The British Academy (2014). «Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies 2002 Awarded to Professor Gerd Theissen». The British Academy for the humanities and social sciences. Londres. Archivado desde el original el 8 de noviembre de 2014. «[...]is one of the earliest pioneers in the application of the principles and methods of sociology to the study of the New Testament. Notable works in this field are The First Followers of Jesus: A Sociological Analysis of the Earliest Christians (which concentrated on conditions in Palestine) and The Social Setting of Primitive Christianity (a Pauline study dealing mainly with Corinth). But Professor Theissen is not simply a sociologist. He has never ceased to be a theologian, who has always emphasised the theological as well as the historical significance of his sociological studies and has written specifically on the meaning of faith. On having a Critical Faith: an Evolutionary Approach is particularly important in this respect. But his recent publications also include The Religion of the Earliest Churches, Gospel Writing and Church Politics: a Socio-rhetorical Approach, and The Shadow of the Galilean. This last is a most unusual life of Jesus, accessible to any intelligent reader, but based on the strictest critical discipline.»
Dunn, James D. G. (2003). Jesus Remembered. Grand Rapids, Míchigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. p. 54. ISBN0-8028-3931-2. «To Gerd Theissen must go the credit for making the first effective attempt to study NT texts from a sociological perspective.»
Charlesworth, James H. «Psychobiography: A New and Challenging Methodology of Jesus Research». En Ellens, J. Harold; Rollins, Wayne G., ed. Psychology and the Bible: a new way to read the Scriptures. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 51. ISBN0-275-98347-1. «As J. D. G. Dunn correctly reports, “To Gerd Theissen must go the credit for making the first effective attempt to study NT texts from a sociological perspective”.»
The British Academy (2014). «Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies 2002 Awarded to Professor Gerd Theissen». The British Academy for the humanities and social sciences. Londres. Archivado desde el original el 8 de noviembre de 2014. «[...]is one of the earliest pioneers in the application of the principles and methods of sociology to the study of the New Testament. Notable works in this field are The First Followers of Jesus: A Sociological Analysis of the Earliest Christians (which concentrated on conditions in Palestine) and The Social Setting of Primitive Christianity (a Pauline study dealing mainly with Corinth). But Professor Theissen is not simply a sociologist. He has never ceased to be a theologian, who has always emphasised the theological as well as the historical significance of his sociological studies and has written specifically on the meaning of faith. On having a Critical Faith: an Evolutionary Approach is particularly important in this respect. But his recent publications also include The Religion of the Earliest Churches, Gospel Writing and Church Politics: a Socio-rhetorical Approach, and The Shadow of the Galilean. This last is a most unusual life of Jesus, accessible to any intelligent reader, but based on the strictest critical discipline.»
