Walter P. Weaver

Background

Walter P. Weaver was born on February 11, 1934, in Elkin, North Carolina, United States. He is a son of L. Stacy and Elizabeth H. Weaver.

Education

In 1956 Walter P. Weaver received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University and a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1962. In 1968 he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Drew University. In 1976 Weaver gained a certificate in home electronic technology from DeVry Institute of Technology (now DeVry University).

Career

From 1958 to 1962 Walter P. Weaver was a minister of Methodist churches in Durham, North Carolina, and Adelphia, New Jersey, from 1962 to 1965. From 1965 to 1969 he was an assistant professor at Greensboro College from 1965 to 1969, a chaplain from 1965 to 1972 and an associate professor from 1969 to 1972.

From 1972 to 1986 Weaver served as an associate professor at Florida Southern College, a professor of religion and philosophy from 1987 to 1989, the Pendergrass Professor of Religion from 1989 to 1997, and became a professor emeritus in 1997. From 1985 to 1996 he also served as a chairperson of the department and a chairperson of the Humanities Division from 1986 to 1996 in this college.

He is the author of Mark (1987), The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1950 (1999), Jesus and His Biographers (2005).

Achievements

• Walter P. Weaver is best known as the author of The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1950. His works received good reviews from critics.

Works

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  • Earthing Christologies: From Jesus' Parables to Jesus the Parable

    (How far can we go in recovering the historical life of th...)

    1988
  • The Old and New Testaments: Their Relationship and the "Intertestamental" Literature

    (How, if at all, is the New Testament related to the Old? ...)

    1993
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Faith

    (Interest in the Dead Sea Scrolls is unparalleled, and tha...)

    1998
  • Jesus Two Thousand Years Later

    (This latest volume in the Faith and Scholarship Colloquie...)

    2000
  • The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1950

    (In the present volume, Walter P. Weaver tells the fascina...)

    1999
  • Mark 1987
  • What Has Archaeology to Do With Faith? 1992
  • Images of Jesus Today 1994
  • Jesus and His Biographers 2005

Views

Walter P. Weaver once told about what influences him: "In theological studies I acknowledge the influence of some great teachers, like Hugh Anderson of Scotland and Howard Clark Kee of the United States. Kee, especially, instilled in me the core of such scholarly talents that I possess. Indirectly the great German scholar Rudolf Bultmann influenced me in a number of ways, including his efforts to provide a ‘demythologized’ Christian message and his reading of the historical Jesus. I have moved beyond Bultmann at a large number of places, but I think you can do that only after going through him."

Membership

Walter P. Weaver is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma.

Interests

• Electronic technology

• Sport & Clubs

  golf

Connections

On June 9, 1956, Walter P. Weaver married Peggy Johnson. They have three children: Walter P., Katherine J. Weaver Holland, Laura M. Weaver Whitt.

Father:

L. Stacy Weaver

Mother:

Elizabeth H. Weaver

Spouse:

Peggy Johnson

Son:

Walter P. Weaver

Daughter:

Katherine J. Weaver Holland

Daughter:

Laura M. Weaver Whitt

References

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