Was the Deed: A Neo-Girardian Look at the Passion Narrative," Foundations & Facets Forum, Volume 9, # 3-4, 9-12/93
• "The Bible, Corrected," First Things, 1/94, # 39
• "Iron John the Baptist," Christian*New Age Quarterly, 7-9/94
• "Apocryphal Apparitions: 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 as a Post-Pauline Interpolation," Journal of Higher Criticism, Fall 95, 2 # 2
• "Yardstick for Lunatics: One Point of View," The Door 9-10/95
• "From the Religious to the Spiritual," Christian*New Age Quarterly, 7-9/96
• "If You Dislike Christianity, You'll Hate Buddhism!" Christian*New Age Quarterly, 10-12/96
• "If You Dislike Christianity, You'll Hate Buddhism!" Deolog, Vol. III, 12, 11/96.
• "Antichrist Superstar and the Paperback Apocalypse," Deolog, Vol. IV, 1, Jan/Feb 97
• "Protestant Hermeneutical Axiomatics: A Deconstruction," Christian*New Age Quarterly 4-6/97
• "The Postmodernist Challenge to Unitarian Universalist Theology" Religious Humanism (forthcoming)
• "The Perils of Postmodernizing Theology" Religious Humanism (forthcoming)
• "The Evolution of the Pauline Canon," Hervormde Teologiese Studies (forthcoming)
• "Joseph Smith, Inspired Author of the Book of Mormon" in Brent Metcalfe (ed.), The Tradition of Our Fathers. Signature Books, forthcoming in 1998.
• "Apologetics Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry," in Jeffrey J. Lowder (ed.), The Jury Is In, Humanist Press (forthcoming)
• "Saint John's Apothecary: Differance, Textuality, and the Advent of Meaning," in Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches (forthcoming)