Recent Scholarly Research

African American Theology

  • Terrence Johnson. Tragic Soul-Life: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Moral Crisis Facing American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2012)
  • Terrence Johnson. “On the Limits of Rights and Representation: The Moral Challenge of Blackness,” Journal of Religious Ethics, (accepted, forthcoming)
  • Terrence Johnson. “Emancipatory Reason and Epistemic Resources in Black Theology of Liberation,” Oxford Handbook of African American Theology, ed. Anthony Pinn and Katie Canon
  • (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

Biblical Studies

  • Walter Brueggemann and Tod Linafelt. An Introduction to the Old Testament. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012.
  • Alan C. Mitchell. “Mysticism in the New Testament.” The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism. Ed. Julia A. Lamm. West Sussex UK: John Wiley and Sons, 2012.
  • Tod Linafelt. “On Biblical Style .” The St. John’s Review  54.1 (2012).

Buddhist Studies

  • Benjamin Bogin. “The Red and Yellow War: Dispatches from the Field.” In Himalayan Passages: Tibetan and Newar Studies in Honor of Hubert Decleer, edited by B. Bogin and A. Quintman, Wisdom Publications, in press (2014).
  •  Francisca Cho. “Buddhism and Science in the Mirror of Language .” Religions/Adyan  (2013): 20-28.
  • Benjamin Bogin. The Illuminated Life of the Great Yolmowa. Serindia Publications, 2013.
  • Benjamin Bogin. “Mchog gyur gling pa’s Visionary Journey to the Copper-Colored Mountain,” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines  27 (October 2013): pp. 55–79.
  • Francisca Cho. “Buddhism and Science: Translating and Retranslating Culture .” Buddhism in the Modern World. Ed. David McMahan. London: Routledge Press, 2012: 273-288

Catholic Theology/Christian Studies

  • Gerard Mannion. The Art of Magisterium: a Teaching Church That Learns. Collegeville: Michael Glazier/Liturgical Press, 2014.
  • Gerard Mannion. “Magisterium as a Social Imaginary: Contemporary Challenges and Future Ways Forward” in When the Magisterium Intervenes: The Magisterium and Theologians in Today’s Church, ed. Richard R. Gaillardetz, Michael Glazier/Liturgical Press, (2012), 112-139
  • Gerard Mannion. “Ecclesiology and the Humility of God: Embracing the Risk of Loving the World” in Dennis M. Doyle, Timothy J. Furry, Pascal D. Bazzell (eds.), Ecclesiology and Exclusion: Boundaries of Being and Belonging in Postmodern Times, NY, Maryknoll, Orbis (2012), 24-42
  • Gerard Mannion. “A (Strange) Sort of Homecoming? Anglicanorum Coetibus and the Ecumenical Responsibilities of Contemporary Anglicans and Roman Catholics” in A Point of Balance: the Weight and Measure of Anglicanism, eds. Martyn Percy and Rob Slocum, London, Canterbury Press, and New York, Church Publishing, 2012
  • Gerard Mannion. “Many Mansions: Ecclesial Being in Richly Diverse Contexts” in The Household of God and Local Households: Revisiting the Domestic Church, eds. Thomas Knieps, Gerard Mannion and Peter De Mey, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium( BETL) Series no. 254, Leuven, Peeters, 2013, 351-375
  • Gerard Mannion. “An Acute Symptom of a Much Deeper Malaise: the Abuse Crisis in its Wider Ecclesiological Context” in Broken Faith: Why Hope Matters, eds. Patrick Claffey, Joe Egan and Marie Keenan, (Oxford, Peter Lang, forthcoming, 2013)
  • Gerard Mannion. “Magisterium, Margaret Farley and Feminist Moral Theology: Discerning the Ecclesia Discens Today” in Linda Hogan and Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator (eds.), Feminist Catholic Theological Ethics: Conversations in the World Church, New York, Maryknoll, Orbis, (2013)
  • Gerard Mannion. “Changing the (magisterial) Subject: Hearing Women’s Voices … (Teaching-) with Authority”, in Marinella Perroni and Hervé Legrand (ed.), We Have Something to Say: Theologians Re-read Vatican II , (Saggistica, Edizione Paolini, forthcoming, 2013)
  • Gerard Mannion. “From Communicative Theology to Communicative (Teaching with-) Authority: Pathways for Collective Witness” in, Festschrift for B. Jochen Hilberath, University of Tuebingen, (forthcoming, 2013).
  • Chester Gillis. “The People of God: The Church of the Second Vatican Council and Beyond .” Columbia History of American Catholicism. Ed. James Fisher. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013: 428-57
  • Lefebure, Leo D.. “Christian Mysticism in Interreligious Perspective .” The Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism. Ed. Julia A. Lamm. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Co., 2013: 610-25
  • Julia A. Lamm, ed. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2013.
  • Thomas Knieps, Gerard Mannion and Peter De Mey, ed. The Household of God and Local Households: Revisiting the Domestic Church. Leuven: Peeters, 2013.
  • Peter De Mey, Pieter De Witte and Gerard Mannion, ed. Believing in Community: Ecumenical Reflections on the Church. Leuven: Peeters, 2013.
  • Julia A. Lamm. “Schleiermacher’s ’Christmas Dialogue’ as Platonic Dialogue .” The Journal of Religion  92.3 (2012): 392-420
  • Paul L. Heck. “The Apostle Paul and the Apostle Muhammad: The Challenge of the Convert .” Islamochristiana  37 (2012).
  • Stephen M Fields SJ. “Modern Catholic Theology and Mystical Tradition .” Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism. Ed. Julia A Lamm. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012: 501-14
  • Stephen M Fields SJ. “Nature, Grace, and the Public Square .” Catholicism in America: Proceedings from the 33rd Annual Convention of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, September 24-26, 2010, Baltimore, Maryland. Ed. Elizabeth C Shaw. Scranton, PA: University of Scranton Press, 2012.
  • Daniel A. Madigan. “God’s Word to the World: Jesus and the Qur’an, Incarnation and Recitation .” Godhead here in hiding: Incarnation and the history of human suffering. Ed. Terence Merrigan and Frederik Glorieux. Leuven: Peeters, 2012.
  • Stephen M Fields SJ. “Ressourcement and the Retrieval of Thomism for the Contemporary World .” Ressourcement: A Movement for Renewal in Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology. Ed. Gabriel Flynn and Paul D. Murray. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012: 355-71.
  • Gerard Mannion. “Jon Sobrino’s Enduring Contribution to Christian Theology and its Reception”, Ecclesiology 8 (2012), 71-80
  • Gerard Mannion. “Where We Dwell in Common: Pathways for Dialogue in the 21st Century”, One in Christ, (July 2012), 146-152.
  • Gerard Mannion. “Pathways for Dialogue in the 21st Century: What We Learned at Assisi 2012,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies, (Fall, 2013)

Confucianism/Classical Chinese Thought

Ethics

Feminist Studies

  • Gerard Mannion. “Magisterium, Margaret Farley and Feminist Moral Theology: Discerning the Ecclesia Discens Today” in Linda Hogan and Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator (eds.), Feminist Catholic Theological Ethics: Conversations in the World Church, New York, Maryknoll, Orbis, (2013)
  • Gerard Mannion. “Changing the (magisterial) Subject: Hearing Women’s Voices … (Teaching-) with Authority”, in Marinella Perroni and Hervé Legrand (ed.), We Have Something to Say: Theologians Re-read Vatican II, (Saggistica, Edizione Paolini, forthcoming, 2013)

Hindu Studies

History of Care

Warren Reich. “History of the Notion of Care.” Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 2nd edition, 1995.

Historical Theology

  • Julia A. Lamm. “Schleiermacher’s Spirituality: An Introduction .” Schleiermacher: Christmas Dialogue, the Second Speech, and Other Selections. Ed. Julia A. Lamm. Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, 2014.
  • Julia A. Lamm. “A Theology of Grace as Socio-Political Critique: Julian of Norwich on Divine Lordship, Divine Motherhood .” Theological Reflection and the Integrity of Life: Theology, Human Flourishing and Freedom. Ed. David Jasper and Dale Wright. Surrey: Ashgate, 2013: 197-216.
  • Stephen M Fields, SJ. “Contraries in One: Contingency, Analogy, and God in Transcendental Thomism .” The Metaphysics of Aquinas and Its Modern Interpreters: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives. Ed. Christopher M Cullen and Franklin T Harkins. Forthcoming. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013.
  • Stephen M Fields, SJ. “Newman on Revelation, Hermeneutics, and Conscience .” Tradition and Modernity: Christian and Muslim Perspectives. Ed. David Marshall. Afterword by Rowan Williams. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2013: 89-96 (with selected texts, 81-88)
  • Julia A. Lamm. “Plato’s Dialogues as a Single Work of Art: Friedrich Schleiermacher’s ’Platons Werke’ .” Lire Les Dialogues, mais lesquels et dans nter ordre? Définitions du corpus et nterpretations de Platon. Ed. Anne Balansard and Isabelle Koch. : Academia Verlag, 2013: 173-88.
  • Julia A. Lamm. “Schleiermacher’s ’Christmas Dialogue’ as Platonic Dialogue .” The Journal of Religion  92.3 (2012): 392-420
  • Tarmo Toom, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
  • Tarmo Toom. “Augustine’s Reception and Use of Scripture in De doctrina Christiana.” The Reception and Use of Scripture Among Christians in Ancient North Africa. Ed. A. Dupont and J. Yates. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2020, vol. 1, 321-42.
  • Tarmo Toom. “An Expedient Doctrine: Separation of Church and State in the Donatist Controversy.” JEBS (2020): 63-77.
  • Tarmo Toom. “Priscillian.” Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity. Ed. P. van Geest et al. Leiden: Brill, on-line, 2020.
  • Tarmo Toom. “Early Christian Handbooks on Interpretation.” The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation.Eds. P. M. Blowers and P. W. Martens. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 109-25.
  • Tarmo Toom. Review article of The Myth of Pelagianism, Ali Bonner, The British Academy/Oxford University Press, 2018. Reviews in Religion and Theology 26/3 (2019): 387-91.
  • Tarmo Toom, ed. Augustine in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  • Tarmo Toom. “Introduction: Augustine in Context and Augustine on Context.” Augustine in Context. Ed. T. Toom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, 1-10.
  • Tarmo Toom. “Tractatus symboli: A Pre-Baptismal Explanation of the Creed.” Studia Patristica 92/18 (2017): 15-24.
  • Tarmo Toom, ed. Patristic Theories of Biblical Interpretation: The Latin Fathers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
  • Tarmo Toom. “Augustine’s Hermeneutics: The Science of the Divinely Given Signs.” Patristic Theories of Biblical Interpretation: The Latin Fathers. Ed. T. Toom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, 77-108.
  • Tarmo Toom. “Hilary of Poitiers’ ‘Ruled’ Exegesis in His De Trinitate: A Case-Study of John 1:1-2.” Journal of the Bible and Its Reception 3/1 (2016): 1-25.

Islamic Studies

Jewish Studies

Pluralism & Interreligious Understanding

Politics and Religion

  • Terrence Johnson. Tragic Soul-Life: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Moral Crisis Facing American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2012)
  • Terrence Johnson. “On the Limits of Rights and Representation: The Moral Challenge of Blackness,” Journal of Religious Ethics, (accepted, forthcoming)
  • Erin M. Cline. Confucius, Rawls, and the Sense of Justice. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013.
  • Paul L. Heck. “Abu Yusuf; Advice; Bureaucracy; Knowledge; Mullah ‘Umar; Usama Bin Ladin .” The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. Ed. Gerhard Böwering. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.

Religion and Culture

Religion in America

Study/Theory of Religion