Jon Zens

Jon Zens is an American author,[1] speaker, scholar and theologian on Christian topics.[2] Zens is best known for pioneering New Covenant Theology.[3][4] Zens is also an expert on the Anabaptist history and theology.[5]

Early life and education

Zens holds a B.A. in Biblical studies from Covenant College, a M.Div. from Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, and a D.Min. from the California Graduate School of Theology.

Career

In 1975, Zens moved to Nashville to work with Norbert Ward on the publication Baptist Reformation Review.[6][7] Because of declining health, Norbert asked Zens to be the editor in 1978. In 1982, the name of the quarterly was changed to Searching Together.[8] The quarterly magazine features articles by Zens and many other writers on topics of divergent evangelicalism.

Zens and his wife Dotty have ministered to women who have been trafficked into the sex trade, aiding women who have been the victims of sexual abuse and involved in prostitution.[9] Zens served for a time as a local pastor, but left the position.[10] becoming an author[11] and a traveling speaker, ministering in church conferences and speaking at conferences about the rescue of women from the sex industry and prostitution.

Bibliography
  • What's With Paul & Women: Unlocking the Cultural Background to 1 Timothy 2[12]
  • The Pastor Has No Clothes: Moving from Clergy-Centered Church to Christ-Centered Ekklesia
  • No Will of My Own: How Patriarchy Smothers Female Dignity & Personhood
  • A Church Building Every 1/2 Mile: What Makes American Christianity Tick?[13]
  • Christ Minimized? A Response to Rob Bell's Love Wins
  • 58-0: How Christ Leads Through the One Anothers
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gollark: This might be fixable if you have some kind of zero-knowledge voting thing and/or ways for smaller groups of people to decide to produce stuff.
gollark: If you require everyone/a majority to say "yes, let us make the thing" publicly, then you probably won't get any of the thing - if you say "yes, let us make the thing" then someone will probably go "wow, you are a bad/shameful person for supporting the thing".
gollark: Say most/many people like a thing, but the unfathomable mechanisms of culture™ have decided that it's bad/shameful/whatever. In our society, as long as it isn't something which a plurality of people *really* dislike, you can probably get it anyway since you don't need everyone's buy-in. And over time the thing might become more widely accepted by unfathomable mechanisms of culture™.

References
  1. Rob Campbell (1 May 2003). Dance with Me, Daddy. Xulon Press. pp. 211–. ISBN 978-1-59160-495-2.
  2. Paul King Jewett (1996). Who We are: Our Dignity as Human : a Neo-evangelical Theology. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. pp. 130–. ISBN 978-0-8028-4075-2.
  3. Gibson, Greg (1 October 2008). All Old Testament Laws Cancelled. JesusSaidFollowMe Publishing. pp. 129–. ISBN 978-971-94222-0-4.
  4. "Introduction to New Covenant Theology". Dennis M. Swanson.
  5. Brackney, William H. (13 April 2009). Historical Dictionary of the Baptists. Scarecrow Press. pp. 473–. ISBN 978-0-8108-6282-1.
  6. Gibson, Greg (1 October 2008). All Old Testament Laws Cancelled. JesusSaidFollowMe Publishing. pp. 71–. ISBN 978-971-94222-0-4.
  7. Brackney, William H. (16 September 2009). The A to Z of the Baptists. Scarecrow Press. pp. 473–. ISBN 978-0-8108-7071-0.
  8. Searching Together Magazine
  9. Jon Zens workshop on "Whispering Hopes" Helping victims of prostitution and sex trafficking
  10. House Church Resource: Jon Zens' Gradual Journey
  11. Kevin D. Glenn (8 July 2014). Hand Over Fist. WestBow Press. pp. 114–. ISBN 978-1-4908-4021-5.
  12. Carolyn L. Wilcox (October 2012). Wow! Worth of Women: A Study of Equality the Bible Way. WestBow Press. pp. 121–. ISBN 978-1-4497-5782-3.
  13. Frank Viola (10 December 2012). Reimagining Church: Pursuing the Dream of Organic Christianity. David C Cook. pp. 3–. ISBN 978-1-4347-6653-3.
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