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Volume 1 Issue 18, February 1, 2005

Hicks, Douglas A.
Inequality and Christian Ethics

Hollenbach, David
The Global Face of Public Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and Christian Ethics

Langan, John
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin: A Moral Vision for America

Marsh, Charles
The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today

Stassen, Glen H.
Just Peacemaking: Transforming Initiatives for Justice and Peace

Volume 1 Issue 17 January 1, 2005

Bouchard, Larry D.
Tragic Method and Tragic Theology: Evil in Contemporary Drama and Religious Thought

Brock, Ann Graham
Mary Magdalene, the First Apostle: The Struggle for Authority

Hearon, Holly E.
The Mary Magdalene Tradition: Witness and Counter-Witness in Early Christian Communities

Kirk, Mary Ann
Women of Bible Lands: A Pilgrimage to Compassion and Wisdom

Reno, R.R.
Heroism and the Christian Life: Reclaiming Excellence

In the Ruins of the Church: Sustaining Faith in an Age of Diminished Christianity

Volume 1 Issues 15-16 Dec. 10 & 20, 2004

Cavanaugh, William T.
Torture and the Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ

Chittister, Joan
Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir

Cunningham, Lawrence S.
Thomas Merton: Spiritual Master

Griffin, Leslie C.
The Catholic Church, Morality and Politics

Harak, Simon G.
Aquinas and Empowerment: Classical Ethics for Ordinary Lives

Nonviolence for the Third Millennium: Its Legacy and Future

Virtuous Passions: The Formation of Christian Character

Merton, Thomas
Raids on the Unspeakable

The Seven Storey Mountain

Ogletree, Thomas W.
The World Calling: The Church's Witness in Politics and Society

Palmer, Parker J.
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

Parachin, Janet W.
Engaged Spirituality: Ten Lives of Contemplation and Action

Pelikan, Jaroslav
Luther's Works

The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine and Credo

Jesus through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture

Bach among the Theologians

The Idea of the University: A Reexamination

Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution

Raboteau, Albert J.
A Fire in the Bones

Rae, Scott B.
Beyond Integrity: A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics

Body and Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis of Ethics

Moral Choices

Roels, Shirley J.
On Moral Business: Classical and Contemporary Resources for Ethics in Economic Life

Volume 1 Issue 14, November 20, 2004

Bader-Saye, Scott
Church and Israel after Christendom: The Politics of Election

Furedi, Frank
Culture of Fear: Risk Taking and the Morality of Low Expectations

Glatzer, Barry
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things

Lappe, Frances Moore and Perkins, Jeff
You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear

May, William F.
Beleaguered Rulers: The Public Obligation of the Professional

Moody, Dwight A.
Baptists Free and Faithful: Christian Discipleship in the 21st Century

Volume 1 Issue 13, October 30, 2004

Brueggemann, Walter
Cadences of Home: Preaching among Exiles

Ichabod toward Home: The Journey of God’s Glory

Struggling with Scripture

Texts under Negotiation: The Bible and Postmodern Imagination

Coppa, Frank J.
The Modern Papacy since 1789

Encyclopedia of the Vatican and the Papacy

Controversial Concordats: The Vatican’s Relations with Napoleon, Mussolini and Hitler

The Great Popes Through History: An Encyclopedia

Cornwell, John
Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII

Duffy, Eamon
Saints and Sinners: A History of Popes

Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah
A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair

Girffiths, Paul J.
Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity

Marchione, Margherita
Yours Is a Precious Witness: Memoirs of Jews and Catholics in Wartime Italy

Pope Pius XII: Architect for Peace

Consensus and Controversy: Defending Pope Pius XII

McLaren, Brian
A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am …

Sanchez, Jose M.
Pius XII and the Holocaust: Understanding the Controversy

Sider, Ronald J.
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger

Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience: Why Are Christians Living Just Like the Rest of the World?

Steimer, Bruno et al
Dictionary of Popes and the Papacy

Volume 1 Issue 12, October 15, 2004

Taylor, Barry
A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture

Dean, William
The American Spiritual Culture: And the Invention of Jazz, Football and the Movies

Volume 1 Issue 11, September 30, 2004

Bass, Diana Butler
Broken We Kneel: Reflections on Faith and Citizenship

Campolo, Tony
Speaking My Mind: The Radical Evangelical Prophet Tackles the Tough Issues Christians Are Afraid to Face

Davis, G. Scott
Religion and Justice in the War over Bosnia

Warcraft and the Fragility of Virtue: An Essay in Aristotelian Ethics

Gushee, David P.
Christians and Politics Beyond the Culture Wars: An Agenda for Engagement

Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust: A Christian Interpretation

McCann, Dennis
On Moral Business: Classical and Contemporary Resources for Ethics in Economic Life

McCarraher, Eugene
Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought

Volume 1 Issue 10, September 15, 2004

Donahue, James A.
Religion, Ethics and the Common Good

Gioia, Dana
Can Poetry Matter: Essays on Poetry and American Culture

Twentieth Century American Poetry

Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry

Harvey, Barry A.
Another City: An Ecclesiological Primer for a Post-Christian World

Jeffrey, David Lyle
People of the Book: Christianity and Literary Culture

Houses of the Interpreter: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture

Outka, Gene
Agape: An Ethical Analysis

Wheeler, Sondra Ely
Stewards of Life: Bioethics and Pastoral Care

Wood, Ralph C.
The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists

Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South

Contending for the Faith: The Church’s Engagement with Culture

Volume 1 Issue 9, August 15, 2004

Baker, William J.
If Christ Came to the Olympics

Budde, Michael L.
Christianity Incorporated

Hye, Allen E.
The Great God Baseball: Religion in Modern Baseball Fiction

Ladd, Tony and Mathisen, James A.
Muscular Christianity: Evangelical Protestants and the Development of American Sport

Laytham, D. Brent
God is Not … Religious, Nice, “One of Us,” An American, A Capitalist

Moore, T.M.
Redeeming Pop Culture: A Kingdom Approach

The Psalms for Prayer

Price, Joseph L.
From Season to Season: Sports as American Religion

Rolston, Holmes III
Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World

Volume 1 Issue 8, July 15, 2004

Gamwell, Franklin I.
Democracy on Purpose: Justice and the Reality of God

Politics as a Christian Vocation

The Divine Good: Modern Moral Theory and the Necessity of God

Long, Thomas G.
Preaching and the Literary Forms of the Bible

The Witness of Preaching

Webb, Stephen H.
Good Eating

The Divine Voice: Christian Proclamation and the Theology of Sound

Wogaman, J. Philip
Christian Perspectives on Politics

An Unexpected Journey: Reflections of Pastoral Ministry

Volume 1 Issue 7, June 15, 2004

Battle, Michael
Blessed Are the Peacemakers: A Christian Spirituality of Nonviolence

Grimsrud, Theodore G.
Peace and Justice Shall Embrace: Power and Theopolitics in the Bible.

Herzfeld, Noreen
In Our Image: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Spirit.

Hunsinger, George
Disruptive Grace: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth

How to Read Karl Barth: The Shape of His Theology.

Marsden, George
Jonathan Edwards: A Life.

Matsuoka, Fumitaka
The Color of Faith

Out of Silence: Emerging Theological Themes of Asian-American Churches.

Noll, Mark A.
America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln.

Shriver, Donald W. Jr
An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics

Books recommended by Fumitaka Matsuoka
Eddy, Mary Jo
Radical Gratitude

Fernandez, Eleazar S.
Reimagining the Humans: Theological Anthropology in Response to Systemic Evil

Rieger, Joerg
Remember the Poor: The Challenge to Theology in the Twenty-First Century

Volume 1 Issue 5 & 6, May 1 & 15, 2004

Beckley, Harlan
Economic Justice: Selections from Distributive Justice and A Living Wage (Library of Theological Ethics) (editor)

Passion for Justice: Retrieving the Legacies of Walter Rauschenbusch, John A. Ryan, and Reinhold Niebuhr

Cavanaugh, William T.
Theopolitical Imagination: Christian Practices of Space and Time

Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ

The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology (editor with Peter Scott)

Cone, James H.
A Black Theology of Liberation

God of the Oppressed

Martin & Malcom & America: A Dream or a Nightmare

Elshtain, Jean Bethke
Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social Thought

Democracy on Trial

Augustine and the Limits of Politics

Pannell, William E.
The Coming Race Wars: A Cry for Reconciliation

Wallis, Jim
Faith Works: Lessons from the Life of an Activist Preacher

The Soul of Politics: A Practical and Prophetic Vision for Change

Who Speaks for God? An Alternative to the Religious Right - A New Politics of Compassion, Community, and Civility

Volume 1 Issue 4, April 15, 2004

Hicks, Douglas A.
Religion and the Workplace: Pluralism, Spirituality, Leadership

Inequality and Christian Ethics.

Meeks, M. Douglas
God the Economist: The Doctrine of God and Political Economy

Meilaender, Gilbert
Things That Count: Essays Moral and Theological

Working: Its Meaning and Its Limits (The Ethics of Everyday Life)

Miller-McLemore, Bonnie
Also A Mother: Work and Family as Theological Dilemma

Let the Children Come: Reimagining Childhood from a Christian Perspective

From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and the American Family Debate

Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth
Wisdom Ways: Introducing Feminist Biblical Interpretation

Stackhouse, Max L.
Public Theology and Political Economy

God and Globalization

On Moral Business: Classical and Contemporary Resources for Ethics in Economic Life


Volume 1 Issue 3, April 1, 2004

Browning, Don S.
Marriage and Modernization: How Globalization Threatens Marriage and What to Do About It (Religion, Marriage, and Family)

Fineman, Martha Albertson
The Autonomy Myth: a Theory of Dependency

The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies

Haker, Hille
The Ethics of Genetics in Human Procreation

Lindbeck, George and Buckley, James J.
The Church in a Postliberal Age

Ochs, Peter
Textual Reasonings: Jewish Philosophy and Text Study at the End of the Twentieth Century

Shannon, Thomas A.
The New Genetic Medicine: Theological and Ethical Reflections

Genetic Engineering: A Documentary History

Made in Whose Image? Genetic Engineering and Christian Ethics

Witte, John S. Jr.
From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition

Yoder, John Howard; Cartwright, Michael and Ochs, Peter
The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited


Books Recommended by Jacob Neusner

Chilton, Bruce D.
Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography

Gillman, Neil
Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew

Neusner, Jacob
The Way of Torah: An Introduction to Judaism, Seventh Edition

Neusner, Jacob
A Rabbi Talks with Jesus, Second edition


Volume 1 Issue 2, March 1, 2004

Keenan, James F.
Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention

Paulsell, Stephanie
Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice


Books Recommended by Clayton J. Schmit

Lischer, Richard
The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Augustine to the Present

Nestingen, James A.
Martin Luther: A Life

Wilson-Dickson, Andrew
The Story of Christian Music: From Gregorian Chant to Black Gospel, An Illustrated Guide to All the Major Traditions of Music in Worship


Volume 1 Issue 1, Feb. 15, 2004

Bass, Dorothy C.
Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time

Long, D. Steven
Divine Economy: Theology and Market

Mahan, Jeffrey H.
Religion and Popular Culture in America

Meador, Keith
Heal Thyself: Spirituality, Medicine and the Distortion of Christianity

Powell, H. Jefferson
The Moral Tradition of American Constitutionalism

Shuman, Joel
Heal Thyself: Spirituality, Medicine and the Distortion of Christianity

Stout, Jeffrey
Democracy and Tradition
                                                                                                                                                                       

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