Faculty Publications

Selected faculty publications are listed by faculty name in alphabetical order.

Frances Screnock Adeney
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Christianity Encountering World Religions: The Practice of Mission in the Twenty-first Century (co-authored with Terry C. Muck). Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009.

"Contextualizing Universal Values: A Method for Christian Mission." International Bulletin of Missionary Research 31/1 (January 2007): 33-37.

Christianity and Human Rights: Influences and Issues (co-edited with Arvind Sharma). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2007.

"Citizenship, Resistance, and St. Augustine." Resistance and Theological Ethics, edited by Ronald H. Stone and Robert L. Stivers, 185-201. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004.

Christian Women in Indonesia: A Narrative Study of Gender and Religion. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003.

Johanna W. H. Bos
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Making Wise the Simple: The Torah in Christian Faith and Practice. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005.

Ruth and Esther: Women in Alien Lands. Nashville: Abindgon Press, 2001.

Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther. Westminster Bible Companion Series, edited by Patrick D. Miller and David L. Bartlett. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998.

Reimaging God: The Case for Scriptural Diversity. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1995.

Reformed and Feminist: A Challenge to the Church. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1991.

Cláudio Carvalhaes
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"World Migration and the Problems/Blessings of Immigration." RIBLA (Revista de Interpretación Bíblica Latinoamericana), forthcoming.

"Her Dress Hangs There, And We Too: Frida Kahlo in Latin America." Re-leituras de Frida Kahlo: Por Uma Ética Estética da Diversidade Machucada, edited by Edla Eggert. Santa Cruz do Sul, RS: Edunisc, 2008.

"'Gimme de kneebone bent': Liturgics, Dance, Resistance and a Hermeneutics of the Knees." Studies in World Christianity 14/1 (2008): 1-18.

"O que sera que sera . . . A Limping A/Theological Thought in Brazil." Liberation Theology and Sexuality, edited by Marcella Althaus-Reid. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2006.

Transgressões: Religião, Performance e Arte [Transgressions: Religion, Performance and Art]. São Paulo: Emblema Ideas, 2005.

Carol J. Cook
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"How Childhood Sexual Abuse Affects Adult Survivors' Images of God: A Resource for Pastoral Helpers" (co-authored with Cindy L. Guertin). Sacred Spaces: The e-Journal of the American Association for Pastoral Counselors, forthcoming.

"Pastoral Implications" (Sundays in August). Lectionary Homiletics 19/5 (2008): 11, 19-20, 27, 35, 43.

"The Practice of Marriage and Family Counseling and Liberal Protestant Christianity." The Role of Marriage and Family Counseling, edited by Jill Duba Onedera, 73-87. New York: Routledge, 2008.

"Liberals in Search of a Bigger Theology." Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought (January 2008). Reviews Big Christianity: What's Right with the Religious Left (2006) by Jan G. Linn and Theology for Liberal Presbyterians and other Endangered Species (2006) by Douglas F. Ottati.

"Empathy: A Bridge Between Worlds, A Landscape of Care." Family Ministry 20/1 (Spring 2006): 29-38.

Christopher L. Elwood
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"Calvins kirchliche Theologie und das Heil des Menschen." 1509–Johannes Calvin–2009. Sein Wirken in Kirche und Gesellschaft: Essays zu seinem 500. Geburtstag, edited by Martin Ernst Hirzel and Martin Sallmann. Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 2008.

"Calvin, Beza, and the Defense of Marriage in the Sixteenth Century." Calvin, Beza and Later Calvinism: Papers Presented at the 15th Colloquium of the Calvin Studies Society, April 7-9, 2006, edited by David Foxgrover. Grand Rapids: Calvin Studies Society, 2006.

"A Singular Example of the Wrath of God: The Use of Sodom in Sixteenth-Century Exegesis." Harvard Theological Review 98/1 (2005): 67-93.

Calvin for Armchair Theologians. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002.

The Body Broken: The Calvinist Doctrine of the Eucharist and the Symbolization of Power in Sixteenth-Century France. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Susan R. Garrett
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No Ordinary Angel: Celestial Spirits and Christian Claims about Jesus. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

"What Presbyterians Believe: The Problem of Evil." Presbyterians Today 95/2 (2005): 22-25.

Making Time for God: Daily Devotions for Children and Families to Share, (co-authored with Amy Plantinga Pauw). Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 2002.

The Temptations of Jesus in Mark's Gospel. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1998.

The Demise of the Devil: Magic and the Demonic in Luke's Writing. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989.

Douglas L. Gragg
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"Do the Multiple Initiations of Lucius in Apuleius' Metamorphoses Falsify the Ritual Form Hypothesis?" Past Minds: Studies in Cognitive Historiography, edited by Luther H. Martin and Jesper Sørensen. Cognition and Culture Series. London: Equinox Publishing Ltd., forthcoming.

"Parables, Cognitive Shock, and Spontaneous Exegetical Reflection." Religious Narrative, Cognition, and Culture, edited by Armin W. Geertz and Jeppe Sinding Jensen. Cognition and Culture Series. London: Equinox Publishing Ltd., in press.

"'Another People': Understanding the Roman Senate's Suppression of the Bacchanalia." Imagistic Traditions in the Graeco-Roman World, edited by Luther H. Martin and Panayotis Pachis. Thessaloniki: Vanias Press, 2009.

"Information Literacy in Theological Education." Theological Education 40/1 (2004): 99-111.

"Old and New in Roman Religion: A Cognitive Approach." Theorizing Religions Past, edited by Harvey Whitehouse and Luther H. Martin. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004.

David C. Hester
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Job. Interpretation Bible Studies. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2005.

Building Effective Boards for Religious Organizations (co-authored with Thomas P. Holland). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000.

First and Second Samuel. Interpretation Bible Studies. Louisville: Geneva Press, 2000.

Johnny B. Hill
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"Do This in Remembrance of Me: Communion and the Social Security Crisis." Progressive Christians and Public Policy, forthcoming.

"Nonviolence or Nonexistence: Reclaiming Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vision for the Global Community." Martin Luther King, Jr. and Multiculturalism, forthcoming.

"For God's Courage to Witness for Justice." Prayers for The New Social Awakening: Inspired by the New Social Creed, edited by Christian Iosso and Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008.

The Theology of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Desmond Mpilo Tutu. New York: Palgrave MacMillan Press, 2007.

Multidimensional Ministry for Today's Black Family (editor). Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 2007.

Alexander Y. Hwang
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Tradition and the Rule of Faith in the Early Church (co-editor). Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming.

"Manifold Grace in Prosper of Aquitaine and John Cassian." Scottish Journal of Theology, forthcoming.

"The Silk Letter of Alexander Sayong Hwang: Introduction and Abridged Translation." Missiology: An International Review 37/2 (2009): 165-179.

Intrepid Lover of Perfect Grace: The Life and Thought of Prosper of Aquitaine. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2009.

"Augustine's Interpretations of 1 Tim. 2:4." Studia Patristica 43: Augustine, Other Latin Writers. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Publishers, 2006.

Kathryn L. Johnson
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"Teaching the Church's Past for Today's Students of Theology: An Early Church Historian Looks at the History of Church History." Preparing for Witness in Context, edited by Jean S. Stoner. Louisville: Presbyterian Publishing House, 1999.

Articles on early Christian figures, especially women, in The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism, edited by Richard P. McBrien. San Francisco: Harper, 1995.

"The Legacy of Our Divisions." Eucharist and Ecumenical Life, edited by Ronald P. Byars. Lexington: Kentucky Council of Churches, 1985.

Clifton Kirkpatrick
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Presbyterian Leadership: Reflections on Leadership Renewal in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (co-authored with Linda Valentine). Philadelphia: Board of Pensions, 2009.

Is There a Future for the PCUSA? Louisville: Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, 2008.

"The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.): A Mission in Progress." Presbyterians Being Reformed, edited by Robert H. Bullock. Louisville: Geneva Press, 2006.

"Biblical Foundations for International Policy" (co-authored with William H. Hopper, Jr.). For the Peace of the World: A Christian Curriculum on International Relations, edited by Antonios Kireopoulos. Cincinnati: Friendship Press, 2005.

What Unites Presbyterians: Common Ground for Troubled Times (co-authored with William H. Hopper, Jr.). Louisville: Geneva Press, 1997.

Debra Mumford
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"Psalm 50," "Psalm 100," "Psalm 31." Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, Year A, edited by David Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor. Westminster John Knox Press, forthcoming.

"Preaching the Lesson" (Sundays in May). Lectionary Homiletics, forthcoming.

"Total Praise: A Vision for Holistic and Interconnected Christian Lives." Call to Worship: Liturgy, Music, Preaching, and the Arts 42/4 (2009): 37-40.

"Do Segregated Churches Imply Racism?" The Thoughtful Christian (May 2009).

"Lectionary Commentary" (Mark 15:33-41) for African American Lectionary (April 2009).

Amy Plantinga Pauw
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"The Holy Spirit and Scripture." The Lord and Giver of Life: Perspectives on Constructive Pneumatology, edited by David H. Jensen, 25-40. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008.

Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics (co-edited with Serene Jones). Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006.

The Supreme Harmony of All: The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2002.

Making Time for God: Daily Devotions for Children and Families (co-authored with Susan R. Garrett). Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 2002.

Dianne Reistroffer
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Review of Rethinking Faculty Work: Higher Education's Strategic Imperative by Judith M. Guppa, Ann E. Austin, and Andrea G. Trice. Teaching Theology and Religion, forthcoming.

"For Child Workers." Prayers for the New Social Awakening, edited by Christian Iosso and Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008.

"Women's Ways of Giving: Historical Reflections." Mosaic: The Magazine of Louisville Seminary (Fall 2005): 14-16.

"With All That I Am and All That I Have: Stewardship in the Reformed Tradition." Mid-Kentucky Kernels (Fall 2005): 1, 4.

"Giving Patterns and Practices Among Church Women in the Methodist Episcopal and the Colored Methodist Episcopal Churches, 1870-1920." The Social Gospel Today, edited by Christopher H. Evans. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001.

David R. Sawyer
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Hope in Conflict: Finding Wisdom in Congregational Turmoil. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press. 2007.

"Growing in Wisdom and Stature: The Christian Practice of Lifelong Learning," Convocation Address, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, February 17, 2005.

"A Structural Family Therapy Approach to Addressing Conflict in a Congregation." The Oates Journal 6 (2003).

"The Church in Transition as a Human System." Temporary Shepherds: A Congregational Handbook for Interim Ministry, edited by Roger S. Nicholson, 26-38. Bethesda, MD: Alban Institute, 1998.

Work of the Church: Getting the Job Done in Boards and Committees. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 1987.

Marion L. Soards
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"Circumcision." The New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, A-C, edited by K. D. Sakenfeld. Nashville, Abingdon Press, 2006.

First Corinthians. New International Biblical Commentary. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers. 1999.

The Speeches in Acts: Their Context, Content, and Concerns. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1994.

Apocalyptic and the New Testament: Essays in Honor of J. Louis Martyn (co-edited with J. Martyn). Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1989.

The Apostle Paul: An Introduction to His Writings and Teaching. New York: Paulist Press, 1987.

Loren L. Townsend
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Introduction to Pastoral Counseling. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2009.

Pastoral Care in Suicide. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006.

"Theological Reflection and the Formation of Pastoral Counselors." The Formation of Pastoral Counselors: Challenges and Opportunities, edited by D. Bidwell and J. Marshall. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2006.

"Ferment and Imagination in Training in Clinical Ministry." Pastoral Care and Counseling: Redefining the Paradigms, edited by Nancy Ramsay. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004.

Pastoral Care with Stepfamilies: Mapping the Wilderness. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2000.

Patricia K. Tull
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"1 Samuel" and "2 Samuel." Theological Bible Commentary, edited by Gail O'Day and David Petersen. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009.

As Those Who Are Taught: The Interpretation of Isaiah from the LXX to the SBL (co-edited with Claire Matthews McGinnis). SBL Symposium Series. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2006.

Esther and Ruth. Interpretation Bible Studies. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003.

Esther's Feast: A Study of the Book of Esther. The 2001-2002 Horizons Bible Study for Presbyterian Women. Louisville: Presbyterian Publishing House, 2001.

Remember the Former Things: The Recollection of Previous Texts in Second Isaiah. SBL Dissertation Series. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.

Elizabeth Johnson Walker
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"Counseling Grace: A Pastoral Theology." Women out of Order: Risking Change and Creating Care in a Multicultural World, edited by Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner and Teresa Snorton. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2009.

"Practical Steps for Ministry to Black Families." Multidimensional Ministry for Today's Black Family, edited by Johnny B. Hill. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 2007.

"Called to Parent: Parenting as Ministry." Keep it Real: Working with Today's Black Youth, edited by Anne E. Streaty Wimberly. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005.

"Pastoral Counseling with African American Male Youth Offenders." Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, 30/1-2 (2002-2003): 109-127.

"A Theology for Pastoral Counseling with Some African American Women." Journal of Pastoral Counseling 37 (2002): 27-44.

J. Bradley Wigger
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Together We Pray: A Prayer Book for Families. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2005.

The Power of God at Home: Nurturing Our Children in Love and Grace. Families and Faith Series. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

The Texture of Mystery: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into Perception and Learning. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1998.

Scott C. Williamson
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The Narrative Life: The Moral and Religious Thought of Frederick Douglass. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. 2002.