John Painter (theologian)

{{short description|Australian Christian theologian and New Testament scholar (born 1935)}}

John Painter, {{post-nominals|FAHA|country=AUS}} (born 22 September 1935 in Bellingen, New South Wales) is an Australian academic, New Testament scholar, and Christian theologian specializing in Johannine literature. He is currently Professor of Theology at Charles Sturt University in Canberra.[http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/theology/staff/profiles/academic-staff/john-painter Professor John Painter]

Biography

Painter studied at Moore Theological College, the University of London, and the University of Durham. Before taking up his present position he had previously been Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town and La Trobe University. Painter was one of the translators of the Common English Bible.{{cite web|title=Translators|url=http://www.commonenglishbible.com/Explore/AbouttheCEB/Translators/tabid/207/Default.aspx|access-date=4 April 2013}}

Painter is married to Gillian and has two daughters. In 2001 he was awarded the Centenary Medal for "service to Australian society and the humanities in the study of religion."{{cite web|title=It's an Honour|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1126800|access-date=23 January 2012}} __NOTOC__

Works

=Books=

{{cite book |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |title=John, Witness and Theologian |location=London |publisher=S.P.C.K. |date=1975 |isbn=9780281028801 |oclc=2526112 }}
{{cite book |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |title=Theology as Hermeneutics: Rudolf Bultmann's Interpretation of the History of Jesus |series=Historic texts and interpreters in Biblical scholarship |volume=4 |location=Sheffield |publisher=Almond |date=1987 |isbn=9781850750505 |oclc=14258544 }}
{{cite book |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |title=The Quest for the Messiah: The History, Literature and Theology of the Johannine Community |location=Edinburgh |publisher=T & T Clark |date=1991 |isbn=9780567095923 |oclc=26551401 }}
{{cite book |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |title=Mark's Gospel: worlds in conflict |location=London & New York |publisher=Routledge |date=1997 |isbn=9780203978238 |oclc=252962217 }}
{{cite book |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |title=Just James: The Brother of Jesus in History and Tradition |series=Studies on personalities of the New Testament |location=Columbia, SC |publisher=University of South Carolina Press |date=1997 |isbn=9781570031748 |oclc=37345616 }}
{{cite book |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |title=1, 2, and 3 John |series=Sacra pagina |volume=18 |location=Collegeville, MN |publisher=Liturgical Press |date=2002 |isbn=9780814658123 |oclc=48429186 }}
{{cite book |last1=Painter |first1=John |author-mask=with |last2=DeSilva |first2=David Arthur |date=2012 |title=James and Jude |series=Paideia |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Academic |isbn=978-0-8010-3634-7 |oclc=775419936}}

= Articles =

{{cite journal |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |title=Glimpses of the Johannine Community in the Farewell Discourses |journal=Australian Biblical Review |volume=28 |date=1980 |pages=21–38 }}
{{cite journal |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |title=A Note on the Hermeneutical Theology of Rudolf Bultmann |journal=Australian Biblical Review |volume=29 |date=1981 |pages=26–31 }}
{{cite journal |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |title=The Farewell Discourses and the History of Johannine Christianity |journal=New Testament Studies |volume=27 |issue= 4 |date=1981 |pages=525–543 |doi=10.1017/S0028688500006895 |s2cid=163088557 }}
{{cite journal |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |title=Christology and the Fourth Gospel: A Study of the Prologue |journal=Australian Biblical Review |volume=31 |date=1983 |pages=45–62 }}
{{cite journal |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |date=1985 |title="The Origins of Demythologising" Revisited |journal=Australian Biblical Review |volume=33 |pages=2–14 }} (Discussing {{cite book |last=Johnson |first=Roger A. |title=The Origins of Demythologizing: Philosophy and Historiography in the Theology of Rudolf Bultmann |publisher=Brill |series=Studies in the history of religions |date=1974 |isbn=978-90-04-03903-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZN-mDwAAQBAJ}})
{{cite journal |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |title=John 9 and the Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel |journal=Journal for the Study of the New Testament |volume=9 |date=1986 |issue=28 |pages=31–61 |doi=10.1177/0142064X8600902804 |s2cid=170513116 }}
{{cite journal |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |title=Text and Context in John 5 |journal=Australian Biblical Review |volume=35 |date=1987 |pages=28–34 }}
{{cite journal |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |title=Tradition and Interpretation in John 6 |journal=New Testament Studies |volume=35 |issue= 3 |date=1989 |pages=421–450 |doi=10.1017/S0028688500016866 |s2cid=170892914 }}
{{cite journal |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |title=Theology, Eschatology and the Prologue of John |journal=Scottish Journal of Theology |volume=46 |date=1993 |pages=27– |doi=10.1017/S0036930600038291 |s2cid=170866367 }}
{{cite book |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 | date=2000 |chapter=The Point of John’s Christology: Christology, Conflict and Community in John |pages= 231–252 |doi=10.1163/9789047400417_013 |editor-last1=Horrell |editor-first1=David G. |editor-last2=Tuckett |editor-first2=Christopher M. | title=Christology, controversy, and community: New Testament essays in honour of David R. Catchpole | publisher=Brill | publication-place=Leiden Boston | isbn=978-90-474-0041-7 | oclc=60257065}}
{{cite book |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |date=2001 |chapter=Who was James? : Footprints as a means of identification |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YS_d3a-wxDMC&pg=PA10 |page=10-65 |editor-last=Chilton |editor-first=B. |editor-last2=Neusner |editor-first2=J. |title=The Brother of Jesus: James the Just and His Mission |publisher=Presbyterian Publishing Corporation |isbn=978-0-664-22299-4}}
{{cite book |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |date=2002 |contribution=Earth made whole: John's reading of Genesis |editor1-last=Painter |editor1-first=John |editor2-last=Culpepper |editor2-first=R. Alan |editor2-link=R. Alan Culpepper |editor3-last=Segovia |editor3-first=Fernando F. |editor3-link=Fernando F. Segovia |title=Word, Theology, and Community in John |location=St. Louis, MO |publisher=Chalice Press |isbn=9780827242463 |oclc=50279890 |pages=65–84 }}
{{cite journal |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |date= 2002 |title=Outward Decay and Inward Renewal: A Biblical Perspective on Aging and the Image of God |journal=Journal of Religious Gerontology |publisher=Informa UK |volume=12 |issue=3–4 |issn=1050-2289 |doi=10.1300/j078v12n03_04 |pages=43–55|s2cid=159890268 }}
{{cite book |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |date=2002 |chapter=Rereading Genesis in the Prologue of John? |pages=177–201 |doi=10.1163/9789004268241_009 | editor-last1=Aune |editor-first1=David Edward |editor-last2=Seland |editor-first2=Torrey |editor-last3=Ulrichsen |editor-first3=Jarl Henning | title=Neotestamentica et Philonica: Studies in honor of Peder Borgen | publisher=Brill | publication-place=Leiden Boston | isbn=978-90-04-26824-1 | oclc=883413103}}
{{cite book |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |date=2002 |contribution=Word, theology and community in John: Robert Kysar's contribution |editor1-last=Painter |editor1-first=John |editor2-last=Culpepper |editor2-first=R. Alan |editor2-link=R. Alan Culpepper |editor3-last=Segovia |editor3-first=Fernando F. |editor3-link=Fernando F. Segovia |title=Word, Theology, and Community in John |location=St. Louis, MO |publisher=Chalice Press |isbn=9780827242463 |oclc=50279890 |pages=1–18 }}
{{cite book |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |date= 2004 |chapter=James and Peter Models of Leadership and Mission |title=The Missions of James, Peter, and Paul |pages=143–209 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-474-1474-2 |doi=10.1163/9789047414742_006}}
— (2004). Sacrifice and Atonement in the Gospel of John. Israel und seine Heilstraditionen im Johannesevangelium, 287–313.
{{cite book |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |chapter=The Power of Words: Rhetoric in James and Paul |title=The Missions of James, Peter, and Paul |publisher=Brill |date=1 December 2004 |pages=233–273 |isbn=978-90-474-1474-2 |doi=10.1163/9789047414742_008}}
{{cite journal |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |title=James as the First Catholic Epistle |journal=Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology |publisher=SAGE Publications |volume=60 |issue=3 |date=2006 |issn=0020-9643 |doi=10.1177/002096430606000302 |pages=245–259|s2cid=170262850 }}
— (2007). The incarnation as a New Testament key to an Anglican public and contextual theology [Paper in: Public But Not Official: Anglican Contributions to Australian Life.]. St Mark's Review, (203), 61.
— (2007). The signs of the messiah and the quest for eternal life. In What we have heard from the beginning: The past, present, and future of Johannine studies. (pp. 233–256). Baylor University Press.
— (2008). 'The Light Shines in the Darkness' : Creation, Incarnation, and Resurrection in John. In Resurrection of Jesus in the Gospel of John (pp. 21–46). Mohr Siebeck.
— (2009). A New Climate: The Theologian as Biblical Interpreter. In Embracing Grace: the theologian's task: essays in honour of Graeme Garrett (pp. 51–65). Barton Books.
— (2009). The Johannine Epistles as Catholic Epistles. In Catholic Epistles and Apostolic Tradition (pp. 239–305). Baylor University Press.
— (2010). An Anglican approach to public affairs in a global context. St Mark's Review, (213), 9-31.
{{cite book |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |date= 2010 |chapter=Johannine Literature: The Gospel and Letters of John |title=The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament |pages=344–372 |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |publication-place=Oxford, UK |isbn=978-1-4443-1893-7 |doi=10.1002/9781444318937.ch20}}
— (2012). The generosity of God in the world: Preaching from John, 1 John and James. St Mark's Review, (219), 35.
{{cite encyclopedia |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |date=2013 |chapter=Beloved Disciple |title=Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels |pages=69–72 |publisher=IVP Academic}}
{{cite book |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |date=2013 |chapter=The Fourth Gospel and the Founder of Christianity: the place of Historical Tradition in the work of CH Dodd |title=Engaging with CH Dodd on the Gospel of John: Sixty Years of Tradition and Interpretation |pages=257–284 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}
{{cite encyclopedia |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |date=2013 |chapter=James of Jerusalem |title=Encyclopedia of Ancient History |pages=3566–3567 |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell}}
{{cite book |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |date=2014 |chapter=Identity in the Fourth Gospel |pages=247–263 |editor-last=Eklund |editor-first=R. |editor-last2=Phelan |editor-first2=J.E. |title=Doing Theology for the Church: Essays in Honor of Klyne Snodgrass |publisher=Wipf & Stock |isbn=978-1-4982-0535-1 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BKOPBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA247}}
— (2014). Mark and the Pauline mission. Two authors at the beginnings of Christianity, 527–553.
{{cite book |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |date= 2015 |chapter=What James Was, His More Famous Brother Was Also |title=Earliest Christianity within the Boundaries of Judaism |pages=218–237 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-31032-2 |doi=10.1163/9789004310339_012}}
— (2018). The place of the Johannine canon within the New Testament canon. In The usefulness of scripture: Essays in honour of Robert W. Wall (pp. 178–202). Penn State University Press.
{{cite book |last=Painter |first=John |author-mask=1 |date= 2020 |title=Johannine Christology |chapter=The Quest for the Messiah: an Inquiry Concerning the Formation of the Johannine Christology |pages=31–54 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-42736-5 |doi=10.1163/9789004435612_004|s2cid=234709811 }}