Books Written or Edited by GTU Faculty
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Below is a list of faculty publications, arranged alphabetically by last name.
Jerome Baggett (GTU/JST), The Varieties of Nonreligious Experience: Atheism in American Culture (NYU Press, 2019).
Kathryn Barush (GTU/JST), Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020); Art and the Sacred Journey in Britain, 1790-1850 (Routledge, 2016).
Purushottama Bilimoria (GTU/CDS), History of Indian Philosophy (Routledge History of World Philosophies, 2018); Emotions in Indian Thought-Systems (Routledge India, 2015); Indian Diaspora: Hindus and Sikhs in Australia (D.K. Printworld, 2015); Globalization, Transnationalism, Gender and Ecological Engagement (Serials Publications, 2015); Postcolonial Reason and Its Critiques: Deliberations on Spivak's Thoughts (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Aaron Brody (GTU/PSR), Material Culture Matters: Essays on the Archaeology of the Southern Levant in Honor of Seymour Gitin (Eisenbrauns, 2014); "As for me, I will dwell at Mizpah...: The Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations after 85 Years, edited with J.R. Zorn (Gorgias, 2014).
Ronald Burris (ABSW), Wisdom from Africa: Theological Reflections on the Confessions of St. Augustine (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2016); Where is the Church? Martyrdom, Persecution, and Baptism in North Africa from the Second to the Fifth Century (Resource Publication, 2012).
Thomas Cattoi (JST), Depth Psychology and Mysticism, co-ed. with David Odorisio (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); Death, Dying, and Mysticism: The Ecstasy of the End (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); Theodore the Stoudite: Writings on Iconoclasm and the Spiritual Life (Newman/Paulist Press, 2014); Perceiving the Divine Through the Human Body: Mystical Sensuality, co-ed. with June McDaniel (Palgrave McMillan, 2011).
Jennifer W. Davidson (ABSW) River of Life, Feast of Grace: Baptism, Communion, and Discipleship (Judson Press, 2019).
Michael J. Dodds OP (DSPT), Philosophical Anthropology (Western Dominican Province, 2014).
Wendy Farley (SFTS), The Thirst of God: Contemplating God’s Love with Three Women Mystics (Westminster/John Knox, 2015).
Sharon Fennema (PSR), Queering Christian Worship, Reconstructing Liturgical Theology, co-ed. and contributor with Stephen Burns and W. Scott Haledman (2016).
Eduardo C. Fernández (JST), Culture-Sensitive Ministry: Helpful Strategies for Pastoral Ministers, co-authored with Kenneth McGuire and Anne Hansen (Paulist Press, 2010).
LeAnn Snow Flesher (ABSW), Why?... How Long?: Studies on Voice(s) of Lamentation Rooted in Biblical Hebrew Poetry, co-ed. with Carol Dempsey and Mark Boda (T&T Clark, 2013).
Lisa Fullam (JST), Ethics and Spirituality: Readings in Moral Theology #17, co-ed. with Charles E. Curran (Paulist Press, 2014); Virtue Ethics: Readings in Moral Theology #16, co-ed. with Charles E. Curran (Paulist Press, 2011).
Julián Andres González Holguin (CDSP/PLTS), Cain, Abel, and the Politics of God: An Agambenian Reading of Genesis 4:1-16 (Routledge, 2017).
Nancy Hall (ABSW), A Manual of Worship--Newly Revised (Judson Press, 2018).
Shauna Hannan (PLTS), Eco-Lutheranism: Lutheran Perspectives on Ecology, co-edited with Karla Bohmbach (Lutheran University Press, 2013).
Arthur Holder (GTU), The Venerable Bede: On the Song of Songs and Selected Writings (Paulist Press, 2011).
Paul A. Janowiak (JST), Standing Together the Community of God: Liturgical Spirituality and the Presence of Christ (The Liturgical Press, 2011).
Jay Johnson (PSR), Peculiar Faith: Queer Theology for Christian Witness (Seabury Books, 2014); Divine Communion: A Eucharistic Theology of Sexual Intimacy (Seabury Books, 2013); Queer Religion (two volumes), co-authored with Donald Boisvert (Praeger Publishers, 2011).
Uriah Kim (GTU), Reading a Tendentious Bible: Essays in Honor of Robert B. Coote, co-ed. with Marvin Chaney and Annette Schellenberg (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014).
Daijaku Judith Kinst (IBS), Trust, Realization and the Self in Soto Zen Practice, (Institute of Buddhist Studies and BDK America, 2015).
Bryan Kromholtz, OP (DSPT), On the Last Day: The Time of the Resurrection of the Dead according to Thomas Aquinas (Academic Press, 2010).
James Lawrence (PSR), Principles in Play: Essays in Honor of George Dole, ed. (Studia Swedenborgiana Press, 2010).
Karen Lebacqz (GTU), with Matthew J. Gaudet, Eight Theories of Justice: Perspectives from Philosophical and Theological Ethics (Fortress Press, 2025).
Gabriella Lettini (SKSM), Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury After War, co-authored with Rita Nakashima Brock (Beacon Press, 2012).
Elizabeth Liebert (SFTS), The Soul of Discernment: A Spiritual Practice for Communities and Institutions (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2015).
Gregory Anderson Love (SFTS), Love, Violence, and the Cross: How the Nonviolent God Saves Us through the Cross of Christ (Cascade Books, 2010).
Scott MacDougall (CDSP), More Than Communion: Imagining an Eschatological Ecclesiolog (Bloomsbury–T&T Clark, 2015).
James McDonald (SFTS), Preaching God’s Transforming Justice, Year A, Year B, and Year C (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2011-2013).
Ruth Meyers (CDSP), Praying Shapes Believing: A Theological Commentary on the Book of Common Prayer, Revised Edition (Seabury Books, 2016); Missional Worship, Worshipful Mission: Gathering as God's People, Going out in God's Name (William B. Eerdman's Publishing Company, 2015); Christian Holiness & Human Sexuality: A Study Guide for Episcopalians, co-ed. with Gary R. Hall (Church Publishing, 2011); Worship-Shaped Life: Liturgical Formation and the People of God, co-ed. with Paul Gibson (Canterbury Press, 2010).
Scott Mitchell (IBS), Buddhism in America: Global Religion, Local Contexts (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016); Buddhism Beyond Borders: New Perspectives on Buddhism in the United States, co-authored with Natalie E.F. Quli (SUNY Press, 2015).
Cynthia Moe-Lobeda (PLTS/CDSP), Bible and Ethics: A New Conversation, co-authored with Bruce Birch, Jacqueline Lapsley, and Larry Rasmussen (Fortress Press, 2018); Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation (Fortress Press, 2013).
Ronald Nakasone (GTU), Asian American Religious Cultures, Volumes 1-2, co-ed. with Jonathan H. X. Lee, Fumitaka Matsuoka and Edmond Yee (ABC-CLIO, 2015).
Christopher Ocker (GTU/SFTS), The Hybrid Reformation: A Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History of Contending Forces (Cambridge University Press, 2022); Material Christianity: Western Religion and the Agency of Things (Amsterdam: Springer, 2020); Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West. Cambridge (University Press, 2018).
Sangyil Sam Park (ABSW), 포스트모던 시대의 설교학 밑그림 (Preaching in the 21st Century) (Olive Tree Press, 2014).
Richard Payne (GTU), Pure Lands in Asian Texts and Contexts: An Anthology, co-ed. with Georgios Halkias (University of Hawai'i Press, 2019); Language in the Buddhist Tantra of Japan: Indic Roots of Mantra (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018); Pure Land Buddhism in China: A Doctrinal History, co-ed. with Natalie E.F. Quli, 2 vols. (Institute of Buddhist Studies and BDK America, 2016); Homa Variations: The Study of Ritual Change Across the Longue Duree, co-ed. with Michael Witzel (Oxford University Press, 2015); Scripture:Canon::Text:Context: Essays Honoring Lewis R. Lancaster, ed. (Institute of Buddhist Studies and the Numata Center/Berkeley, 2014).
Ted Peters (PLTS), God in Cosmic History: Where Science and History Meet Religion (Anselm Academic, 2017); God--the World's Future, 3rd edition (Fortress, 2015); Sin Boldly! Justifying Faith for Fragile and Broken Souls (Fortress, 2015); Theologians in Their Own Words, co-ed. with Derik Nelson and Joshua Moritz (Fortress, 2013); GOD the World's Future: Systematic Theology for a Postmodern Era, 3rd edition (Fortress, 2013).
Susan Phillips (GTU), The Cultivated Life: From Ceaseless Striving to Receiving Joy (IV Press, 2015); Serving God’s Community: Studies in Honor of W. Ward Gasque (Regent College Publishing, 2014).
Julia D.E. Prinz (JST), Interruption: Theological Thought and Photography in Dialogue with Johann Baptist Metz (Herder, 2015).
Jean-François Racine (JST), Beauty and the Bible: Toward a Hermeneutics of Biblical Aesthetics, co-ed. with Richard J. Bautch (Society of Biblical Literature, 2013).
Anselm Ramelow (DSPT), God: Reason and Reality (Basic Philosophical Concepts) (Philosophia Verlag, 2014).
Julie Rubio (JST-SCU), Hope for Common Ground: Mediating the Personal and the Political in a Divided Church (Georgetown University Press, 2016).
Robert Russell (CTNS), Time in Eternity: Pannenberg, Physics, and Eschatology in Creative Mutual Interaction (University of Notre Dame Press, 2012).
Sandra M. Schneiders, IHM (JST), Jesus Risen in Our Midst: Essays on the Resurrection of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel (Liturgical Press, 2013); Prophets in Their Own Country: Women Religious Bearing Witness to the Gospel in a Troubled Church (Orbis, 2012).
Rita Sherma (GTU/CDS), Vivekananda: His Life, Legacy, and Relevance, ed. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019); Sustainable Societies: Interreligious Interdisciplinary Responses (Springer Sophia Series, 2018); International Journal of Dharma Studies, ed. (Springer Open); Woman and Goddess in Hinduism: Reinterpretations and Re-envisioning, ed. (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011).
Sam Berrin Shonkoff (GTU/CJS), Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World, co-ed. with Ariel Evan Mayse (Brandeis University Press, under contract and in progress); Martin Buber: His Intellectual and Scholarly Legacy, ed. (Brill, 2018).
Kirsi Stjerna (PLTS), The Annotated Luther, ed. and contributor (Fortress Press, 2015-2017); On the Apocalyptic and Human Agency: Conversations with Augustine of Hippo and Martin Luther (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014); Martin Luther, the Bible, and the Jewish People (Fortress Press, 2012).
Augustine Thompson (DSPT), Dominican Brothers: Conversi, Lay, and Cooperator Friars (New Priory Press, 2018); Francis of Assisi: A New Biography (Cornell, 2012).
Anh Q. Tran (JST), Gods, Heroes, and Ancestors: An Interreligious Encounter in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam (Oxford University Press, 2017); World Christianity: Perspectives and Insights (Orbis Press, 2016).
David Vasquez-Levy (PSR), Accompaniment: A Bible Study on Mission (ELCA Global Missions, 2014); Ruth (Augsburg Fortress, 2012); 1 and 2 Samuel (Augsburg Fortress, 2010).
Seigen Haruo Yamaoka (IBS), Shin Buddhist Ministry: A New Perspective (Institute of Buddhist Studies and BDK America Publication, 2017).
Devin Phillip Zuber (GTU/CSS), A Language of Things: Swedenborg and the American Environmental Imagination (University of Virginia Press, 2019).