Andover Newton Theological School

“Bernard of Clairvaux: On Loving God,” in Christian Spirituality. The Classics, edited by Arthur Holder (London and New York: Routledge, 2010): 86 – 97.

“The Hardest Love We Carry,” Weavings 23 (2008):36 – 45

“Wilson Chapel: A New Meetinghouse for a School ‘Set on a Hill,’” Faith and Form: The Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art and Architecture (2008): 16 – 20

“Reviving Election Day Sermons,” The Common (2008): 1 – 3

„Die Laterne der Barmherzigkeit,“ die Bibelarbeit für die Synode der Evangelischen Kirche im Rheinland, in Wirtschaften für das Leben: Stellungnahme zur wirtschaftlichen Globalisierung und ihren Herausforderungen für die Kirchen. Ergebnisse der Landessynode 2008 (May, 2008): 133 – 37

“Complexity, Failure, and Hope in Interreligious Relationships,” The Reporter (Winter, 2008): 1 – 4.

“Vigils and the Rest,” Weavings 22: 6 (November, 2007): 23 – 33

“God is a Word Unspoken: Reading Bernard McGinn’s The Flowering of Medieval Mysticism,” The Harvard Theological Review (January, 2007)

“Julian of Norwich” and “Jean Gerson” in Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters, edited by Donald McKim (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2007).

“Allegorical Reading and Monastic Body-Building: Bernard of Clairvaux on the Song of Songs,” in Scrolls of Love. Essays on Ruth and the Song of Songs. Edited by Peter S. Hawkins and Lesleig Cushing. New York, 2007.

„Eine andere Welt ist möglich – Die Berufung einer Kirche für gerechten Frieden in einer Globalisierten Welt,“ in Evangelischer Pressedienst Dokumentation 2 (2006): 27 – 34

“‘There’s a Thread You Follow’: A Contemporary Appropriation of St. Benedict’s Rule,” in On the Way. The Teaching Church, edited by Frederick R. Trost. Minneapolis, MN, 2005.

“Another World Is Possible: The Vocation of a Just Peace Church in a Globalized World,” in UCC/UEK Newsletter (2005): 47 – 57

“Jesus Goes to the Yard Sales,” in Weavings (Nov/Dec, 2005)

“‘Peering into the Abyss of the Future’: Empire in the Age of Globalization and the Call for a New Ecumenism,” in Theologies and Cultures (June, 2005)

Julian’s “All” and the Politics of Paradise. The Annual JulianFest Lecture, May, 2004. Waukesha, WI: The Order of Julian of Norwich, 2005.

“Dismantling the Da Vinci Code - Gospel Fantasy”, in Christian Century (June 2004)

Mark S. Burrows, Minding the Spirit, The Study of Christian Spirituality (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).

“The Love Shaped in Weakness,” in Weavings 19 (2004): 25-33

“The Songs of Songs in the Monastery: Allegorical Readings of the Song of Songs and the Sub/Versions of Desire,” in Scrolls of Love, ed. by Peter Hawkins (Fordham University Press)

“The Body of the Text and the Text of the Body: Bernard of Clairvaux and the Monastic Reading of the Song of Songs,” in Studies in Spirituality (2004)

“Raiding the Inarticulate: Mysticism, Poetics, and the Unlanguageable,” in Spiritus 4 (2004)

Mark S. Burrows, The Imaginative Spririt (Adelaide, Australia: ELC Publications, 2002)

Holy Clarity: The Practice of Planning and Evaluation (Alban Institute, 2009)

“Learning, Leadership, and Rapid Change,” in Journal of Religious Leadership 6 (No. 1, Spring 2007): 103-121.

Only When Women Sing: Poems on Human Rights (Lulu Publishing, 2009). 

With Eyes of Flesh: The Bible, Gender and Human Rights (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2008)

“Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm., feminist mentor: rightly did the maidens love him.” Biblical Theology Bulletin, Fall, 2003, by Carole R. Fontaine.

Carole R. Fontaine, “Ancient Texts in a Post-Modern World” (Lowell Lecture 10/08/02).

“Book Review: The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah”, Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal (2002).

Smooth Words: Women, Proverbs and Performance in Biblical Wisdom (Sheffield Academic Press/Continuum, 2002)

“Chapter 5: A Heifer from Thy Stable: Goddesses and the Status of Women in the Ancient Near East”, by Carole R. Fontaine.

Carole Fontaine, ”Hannah’s Dragon and Other Curiousities of the 14th C: A Travel Journal”, an illustrated article on a medieval text by a Jewish woman, now on the Web at the Women in Judaism Web site.

“Engaging Diversity and Difference:  From Practices of Exclusion to Practices of Practical Solidarity” Forthcoming chapter in Injustice and the Care of Souls, Fortress Press, 2009. 

“Called to Go Forth:  Armed with Weapons of the Spirit” Myanmar Theological Institute Journal, forthcoming, Fall 2008.

“The Physical, Psychological and Spiritual Impact of Trauma:  How Can We Respond and Create Resiliency” Myanmar Theological Institute Journal, forthcoming, Fall 2008.

“Spiritual Practices:  How Do They Contribute to Psychological, Spiritual and Physical Healing” Myanmar Theological Institute Journal, forthcoming, Fall 2008.

“Becoming She Who Desires:  The Transformative Power of Subjectivity in Women’s Psychological and Spiritual Experience” in Psyche and Spirit: Dialectics of Transformation, ed. W.W. Meissner and Charles Schlauch.  New York: University Press of America, 2004.

“Pastoral Counseling:  The Art of Ascetic Witnessing.” Festschrift for James Dittes.  Pastoral Psychology, Vol. 52, #1/2, November 2003.

by Pamela Couture. Society of Pastoral Theology Journal, forthcoming."Counseling Troubled Youth” by Craig Dykstra.  Princeton Theological Review, 1999.

“Feminist Pedagogy: Under the Influence of Feminism” in Feminist and Womanist Pastoral Theology, ed. Bonnie Miller McLemore and Brita Gill-Austern (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999)

Feminist and Womanist Pastoral Theology ed. Bonnie Miller Mc Lemore and Brita Gill-Austern (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999.)

“The Braid of Generations:  A Model of Family Ministry in a Synagogue” in Strategies for Congregational Family Ministries, eds. Brynolf Lyons & Archie Smith, Jr.  (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1998).  (Volume of Religion, Culture and the Family - University of Chicago)

“Responding to a Culture Ravenous for Soul Food”, Journal of Pastoral Theology, Summer 1997

“She Who Desires:  The Transformative Power of Subjectivity in Women’s Experience” in American Baptist Quarterly, Vol. VI, March 1997, No. 1.

by Andrew D. Lester (Louisville:  Westminster/John Knox Press, 1995).  Theology Today, Vol. 53, No. 3, Oct. 1996

“What Love Understood as Self Sacrifice and Self Denial Does to Women” in Through the Eyes of Women, Jeanne Stevenson Moessner, ed. (Minneapolis:  Augsburg Fortress Press, 1996

“Rediscovering Hidden Treasures for Pastoral Care,” in Pastoral Psychology, Vol. 40, #4, March 1995.

by James W. Jones (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991). In Critical Review of Books in Religion in 1992.

by Maxine Glaz and Jeanne Stevenson Moessner, eds. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991).  Journal of Supervision and Training, 1991, Vol. 13

Teresa Brennan, ed.  (London:  Rutledge, 1989).  Journal of Supervision and Training, 1990, Vol. 12

“A Ministry of Presence,” in Women Ministers - How Women are Redefining Traditional Roles,Judith Weidman, ed. (San Francisco:  Harper and Row, 1981), second edition 1985, reprinted in The Quarterly Review, Spring 1981, Vol. 1, No. 2.

“Saved From Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross” (Eerdmans, 2006)

“A Cross-section of Sin: The Mimetic Character of Human Nature in Biological and Theological Perspective,” in Philip Clayton and Jeffrey Schloss eds., EVOLUTION AND ETHICS: HUMAN MORALITY IN BIOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVE (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004)

“Belonging to the Laity: A Baptist Perspective,” in Stephen Pope ed., THE LAITY AND THE GOVERNANCE OF THE CHURCH, Georgetown University Press, 2004

“The Future of the Cross: Symbolic Engagement with the Atonement,” in Amos Yong and Peter Heltzel eds., THEOLOGY IN GLOBAL CONTEXT: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF ROBERT NEVILLE, 2004

“Many True Religions, And Each An Only Way: The Diversity of Religious Ends,” ARS DISPUTANDI, The Online Journal of Philosophy and Religion. [http://www.ArsDisputandi.org] 3 (2003).

“The Depth of the Riches: Trinity and Religious Ends,” in Viggo Mortensen ed., CHRISTIANITY AND THE RELIGIONS: A DIALOGUE (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003)

“The Visible Victim: Christ’s Death to End Sacrifice,” Skye Fackre Gibson ed., STORY LINES: CHAPTERS ON THOUGHT, WORD, AND DEED (Essays in Honor of Gabriel Fackre) (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002)

“Revelation by Translation: Mission and Religious Pluralism,” in Israel Selvanayagam ed., MOVING FORMS OF THEOLOGY: FAITH TALK’S CHANGING CONTEXTS (Delhi:ISPCK, 2002)

“A Protestant Reflection on Ecumenism and Interfaith Issues in Dominus Iesus,” in Charles Hefling and Stephen Pope eds., SIC ET NON: ENCOUNTERING DOMINUS IESUS (New York: Crossroad, 2002)

“Christ’s Death to End Sacrifice” The Christian Century, March 14, 2001.

“Why Does Jesus’ Death Matter?” The Christian Century, March 7, 2001.

“A Trinitarian View of Religious Plurality” The Christian Century, January 24, 2001.

“Dreams Fulfilled: The Pluralism of Religious Ends” The Christian Century, January 17, 2001.

THE DEPTH OF THE RICHES: A TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS ENDS (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001)

“Heart, Mind and Strength: Theory and Practice for Congregational Leadership,” Alban, 2008

“Grounding the Formation of Clergy in Practical Experience: A Call to Reconceptualize Theological Education” with Robert Pazmino, Congregations, Spring 2008

“Telling Stories – Forming Disciples,” Clergy Journal, Winter 2007

“Leading for the Future,” Congregations, Winter 2006.

Parenting with Love and Laughter: Finding God in Family Life, Jossey-Bass, 2002

Traveling Together: A Guide for Disciple-Forming Congregations, Alban, 2006

We Are Baptists, Studies for Younger Children, Older Children, Youth, and Adults
(four volumes), Judson Press, 1999– 2001

Keepers of the Faith, Illustrated Biographies from Baptist History, Judson Press, 1999

Homiletic essays on 1 Corinthians 13 and 15 for “Feasting on the Word” preaching commentary, Westminster/John Knox, 2008

“The Transfiguration of Jesus remembered, reinterpreted and reenacted: An Examination of the Dynamic Relationship between the Scriptures and Their Interpretive Traditions and Interpreting Community in Acts of Peter”, in James Charlesworth and Lee MacDonald, Jewish and Christian Scriptures: The Function of ‘Canonical’ and ‘Non-canonical’ Religious Texts (T&T Clark, 2010)

Jesus’ Transfiguration and the Believers’ Transformation (WUNT II/265; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009)

“Taming ‘Wild Ass Colts:’ An Analysis of Theology as a Kyriarchal Weapon of Economic, Spiritual, and Physical Violence”
Journal of Feminist Study in Religion, forthcoming Spring 2009

“Revolutionary Interdependence”: bell hooks’ Ethic of Compassion and Critique as a Basis for a Feminist Liberation Theology of Love” chapter in Rocks, Margins, Looks: Critical Perspectives on bell hooks, edited by Maria Davidson and George Yancy, Routledge University Press, forthcoming February 2009.

“Theological Reflections on Violence and Abuse,” Journal of Pastoral Care, Spring/Summer 2005.

Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Nancy Nienhuis Kienzle, “Historical and Contemporary Responses to Battering,” Journal of Religion and Abuse, vol. 7, no.1, 2005.

“Battered Women and the Construction of Sanctity” in the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion chosen as the March Article of the Month at the Medieval Feminist Index Web site, March 2002

“Why Don’t We Vote?” in Sojourner: The Women’s Forum, Vol. 18, #3, November 1992

Nancy Nienhuis and Tammy Zambo.  “The Impossible Takes a Little Longer.” Audiovisual Review in Humanity and Society, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1990

Nancy Nienhuis and Tammy Zambo.  “Lifetime Commitment:  A Portrait of Karen Thompson.” Audiovisual Review in Humanity and Society, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1990

History of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, which celebrated its centennial last year.

Foundational Issues in Christian Education: An Introduction in Evangelical Perspective, Third Edition (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008)

Basics of Teaching for Christians: Preparation, Instruction and Evaluation.  Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998. (translation into Portuguese, Editora Cultura Crista, 2006)

“Liberative Educational Practice: Reassessing Educational Configurations,” in Hispanic Christian Thought at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Apuntes in Honor of Justo L. Gonzalez, eds. Alvin Padilla, Roberrt Goizueta, Eldin Villafañe. Nashville: Abingdon, 2005.

“Response to Dr. Elizabeth Conde-Frazier,” Perspectivas/Occasional Papers (Spring 2004): 69-75. Perspectivas is in an English language theological journal dedicated to the analysis of U.S Latino/a theology and religion.

“Theological Education with Hispanic Persons: Teaching Distinctiveness,” Teaching Theology and Religion 6 (July 2003): 138-145.

“The Nature of God from an Adolescent Perspective: Biblical, Developmental and Theological Insights,” The Journal of Youth Ministry 1 (Spring 2003): 35-50.

God Our Teacher: Theological basics in Christian Education (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2001).

“Hispanic/Latino(a) Theology,” in Liberation Theologies in the United States: An Introduction (New York University Press, 2010).

Editor, Creating Ourselves: African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression (Duke University Press, 2010).

Editor, In Our Own Voices: Latino/a Renditions of Theology (Orbis Books, forthcoming).

“On Mestizaje,” in The Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Religious Cultures (forthcoming)

Valentin, Benjamin, editor, New Horizons in Hispanic/Latino(a) Theology (The Pilgrim Press, 2003).

“Nuevos Odres Para El Vino: A Critical Contribution to Latino/a Theology” in Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology (May 1998)

“Going Public: Latino/a Theology as Public Discourse” Perspectivas/Occasional Papers (Spring 2004).

Mapping Public Theology: Beyond Culture, Identity, and Difference. Trinity Press International, November 2002.

“Using Discernment to Make Better Business Decisions” by Margaret Benefiel in Leadership and Business Ethics, Gabriel Flynn, ed., Springer, 2008, pp. 31-38.

The Soul of a Leader: Finding Your Path to Fulfillment and Success by Margaret Benefiel, Crossroad, 2008

“Pathfinders and Trailblazers: Exploring the Territory of Spirituality in Organizations” by Margaret Benefiel, Managerial Finance, Vol. 33, No. 12, December 2007, pp. 947-956

“Strange Bedfellows or Natural Partners? The Academic Study of Spirituality and Business” by Margaret Benefiel, Studies in Spirituality, Vol. 16, December 2006, pp. 273-285

“How Organizations Listen: Communal Discernment in Organizational Settings” by Margaret Benefiel, The Way, April 2006, pp. 97-108

“The Second Half of the Journey: Spiritual Leadership for Organizational Transformation” by Margaret Benefiel, The Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 4, August 2005

Soul at Work: Spiritual Leadership in Organizations by Margaret Benefiel, Seabury Books, 2005

Business by Margaret Benefiel in The New Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality, Philip Sheldrake, ed., Westminster/John Knox, 2005

Leadership by Margaret Benefiel in The New Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality, Philip Sheldrake, ed., Westminster/John Knox, 2005

“Walking the Red Carpet” by Margaret Benefiel, Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 4, May 2004

“Irreconcilable Foes? The Discourse of Spirituality and the Discourse of Organizational Science” by Margaret Benefiel, Organization: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Organization, Theory and Society, Vol. 10, No. 2, May 2003

Jeyaraj, Daniel: “Making Missionary Heritage Alive through Archival Research-Experiences of a Researcher-Archivist.”

Jeyaraj, Daniel: “History of the Lutheran Churches in India during the eighteenth Century: an overview,” Lutheran Quarterly, Vol. XVII, No. 1, Spring 2003, pp. 77-97.

Jeyaraj, Daniel: Die Genealogie der malabarischen Götter (i.e., The Genealogy of the South Indian Deities), Neue Hallesche Berichte-Volume 3, Halle: Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen, 2003. ISBN 3-931479-45-5; Preis: twenty-two Euro. (Contact Information: Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen, Franckeplatz 1 Haus 37, 06110 Halle, Germany; Tel 0345/2127499; Fax 0345/2127433; Email: verlag@francke-halle.de)

Jeyaraj, Daniel: “Missionary Attempts of the Tamil Protestant Christians in the East [i.e. Tanzania] and in the West [i.e. Myanmar/ Burma] during the 19th Century,” Transcontinental Links in the History of Non-Western Christianity, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2002, pp. 131-144.

Holy Play: The Joyful Adventure of Unleashing Your Divine Purpose, Jossey-Bass, (January 2007)

The African American Preaching Library, (Editor), Abingdon Press, 2006

The Morning B.R.E.W. Journal, Augsburg Books, 2005

Morning B.R.E.W.: A Divine Power Drink for Your Soul, Augsburg Books, 2005

The Jazz of Preaching: How to Preach with Great Freedom and Joy, Abingdon Press, 2004

Addicted to Hurry: Spiritual Strategies for Slowing Down, Judson Press, 2003

Rest in the Storm: Self-Care Strategies for Clergy and Other Caregivers, Judson Press, 2001

“Hispanic/Latino(a) Theology,” in Liberation Theologies in the United States: An Introduction (New York University Press, 2010).

Editor, Creating Ourselves: African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression (Duke University Press, 2010).

Editor, In Our Own Voices: Latino/a Renditions of Theology (Orbis Books, forthcoming).

“On Mestizaje,” in The Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Religious Cultures (forthcoming)

Valentin, Benjamin, editor, New Horizons in Hispanic/Latino(a) Theology (The Pilgrim Press, 2003).

“Nuevos Odres Para El Vino: A Critical Contribution to Latino/a Theology” in Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology (May 1998)

“Bernard of Clairvaux: On Loving God,” in Christian Spirituality. The Classics, edited by Arthur Holder (London and New York: Routledge, 2010): 86 – 97.

Foundational Issues in Christian Education: An Introduction in Evangelical Perspective, Third Edition (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008)

“The Transfiguration of Jesus remembered, reinterpreted and reenacted: An Examination of the Dynamic Relationship between the Scriptures and Their Interpretive Traditions and Interpreting Community in Acts of Peter”, in James Charlesworth and Lee MacDonald, Jewish and Christian Scriptures: The Function of ‘Canonical’ and ‘Non-canonical’ Religious Texts (T&T Clark, 2010)

Jesus’ Transfiguration and the Believers’ Transformation (WUNT II/265; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009)

Only When Women Sing: Poems on Human Rights (Lulu Publishing, 2009). 

Holy Clarity: The Practice of Planning and Evaluation (Alban Institute, 2009)

With Eyes of Flesh: The Bible, Gender and Human Rights (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2008)

“The Hardest Love We Carry,” Weavings 23 (2008):36 – 45

“Wilson Chapel: A New Meetinghouse for a School ‘Set on a Hill,’” Faith and Form: The Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art and Architecture (2008): 16 – 20

“Reviving Election Day Sermons,” The Common (2008): 1 – 3

„Die Laterne der Barmherzigkeit,“ die Bibelarbeit für die Synode der Evangelischen Kirche im Rheinland, in Wirtschaften für das Leben: Stellungnahme zur wirtschaftlichen Globalisierung und ihren Herausforderungen für die Kirchen. Ergebnisse der Landessynode 2008 (May, 2008): 133 – 37

“Vigils and the Rest,” Weavings 22: 6 (November, 2007): 23 – 33

“God is a Word Unspoken: Reading Bernard McGinn’s The Flowering of Medieval Mysticism,” The Harvard Theological Review (January, 2007)

“Julian of Norwich” and “Jean Gerson” in Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters, edited by Donald McKim (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2007).

“Allegorical Reading and Monastic Body-Building: Bernard of Clairvaux on the Song of Songs,” in Scrolls of Love. Essays on Ruth and the Song of Songs. Edited by Peter S. Hawkins and Lesleig Cushing. New York, 2007.

“Learning, Leadership, and Rapid Change,” in Journal of Religious Leadership 6 (No. 1, Spring 2007): 103-121.

Becoming Fire: Spiritual Writing from Rising Generations, edited by Alexander Levering is an anthology of spiritual writing.

„Eine andere Welt ist möglich – Die Berufung einer Kirche für gerechten Frieden in einer Globalisierten Welt,“ in Evangelischer Pressedienst Dokumentation 2 (2006): 27 – 34

“‘There’s a Thread You Follow’: A Contemporary Appropriation of St. Benedict’s Rule,” in On the Way. The Teaching Church, edited by Frederick R. Trost. Minneapolis, MN, 2005.

“Another World Is Possible: The Vocation of a Just Peace Church in a Globalized World,” in UCC/UEK Newsletter (2005): 47 – 57

“A Time to Prepare- A Time to Discuss: How Words Can Bring Greater Sanctity into the Dying Process” by Rabbi Seth Bernstein

Opening Convocation - September 14, 2005
Nick Carter, President, Andover Newton Theological School
Preached at Opening Convocation
September 14, 2005

Julian’s “All” and the Politics of Paradise. The Annual JulianFest Lecture, May, 2004. Waukesha, WI: The Order of Julian of Norwich, 2005.

“The Passion of the Christ” — Reflections by Sharon G. Thornton
April 2004

Editor, with Elizabeth Dreyer, Minding the Spirit. The Study of Christian Spirituality. Baltimore,
MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.