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Papers

(The TQCC of Theology Today 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Theological Reflection on Suffering: Overcoming Anxiety and Depression during the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
American Mosques and Their Various Approaches in Understanding Islam	3
Interpreting the Inter-Christian Relationship and Dialogue with Monotheistic Religions in the Document For the Life of the World	2
For the Life of the World and Orthodox Political Theology	2
A Portrait of the 2020 Faith Communities Today Study	2
The Role of Religious Poetry in Enhancing Children’s Spiritual Intelligence (SI)	2
“If the Gospel We Preach Disregards Human Rights, I Would Rather not Preach This Gospel”: Towards a Lived Theology of Hong Kong Churches	2
“Our Tongue-Cut God, Respond to Us”: Prayer of Righteous Anger and Communal Lament as Theology of the Oppressed	1
Exhibitionary Commerce, the Construction of Whiteness, and the Theological Sideshow	1
Remembering Small, Beautiful Things	1
Homiletical Peonage: The Pedagogical Dilemma Whiteness Creates	1
A Look at the Seventh-day Adventist Church:	1
Imago Dei and Human Rights: A North Korean Case Study	1
For the Life of the World: Toward an Appraisal of Its Use of Scripture	1
Who Is My Mother? (This Is My Family, Broken for You)	1
Dallas Willard, Philosopher of Ministry, Teacher of Christlikeness	1
Exploring the Dynamics and Challenges of Congregational Size	1
Guest Editorial	1
Christ as the Watermark of Divine Love: Expanding the Boundaries of Eastern Orthodox Ecumenism and Interreligious Encounter	1
Seeing, Hearing, Serving, and Delighting in LGBTQ+ Youth and Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities	1
Some Reflections on the Hartford Institute at Forty	0
On Theology and Psychology	0
Book Review: After Method: Queer Grace, Conceptual Design, and the Possibility of Theology by Hanna Reichel	0
Empowerment as Critical Religious Pedagogy	0
Book Review: Art as Witness: A Practical Theology of Arts-Based Research by Helen T. Boursier	0

Book Review: What Did the Cross Accomplish? A Conversation about the Atonement by N.T. Wright, Simon Gathercole, and Robert B. Stewart	0
Book Review: Accessible Atonement: Disability, Theology, and the Cross of Christ by David McLachlan	0
Book Review: Just Tell the Truth: A Call to Faith, Hope, and Courage by Richard Lischer	0
Evangelical or Mainline? Doctrinal Similarity and Difference in Asian American Christianity: Sketching a Social-Practical Theory of Christian Doctrine	0
Revisiting the Healing Narrative of the Gospel in the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Book Review: A Christian Theology of Science by Paul Tyson	0
How Then Shall We Live as a People of Faith in a World in Crisis?	0
What Churches Should Do When Civil Authorities Restrict Their Assemblies	0
Partial Iconoclasm: John Witherspoon's Presbyterian (Political) Theology and Slavery	0
Spirit Name (Ishina Lya Mupashi) and Strong Artificial Intelligence (Strong AI)	0
A Baptismal Ecclesiology of Inclusion for Every Body	0
Will There Be Anything Left For Us?	0
Environmentalism as Religion	0
Living in the Promised Land: The Impact of the Black Lives Matter Movement on Indian American Christians Living in the NYC Metropolitan Areas	0
Book Review: From Inclusion to Justice: Disability, Ministry, and Congregational Leadership by Erin Raffety	0
Chin Diaspora Christianity in the United States	0
The Story of a Statue: Placing John Witherspoon in the History of Princeton and Slavery	0
Book Review: Recovering Christian Character: The Psychological Wisdom of Søren Kierkegaard by Robert C. Roberts	0
What to Make of Luther's Theological Diversity	0
What Can Postliberals and Evangelicals Learn from Each Other? Merciful Substitution in George Hunsinger's Philippians and Historic Reformed Theology	0
Search for the Soul of Black Preaching	0
Moltmann in America: Impact and Critical Reception	0
H. Richard Niebuhr's Suggestion Reconsidered: Towards Trinitycentrism as a Trinity-Centered Theology	0
Book Review: Preaching and the Thirty-Second Commercial: Lessons from Advertising for the Pulpit by O. Wesley Allen and Cari La Ferle	0
Jürgen Moltmann, “Friendship with Hans Küng”	0
Evangelicals and a Theological Response to Globalization: A Commentary on Particularized Issues	0
Deworlded within the World: Bultmann's Paradoxical Politics in an Age of Polarization	0
Faith and Money: What We Know about Congregational Finances	0
A Realignment of the Catholic Church in the United States	0
Book Review: Living Belief: A Short Introduction to Christian Faith by Douglas F. Ottati	0
John Witherspoon and the Abolitionist Travail	0
Whiteness and the So-Called Problem of Preaching the Old Testament	0
For the Life of the World: Some Reflections	0
Misreading C. S. Lewis on Friendship: The Charges of Sexism, Secrecy, and Snobbery	0
On the Legacy of the Land: Ideology Criticism of Walter Brueggemann and John Steinbeck	0
Book Review: The Bible and Borders: Hearing God's Word on Immigration by M. Daniel Carroll	0
Imagining Realities Human and Divine	0
Translational Choices and Interpretation in Galatians 1:13–16: An Appraisal	0
God, the Good Life, and Pastoral Practice	0
Book Review: Bonhoeffer and the Racialized Church by Ross E. Halbach	0
Fuzzy Theo-logics	0
Seriously Seeking a Christian Theology to Resist White Supremacy	0
Book Review: The Lord Is My Shepherd: Psalm 23 for the Life of the Church by Richard S. Briggs	0
Book Review: African American Readings of Paul: Reception, Resistance, and Transformation by Lisa M. Bowens	0
Book Review: God at Work in the World: Theology and Mission in the Global Church by Lalsangkima Pachuau	0
Sacramental Homiletic Formation: Blessing and Breaking the Practices of Preaching	0
Book Review: Wrestling with Rest: Inviting Youth to Discover the Gift of Sabbath by Nathan T. Stucky	0
Book Review: Emotions: Problems and Promise for Human Flourishing by Barbara J. McClure	0
A Call for a More Robust Word in Word and Sacrament	0
Beginnings: Interrogating Hauerwas by Brian Brock and Stanley Hauerwas, Kevin Hargaden, ed.	0

Book Review: Finding Jesus in the Storm: The Spiritual Lives of Christians with Mental Health Challenges by John Swinton	0
Book Review: Bonhoeffer as Biblical Interpreter: Reading Scripture in 1930s Germany by Jameson E. Ross	0
Book Review: The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture by Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter trans. Peter Lewis	0
Book Review: The Holy Spirit and Moral Action in Thomas Aquinas by SJ Jack Mahoney	0
The Orthodox Preference for Democracy: An American Response to “The Church in the Public Square” (Section II), in For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church	0
Book Review: The Ethics of Tainted Legacies: Human Flourishing after Traumatic Pasts by Karen V. Guth	0
Book Review: God and Community Organizing: A Covenantal Approach by Hak Joon Lee	0
Youth as Ministers: Fish Sandwiches and the Prophetic Ministry of Young People in the Missing Voices Project	0
Book Review: The Gravity of Joy: A Story of Being Lost and Found by Angela Williams Gorrell	0
Book Review: The Hebrew Bible and Environmental Ethics: Humans, Nonhumans, and the Living Landscape by Mari Joerstad	0
Prayer: A Guide for the Perplexed by Ashley Cocksworth	0
A Theological Study of Julian of Norwich’s Hopeful Words “All Shall Be Well”	0
The Crucial Issue	0
Musings on Things I Don’t Understand	0
The Soul of Black Preaching	0
Book Review: Diary of a Pastor's Soul: The Holy Moments in a Life of Ministry by M. Craig Barnes	0
“Please Love Our Asian American Neighbors”: Christian Responses to Anti-Asian Racism during the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Book Review: Suffering and the Vulnerable Rule of God: A Feminist Epistemology by Kathleen McManus	0
Book Review: Sustaining Hope: Friendships and Intellectual Impairments by David B. McEwan and Jim Good	0
The Use of Lukan Hyperbole in the Acts of the Apostles	0
An Invitation to and from the “Missing Voices” in Congregations	0
Book Review: Worship in the Early Church by Justo L. González and Catherine Gunsalus González	0
Book Review: The Radical Jesus, the Bible, and the Great Transformation by Douglas E. Oakman	0
Book Review: Between Hearing and Silence: A Study in Old Testament Theology by John Kessler	0
The Great Ecological Transformation	0
Guest Editorial	0
Reflection on the “Soul of Black Preaching”	0
Who's Searching for the Soul of Black Preaching? History Proves It's Never Been Lost	0
Border-Crossing Being: A Theological Reflection on the Imago Dei in an Age of Migration	0
Challenging Role of the Body of Christ in the Body of India	0
America's Christian Nationalism, Theological Anomalies, and Constructive Responses	0
An Exploration into Written Orality	0
The Significance of the Theological Declaration of Barmen 1934 and “Christophobia in Europe” Today	0
Orienting a Transnational Lived Theology for Asian America: Becoming Friends on the Way	0
Book Review: The Home of God: A Brief Story of Everything by Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnaly-Linz	0
Book Review: Willingness to Die and the Gift of Life: Suicide and Martyrdom in the Hebrew Bible by Paul K. K. Cho	0
Two Questions about Judaism with Answers for Christians	0
From Princeton to Monrovia	0
“Things Unseen”: Urban (Dis)placement, Sacred Sensibilities, and Theological Vantage Points	0
Book Review: A Dutiful Love: Empowering Individuals and Families Affected by Mental Illness by Elizabeth L. Hinson-Hasty	0
Book Review: Paul and the Power of Grace by John Barclay	0
Orthodox Reflections on Pope John Paul II’s Encyclical Letter on Ecumenism Ut Unum Sint: Reception and Contemporary Relevance	0
Book Review: Tradition and Apocalypse: An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief by David Bentley Hart	0
What Hath New Haven to Do with Chicago? A Reappraisal	0
“Re-membering the Body”	0
Grave Preaching: Homiletical Violence in the Face of Grief	0
Book Review: Icons of Christ: Biblical and Systematic Theology for Women’s Ordination by William G. Witt	0
Theological Imagination in a Throwaway Society: Contending with Waste	0
Book Review: Bloody, Brutal, and Barbaric? Wrestling with Troubling War Texts by William J. Webb and Gordon K. Oeste	0
Understanding Compassion in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 14:13–21)	0
Editor’s Choice	0
Book Review: Sunday's Sermon for Monday's World: Preaching to Shape Daring Witness by Sally A. Brown	0
John Witherspoon and Slavery: Ideology versus Praxis	0
Finding Jesus at the Border: Opening Our Hearts to the Stories of Our Immigrant Neighbors Julia Lambert Fogg	0
Book Review: Believing into Christ: Relational Faith and Human Flourishing by Natalya A. Cherry	0
Protestantism without Reformation: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Indictment of American Christianity	0
Theology After Colonization: Bediako, Barth, and the Future of Theological Reflection by Tim Hartman	0
Book Review: The Eucharistic Form of God: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Sacramental Theology by Jonathan Martin Ciraulo	0
The Asian American Movement and the Church: Laying the Foundations for Asian American Theology	0
Book Review: Invisible: Theology and the Experience of Asian American Women by Grace Ji-Sun Kim	0
Faith Communities Today:	0
“Jesus Is Alive!”	0
Book Review: Freedom and Sin: Evil in a World Created by God by Ross McCullough	0
Book Review: Good Works: Hospitality and Faithful Discipleship by Keith Wasserman and Christine D. Pohl	0
The Antiracist Culture War and Its Disconnects: On Conventions, Deflections, and Alternative Idioms	0
Plagues and Concern for the Neighbor	0
Erratum to: Erin Raffety, “Book review: Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship” by John Swinton	0
John Witherspoon, the Scottish Common Sense School, and American Political Philosophy	0
Book Review: The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammon	0
Book Review: Deification Through the Cross: An Eastern Christian Theology of Salvation by Khaled Anatolios	0
Book Review: The Breadth of Salvation: Rediscovering the Fullness of God's Saving Work by Tom Greggs	0
Living Tradition in Orthodox Theological Spirituality and/in Contemporary Society: Comments on Traditionalism, Traditions and Renewal	0
The Resurrection and Unborn Beings: The Seeds of a Materialist Emergence Proposal	0
Living/Listening as If the Gospel Is True	0
Theology in the Shadow of the Holocaust: Revisiting Bonhoeffer and the Jews	0
Proclamation: Many and Various Ways	0
Book Review: The Practices of Christian Preaching: Essentials for Effective Proclamation by Jared E. Alcántara	0
Ordinary-Time Festivals: An Application of Wisdom Ecclesiology	0
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez	0
Book Review: God Will Be All in All: Theology through the Lens of Incarnation by Anna Case-Winters	0

Overall Congregational Vitality in the United Church of Christ: Predictors and Implications	0
Book Review: Paul and the Good Life: Transformation and Citizenship in the Commonwealth of God by Julien C.H. Smith	0
Absolution: Divine and Human	0
Book Review: Resurrected to Eternal Life: On Dying and Rising by Jürgen Moltmann	0
Is Artificial Intelligence Capable of Love through Self-Sacrifice?	0
A Theologian's Consideration of Global Warming	0
Have We Lost the “Soul” of the Black Church: Returning to Our Roots	0
Wrestling with Rest: Inviting Youth to Discover the Gift of Sabbath Nathan T. Stucky	0
Centering Asian Americans in Social Scientific Research on Religious Communities	0
Toward a Niebuhrian Ethics of Democracy	0
John Witherspoon and the Rhetoric of Reputation	0
Book Review: Beyond Profession: The Next Future of Theological Education by Daniel O. Aleshire	0
Book Review: Calvin’s Ecclesiology: A Study in the History of Doctrine by Tadataka Maruyama	0
Book Review: Unspeakable Cults: An Essay in Christology by Paul J. DeHart	0
Book Review: Against the Hounds of Hell: A Life of Howard Thurman by Peter Eisenstadt	0
James F. Kay, Theologian for Pulpit and Pew	0
When the Margins Talk Back	0
The Opium of God’s People: Latin American/Hispanic Theology, Popular Religiosity, and the Challenge of Narcotrafficking	0
Disrupting Ecclesial Norms: Emerging Findings from The Missing Voices Project	0
Book Review: Testimony and Trauma: Making Space for Healing by Amanda Hontz Drury	0
Book Review: Paul, Then and Now by Matthew V. Novenson	0
Book Review: The Hope of the Gospel: Theological Education and the Next Evangelicalism by Mark S. Young	0
Book Review: Zwingli: God’s Armed Prophet by Bruce Gordon	0
Book Review: Accessible Atonement: Disability, Theology, and the Cross of Christ by David McLachlan	0
Book Review: Deliver Us from Evil: A Call for Christians to Take Evil Seriously by John Swinton	0
Jürgen Moltmann: Theologian of Hope, 1926–2024	0
To See Responsibility from Below: Bonhoeffer, Niebuhr, and Racism	0
2023 Black Theology and Leadership Institute: The Neoliberal Homiletic	0
The Parable of the Sower: Rooting out White Supremacy and Institutionalized Racism in the church	0
Book Review: Historical Foundations of Worship: Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Perspectives by Melanie C. Ross and Mark A. Lamport eds.	0
Book Review: Regret: A Theology by Paul J. Griffiths	0
Queer Families: Effect and Effectivity of a Reformed Theology	0
Life in This World and For the Life of the World: Natural Science and the Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church	0
Horace H. Underwood and the Shinto Shrine Rites Controversy in Colonial Korea	0
Book Review: The God of the Old Testament: Encountering the Divine in Christian Scripture by R.W.L. Moberly	0
God Has Something to Prove: Vindication in Biblical Theology	0
Book Review: American Martyr in Persia by Reza Aslan	0
Grounded Hope in God: Epiphany and Promise	0
Book Review: The Lord's Prayer by C. Clifton Black	0
For the Life of the World: Appreciation and Critique	0
Erotic Preaching	0
Talking Over the Back Fence	0
Hearing Paul’s Voice: Insights for Teaching and Preaching by M. Eugene Boring	0
Book Review: Paul, Community, and Discipline: Establishing Boundaries and Dealing with the Disorderly by Adam G. White	0
Jesus the Spirit Baptizer: Christology in the Light of Pentecost Frank D. Macchia	0
Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue: “Lived Theology in Asian America: Race, Justice, and Politics in Transpacific Context”	0
Current Classical Pentecostal Bible Reading Methods: A Critical Perspective	0
John Witherspoon and Slavery	0
Book Review: The Facts on the Ground: A Wisdom Theology of Culture by William A. Dyrness	0
Unveiled: Proclaiming the Essence and Message of the Gospel with Clarity, Consistency, and Conviction	0
A 26-Year Journey of Multifaith Cooperation	0
Book Review: The Same God Who Works All Things: Inseparable Operations in Trinitarian Theology by Adonis Vidu	0
“Forcing Every Thought and Action into Responsibility”: An Unpublished Curriculum Vitae from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Fiancé Maria von Wedemeyer. Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Jutta Koslo	0
(Re)Turning to the Listener: Karl Barth's Theo-Anthropology and Preaching to Political Others	0
Book Review: God in Motion: A Critical Exploration of the Open Theism Debate by Manuel Schmid	0
Hopeful Dissent	0
Trauma-Informed Spiritual Care: Lifelines for a Healing Journey	0
Erratum to “Life in This World and For the Life of the World: Natural Science and the Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church”	0
Priorities, Power, and Pilgrimage: Beyond Comfortable, toward the Beloved Community	0
Heuristic Phenomenological Approach to Christian Wisdom Themes from Cynthia Bourgeault's Works	0
Book Review: Dynamis of Healing: Patristic Theology and the Psyche by Pia Sophia Chaudhari	0
Book Review: 20 Myths about Religion and Politics in America by Ryan P. Burge	0
Book Review: Church in Color: Youth Ministry, Race, and the Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. by Montague R. Williams	0
Duplicity behind Stained Glass: Childlike “Self-knowledge” and the Role of Community	0
Book Review: Simone Weil for the Twenty-First Century by Eric O. Springsted	0
God is Doing a New Thing in the ELCA: Trends from the FACT Data	0
Book Review: Calvin, the Bible, and History by Barbara Pitkin	0
Prophets and Sour Grapes: Wrestling with Theological Traditions in Homiletical Theology	0
Book Review: A Postfoundationalist Comparative Christology by David Muthukumar Sivasubramanian	0
Book Review: Varieties of Christian Universalism: Exploring Four Views by David W. Congdon (ed.)	0
Book Review: Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent by Emily Dumler-Winckler	0
Book Review: Transforming Fire: Imaging Christian Teaching by Mark D. Jordan	0
The Episcopal Church	0
Book Review: Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism by Jonathan Tran	0