Victor Anderson
Professor of Christian Ethics, African American Studies, and Religious Studies

A.B., Trinity Christian (1982)
M.Div., Th.M., Calvin Theological Seminary
(1986, 1990)
M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University (1991, 1992)

victor.anderson@vanderbilt.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Victor Anderson is Professor of Christian Ethics at the Divinity School. He is also the Professor of African American Studies and Religious Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. He holds theological degrees from Calvin Theological Seminary including the Master of Divinity and Master of Theology in Philosophical and Moral Theology. He earned the M.A and Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University in Religion, Ethics, and Politics. Anderson has devoted his academic career to the study of religion, ethics, and culture, seeking to understand the power that these discourses have to influence human life and actions. He has published two books: Beyond Ontological
Blackness: An Essay in African American Religious and Cultural Criticism
([1995] 1999), and Pragmatic Theology: Negotiating the Intersection of an American Philosophy of Religion and Public Theology(1999). He has a third book forthcoming, entitled, Creative Exchange: A Constructive Theology of African American Religious Experience. Anderson has published over 25 articles and chapters in scholarly journals and books, and has given over 25 public lectures at Universities and Colleges in the United States and England, including the Templeton Lecture on Science and Religion, the John Arthur Heck lectures at United Theological Seminary, and the Singh Lecture on Inter-religious Dialogue at University of Birmingham, England. His work seeks to help people find meaning, significance, and hope in their experience of the world. In 2000, Anderson was honored by the Chancellor of Vanderbilt University as a Distinguished Faculty member for his commitment to advancing diversity in education.



Curriculum Vitae
VICTOR ANDERSON

Up-dated February 15, 2008

Permanent Address:
910 B Russell Street
Nashville, TN. 37206
(615) 650-8067

Employment:
Professor of Christian Ethics, Vanderbilt Divinity School,
Professor of African American Studies,
Professor of Religious Studies, College of Arts and Sciences,
Vanderbilt University,
The Divinity School, 240
Nashville, TN. 37238
(615) 343-3973
victor.anderson@vanderbilt.edu

Education:

1. Higher Education:

Princeton University, Master of Arts. (1991) and Doctor of Philosophy in Religion (1992). Program of study: Religion, Ethics and Politics. Dissertation: “The Legacy of Pragmatism in the Theologies of D.C. Macintosh, H. Richard Niebuhr, and James M. Gustafson,” (Princeton: 1992), pp. 218.

Calvin Theological Seminary, Master of Theology in Philosophical and Moral Theology (1990). Thesis: Two Types of Reformed Theological Ethics: Henry J. Stob and James M. Gustafson (Grand Rapids, MI: Calvin Theological Seminary: 1990), pp. 205.

Calvin Theological Seminary, Master of Divinity (1986).

Trinity Christian College, Bachelor of Arts (1982): Double Major/ History and Theology.

Chicago Bible College, Diploma of Bible and Bachelor of Theology (1976).

 

2. Fellowships:

Exchange Scholar in Religious Studies, American Philosophy and Religious Thought, Yale University Graduate School, 1990-1991.

Andrew Mellon Scholarship, Princeton University, 1990. Seminar on Law among the    Disciplines: Literature, Philosophy, Social Science, and Ethics.

Calvin College Minority Faculty Recruitment Fellowship for Graduate Studies, (1988-1990).

 

Professional Experience

1. Editor:
Co-editor with Anthony B. Pinn of the Trinity International Press Series on African American Religious Thought and Life (1998-2005).

Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (1999- 2002, 2005- present).

Editorial Board of the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy (2002-2006).

Editorial Board of the Journal of Religion (2004- present).

2. Teaching:
           
Visiting Professor in Department of Religion and Philosophy, Fisk University, 2003-2004 (Vanderbilt-Fisk initiative).

Mentor of the United Theological Seminary Doctor of Ministry Program in the Black Church and Civic Empowerment Group (2004-2007).

Mentor of the United Theological Seminary Doctor of Ministry Program in the Black Church and Economic and Spiritual Empowerment Group (2000-2003).

Visiting Instructor at Iliff School of Theology, Summer Program, 1997.

Teaching Assistant at Princeton University: “Ethics and the Life Sciences,” Dr. Philip Quinn, Notre Dame University, instructor; “Religion and its Modern Critics,” Dr. Cornel West, instructor; “The Self and the World's Religions,” Dr. Malcolm Diamond, instructor; and “Christian Ethics and Modern Society,” Dr. Victor Preller, instructor.

Instructor: Department of Religion and Theology at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI., 1986-1988.

           
3. Church:
Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church: Member since April 2005, Instructor in the Biblical and Theological Academy; Ordination Active.

Board Member for the First Response Center of Metropolitan Interdenominational Church, Nashville, TN, a HIV/AIDS crises and wellness center (in-active).

Pastor of Grace Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids MI., 1986-1988.
Ordination Inactive, 1989.

Associate Pastor, Canaan Baptist Church, Chicago, IL. 1976-1982.

Academic Interests.

  1. Theology and Ethics: 19th century American, 20th century North Atlantic, contemporary African American theology and ethics, and 20th century political theologies. Research and writing in American Empirical, Pragmatic, and Critical theologies and philosophy.
  2. Religion and Culture Studies: religion and social sciences, cultural studies, religion and critical theory, cultural criticism, black religion and culture studies. Research and writing on race theory, sexuality, social theory.
  3. Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Ethics: philosophical problems (evil, knowledge, truth, language, etc), African American philosophy and religious thought, Philosophical Ethics in Western Tradition, Religion and Natural Science: Research and writing on hermeneutics, history of philosophy and ethics, British moralists, discourse ethics, and phenomenology.

Courses and Tutorials (See Appendix A).
           
University Committees.
            Academic Programs, Divinity School, (2005- 2006)

University Appellate Review. (1992-1994; 1998-2000, 2006-present).

Academic Affairs, Divinity School. (1995-1997, 2003-2004; 2007-present).

Personal and Policy Committee Divinity School. (1994-1995, 1996-1998, 2007-present).

Graduate Admission and Policy Committee. (1994-2006, 2007-present).

University Faculty in Resident Program (1993-1998).

Faculty Senate: Professional ethics and grievance committee, Students Affairs (1998-2000)
           
Dissertations Directed (Appendix C)
             
Professional Associations.

American Academy of Religion, (Active) (Steering committee for Philosophy of Religion group, [1995-98]); Affiliate, Constructive Theology Group; Pragmatism and Empiricism Group; Black Theology Group).

Society of Christian Ethics, (Active) (African American Work Group).

Highlands Institute for the Study of American Religious Thought, (Active).

Society for the Study of Black Religion, (Active).

 

Publications:

Monographs:
Creative Exchange: A Constructive Theology of African American Religious Experience. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008). 

Pragmatic Theology: Negotiating the Intersections of an American Philosophy of Religion and Public Theology. (Albany: State University of New York, 1998).

Beyond Ontological Blackness: An Essay on African American Religious and Cultural Criticism. (New York: Continuum, 1995, 1998).
 
Chapters in Books: 2000-present (1992-1999 Appendix B)

“The Black Church and the Curious Body of the Black Homosexual,” in Loving the Black Body: Black Religious Studies and the Erotic, edited by Anthony B. Pinn and Dwight N. Hopkins, (New York, NY: Palgrave , 2004 ), pp. 297-312.

“Responsibility, Vengeance, and the Death Penalty” in  Religion and the Death Penalty: a Call for Reckoning, edited by Eric C. Owens, John D. Carlson, and Eric P. Elshtain (Grand Rapid: Eerdmans, 2004), pp.195-213.

“Ontological Blackness in Theology” in African American Religious Thought: An Anthology, edited by Cornel West and Eddie S. Glaude (Westminister John Knox Press, 2003); pp.893-920;

“Ontological Blackness in Theology,” in Reflections: An Anthology of African American Philosophy, edited by James A. Montmarquet and William H. Hardy, (Belmont, CA.: Wadsworth /Thomson Learning, 2000), pp. 414-423.

Secularization and the Worldliness of  Theology”, Converging on Culture: Theologians in Dialogue with Cultural Analysis and Criticism, edited by Delwin Brown, Sheila Greeve Davaney, and Kathryn Tanner (Oxford: Oxford University Press,2001), pp. 71-85.

“Is Cornel West also Among the Theologians: The Shadow of the Divine in the Religious Thought of Cornel West” in Cornel West: A Critical Reader, edited by George Yancy (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001), pp. 139-153.

“We See Through a Glass Darkly: Black Narrative Theology and the Opacity of African American Religious Thought” in The Ties that Bind: African American and Hispanic American /Latino/a theologies in Dialogue, edited by Anthony B. Pinn and Benjamin Valentin (New York: Continuum, 2001), pp. 78-93.

Earlier version in “Critical Reflection on the Problems of History and Narrative in a Recent African American Research Program” in A Dream Unfinished: theological Reflections on America from the Margins, edited by Eleazer S. Fernandez and Fernando F. Segovia (Maryknoll: Orbis, 2001), pp. 37-51.

 

Articles and Reviews: 2000-present (Appendix B)

“Theology and Modern Physics,” by Peter E. Hodgson, reviewed by Victor Anderson, Journal of the American Academy of Religion75/4 (December 2007): 989-993.

“African American Church Tradition,” Homosexuality and Religion: An Encyclopedia, Jeffery S. Siker, editor (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 2007), Pp. 48-49. 

“A Relational Concept of Race in African American Religious Thought”, in Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, vol. 7/1, July,2003:28-43. (A symposium in honor of Charles H. Long).

“Pragmatic Theology and the Natural Sciences at the Intersection of Human Interest” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 37/1 (March 2002): 161-73.

“Contour of an African American Public Theology,” Journal of Theology, Summer/2000 (2000):49-68.

 

Critical Reviews and Citations:

In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), cit. 70, 72-73, 78

The Black Church in America: African American Christian Spirituality by Michael Battle (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006), cit. 166-68.

“James Baldwin’s God: Sex, Hope, and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture” by Clarence E. Hardy III. University of Tennessee Press, 2003. Reviewed by Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Book Reviews, 74/4 December 2006, cit. P. 997.

“Loving the Black Body: Black Religious Studies and the Erotic,” Anthony B. Pinn  and Dwight N. Hopkins, editors, Palgrave  Macmillan, 2004. Reviewed by Claudia Schippert, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Book Reviews, 74/4 December 2006, cit. P. 1029.

“Bill Cosby Remarks Raise Debate about Personal Responsibility in Society” Michael Gartland, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.: Jul 25, 2004. pg. F.13.

“Black Is, Black Ain’t”: Victor Anderson, African American Theological Thought and Identity,” by Anthony B. Pinn, Dialog: A Journal of Theology, 43/1, Spring, 2004: 54-62.

 “The Dimensions of Sin and Falleness in the Theological Anthropology of Black and Womanist Theologies,” Stephen Butler Murray, The Journal of Religion, Chicago: Jan 2004. 84/1. cit. 23, 25.

“Discussion: Pragmatic Humanism,” J. Wesley Robbins, American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, West Lafayette: May 2002. 23/2; pg 173, cit. 20.

 Pragmatic Theology: Negotiating the Intersections of an American Philosophy of Religion and Public Theology. Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. American Academy of Religion, JAAR. Chico: Mar 2001. 69/1, cit. 215.

 “Pan-Africanism and African-American Liberation in a Postmodern World: A Review Essay,” by Lewis R. Gordon, Journal of Religious Ethic. 27/2 (Summer 1999): pg 333, cit. 26.

 “Critical Theory, Deconstruction, and Liberation?” Baker-Fletcher, G.Kasimu, Journal of Men’s Studies. Harriman, 7/2 (Jan 31, 1999): cit. 275.
 

Interviews:
“Religion and Politics in America” interview by M. VanGelden (Fall 2000), Dutch T.V. 1, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

“African American Culture and the Church,” interview by Richard Nesmith (1995), Perspectives on Faith. A United Methodist Communications Production airing on the Faith and Values Channel.

“Books in Review: Beyond Ontological Blackness: An Essay on African American Religious and Cultural Criticism, by Victor Anderson," Radio interview with Michael Svoboda, WPSU/NPR, Pennsylvania State University, February 14, 1996.

Documentary:
“African Religions and African American Religious Experience.” Ninth in Religion, Scriptures & Spirituality by Knowledge Products, The Audio Classics Series ©1994, Carmichael & Carmichael.

Public Lectures and Presentations: 2000-Present (1992-1999 Appendix C)

Toward an Ethics of Interracial Relationships,”  Vanderbilt University, Closet Conversation series, Residential Affairs. Nashville, TN. February 21, 2006.

“Henry Nelson Wieman and Howard Thurman: Two Processive Theologians.” Process Theology and Black Theology: a Conversation. AAR November 2005.

“Challenge to a Sleeping Giant,” Inspiring Integrity in the Black Church. Society of Black Religion, November 19, 2005, Philadelphia.

“AIDS as Crucifixion,” Religion, Faith and Politics Forum, Vanderbilt Divinity School, June, 2005.

“The Smell of Life: A Pragmatic Theology of African American Religious Experience,” March 5, 2005. Rice University, Houston, TX.

“Theology and Civic Empowerment,” four lectures, Relevant Religion Series, Scaritt Bennent Center, March 1, 15, 22, and 29, 2005. Nashville, TN
 
“The Crisis of Religion and the Crisis of AIDS in Africa,” Vanderbilt Divinity School, Cal Turner Program in Professional and Moral Leadership, March 16, 2004.

“Dream Tracker, Dream Tracker, Track Me a Dream: Reflection on Vincent Harding’s Hope and History,” AAR, Atlanta, November, 2003 Session in honor of the career of Dr. Vincent Harding.

“Sin Talk and Sexuality in the Black Church,” AAR, Atlanta, November, 2004, Constructive Theology Group session on Stephen Ray’s Do No Harm: Social Consequences of Sin Talk. 

“Sex, Gender and Activism: Nashville, TN” at the Gender, Sexuality, and Political Action” interdisciplinary conference organized by the 2002/2003 Warren Center Fellows, October 31, 2003, Vanderbilt University.

“Three Versions of Empowerment Ethics,” United Theological Seminary, Dayton. OH January 2003.

“The Banality of Racism in Natural Science”, regional session of the Center for Theology and Natural Science Workshop, Atlanta, GA, June 13, 2002.

“Race, The Black Church, and Homosexuality”, Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies, Pacific School of Theology, Berkeley, CA, April 24, 2002.

“Relax its Just Sex: Homosexuality and African American Sexual Ethics,” presented at the 5th Brothers United Retreat, Fall Creek, TN December 7-9, 2001

“Pragmatic Theology and Natural Science: Converging Streams” at the Naturalism and Transcendence in Religious Thinking seminar, held at the Lutheran School of Theology, April 2, 2001.

“Another Yale Theology: D.C. Macintosh and the Legacy of Empirical Theology,” presented at the Celebration of the 300th year of Yale Divinity School. January 2001.

“Religion, Science and the Organization of Human Interest: or How can Science and Religion Benefit Humanity?” at the Science and Religion: The New Imperative Workshop. Held at the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences Workshop, Berkeley, CA., January 4-9, 2001.

“The Black Church and Homosexuality”  a debate with Kelly Brown Douglas at Vanderbilt University, Spring 2000.

“The Black Church and Sexuality”, Society of Christian Ethics, Washington, D.C. January 8, 2000.

Work in Progress:
Book:

Creative Conflict and Creative Exchange: A Christian Social Witness to the Public and its Problems (anticipated completion, Spring 2009).

References:

Sheila Davaney, Iliff School of Theology, 2201 South University Blvd. Denver, CO. 80210, 303-765-3165, [sdavaney@iliff.edu]

Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago, The Divinity School, Swift Hall, 202, 1025 E. 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, 773-702-7252 [jbeshta@midway.uchicago.edu]

William D. Hart, Department of Religious Studies,109 Foust Building, University of North Carolina, P.O. Box 26120, Greensboro, NC.,27402-6170, 336-334-5762 [wdhart@uncg.edu] .

Peter Paris, Princeton Theological Seminary, P.O. Box 821, Princeton, NJ., 08542-0803, 608-497-7814. [peter.paris@ptsem.edu]

L. Serene Jones, Yale University, the Divinity School, 409 Prospect St. New Haven, CT. 06511 203-432-5331,, [serne.jones@yale.edu]

Charles Marsh, University of Virginia, Department of Religious Studies, P.O. Box 400126, 434-924-6839]


APPENDIX A
COURSES AND TUTORIALS

Readings in Ethics: American Public Theology [tutorial]
            Black Religion and Culture Studies I and II.
African American Political Theology.
Theology and Ethics in America (Pragmatism and Religious Life).
Twentieth-Century North Atlantic Theology and Ethics 
 Ethics in Theological Perspective (Foundation Course)
The British Moralists from Hobbes to Hume.
Methods in Ethics: Socratic to Discourse Ethics.
Ethics and Society.
Religion and Natural Science
African American Religious Thought,
Catholic Moral Theology.
Philosophy for the Study of Theology [tutorial].
Philosophical Theology of Josiah Royce [tutorial].
God and Philosophy from Edwards to Royce [tutorial]
Sociology of Religion
The Tradition of Theological Liberalism
The Tradition of Political Liberalism
American Empirical Theology


APPENDIX B
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS, ARTICLES, REVIEWS AND PUBLIC LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
1992-1999

1. Chapters in Books: 1992-1999.

“Deadly Silence: Reflections on Homosexuality and Human Rights in the African American Community,” in Homosexual Orientation and Human Rights, Martha Nussbaum and Saul Olyan, editors (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 185-211.
                                   
“Abominations of a Million Men” in Black Religion After the Million Man March, edited by Garth Baker Fletcher (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1998), pp. 19-26.

“Dialogical Interrogations”, Garth Baker-Fletcher, Theodore Walker, and Victor Anderson, in Black Religion After the Million Man March, edited by Garth Baker Fletcher (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1998), pp. 36-46.
 
“The Search for Public Theology in the United States,” in Preaching as a Theological Task, Festschrift for David Buttrick, edited by Thomas Long and Edward Farley (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1996), pp. 19-31.

2. Articles and Reviews: 1992-1999.

“Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity, and the Americas,” by David Batstone, et al., reviewed by Victor Anderson, Journal of Religion 79/4 (October 1999): 677-79.
 
“The Wrestle of Christ and Culture in Pragmatic Public Theology,” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, 19/2 May (1998): 135-150, a special issue on Pragmatism in Recent African American Religious Thought, edited by Victor Anderson.

“The Narrative Turn in Christian Ethics: A Critical Assessment,” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 19/3 Sept(1998): 293-312.

 “Changing Conversation,” by Dwight N. Hopkins and Sheila Davaney, reviewed by Victor Anderson. Journal of Religion 78/4 Oct(1998): 638-40.

Why Lord?: Suffering and Evil in Black Theology”, by Anthony B. Pinn, reviewed by Victor Anderson. Cross Currents, Fall (1997): 410-413.

 “Frustrated Fellowship: The Black Baptists Quest for Social Power,” by James M. Washington, reviewed by Victor Anderson. Calvin Theological Journal, Vol.22.2 (Nov.88):355-57.

“Soul Theology: The Heart of American Black Culture”, by Henry Mitchell and Lewter, review by Victor Anderson. Calvin Theological Journal, vol.23.1 (Apr. 1988):85-87.

3. Public Lectures and Presentations: 1992-1999

“Beyond Ontological Blackness” book discussion at Yale Graduate School, Yale University, New Haven , CT, November 10, 1999.

“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: History and Narrative in African American Theology”,  Institute for the Advance Study of Religion at Yale, Yale University, New Haven, CT., November 11, 1999.

“American Public Theology: Three Lectures,” United Theological Seminary, Dayton, April 5-8, 1999, John Arthur Heck Lecture Series.

“Pragmatic Theology and Natural Science at the Intersection of Human Interests”, Kentucky State University, Templeton Lecture, April 9, 1999.

“The Contour of an American Public Theology” presented at Harvard Divinity School, October 27, 1998.

“A Conception of Race in African American Philosophy and Religion”, presented to African American Studies Program, Washington University. St. Louis, October 22, 1998

“Toward a Theory of Minority Discourse in Religion”, presented to the Theology and Culture Group at Illiff School of Theology, October 13-18, 1998.

“The Public Burden of African American Theology: Theology and Cultural Criticism,”  conference on Theology and Cultural Criticism at the University of Chicago, October 9-12, 1997.

 “Religious Realism in American Theology: D. C. Macintosh and H. Richard Niebuhr,” AAR, Pragmatism and Empiricism Group, San Francisco, November, 1997.

“Pragmatic Historicism and the Theological Imagination: A Response to Sheila Davaney”, at the Highlands Institute, June 21, 1997.

“Is Graduate Education in Religion in Crisis?: Some Remarks”, Auburn Institute of Theological Education, Auburn Theological Seminary, March 1997.

“Critical Thinking in African American Philosophy,” Second Philosophical Forum at Tennessee State University, February 1997.

“The Problems of History and Narrative in Contemporary African American Theology”,            paper delivered in the Theology Department, University of Birmingham, Birmingham,         England, May 14, 1996.

“Culture Wars, Do They Exist and What do We Make of Them,” and “The Fragility of Democratic Ethics,” papers presented to the Continuing Education Series of Vanderbilt Divinity School (Fall, 1996) and The Ministerial Fellowship of Huntsville, AL., (Spring, 1997).

“The Roots of Prejudice,” presentation at Vine Street Christian Church,
Sunday, April 28, 1996.

“The Ethics of Conversation,” presentation at the Interdenominational Clergy Conference, at Jefferson Street Baptist Church, Nashville, TN.  Hosted by The National Black Church Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS, March 4, 1996, the First Response Center, Nashville, TN.

“Public Theology, Paradox, and Postmodern Life,” presented at AAR, Theological Interpretations of America Panel. Theological Reflection Group, 1995.    

“A Critical Response to Homosexual Issues in the African American Community: Cheryl Sanders and Michael Eric Dyson.” An International Conference on Sexual Orientation and Human Rights at Brown University, April 1995.

“Playing on the Grotesque in the Face of Mystery: A Response to
Gordon Kaufman’s In Face of Mystery.” AAR, Theological Reflection Group. Chicago, November, 1994.

“Race and Sexuality,” presentation at “From Affirmation to Advocacy: Recognizing the Needs of Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Youth,” Sept, 1994. The Tennessee Coalition for Bisexual, Gay, and Lesbian Youth Services.

“Reconceptualizing the Midwifery Role of the Physician to Include Death: A Theocentric Response to Margaret Battin.” Presented to the Philosophy Department and Clinical Ethics Program at Vanderbilt University (1994).

“On Speaking American: Culture, Diversity, and Conflicts of Faith. A Response to James Davison Hunter's Culture Wars.” Presented to Project Dialogue, Vanderbilt University (1993).

“Theology and the Human Genome Research.”  Presented at Vanderbilt Medical School Continuing Education Summer Course, May 17, 1993. 

“Christ and Culture and Recent African American Religious Criticism.” Paper presented to “The Enduring Problem: H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ and Culture After Forty Years,”  Conference at Vanderbilt Divinity School, May 14-16, 1993.


APPENDIX C
DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED

S. David Cox, Attentionality in the Sphere of Relation: The Christian Conception of Hospitality in Light of the Work of George Herbert Mead and James M. Gustafson”, 2007:

Roger Sneed, Virtually Invisible: The Representations of Homosexuality in Black Theology, African American Cultural Criticism, and Black Gay Men’s Literature, 2006: vii, 162.

Domenico Nigrelli, The Inclusive and the Social Trinity: the Question of the God-World Relation in the Theologies of Hodgson and Moltmann, 2005: vii, 363.

Rehwalt-Alexander, Jeremy, Racial Reconciliation Among Evangelicals: The Limits and Possibilities of Congregational Efforts, 2004:ix, 261.

Neal, Ronald Brian, On the Limits and Possibilities of Social Transformation: A Study of the Prophetic Pragmatism of Cornel West, the Christian Realism of Reinhold Niebhur and the Theological Legacy of Benjamin Elijah Mays, 2004.

Gebhardt, Christine Caron, Public Decisions or Private Dilemmas?: The Challenge of Clinical Genetics to Roman Catholic Theology’s Voice within Health Care Ethics, 2004.

Ramsour, Paul J., Masochism, Sexual Freedom, and Radical Democracy: A hermeneutic Study of Sadomasochism in Psychoanalytic, Sociological and Contemporary Texts, 2002:

Schumm, Darla Y, The Self-understanding of the Christian Missionary Movement on Prostitution in Thailand: A Critical analysis, 2002:xvii, 253.

Taylor-Smith, Chandra, Earth Blood and Earthling Existence: A Methodological Study of Black Women’s Writings and Their Implications for a Womanist Ecological Theology, 2001:xxv,233.

Lampkin, Andy, A Critical Study of the Seventh-Day Adventist Health Teaching Tradition in light of the Contemporary Situation of Public Health and Globalization, 2000: vi, 168.

Owen, Charles Bryan, The Role of Narrative Ethics in the Formation of Religious and Moral Leadership in the Church, 2000:vii, 216.

Ware, Frederick, A Critical Study of Contemporary Academic Black Theology, 1999: x, 263.

Holmes, Barbara Ann, Barbara Jordan’s Speeches 1974-1995: Ethics, Public Religion and Jurisprudence, 1998: vi, 243.

Byrd, Kevin Michael, The Discourse Ethics of Religious-based Organizing: A Critical Analysis of the Industrial Areas Foundation’s Recent efforts in Metropolitan Nashville,” 1997: x, 305.

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