Writing:
Books Peer Reviewed Articles Articles in Periodicals
Chapters/Entries in Books Book Reviews Sermons
Participating in Christ: The Eucharistic Doorway to a Catholic-Reformed Vision of Salvation (working title), under contract with Eerdmans press (2010).
Introducing Theological Interpretation: Scripture, Revelation, and Interpretation (working title), under contract with Eerdmans press (2009).
Calvin, Participation, and the Gift, forthcoming book in “Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology” Series with Oxford University Press (2007).
“United to God through Christ: Calvin on the Question of Deification,” Harvard Theological Review 98:3 (July 2005): 315-34.
“John Updike as Theologian of Culture: Roger’s Version and the Possibility of Embodied Redemption,” Christianity and Literature 52:2 (Winter 2003): 203-213.
“Theodicy as a ‘Lived Question’: A Postmodern Approach to the Theodicy Question,” Journal for Christian Theological Research 5:2, 2000.
“Emergent Church: New Links, Old Traditions,” The Church Herald, April 2007, 5-7.
“John K. Roth, the Psalms of Lament, and the Place of Theological Reflection on the Problem of Suffering,” The Other Journal, Issue 2, 2003.
“Theodicy as a ‘Lived Question’: A Postmodern Approach to the Theodicy Question,” reprinted from Journal for Christian Theological Research in Constellation, Fall 2002.
“Radical Orthodoxy” and “John Milbank” entries, New Dictionary of Theology, Second edition. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, forthcoming.
“Norms and Methodologies for Theology in the Reformation and Early Modern Period,” The Oxford Handbook to the Reception of Christian Theology, Oxford University Press, 2008.
“John Calvin: United to God through Christ,” in Partakers of the Divine Nature: The History and Development of Deification in the Christian Traditions, ed. M. Christensen, J. Wittung. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007, 200-218.
Reading the Bible with the Dead, by John L. Thompson, The Christian Century, forthcoming.
John Calvin’s Ideas, by Paul Helm, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 58:1 (January 2007) 149-150.
Lord and Servant: A Covenant Christology, by Michael S. Horton, International Journal of Systematic Theology, 9:1 (January 2007) 109-112.
Introducing Radical Orthodoxy by James K. A. Smith, Interpretation, 61:1 (January 2007) 104-105.
Violence, Hospitality and the Cross, by Hans Boersma, Interpretation 60:3 (July 2006) 352.
Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity by Kathryn Tanner, in Christian Scholars Review 32:1 (Fall 2002) 141-143.
An Ethics of Remembering by Edith Wyschogrod, Koinonia 7:2 (Fall 2000) 261-263.
Selected Sermons (brief chapel sermons following Lectionary Readings)
"Children of the Most High," Homily on John 10:31-42. Western Seminary Chapel, February 17, 2006.
"Our Happy Lives: A Lament," Homily on Psalm 88. Western Seminary Chapel, September 22, 2006.
©2007 J. Todd Billings