Alum Publications by Date

Books Written or Edited by GTU Alums by Date

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Below is a list of alum publications, organized by publication date.

 

2024

Sarah Mohr (MA, '09), Islamic Liberation Psychology: The Transformational Force of Self-Development, Community Empowerment, and Revolutionary Change (Routledge, 2024).

 

2023

Frank Fromherz (Ph.D. '90),  No Guilty Bystander: The Extraordinary Life of Bishop Thomas Gumbleton (Orbis, 2023).

Kyle K. Schiefelbein-Guerrero (PhD '14), Church After the Corona Pandemic: Consequences for Worship and Theology (Springer, 2023).

Noreen Herzfeld (PhD, '00), The Artifice of Intelligence: Divine and Human Relationship in a Robotic Age (Fortress Press, 2023).

Pravina Rodrigues (PhD, '21), A Śākta Method for Comparative Theology: Upside-Down, Inside-Out (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).

Al Tizon (PhD ’05), Christ Among the Classes: the Rich, the Poor, and the Mission of the Church (Orbis, 2023)

 

2022

Hal Childs (Ph.D '98) God’s Autopsy and the Living Truth of Soul: A History of Western Consciousness (Wipf & Stock, August 2022).

Lauren Friesen (PhD, '87), Anabaptist ReMix: Varieties of Cultural Engagement in North America (Peter Lang, 2022).

Sarah Mohr (PhD, ’09), Loving the Present: Sufism, Mindfulness, and Recovery from Addiction and Mental Illness (Wipf and Stock, 2022).

Martin Rawlings-Fein (PhD, '22) “Westward Amidah” and the “Blessing for the Bisexual Community,” in Mishkan Ga'avah: Where Pride Dwells. (2020);“The Righteous” in The Year of Mourning: A Jewish Journey by Edited by Rabbi Lisa D. Grant (2022); Bisexual Visibility in Ruth, "On Gender, Generations, and Care,” in Prophetic Voices: Renewing and Reimagining Haftarah (2022); "Choosing to Be Chosen": A Film Showing the Striking Similarities between Conversion and Transition.” Essay. In Liberating Gender for Jews and Allies: The Wisdom of Transkeit (2022).

Jaesung Ryu (PhD, ’22), Distinct But Inseparable (Peter Lang, 2022).

Linda Seger (MA, '73; ThD, '76), Beyond Linear Thinking: Changing the Way We Live and Work (Red Typewriter Press, Aug 2022).  

Christine Valters Paintner (PhD, '04), Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal (Sorin Books, 2022).

 

2021

Chenxing Han (MA, '14), Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists (North Atlantic Books, 2021).

Margaret Miles (PhD, '77), Reading Augustine on Memory, Marriage, Tears, and Meditation (Bloomsbury, 2021).

Michelle Mueller (Ph.D, '16), New Religions and the Mediation of Non-Monogamy: Polyamory, Polygamy, and Reality Television (Routledge, August 2021). 

 

2020

Micah T.J. Jackson (PhD, ’12),  Preaching Face-to-Face: An Invitation to Conversational Preaching (Church Publishing Incorporated, 2020). 

 

2019

Thao Nguyen (PhD, ’13), Asian Catholic Women: Movements, Mission, and Vision (December 2019).

 

2018

Matt Boswell (PhD, ’16), The Way to Love: Reimagining Christian Spiritual Growth as the Hopeful Path of Virtue (Cascade Books, 2018).

Erin Brigham (PhD, ’10), See Judge Act: Catholic Social Teaching and Service Learning (Anselm Academics, 2018).

Yudit Kornberg Greenberg (PhD, ’84), Dharma and Halacha: Comparative Studies in Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).

Jonathan Homrighausen (MA, ’18), Illuminating Justice: The Ethical Imagination of The Saint John's Bible (Liturgical Press, 2018).

Kevin Keating (MA, ’75), Papal Teaching in the Age of Infallibility, 1870 to the Present: A Critical Evaluation with Historical Illustrations (Pickwick, June 2018).

Jennifer Howe Peace (PhD, ’05), co-editor, Interreligious/Interfaith Studies: Defining a New Field (Beacon Press, 2018).

Christine Valters Paintner (PhD, ’04), The Soul's Slow Ripening: 12 Celtic Practices for Seeking the Sacred (Sorin Books, 2018). 

Harry H. Singleton III (PhD, ’98), Divine Revelation and Human Liberation (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018). 

Timothy Wadkins (PhD, ’88), The Rise of Pentalcostalism in Modern El Salvador: From the Blood of the Martrys to the Baptism of the Spirit (Baylor Press, 2018). 

 

2017

José E. Balcells Gallarreta (PhD, '15), Household and Family Religion in Persian-Period Judah: An Archaeological Approach (SBL Press, 2017).

Yudit Kornberg Greenberg (PhD, ’84), The Body in Religion: Crosscultural Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2017).

David Phillips Hansen (PhD, ’88), Native Americans, the Mainline Church, and the Quest for Interracial Justice (Chalice Press, Jan 2017).

Heup Young Kim (PhD, ’92),  A Theology of Dao (Orbis, May 2017).

Margaret Miles (PhD, ’77), The Long Goodbye: Dementia Diaries (Cascade Books, 2017).

Sandy Sullivan-Dunbar (MA, ’03), Human Dependency and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Wendy R. Terry (PhD, ’07), A Companion to Marguerite Porete and the Mirror of Simple Souls (Brill, 2017).

Jeremy D. Yunt (MA, ’99), Faithful to Nature: Paul Tillich and the Spiritual Roots of Environmental Ethics (Barred Owl Books, 2017).

 

2016

Peter Ajer (PhD, ’14), The Death of Jesus and the Politics of Place in the Gospel of John (Pickwick Publications, Sept 2016).

Elizabeth Drescher (PhD, ’08), Choosing Our Religion: The Spiritual Life of America's Nones (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Adam Pryor (PhD, ’12), The Body of Christ Incarnate for You: Conceptualizing the God's Desire for the Flesh (Lexington, 2016).

 

2015

Steve Georgiou (PhD, ’04), In the Beginning was Love: Contemplative Words of Robert Lax, 2nd ed. (Templegate, 2015).

Cecilia González-Andrieu (PhD, ’07), Teaching Global Theologies: Power and Praxis, coedited with Kwok Pui-Lan and Dwight Hopkins (Baylor University Press, Sep 2015).

Kayko Driedger Hesslein (PhD, ’14), Dual Citizenship: Two-Natures Christologies and the Jewish Jesus (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015).

Christina Hutchins (PhD, '08), Tender the Maker (University Press of Colorado, 2015).

Richard Lindsay (PhD, ’12), Hollywood Biblical Epics: Camp Spectacle and Queer Style from the Silent Era to the Modern Day (Prager, June 2015).

 

2014

Kathryn B. Alexander (PhD, ’13), Saving Beauty: A Theological Aesthetics of Nature (Fortress Press, Aug 2014).

Whitney Bauman (PhD, ’07), Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic (Columbia University Press, Apr 2014).

Kirk A. Bingaman (PhD, ’00), The Power of Neuroplasticity for Pastoral and Spiritual Care (Lexington Books, April 2014).

Joseph Cheah (PhD, ’04) and Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Theological Reflections on Gangnam Style: A Racial, Sexual, and Cultural Critique (Palgrave Pivot, July 2014).

Patricia Dutcher-Walls (ThD, ’94), Reading the Historical Books: A Student's Guide to Engaging the Biblical Text (Baker, Mar 2014). 

Brian Froese (PhD, ’04), California Mennonites (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014).

Rebecca Gordon (PhD, ’09), Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States (Oxford University Press, May 2014).

Max Hammer, with Barry J. Hammer (PhD, ’92), and Alan C. Butler, Deepening Your Personal Relationships: Developing Emotional Intimacy and Good Communication (SBPRA, Jan 2014).

Max Hammer, with Barry J. Hammer (PhD, ’92), and Butler, Psychological Healing Through Creative Self-Understanding and Self-Transformation (SBPRA, Jan 2014).

Robert Lassalle-Klein (PhD, ’95), Blood and Ink: Ignacio Ellacuría, Jon Sobrino, and the Jesuit Martyrs of the University of Central America (Orbis, June 2014).

Margaret Miles (PhD, '77), Beyond the Centaur: Imagining the Intelligent Body (Wipf and Stock, 2014).

Adam Pryor (PhD, ’12), The God Who Lives: Investigating the Emergence of Life and the Doctrine of God (Pickwick Publications, Jan 2014).

Marilyn Sewell (PhD, ’91), Raw Faith: Following the Thread (Fuller Press, 2014).

Andrea Sheaffer (PhD, ’14), Envisioning the Book of Judith: How Art Illuminates Minor Characters (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014).

Jonathan Tan (MA, ’98), Christian Mission among the Peoples of Asia (Orbis, 2014). 

Angela Yarber (PhD, ’10), Holy Women's Icons (Parson's Porch Publishing, May 2014). 

 

2013

Sean D. Burke (PhD, ’09), Queering the Ethiopian Eunuch: Strategies of Ambiguity in Acts (Fortress, August 2013).

Jeanne Choy Tate (MA, ’98), Something Greater: Culture, Family, and Community as Living Story (Pickwick Publications, May 2013).

Emily S. Wu (PhD, ’10), Traditional Chinese Medicine in the United States: In Search of Spiritual Meaning and Ultimate Health (Lexington Books, June 2013).

Angela Yarber (PhD, ’10), Dance in Scripture: How Biblical Dancers Can Revolutionize Worship Today (Cascade Books, Oct 2013).

Angela Yarber (PhD, ’10), The Gendered Pulpit: Sex, Body, and Desire in Preaching and Worship (Parson's Porch Books, April 2013).

 

2012

Erin Brigham (PhD, ’10), Sustaining the Hope for Unity: Ecumenical Dialogue in a Postmodern World (Liturgical Press, Apr 2012).

Douglas Burton-Christie (PhD, ’88), The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology (Oxford, Nov 2012).

Elizabeth Drescher (PhD, ’08), Drescher and Keith Anderson, Click 2 Save: The Digital Ministry Bible (Morehouse, May 2012).

Cecilia González-Andrieu (PhD, ’07), Bridge to Wonder: Art as a Gospel of Beauty (Baylor UP, April 2012).

Kevin Kaatz (MA, ’98), Early Controversies and the Growth of Christianity (Praeger, Feb 2012).

James Kraft (PhD, ’01), The Epistemology of Religious Disagreement (Palgrave/Macmillan, May 2012).

Jennifer Howe Peace (PhD, ’05), Or Rose, and Gregory Mobley, My Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation (Orbis, Feb 2012). Contributors include: Judith Berling (GTU), Ibrahim Farajaje (SKSM), Charles Gibbs (CDSP MDiv), Rita Nakashima-Brock (SKSM), and Rebecca Parker (SKSM).

Debra Mumford (PhD, ’07, MABL, ’03), Exploring Prosperity Preaching: Biblical Health, Wealth, and Wisdom (Judson Press, May 2012).

Emily Leah Silverman (PhD, ’08), Edith Stein and Regina Jonas: Religious Visionaries in the Time of the Death Camps (Equinox, May 2012).

Susan Marie Smith (PhD, ’02), Caring Liturgies: The Pastoral Power of Christian Ritual (Fortress, 2012).

Janet Stickmon (MA, ’99), Midnight Peaches, Two O'Clock Patience (Broken Shackle Publishing, Jan 2012).

Al Tizon (PhD,’05), Missional Preaching: Engage, Embrace, Transform (Judson Press, March 2012).

Al Tizon (PhD, ’05), M. Sydney Park, and Soong-Chan Rah, eds., Honoring the Generations: Learning with Asian North American Congregations (Judson Press, April 2012).

Dongsheng (John) Wu (PhD, ’06), Understanding Watchman Nee: Spirituality, Knowledge, and Formation (Wipf & Stock, April 2012).

Russell Yee (PhD, ’97), Worship on the Way: Exploring Asian North American Experience (Judson Press, April 2012).

 

2011

Whitney Bauman (PhD, ’07), Richard R. Bohannon II, and Kevin J. O'Brien, eds., Inherited Land: The Changing Grounds of Religion and Ecology (Pickwick Publications, Aug 2011).

Alexander Blair (PhD, ’84), Christian Ambivalence Toward Its Old Testament: Interactive Creativity Versus Static Obedience (Wipf & Stock Publishers, Jan 2011).

Joseph Cheah (PhD, ’04), Race and Religion in American Buddhism: White Supremacy and Immigrant Adaptation (Oxford University Press, Sept 2011).

Robert Collie (ThD, ’70) and Annelie Collie, The Apostle Paul and Post-Traumatic Stress: From Woundedness to Wholeness (Fairway Press, Sept 2011).

Steven Danver (MA, ’94) and John Burch, Encyclopedia of Water Politics and Policy in the United States (CQ Press, May 2011).

Elizabeth Drescher (PhD, ’08), Tweet If You ♥ Jesus: Practicing Church in the Digital Reformation (Morehouse, May 2011).

Kevin Fauteux (PhD, ’82), Defusing Angry People: Practical Tools for Handling Bullying, Threats, and Violence (New Horizon Press, Feb 2011).

Peter Feldmeier (PhD, ’96), Encounters in Faith: Christianity in Interreligious Dialogue (Anselm Academic, Feb 2011).

Peter Feldmeier (PhD, ’96),  and Leo Lefebure, The Path of Wisdom: A Christian Commentary on the Dhammapada (Eerdmans, May 2011).

Lynne Gerber (PhD, ’09), Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America (University of Chicago, Nov 2011).

Tricia Gibbs (as Sarah Isaias, M.A. student), A New Song (Derusha, June 2011).

Timothy Hessel-Robinson (PhD, ’06) and Ray Maria McNamara, RSM (Ph.D. ’06), Spirit and Nature: The Study of Christian Spirituality in a Time of Ecological Urgency (Pickwick Publications, Aug 2011).

John C. Holt (MA, ’73), ed., The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics, The World Readers Series (Duke University Press, Mar 2011).

Heup Young Kim (PhD, ’92) with Fumitaka Matsuoka (PSR emeritus), and Anri Morimoto, eds., Asian and Oceanic Christianities in Conversation: Exploring Theological Identities at Home and in Diaspora, Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations (Rodopi, Mar 2011).

Nancy Pineda-Madrid (PhD, ’05), Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Juarez (Fortress, May 2011).

Susan Marie Smith (PhD, ’02), Christian Ritualizing and the Baptismal Process: Liturgical Explorations toward a Realized Baptismal Ecclesiology (Pickwick, Nov 2011).

Laura Stivers (PhD, ’00), Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches (Fortress, April 2011).

Wendy R. Terry (PhD, ’07), Terry and Robert Stauffer, eds.; Seeing Marguerite in the Mirror: A Linguistic Analysis of Porete's “Mirror of Simple Souls,” Studies in Spirituality Supplements 21 (Peeters, Jan 2011).

Angela Yarber (PhD, ’10), Embodying the Feminine in the Dances of the World's Religions (Peter Lang Press, Nov 2011).

Yeow Choo Lak (ThD, ’71), Loving Hawai'i (Xulon Press, Sept 2011).

 

2010

Sharon Betsworth (PhD, ’07), The Reign of God is Such as These: A Socio-Literary Analysis of Daughters in the Gospel of Mark (T & T Clark, Dec 2010).

Woody Carter (PhD, ’94), Theology for a Violent Age: Religious Beliefs Crippling African American Youth (iUniverse.com, Dec 2010).

Michelle Gonzalez (PhD, ’01), Shopping: Christian Explorations of Daily Living (Fortress Press, Nov 2010).

Anathea E. Portier-Young (MA, ’98), Apocalypse Against Empire: Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism (Eerdmans, Dec 2010).

Judith Rock (PhD, ’88), The Rhetoric of Death (Berkley Trade, Oct 2010).

Cia Sautter (PhD, ’00), The Performance of Religion: Seeing the Sacred in Theater (Routledge, Jan 2017); The Miriam Tradition: Teaching Embodied Torah (University of Illinois, Nov 2010).