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Papers

(The median citation count of Dialog-A Journal of Theology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Pentecostal spirituality in the context of faith and hope gospel (prosperity preaching): African Pentecostal response to the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Spirit and truth: Reckoning with the crises of Covid‐19 for the Church	4
The need to rethink African “Ideas of Christ” in the search for human flouring in post‐Covid‐19 era	4
Sanitation, vaccination, and sanctification: A South‐African theological engagement with COVID‐19	3
Creation and anthropology: N.F.S. Grundtvig as humanist and feminist	3
United with Christ in the spirit: The pneumatological dimension of the doctrine of justification	2
The entangled pandemic: Deep incarnation in creation	2
Resilient selves: A theology of resonance and secularity	2
Whether one may Flee from digital worship: Reflections on sacramental ministry in a public health crisis	2
Towards a new agenda for vocation	1
Learning to see the vulnerable	1
“A time of hate? Race, Covid, and the rise of ethno‐nationalism”	1
Prophetic confrontation, civil harmony, and Christian responsibility	1
What may we hope?	1
Rewilding life together: Bonhoeffer, spirituality, and interspecies community	1
Development of contextual theology in Indonesia based on the idea of “Indonesian Unity” according to Soekarno–Hatta by Eka Darmaputera	1
Religion's Role in a Martian War of Independence	1
An interview on energy, Christian theology, and ethics with Larry Rasmussen	1
Applying Jewish theology to issues in mental and physical health	1
Bearing witness against unbearable whiteness: Lessons from Luther for confronting racism today	1
The “Old Testaments” of the peoples. Grundtvig's discernment of life's true order (human first, Christian next) and its relevance for the new eco‐recognition of ancestral bonds in time and space	1
The light from the North—voyaging towards the west. Grundtvig and the Folk High School movement from Scandinavia to United States	1
Navigating ethics in a pandemic—Contempt for the weak versus love of neighbor in a Swedish lens	1
Theologies of pastoral leadership	1
Grief and new creation: Theopoetics for a pandemic	1

Religion received: A Lutheran consideration of religion	1
Are Christian politics possible? A Kierkegaardian perspective	1
Lutheran conceptions of human dignity in a global context: A conversation with Indian Dalits and European/Americans	1
Resonant selves in ethical and theological perspective: On personhood and identity formation	1
Whose reading matters? Rereading Exodus 1 in the context of African (South African) women	1
Becoming society again: Reimagining new social contracts through Scandinavian creation theology	1
White racism, civility, and the obligations of the socially privileged	1
Deification and sanctification in the dialogue between the Finnish Lutheran School and the Chinese Neo‐Confucian School	1
For the church community after COVID‐19	1
Response to Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth's review of Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen (ed.), The Alternative Luther: Lutheran Theology from the Subaltern	1
The makeshift curtain: A generous Christianity: Ecclesiologies beyond the religious‐secular binary¹	1
What a drag it is being relational: Developing planetary identities	1
Theology and the End of Doctrine. Christine Helmer. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox. 2014.	0
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Endangerment and lament in the Covid Pandemic: Ways out of two theological impasses	0
Introduction: The ambiguity of sin and shame–contextual, critical, and constructive perspectives	0
Should Christians practice “Virtual Communion” in time of a plague?	0
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Gratitude, and goodbye	0
The Christology of Veli‐Matti Kärkkäinen re‐visited from the perspective of Scandinavian Creation Theology	0
Race and the gift of lament	0
Healing and reconciliation	0
As religion and migration intersect: Toward A World of Neighbours	0
Religion as culture	0
The corona crisis unmasks prevailing social ideologies	0
Encountering—An uncomfortable vocation of love. Theology and practice in Scandinavian parish work	0
Meaningful life in a meaningless cosmos? A short reflection for good times—and bad	0
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When examined faith matters	0
Medical assistance in dying and the trust of faith	0
RoeFremstedal, Kierkegaard on Self, Ethics, and Religion: Purity or Despair. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 280 pp. ISBN: 978‐1‐316‐51376‐7, $ 99.99 (hb).	0
Christus Praesens and the long game of ministry	0
Global Christianity and theological education: Introduction to “Dialogue in Dialog”	0
“Joseph Anton”—Life in the Shadow of a Fatwa	0
Paradox explored: Climate shame, moral agency, the church, and the birds	0
The precarious power of a strongly worded letter: Political correspondence, Lutheran theology, and civic participation	0
Migration and the making of global Christianity By Jehu J.Hanciles. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2021. pp 464 pages.	0
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What are we talking about when we talk about the (post)secular? Recentering mutual participation and a commitment to communicability in scholarly discussions of contemporary religions	0
A tale of two Martins: Is Luther to blame for Heidegger's destruction of ontotheology?	0
Chasing the breath of life: Lung transplantation from the viewpoint of a patient	0
2020 New World Order	0
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The Lutheran transformation of passion devotion, 1520–1560, and lessons for today	0
Grappling with lives on the move from theological perspectives: Toward an un‐alienation of “Others”	0
Energy and spirit: Extraction, thermodynamics, and change	0
Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon on the care and feeding of [future] Pastors	0
Here we stand?	0
The dilemma of sacrifice	0

The Destruction of the Canaanites: God, Genocide, and Biblical Interpretation, CharlieTrimm. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2022. 127pp. $14.99 (paper)	0
Health, Death, and the Politics of Mourning	0
An American Biblical Orientalism: The Construction of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in nineteenth century American evangelical piety. David D.GraftonLanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2019. 231 pp	0
MichaelWelker. (2021). In God's image : An anthropology of the spirit (155 pp.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans. 2021. 155 pp.	0
Apologies to the authentic diversity advisory team	0
Sin, shame, and the subject	0
The world is about to turn: Mending a nation's broken faith. Rick Rouse, & Paul O. Ingram (2020). (153 pp.). St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press. $16, ISBN 978‐0‐8272‐3721‐6 (paper), 978‐0‐8272‐3722‐3	0
The year George Floyd was murdered	0
Human hope and the reign of God	0
Toward the articulation of mission: Heeding the ELCA's call for affordable mental health care and authentic diversity while guiding students' journeys toward counseling and clinical vocations	0
Disposable people and the death of Whitegod	0
The first hospital and the construction of leprosy	0
“Faith‐rooted anti‐racist living”	0
Justo L.González, Teach us to pray: The Lord's Prayer in the early church and todayGrand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2020, 185 pp	0
Articulating Christian doctrine in the pluralistic world of the twenty‐first century	0
Trust women	0
How to define climate justice	0
Resurrection and the Saints	0
Of modern extraction: Experiments in critical petro‐theologyTerraSchwerin Rowe. London: T&T Clark, 2023. 173 pps. ISBN: 9780567708342, $115.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780567708359, $103.50 (ebook), pl	0
A theology of pastoral multiplicity	0
“Repent and transform”	0
The moments we have not chosen	0
The crux of theology: Luther's teachings and our work for freedom, justice, and peace by Allen G.Jorgenson and Kristen E.Kvam, Editors. New York: Lexington/Fortress Academic, 2022. 222 pages. $100 (Ha	0
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The territories of human reason: Science and theology in an age of multiple rationalities. The Rev. Dr. Alister McGrath. Oxford University PressOxford, United Kingdom, 2019 (pp. 288).	0
Theology for the future. The enduring promise of Wolfhart Pannenberg By AndrewHollingsworth (Ed.), Maryland: Lexington. 2021	0
From unimagined communities to slow hope	0
Engaged Solidarity for Embodied Justice!	0
ELCA bishops and theologians on communion and worship amidst Covid‐19	0
“Shame: The Misplaced Debt of Structural Sin”	0
Make America safe	0
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The communion of faith: An ecclesiological memoir	0
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The “Righteous Vaccinated” and the “Unrighteous Unvaccinated”? How Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra and the Gospel of John might help us understand the ongoing pandemic	0
Treehood: A memoir	0
Religious Organizations and Government: An Ecclesial Lutheran “Take”	0
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Scandalous Witness: A Little Political Manifesto for Christians. Camp, Lee C. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2020. 192 pp. Hardcover. ISBN 978–0802877352	0
A moral vision for the presidential election	0
Being church in a world of neighbors	0
Eat what is set before you: A missiology of the congregation in context. Scott Hagley. Skyforest, CA: Urban Loft Publishers.2019.	0
A saint for East and West: Maximus the confessor's contribution to Eastern and Western Christian theology. Daniel Haynes. (ed.), Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2019. xxv + 281 pp.	0
W.Willimon, Aging: Growing Old in Church (2020). Baker Academic, Grand Rapids: MI, 2020. 178 pp. $16.99, ISBN 9781540962744 (paper)	0
Formation for public life: Bonhoeffer's approach to theological education	0
A deterritorialized people: Toward constructing a theo‐diasporic space	0
By any sacramental means necessary: Baptism as engaged defiance of ecocide and empire	0
A tangible sign of hope	0
Communicatio idiomatum in deep incarnation	0
Staying with Holy Saturday	0
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Two things can be true at once: Surviving Covid‐19	0
Christianity, settler colonialism, and resource extraction	0
Introduction: Theology, health, and medicine	0
Luther's interpretation of communicatio idiomatum in a new key	0
Hospitality in an era of pandemics, war, and climate change¹	0
Archbishop Antje Jackelén and Patriarch Bartholomew on the climate crisis	0
“Word and World: Luther Across Borders” The 14th International Congress for Luther Research, Thousand Oaks, California, 2022	0
A cross‐continental conversation about sin and shame with Marcia Blasi and Marit Trelstad	0
A constructive Christian theology for the pluralistic world: Author's introduction of the project and a response to reviewers	0
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Civic engagement and the possibility of the political	0
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Truth, hope, compassion in a time of corona virus and a presidential election	0
Of incomparable worth	0
Supporting women now. Right now	0
Wicked incarnations: Jesus, intra‐action, climate change	0
We Were Spiritual Refugees: A Story To Help You Believe In Church. Katie, Hays. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2020.	0
Introduction to the issue: Theological responses to energy and extraction	0
Pandemic sighs	0
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Wilhelm Loehe and North America	0
Hitler's theology: A cautionary tale for today's peril	0
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Lisa, Bowens. (2020). African American readings of Paul: Reception, resistance, and transformation. Grand Rapids, MI. ISBN 978‐0‐8028‐7676‐8	0
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Lutheranism and Race: Questions and Answers	0

Intersectionality and underlying conditions—An Indian biblical response in the midst of a pandemic	0
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Diaconia in Sweden in times of political election	0
From welcome guest to full participant: The influence of migrant worship practices in the Lutheran‐Church Missouri Synod	0
Discerning the big questions	0
Chicken or egg? What comes first in Lutheranism, grace or faith?	0
The Liberating Path of the Hebrew Prophets: Then and Now. Nahum Ward‐Lev. New York: Orbis Books, 2019. 235 pp.	0
James Daryn Henry. (2018). The freedom of God: A study in the pneumatology of Robert Jenson (pp. 291). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018. 291 pp.	0
Deep grace in deep space? How to become an astrotheologian	0
“War Begins in the Minds of Men”: Luther's theological anthropology and anti‐muslim polemics	0
Too little, too late? On religion and climate change response	0
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Political passions in modern Christian‐Confucian dialogue on war	0
KristinLargen. A Christian Exploration of Women's Bodies in Rebirth and Shin Buddhism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. xxvi + 184 pp., with bibliography and index	0
“The voice of one crying out in the wilderness”¹	0
Allen G.JorgensonIndigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue: Kairotic Place and Borders. London: Lexington Books, 2021, 105 pp.	0
Space ‘n’ grace: Introducing astrotheology and astroethics	0
Doubling‐down on gratitude	0
Ecological solidarities: Mobilizing faith and justice for an entangled world. Krista E.Hughes, Dhawn B. Martin, and Elaine Padilla, Eds. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State Universit	0
Petro‐theology: Critical engagement with theologies of energy and extraction	0
Why do victims matter?	0
The Gospel according to civic engagement	0
Churches in transforming mission: A story of Lutheran communion in Africa	0
America's 2nd opiate crisis: Christian nationalism	0
A teleological interpretation of Bonhoeffer's concept of “A World Come of Age”	0
Faith and obedience in Bonhoeffer and the communicatio idiomatum	0
The shame of being undone by illness and the power of support through the body of Christ	0
Belief in the age of coronavirus: Dread, science and mystery	0
The COVID Cross	0
Women as wives and rulers in Martin Luther's theology	0
“Can we all get along:”¹ American political divisiveness in the 21st Century	0
A defense of abortion. The dark side of the right‐wing alliance with the Roman Catholic Church in Poland	0
The hard way	0
Immigration and theology of vocation	0
Contingency and changing reality: Perspectives from Germany	0
Trauma, eco‐spirituality, and transformation in Frozen 2: Guides for the Church and climate change	0
In Tokyo, under pressure	0
Have faith	0
Recovering from the pandemic	0
Beyond profession: The next future of theological education, Daniel O.Aleshire. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2021. 149 pp	0
PatrickKeifert and WesleyGranberg‐Michaelson (2019). How change comes to your church: A guidebook for church innovations (pp. 154). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans2019. 154 pp.	0
Augustine and Tradition: Influences, Contexts, Legacy. ED. DavidB. Hunter and JonathanP. Yates. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2021	0
“Drinking from Our Own Wells”: Tongshik Ryu's P'ungryu Christian identity	0
Questions, questions	0
E pluribus unum and civil harmony at election time	0
Collective memory, martyrdom monument, and Christian‐Muslim reconciliation in Seko, North Luwu, Indonesia	0
Losing my religion: Luther, and the so‐called new perspective on Paul vis‐à‐vis feminist interpretations of Paul	0
“Homo est deus”: Reflections on Luther's Christology	0
African hermeneutical philosophy of reading behind the text and its missional implication	0
A Christian‐Muslim comparative theology of saints: The community of God's friends By Hans A.Harmakaputra. Leiden: Brill, 2022.	0
We need to be able to talk about the climate crisis	0
Lutheran Theology.A Grammar of Faith. KirsiStjerna. London: T&T Clark, 2021, 218 pp.	0
Staring at the Sun: Tragedy, trauma, and ecological harmony	0
Scandinavian creation theology—A constellation open to a variety of interpretations	0
The human future. Space exploration, cooperation, and challenges ahead	0
Providence and the magnitude of the universe	0
Next steps in the abortion debate: It is time to consider some overlooked and new data	0
A Theological Review of a Lutheran Theology from the Subaltern	0
N.T.Wright (2020). God and the pandemic: A Christian reflection on the coronavirus and its aftermath (76 pp.). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. $10.59, ISBN 978‐0‐310‐12080‐3 (paper), ISBN 978‐0‐310‐12081	0
Aging and Loving: Christian Faith and Sexuality in Later LifeJames M.Child's, Jr.Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2021. 150 pp. ISBN: 978‐1‐5064‐6641‐5 (paper); 978‐1‐5064‐6642‐2 (eBook). $21.00.	0
Hope gone awry—An odd bed fellowship of Islamic and Christian neo‐apocalypticism	0
Cutting the roots or transforming them? Luther and mysticism after 1522	0
H. P.Santmire (2020). Celebrating nature by faith: Studies in reformation theology in an era of global emergency, Eugene OR: Cascade Books, 175 pp. $19.87, ISBN 978‐1‐5326‐9971‐9 (paper), 978‐1‐5326‐9	0
From dissonant dominance to synchronic sanctity: Relational extraction as counter‐resonance to extractivism	0
Ethical Silence: Kierkegaard on Communication, Education, and Humility. SergiaHay. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020. 109 pp. ISBN 9781793614483. $90	0
Supremacist thinking, epistemological despair, and Christian hope	0
A womanist perspective on racial justice	0
Gratitude, in spite of	0
Autonomy: How it has become problematic for medicine	0
Christian theology as comparative theology: Towards a radical change of “Method”	0
Reclaiming immigration as a theological term with spiritual ramifications	0
American Lutheran arguments about slavery	0
When confessing sin feels good	0
Kristen Poole. Christianity in a time of climate change: To give a future with hope (p. 198). Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2020. $25.00 Paperback	0
Circling the wagons or opening the circle	0
The way of the cross	0
A gospel of irresolution: Illness, trauma, and getting to hope	0
Body politics: Theology in the pandemic	0
A postcolonial Pannenberg? Mimicry, the law, and the cross of love	0
Aaron T.Smith. The Lord, the Giver of Life: Spirit in Relation to Creation. New York: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2021. ISBN 9781978707740. $105.00	0
Pastoral leadership as creativity and resilience	0
Paul R.Hinlicky, Lutheran Theology: A Critical Introduction. Cascade Companions Series. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2020. 186 + xiv pp	0
An ever more critical dialogue: Table‐talking with Paulo Freire on education and liberation	0
Crippled by anxiety: Bondage and freedom in the [Lutheran] concept of anxiety	0
Ecological crisis from a Lutheran perspective: Engaging with Pope Francis’ Laudato Si'	0
Towards reconciliation: Church of Sweden and the Sámi people	0
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Consolation and medicine in Luther's “Whether One May Flee from a Deadly Plague”	0
Thoughts while sheltering …	0
Why talk about sin? Luther's understanding of sin and hopeful sin‐talk in the 21st century	0
Beyond Missio Dei: Contesting Mission, Rethinking Witness. SaroshKoshy: Postcolonialism and Religions Series. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. xviii + 374 pp. ISBN 978‐3‐030‐82067‐1	0
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Toward a constructive eschatology: An appraisal of Veli‐Matti Kärkkäinen's contributions	0
“State of happiness”? Petroreligion and petromelancholia in Norway	0
Facing ambiguity with action	0