Book lists from seminary classrooms

Christian Century, May 22, 2002

Course: "Women, Theology and the Church"

School: Vanderbilt Divinity School

Professor: Mary McClintock Fulkerson

Women's Ways of Worship: Gender Analysis and Liturgical History, by Teresa Berger

Ordaining Women: Culture and Conflict in Religious Organizations, by Mark Chaves

Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation, by Mary Daly

Making the Difference: Gender, Personhood and Theology, by Elaine Graham

Women, Authority and the Bible, by Alvera Mickelson

Sexism and God-Talk, by Rosemary Radford Ruether

A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Perspectives on Evil and Suffering, edited by Emily Townes

Defecting in Place: Women Claiming Responsibility for Their Own Spiritual Lives, by Miriam Therese Winter, Adair Lummis and Allison Stokes

Course: "Biblical Perspectives on Health and Healing"

School: North Park Theological Seminary

Professor: James K. Bruckner

The Holy Bible

Health Care and the Rise of Christianity, by Hector Avalos

Healing and Christianity, by Morton Kelsey

Healing in the New Testament: Insights form Medieval and Mediterranean Anthropology, by John Pilch

The Bible and Healing: A Medical and Theological Commentary, by John R. Wilkinson

Course: "The Political Economy of Misery"

School: Harvard Divinity School

Professor: Emilie Townes

Welfare Policy, edited by Elizabeth Bounds, Pamela J. Brubaker and Mary Hobgood.

Political Ecnomy: A Comparitive Approach, by Barry Clark

Critical Race Theory, edited by Kimberle Crenshaw et al.

Dismantling Privilege: An Ethics of Acccountability, by Mary Hobgood

In the Shadow of the Poorhouse, by Michael B. Katz

Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor, edited by Jim Yong Kim et al.

When Corporations Rule the World, by David C. Korten

Racial Formation in the U.S.: From the 1960s to the 1990s, by Michael Omni and Howard Winant

Course: "Advanced Studies in Youth, Church and Culture"

School: Princeton Theological Seminary

Professor: Kenda Creasy Dean

Confessions, by Augustine

The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager, by Thomas Hine

The Logic of the Spirit, by James Loder

Runaway World, by Anthony Giddens

Millennials Rising, by Nell Howe and William Strauss

The Contemplative Pastor, by Eugene Peterson

Sometimes We Dance, Sometimes We Wrestle, by Michael Carotta

Beyond the Worship Wars, by Thomas Long

The Godbearing Life, by Kenda Creasy Dean and Ron Foster

Code of the Street, by Elijah Anderson

The Sex Life of Teenagers, by Lynn E. Ponton

Big Questions, Worthy Dreams, by Sharon Daloz Parks

"The Organization Kid," by David Brooks (Atlantic, April 2002)

Course: "Transatlantic Perspectives on Modern Christianity"

School: University of Chicago Divinity School

Professor: Clark Gilpin

The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America, by James Axtell

The Devil in the New World, by Fernando Cervantes

Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, by Liah Greenfeld

God and Nature, edited by David C. Lindberg and Ronald Numbers

Religion and the People Of western Europe, 1789-1990, by Hugh McLeod

European Encounters with the New World, by Anthony Pagden

Holy Fairs, by Leigh Schmidt

Cosmopolis, by Stephen Toulmin

Course: "Introduction to Christian Worship"

School: Chicago Theological Seminary

Professor: Scott Haldeman

Holy Things, by Gordon Lathrop

Let the Whole Church Say Amen, by Laurence Hull Stookey

Brief History of Christian Worship, by James F. White

Introduction to Christian Worship, by James F. White

Course: "I and II Samuel"

School: Columbia Theological Seminary

Professor: Walter Brueggemann

Power, Providence and Personality, by Walter Brueggemann

I and II Samuel, by Walter Brueggemann

Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture, by Brevard S. Childs

I Samuel, by David Jobling

Leap Over a Wall, by Eugene Peterson

David: Biblical Portraits of Power, by Marti J. Steussy

Course: "Prayer in the Hebrew Bible"

School: Seabury-Western Theological Seminary

Professor: Frank M. Yamada

Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest, by David R. Blumenthal

The Psalms and the Life of Faith, by Walter Brueggemann

They Cried to the Lord: The Form and Theology of Biblical Prayer, by Patrick D. Miller

Sisters in the Wilderness, by Dolores Williams

Course: "Evangelism among Intellectuals"

School: Fuller Theological Seminary

Professor: S. Scott Young

What's College For?, by Zachary Karabell

The Revolt of the Elites, by Christopher Lasch

Conversion in the New Testament, by Richard Peace

Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America, by Ann Powers

Fragments of the Spirit, by Mark Wallace