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Writing:

Books    Peer Reviewed Articles      Articles in Periodicals    

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Books

The Lord's Supper and Salvation: The Eucharistic Doorway to a Catholic-Reformed Vision of Salvation (working title). Under contract with Eerdmans press (2012).

Calvin’s Theology and Its Reception: Disputes, Developments, and New Possibilities, co-edited with I. John Hesselink. Under contract with Westminster John Knox Press (forthcoming).

The Word of God for the People of God: An Entryway to the Theological Interpretation of Scripture, Eerdmans Press, 2010.

Calvin, Participation, and the Gift, in “Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology” Series with Oxford University Press (2007). Winner of 2009 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise.

Peer Reviewed Articles

“John Calvin and the Sacraments: A Contemporary Appraisal,” Calvin and His Living Theology, a peer-reviewed collection of essays forthcoming from Brill.

“The Lord’s Supper and the Church’s Public Witness: Bringing Together Heaven and Earth, Living Between Gift and Promise,” Theology Today (forthcoming, 2010).

“John Calvin’s Soteriology: Key Issues in Interpretation and Retrieval,” International Journal of Systematic          Theology (October 2009).

“United to God through Christ: Calvin on the Question of Deification,” Harvard Theological Review 98:3 (July   2005): 315-34.

“Milbank’s Theology of the Gift and Calvin’s Theology of Grace: A Critical Comparison,” Modern Theology 21:1 (January 2005): 87-105.

“‘Incarnational Ministry:’ A Christological Evaluation and Proposal,” Missiology: An International Review 32:2 (April 2004):187-201.

“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.

Articles in Periodicals

“Calvin’s Comeback? The Irresistible Reformer,” cover article in The Christian Century, December 1, 2009, 22-25.

“What Makes a Church Missional? Freedom from cultural captivity does not mean freedom from tradition,” Christianity Today, March 2008, 56-59.

“On Giving and Receiving: How can Christians live out the commands of Matthew 25 – without the pity,” Sojourners Magazine, April 2007, 48-51.

“Emergent Church: New Links, Old Traditions,” The Church Herald, April 2007, 5-7.

“The Problem with Mere Christianity: We Jettison ‘Nonessential’ Theology at Our Own Peril,” Christianity Today, February 2007, 46-47.

“The Promise of Catholic Calvinism,” Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought 21:4 (April 2006) 12-15.

“More Than an Empty Bed” (on Gregory of Nyssa’s “On Virginity”), Regeneration Quarterly 8:2 (2003) 12-13.

“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.

Chapters/Entries in Books

“Norms and Methodologies for Theology in the Reformation and Early Modern Period,” The Oxford Handbook to the Reception of Christian Theology, ed. Richard Cross, Sarah Coakley, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

“John Calvin’s Theology of Union with Christ, and Its Early Retrieval,” in Calvin’s Theology and Its Reception: Disputes, Developments, and New Possibilities, ed. Billings, and Hesselink, Westminster John Knox, forthcoming in 2010.

 “Radical Orthodoxy” and “John Milbank” entries, New Dictionary of Theology, Second edition. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2009.

“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.

Book Reviews

Participatory Biblical Exegesis, by Matthew Levering, International Journal of Systematic Theology, forthcoming.

Covenant and Salvation: Union with Christ by Michael S. Horton, Journal of Reformed Theology, forthcoming.

The Promise of Baptism, by James V. Brownson, Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought, 23:10 (December 2008).

Signs and Wonders: A Reformed Look at the Spirit’s Ongoing Work by John A. Algera, Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought,23:9 (November 2008) 19-20, 23.

The Promise of Baptism, by James V. Brownson, Reformed Review, (Winter 2007/08, vol. 61, no. 1) 34.

Reading the Bible with the Dead, by John L. Thompson, The Christian Century, (September 18, 2007), 43-45.

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.

 

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