More than 200 Westar Fellows have participated in the Jesus Seminar and other Westar projects since 1985. At various stages of the projects, different Fellows have been involved in the research and deliberations. Following is a partial list of scholars who were or are currently involved in the work of the Westar Institute.
* Charter Fellows
+ Deceased Fellows
Andries G. van Aarde
Valerie A. Abrahamsen
SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai
Martin L. Appelt
Karen Armstrong
William E. Arnal
Mathew Arthur
+ Richard L. Arthur
Richard Ascough
Harold W. Attridge
+ Robert Bater
Whitney Bauman
*+ William A. Beardslee
Jason D. BeDuhn
Joseph A. Bessler
+ Edward F. Beutner
Mark G. Bilby
Anthony Blasi
+ Marcus J. Borg
*M. Eugene Boring
Willi Braun
Karen Bray
*+James Breech
+ Marvin F. Cain
*Ron Cameron
John D. Caputo
Richard Carrier
Bruce D. Chilton
David W. Congdon
Kathleen E. Corley
Wendy J. Cotter
Clayton Crockett
*John Dominic Crossan
Szabolcs Czire
Don Cupitt
Jean Jacques D’Aoust
Terrance Dean
Jon F. Dechow
Arthur J. Dewey
Joanna Dewey
T. Wilson Dickinson
+ John Dillenberger
William Doty
Darrell J. Doughty
*+Dennis C. Duling
Rubén René Dupertuis
*Richard A. Edwards
Pamela Eisenbaum
Susan M. Elliott
Gregory Erickson
Robert T. Fortna
Robert M. Fowler
*+ Robert W. Funk
David Galston
Lloyd Geering
Jennifer Glancy
James Goss
Mike Grimshaw
Heinz Guenther
Sakari Hakkinen
Lori Brandt Hale
W. David Hall
Maurice Hamington
*+ R.G. Hammerton-Kelly
+ Walter Harrelson
Stephen L. Harris
Merrill Hawkins
*Charles W. Hedrick
*+William R. Herzog II
James D. Hester
C. M. Kempton Hewitt
Jack A. Hill
Julian V. Hills
Michael Hogue
*Paul W. Hollenbach
Richard Holloway
Joseph H. Holt
Roy W. Hoover
Benjamin J. Hubbard
Michael L. Humphries
Carly Daniel-Hughes
Margaret D. Hutaff
Glenna S. Jackson
Arland D. Jacobson
Clayton N. Jefford
Gregory C. Jenks
Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre
Bob Jones
F. Stanley Jones
Paul H. Jones
Julius-Kei Kato
Perry V. Kea
*Howard C. Kee
*Werner H. Kelber
Mary L. Keller
John C. Kelly
William Doane Kelly
Chan-Hie Kim
*Karen L. King
*John S. Kloppenborg
Maia Kotrosits
Ron Large
Lillian I. Larsen
Paul Alan Laughlin
+ Nigel Leaves
Margaret E. Lee
Celene Lillie
Nina E. Livesey
Davidson Loehr
+ Sanford Lowe
*John Lown
Gerd Lüdemann
Shelly Matthews
Dennis R. MacDonald
Jodi Magness
Brian Rice McCarthy
*Lane C. McGaughy
Edward J. McMahon II
*Burton L. Mack
Francis Macnab
Loren Mack-Fisher
Daniel Marguerat
+Marvin W. Meyer
Robin R. Meyers
Darren J. N. Middleton
J. Ramsey Michaels
William R. Millar
Daniel Miller
Jordan E. Miller
L. Bruce Miller
Robert J. Miller
+ Robert L’H. Miller
Maynard Moore
Sarah Morice Brubaker
+ Winsome Munro
Rita Nakashima Brock
David Odell-Scott
Rod Parrott
Stephen J. Patterson
Shirley Paulson
Todd Penner
*Leo G. Perdue
Judith Perkins
+Richard I. Pervo
Daniel Peterson
*Gary A. Phillips
Thomas E. Phillips
Elijah Prewitt-Davis
+ Anne Primavesi
Jonathan L. Reed
+Howard Rice
Alan Richard
Jeffrey W. Robbins
*Vernon K. Robbins
+ James M. Robinson
Christopher D. Rodkey
Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Stan Rummel
Hannu Saloranta
Marianne Sawicki
Deborah Niederer Saxon
+ Daryl D. Schmidt
+ Oswald Schrag
*Bernard Brandon Scott
Andrew D. Scrimgeour
Melissa Sellew
Chris Shea
Thomas Sheehan
+ Lou H. Silberman
Daniel A. Smith
*+Dennis E. Smith
Kay Higuera Smith
Mahlon H. Smith
Graydon Snyder
+ John Shelby Spong
John Staten
Michael G. Steinhauser
Roy SteinhoffSmith
Robert F. Stoops, Jr.
Johann Strijdom
J. Samuel Subramanian
Jon Sveinbjornsson
*Robert C. Tannehill
Jarmo Tarkki
W. Barnes Tatum
*Hal Taussig
Thandeka
Barbara Thiering
Joseph B. Tyson
Leif E. Vaage
Noëlle Vahanian
Erin Vearncombe
James A. Veitch
Chad Venters
Paul Verhoeven
Wesley Hiram Wachob
William O. Walker, Jr.
Donna Wallace
Steve Watkins
Robert L. Webb
Theodore J. Weeden, Sr.
James E. West
David Wheeler-Reed
*John L. White
L. Michael White