Faculty scholarship update: Winter 2017-2018

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School of Divinity faculty publish regularly. This update will help you explore the depth and breadth of our faculty’s most recent publications and ongoing research.

Fred Bahnson is Assistant Professor of the Practice of Ecological Well-Being and Director of the School of Divinity’s Food, Health, and Ecological Well-Being Program.

• “The Ecology of Prayer” in Orion magazine. 35th Anniversary edition, Volume 36, No. 4. 2017. More information  on the 35th Anniversary edition.

Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo is Earley Assistant Professor of Catholic and Latin American Studies.

• Co-editor of Parenting as Spiritual Practice and Source for Theology: Mothering Matters (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

“This is the book every theology class needs! Blending personal narrative with history, sociology, scripture and doctrine, this volume reveals the complexity of the divine call of creation and nurture. The authors give voice to experiences that are usually only whispered – the difficult conversations, anxieties, fears, quiet joys, and shifting spiritualities that compose the various modes in which mothering occurs.  This book invokes courage, grace, community and salvation in a way that will change not just how we understand mothering, but that will forever alter how we understand our faith.”

Monica A. Coleman, Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religions at Claremont School of Theology, author of Making a Way Out of No Way: a Womanist Theology and Bipolar Faith: a Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith

Kevin Jung is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics.

• “Normativity in Comparative Religious Ethics,” Journal of Religious Ethics. Vol. 45. No.4. pp. 642–665 (2017).

Michelle Voss Roberts is Associate Professor of Theology and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

• Body Parts: A Theological Anthropology (Fortress Press, 2017).

“Human beings are embodied, hence finite, limited, vulnerable. Could those very limits be reflections of the divine? Voss Roberts’ use of Hindu as well as Christian ideas enables her to probe this question with unprecedented attention to the diversity of bodies and their aspects or ‘parts.’ Both Christian and more than Christian, this book teaches us to accept all of God’s world.”

Jerry Martin, Founding Chariman, Theology Without Walls, and Past Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities

• “Perceiving the Image of God,” Feminist Studies in Religion Blog, December 19, 2017.
• AAR/SBL Conference Paper: “A Meek Stirring of Love: Nonduality and the Love of God,” in the Theology Without Walls Group (Boston, MA). November 18, 2017.