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
Martin L. Appelt
Karen Armstrong
William E. Arnal
+ Richard L. Arthur
Richard Ascough
Harold W. Attridge
+ Robert Bater
Whitney Bauman
*+ William A. Beardslee
Jason D. BeDuhn
Joseph A. Bessler
+ Edward F. Beutner
Anthony Blasi
+ Marcus J. Borg
*M. Eugene Boring
Willi Braun
Karen Bray
*+James Breech
*James R. Butts
+ 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
Carly Daniel-Hughes
Jon Daniels
Jean Jacques D'Aoust
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
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
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
*Paul W. Hollenbach
Richard Holloway
Joseph H. Holt
Roy W. Hoover
Benjamin J. Hubbard
Michael L. Humphries
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
Larry Kalajainen
Perry V. Kea
*Howard C. Kee
*Werner H. Kelber
John C. Kelly
William Doane Kelly
Chan-Hie Kim
*Karen L. King
*John S. Kloppenborg
Maia Kotrosits
Ron Large
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
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
Milton C. Moreland
+ Winsome Munro
Culver H. Nelson
David Odell-Scott
Rod Parrott
Stephen J. Patterson
Shirley Paulson
Todd Penner
*Leo G. Perdue
Judith Perkins
Richard I. Pervo
*Gary A. Phillips
Thomas E. Phillips
Anne Primavesi
Jonathan L. Reed
Howard Rice
Jeffrey W. Robbins
*Vernon K. Robbins
+ James M. Robinson
Christopher D. Rodkey
Stan Rummel
Hannu Saloranta
Marianne Sawicki
Deborah Niederer Saxon
+ Daryl D. Schmidt
+ Oswald Schrag
*Bernard Brandon Scott
Andrew D. Scrimgeour
Philip 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
James A. Veitch
Paul Verhoeven
Wesley Hiram Wachob
William O. Walker, Jr.
Donna Wallace
Robert L. Webb
Theodore J. Weeden, Sr.
James E. West
*John L. White
L. Michael White
Patricia Williams
+Walter Wink