Loren L. Johns

Loren

Associate Professor of New Testament

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

Email: 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 academics and his administration. 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, and popular 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 Bible 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

  • Even the Demons Submit: Continuing Jesus' Ministry of Deliverance, ed. Loren L. Johns and James R. Krabill. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 2006.
  • Dead Sea Scrolls: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts with English Translations. Volume 3: Damascus Document Fragments, the Torah, and Related Documents, ed. James H. Charlesworth, with Henry W.M. Rietz, along with J. M. Baumgarten, C. Claussen, D. A. Hume, J. B. F. Miller, L. Novakovic, S. Pfann, E. Qimron, and L. L. Johns. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006.
  • Forthcoming articles: "Homosexuality and the Mennonite Church"; "Identity and Resistance: The Varieties of Competing Models in Early Judaism"; and "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Apocalypse of John"; forthcoming edited book: Deliver Us from Evil: Stories of God's People Confronting the Spirit World
  • "Conceiving Violence: The Apocalypse of John and the Left Behind Series," in Direction: A Mennonite Brethren Forum 34/2 (Fall 2005): 194-214
  • "Christian Zionism and Biblical Interpretation," in Peace Office Newsletter [Mennonite Central Committee] 35/3 (July-September 2005): 7-10
  • "Introduction" and "Ordination in the King James Version of the Bible" in The Heart of the Matter: Pastoral Ministry in Anabaptist Perspective
     (Cascadia, 2004)
  • "Ordination and Pastoral Leadership: A Response to John E. Toews," in Conrad Grebel Review 22/1 (Winter 2004): 26-39.
  • "Leaning Toward Consummation: Mission and Peace in the Rhetoric of Revelation" in Beautiful upon the Mountains: Biblical Essays on Mission, Peace, and the Reign of God
     (Institute of Mennonite Studies, 2004)
  • The Lamb Christology of the Apocalypse of John: An investigation into its origins and rhetorical force (Tubingen: 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