Reading John

Christopher W. Skinner (Ph.D., Catholic University of America) is Professor of New Testament & Early Christianity at Loyola University Chicago. Between 2010 and 2016 he was Associate Professor of Religion, and Director of the Honors Program (2015-2016) at Mount Olive College where he was the 2013-2014 Professor of the Year. He has also taught at East Carolina University (Greenville, North Carolina), Loyola University (Baltimore, Maryland) and St. Mary's Ecumenical Institute of Theology (Baltimore, Maryland), where he was the Dunning Distinguished Lecturer for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship during the 2008-2009 academic year. His research explores literary and historical questions in the narratives about Jesus both within and outside the New Testament. He has written extensively about narrative-critical issues as well as characterization in the Gospels of John and Mark. He has also written about the scholarly reception of the Gospel of Thomas and New Testament ethics. He has additional interests in the reception of Jesus within popular culture and the leveraging of ideas about and images of Jesus and the Bible within contemporary political and religious discourse.