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Professor Ed. Miller
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Education

B.A., University of Southern California (Philosophy), 1959
M.A., University of Southern California (Philosophy), 1960
Ph.D., University of Southern California (Philosophy), 1965
Dr. theol., University of Basel, Switzerland (Theology), 1981
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Critical Analysis of the Philosophical Fragments of Epicharmus (with Professor W. H. Werkmeister)
Dr. theol. Dissertation: Salvation-History in the Prologue of John: The significance of John 1: 3/4 (with Professor Bo Reicke)

Professional Experience

Adjunct Professor, Philosophy, University of Colorado, 1999-
Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, University of Colorado, 1999
Advisory Editor, Theological Students Fellowship Bulletin, 1986-1987
Professor of Philosophy/Religious Studies, University of Colorado, 1976-1999
Associate Professor of Philosophy/Religious Studies, University of Colorado, 1970-1976
Director, Theology Forum, University of Colorado, 1968-
Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Colorado, 1966-1970
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College, 1964-1966
Instructor in Philosophy, California Lutheran College, 1962-1964
Jr. Mathematician, Bendix Computer, Los Angeles, 1961-1962
Research Assistant, University of Southern California, 1960-1962

Areas of Special Interest
Philosophical Theology, Systematic Theology, Christian Tradition,
New Testament, Kierkegaard, Colorado Indian Wars.

Membership
Studiorum Novi Testament Societas
American Academy of Religion
Society of Christian Philosophers
Søren Kierkegaard Society

Papers Presented (sampling)
Theology Forum sessions, University of Colorado
Society for New Testament Studies, Louvain, Belgium
Philosophy Department, University of Wyoming
Regional meetings, American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature
International meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, Sheffield, England
Philosophy Department, University of Graz, Austria
Philosophy Department, University of Alaska
Regional meetings, Society of Christian Philosophers

Listed In
Who’s Who in the West
Directory of American Scholars
International Who’s Who in Education
International Authors
Writers Who’s Who
Contemporary Authors
Faculty Directory of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion

Publications

Books
Classical Statements on Faith and Reason (anthology). New York:
Random House, 1970
Philosophical and Religious Issues: Classical and Contemporary
Statements (anthology) Encino, Calif.: Dickenson, 1971
God and Reason: An Invitation to Philosophical Theology, second ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1995
Questions That Matter: An Invitation to Philosophy, fourth ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996. Shorter Edition, 1998.
Salvation-History in the Prologue of John: The Significance of John 1:3/4. Leiden: Brill, 1989. Good News in History:
Essays in Honor of Professor Bo Reicke (edited essays). Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.
Believing in God: Statements on Faith and Reason (anthology). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1996.
Contemporary Theologies (co-authored with Stanley J. Grenz). Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998.
Murder at the Hungate Place: June 11, 1864 (submitted)
Jesus and the Future: We Will All Be Surprised (submitted).
Light and Life: Potpourri on the Prologue of John (collected essays) (submitted)
The Meaning of Faith (submitted)

Articles
“Plenary Inspiration and II Timothy 3:16,” The Lutheran Quarterly, 17 (1965), pp. 56-62.
“Poet or Philosopher?”  Words (Winter 1965), pp. 1-5.
“Existentialism: One More Time,” Words (Spring 1966), pp. 4-9.
“The Trouble with the Church,” The Lutheran Standard (October 4, 1966), pp. 20, 38
“Parmenides the Prophet?” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 6 (1968), pp. 67-69.
“Xenophanes: Fragments 1 and 2,” The Personalist, 51 (1970), pp. 143-147.
“The Late Great Planet Earth Revisited,” The Colorado Quarterly, 23 (1974), pp. 29-37.
“Jesus the Revolutionary?” The Colorado Quarterly, 24 (1975), pp. 185-196.
“Codex Bezae on John 1:3-4: One Dot or Two?” Theologische Zeitschrift, 32 (1976), pp. 269-271.
“The Crucifixion of Jesus: Facts and Fiction,” The Boulder Daily Camera (April 8, 1977), p. 21.
“Contra Crossan,” Theology Forum Brief, No. 1 (November, 1978), pp. 1-2.
“The New International Version on the Prologue of John,” Harvard Theological Review, 72 (1979), pp. 307-311.
“Joachim Jeremias, 1900-1979,” Theologische Zeitschrift, 36 (1980), pp. 244-248.
“The Christology of John 8:25,” Theologische Zeitschrift, 36 (1980), pp.  257-265.
“The Logos of Heraclitus: Updating the Report,” Harvard Theological Review, 74 (1981), pp.  161-176.
“The Logos was God,” Evangelical Quarterly, 53 (1981), pp. 65-77.
“Oecolampadius: The Unsung Hero of the Basel Reformation,” The Iliff Review 39 (1982), pp. 5-25.
“God and the Astronomers,” The Iliff Review, 39 (1982), pp.  27-30.
“The Logic of the Logos Hymn: A New View,” New Testament Studies, 29 (1983), pp. 552-561.
“Is Barth the Future of Evangelical Theology?” Christian Scholar’s Review, 14 (1984), pp.  46-51.
“P66 and P75 on John 1:3/4,” Theologische Zeitschrift, 41 (1985), pp. 440-443.
“A Barometer of Evangelical Theology,” The Iliff Review, 44 (1987), pp. 49-56.
“Reflections on Thulstrup’s Commentary on the Postscript,” Søren Kierkegaard Newsletter, No. 20 (1989), pp. 10-15.
“The True Light Which Illumines Every Person,” in Ed. L. Miller (ed.), Good News in History: Essays in Honor of Professor Bo Reicke (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993), pp. 63-82.
“The Johannine Origins of the Johannine Logos,” Journal of Biblical Literature, 112 (1993), pp. 445-457.
“At the Centre of Kierkegaard: An Objective Absurdity,” Religious Studies, 33 (1997), pp. 433-441.
“Is Galatians 3:28 the Great Egalitarian Passage?” (submitted).
“More Pauline References to Homosexuality?” (submitted).
"SK: Faith, History, and the Postscript" (submitted).
“The Prologue of John” (submitted).

Translations
“Mimnermus on Youth and Old Age” (Greek), The Personalist, 48 (1967), pp.  390-392 (with Introduction).
“Holy Spirit and Critique,” by Oscar Cullmann (German), tr. with William Carroll, The Illiff Review, 36 (1979), pp. 5-9.
“Salvation-History:  Pannenberg’s Critique of Cullmann,” Wolfhart Pannenberg (German), The Iliff Review, 37:1 (1980), pp.  21-25 (with commentary).
“Unity and Diversity in New Testment Theology,” by Bo Reicke (German), in Ed. L. Miller (ed.), Good News in History: Essays in Honor of Professor Bo Reicke (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993), pp. 173-192.
Frau Wibrandis: A Woman in the Time Reformation, by Ernst Staehelin (German) (with introduction notes, illustrations, and bibliography) (submitted).
“St. Simeon: Exhultations of Light” (Greek), Anglican Theological Review, 81 (1999), pp. 475-477.

Reviews
Phillip Wheelwright, “The Presocratics,” The Classical World, 60 (1966), pp. 12-14.
Rosamond Kent Sprague, “Plato: Euthydemus,” Classical Philology, 61 (1967), pp.  290-91.
Leonardo Taran, “Parmenides,” The Classical Journal, 62 (1967), pp. 232-234.
Justus George Lawler, “The Christian Image,” The Personalist, 48 (1967), p. 265.
Jacob M. Myers, “Invitation to the Old Testament,” The Personalist, 48 (1967), pp. 603-604.
A. O. J. Cockshut, “The Agnostics,” The Personalist, 49 (1968), p. 273.
Felix M. Cleve, “The Giants of Pre-Sophistic Philosophy,” Classical Philology, 63 (1968), pp. 303-306.
Karl Bormann, “Parmenides: Untersuchengen zu den Fragmenten,” American Classical Review, 2 (1972), p. 74.
Edwin Yamauchi, “Pre-Christian Gnosticism,” Theologische Zeitschrift, 30 (1974), p. 294.
Richard Hiers, “The Historical Jesus and the Kingdom of God,” Theologische Zeitschrift, 30 (1974), pp. 296-297.
Horst W. Beck, “Die Welt als Modell,” Theologische Zeitschrift, 31 (1975), pp. 376-377.
Oscar Cullmann, “The Johannine Circle,” The Iliff Review, 34 (1977), pp. 58-59.
Francis J. Moloney, “The Johannine Son of Man,” Theologische Zeitschrift 34 (1978), p. 109.
Jasper Hopkins, “A Companion to the Study of St. Anselm,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 16 (1978), pp. 105-106.
I. Howard Marshall, “The Origins of New Testament Christology,” Theologische Zeitschrift, 34 (1978), pp. 234-35.
G. C. Berkhouwer, “A Half Century of Theology: Movements and Motives,” Theology Forum Brief, No. 2 (April, 1979), p. 4.
Robert W. Shahan and Francis J. Kovach (eds.), “Bonaventure and Aquinas:  Enduring Philosophers,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 17 (1979), p. 369.
John Dart, “The Laughing Savior: The Discovery and Significance of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic Library,” Theology Forum Brief, No. 2 (October 1979), pp. 3-4.
Joachim Jeremias, “The Prayers of Jesus,” Theology Forum Brief, No. 3 (January, 1980), pp. 3-4.
John Hick (ed.), “The Myth of God Incarnate,” Theology Forum Brief, No. 5 (October, 1980), pp. 3-4.
Martin Hengel, “Crucifixion in the Ancient World and the Folly of the Message of the Cross,” Perkins Journal, 32 (1979), pp. 45-46.
F. F. Bruce, “In Retrospect: In Remembrance of Things Past,” Perkins Journal, 35 (1982), pp. 49-50.
Michael J. Christensen, “C. S. Lewis on Scripture,” The Iliff Review, 39 (1982), pp. 44-45.
Karl Barth, “Letters, 1961-1968,” Theology Forum Brief, No.8 (May 1982), pp. 2-4.
Ferenc Morton Szasz, “The Divided Mind of Protestant America: 1880-1930,” The Christian Century, 100 (September 14-21, 1983), pp. 827-828.
Brian Hebblethwaite, “The Problems of Theology,” Theologische Zeitschrift,  39 (1983), pp. 251-252.
James Arthur Walther, “New Testament Greek Workbook: An Inductive Study of the Complete Text of the Gospel of John,” The Classical Outlook, 61 (October/November, 1983), p. 32.
John Walsh, “Evangelization and Justice,” Lutheran Standard (December 14, 1984), p. 32.
Ralph Martin, “Mark: Evangelist and Theologian,” Theologische Zeitschrift, 40 (1984), pp. 80-81.
Edwin Yamauchi, “Harper’s World of the New Testament,” Journal of American Academy of Religion, 52 (1984), p. 174.
Nigel Turner, “Christian Words,” Theologische Zeitschrift, 40 (1984), pp. 74-75.
Wayne A. Meeks, “The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul,” Theologische Zeitschrift, 42 (1986), pp. 438-440.
David R. Cartlidge and David L. Dungan, “Documents for the Study of the Gospels,” Theologische Zeitschrift  (in press).
Brian Hebblethwaite and Stewart Sutherland (eds.), “The Philosophical Frontiers of Christian Theology,” Theologische Zeitschrift, 42 (1986), p. 88.
Bruce Chilton (ed.), “The Kingdom of God,” Perkins Journal, 39 (1986), pp. 55-56.
G. R. Beasley-Murray, “The Coming God,” Theologische Zeitschrift, 43 (1987), pp. 299-300.
Stephen H. Travis, “Christian Hope and the Future of Man,” Theologische Zeitschrift, 43 (1987) p. 306.
Mary Farrell Bednarowski, “New Religions and the Theological Imagination in America,” The Christian Century (in press).
William J. Prior, “Unity and Development in Plato’s Metaphysics,” The Classical Journal (in press).
Hans Dieter Betz, “The Sermon on the Mount,” Theologische Zeitschrift (in press).
Merold Westphal, “Kierkegaard’s Critque of Reason and Society,” Review of Metaphysics, 47 (1993), pp. 394-395.
Delbert Burkett, “The Son of the Man in the Gospel of John,” Theologische Zeitschrift, 50 (1994), pp. 268-269.
Murray J. Harris, “Jesus as God: The New Testament Use of Theos in Reference to Jesus” (in press).
Edith L. Blumhofer, “Aimee Semple McPherson: Everybody’s Sister,” Christian Scholar’s Review, 25 (1995), pp. 237-239.
Kelly Monroe, “Finding God at Harvard: Spiritual Journeys of Christian Thinkers,” Christian Scholar’s Review, 27 (1997), pp. 131-132.
David L. Balch, “Homosexuality, Science, and the “Plain Sense of Scripture’” (in press).
 
Works in Progress
The Word: A Commentary on the Prologue of John
The Sayings from the Cross: Theological Meditations
The Three Big Issues: Will the Church Lose its Nerve?
 Homosexuality and the Bible: On Being Faithful to the Text