Sanders identifies himself as a "liberal, modern, secularized Protestant" in his book Jesus and Judaism; fellow scholar John P. Meier calls him a postliberal Protestant.
Sanders mengidentifikasi dirinya sebagai "liberal, modern, Protestan yang disekulerisasikan" dalam bukunya "Jesus and Judaism;" sarjana sejawatnya John P. Meier menyebutnya Protestan pasca-liberal.