Loren L. Johns

Associate Professor of New Testament

• B.A., Goshen College, 1977
• M.Div., Goshen Biblical Seminary, 1984
• Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary, 1998

E-mail: ljohns@ambs.edu
Phone: 574 296-6228
Web site: http://www.ambs.edu/LJohns/
Curriculum Vitae

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Loren Johns serves the AMBS community and the church through his teaching ministry. He has published numerous articles and edited several books. His primary areas of research include New Testament Greek, the letters of Paul, the Johannine Literature, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the development of the biblical canon, and eschatology. Prior to coming to AMBS in 2000, he served as a pastor in Allegheny (Pa.) Mennonite Conference, theology book editor for Herald Press, and a professor of religion at Bluffton (Ohio) University.

"I want to be part of a community that is dedicated to seeking the truth about, proclaiming, and participating in the activity of God in this world through Jesus and the continuing witness of the Spirit. All three of these tasks are essential in the life and work of AMBS and all require the full array of intellectual, spiritual, and relational gifts that God has given us. The heart of the seminary’s calling is to prepare women and men for a life of faithful living, faithful ministry, and faithful inquiry. "

Scholarship

• “Atonement and Sacrifice in the Book of Revelation,” in The Work of Jesus Christ in Anabaptist Perspective (Cascadia, 2008)
• “Identity and Resistance: The Varieties of Competing Models in Early Judaism,” in Qumran Studies: New Approaches, New Questions (Eerdmans, 2007)
• “Homosexuality and the Bible: A Case Study in the Use of the Bible for Ethics,” in DreamSeeker Magazine 6/1 (Winter 2006), reprinted in Stumbling Toward a Genuine Conversation on Homosexuality (Cascadia, 2007)
• Even the Demons Submit: Continuing Jesus’ Ministry of Deliverance (Herald, 2006), co-editor
• Dead Sea Scrolls: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts with English Translations. Volume 3: Damascus Document Fragments, the Torah, and Related Documents (Mohr Siebeck, 2006), co-editor
• “Introduction” and “Ordination in the King James Version of the Bible” in The Heart of the Matter: Pastoral Ministry in Anabaptist Perspective (Cascadia, 2004)
• The Lamb Christology of the Apocalypse of John: An investigation into its origins and rhetorical force (Mohr Siebeck, 2003)
• Apocalypticism and Millennialism: Shaping a Believers Church Eschatology for the Twenty-First Century (Pandora, 2000), contributor and general editor
• Peace and Justice Shall Embrace: Power and Theopolitics in the Bible (Pandora, 2000), co-editor

Speakers Bureau Presentations

• The Gospel of John
• The Book of Revelation
• The Book of Revelation and the Left Behind series
• How we got the Bible: manuscripts, canonization, authority
• How to choose a study Bible: is one better than another?
• How to choose a Bible translation: is one better than another?
• Anabaptist-Mennonite approaches to Biblical interpretation