Stephen Patterson

Stephen J. Patterson is an historian of religion who teaches broadly in Religious Studies and writes on the origins of Christianity. Among his interests are the many texts of earliest Christianity that are not in the Bible. He has written widely on the Gospel of Thomas, the lost gospel, Q, as well as "the quest for the historical Jesus." He has taught in India, Africa, and China, and before coming to Willamette in 2010, was Professor of New Testament at Eden Seminary in St. Louis. In the 1990s he was a prominent member of the Jesus Seminar.