Quaker Religious Thought

Volume 98 Article 9

1-1-2002

Contributors -- Quaker Religious Thought, nos. 98

Paul Anderson

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MARTHA PAXSON GRUNDY is a member of Cleveland Meeting, Lake Erie Yearly Meeting; she currently serves the latter as recording clerk. She also serves as clerk of the Traveling Ministries Committee of Friends General Conference. She completed a Ph.D. dissertation (Case Western Reserve Univeristy, 1990) on “‘In the World but not of It’: Quaker Faith and the Dominant Culture, Middletown Meeting, Bucks County, , 1750-1850.” She has pub- lished “The Bethany Mission for Colored People: Friends and a Sunday School Mission” in Quaker History (Spring 2001) and contributes to Friends Journal and other publications. She edited Resistance and Obedience to God: Memoirs of David Ferris (1707-1779) (Friends General Conference, 2001) and wrote Tall Poppies: Supporting Gifts of Ministry and Eldering in the Monthly Meeting (Pendle Hill Pamphlet 347, 1999).

MARCUS BORG is the Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. Nationally and internationally known in academic and religious circles as a biblical and Jesus scholar, he is author of eleven books, including Jesus: A New Vision, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, Jesus in Contemporary Scholarship, The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (along with N. T. Wright), The God We Never Knew, and Reading the Bible Again for the First Time. Marcus has served as a Fellow of the Jesus Seminar and has served as chair of the Historical Jesus Section of the national Society of Biblical Literature. He also currently serves as president of the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars, and his wife is an Anglican priest in Portland, Oregon.

MARK ALLEN POWELL is the Leatherman Professor of New Testament Studies at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. Mark serves as chair of the Historical Jesus Section of the national Society of Biblical Literature, and he has served as a Lutheran pastor over seven years. He is author of fourteen books, including What Are They Saying About Luke?, What Is Narrative Criticism?, God With Us: A Pastoral Theology of Matthew’s Gospel, Mark: God’s Grace in Action, A Fortress Introduction to…The Four Gospels, Jesus as a Figure in 55 56 • CONTRIBUTORS History, and Chasing the Eastern Star: Adventures in Biblical Reader- Response Criticism. He is editor of the Society of Biblical Literature’s New Testament Dissertation Series and is a frequent contributor to Lutheran and other publications.

GARY KINKEL is the Matthew Simpson Professor of Religion at in Indianola, Iowa. His M.Div. is from Moravian Theological Seminary, his Th.M. is from Union Theological Seminary (Richmond, VA), and his Ph.D. is from the University of Iowa, where he specialized on the theological thought of Count Zinzendorf. Gary comes from a Quaker family and served as pastor of Ackworth Friends Meeting from 1995 to 2001, until his sabbatical research took him to Germany. Gary continues to preach occasional- ly at Ackworth Friends and elsewhere, and he is involved in publish- ing his work on the theology of Zinzendorf.