selected scholarly activity
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books
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chapters
- 13 The Secular – The Political: Augustine and Political Augustinianism in Twentieth-Century Political Theology. 237-261. 2022
- The Secular - The Political Augustine and Political Augustinianism in Twentieth-Century Political Theology. 237-261. 2022
- “THE WORD BECAME FLESH” WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF AN AUGUSTINIAN INCARNATIONAL ECONOMY FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY?. 87-103. 2022
- Technology as Principality: The Elimination of Incarnation. 99-116. 2016
- Augustine’s Messianic Political Theology: An Apocalyptic Critique of Political Augustinianism. 129-149. 2013
- 'Jesus Is the Bread of Life': Johannine Sign and Deed in The Violent Bear It Away. 136-156. 2012
- Making Strange: Harry Huebner’s Church-World Distinction. 92-99. 2011
- On the Difference Between Torture and Punishment: Theology, Liturgy and Human Rights. 19-38. 2011
- Recent Continental Philosophers. 440-454. 2011
- Living ‘As If Not’: Messianic Becoming or the Practice of Nihilism. 37-63. 2010
- The War of the Lamb: Postmodernity and Yoder’s Eschatological Genealogy of Morals. 70-89. 2010
- 5 Messianic Ethics and Diaspora Communities. 110-130. 2009
- Messianic Ethics and Diaspora Communities: Upbuilding the Secular Theologically from Below. 110-130. 2009
- Sexuality and the Sacramental Imagination: It All Turns on Affection. 119-136. 2007
- Bibliography. 187-197. 1995
- Christian Realism: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Fellowship for a Christian Social Order. 45-90. 1995
- Conclusion: Toward a Moral Theology of Creation. 122-143. 1995
- Human Dignity and Labour: The Catholic Bishops and Economic Policy. 91-121. 1995
- Introduction. 1-18. 1995
- Preface. xi-xv. 1995
- The Cooperative Commonwealth and the Kingdom of God: The Social Gospel Quest for a Public Morality. 19-44. 1995
- A Contemporary Perspective on Spirituality. 81-89.
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journal articles
- Postsecular History or Figural Messianism?. Political Theology. 24:342-346. 2023
- ‘Apocalyptic Political Theology’: Response to Philip Ziegler’s Militant Grace. International Journal of Systematic Theology. 22:313-326. 2020
- Ethics as a Work of Charity: Thomas Aquinas and Pagan Virtue by David Decosimo. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. 38:199-200. 2018
- Scandalous Displacements: 'Word' and ' Silent Light' in Miriam Toews's Irma Voth. Journal of Mennonite Studies. 36:91-102. 2018
- Saint Paul at sea: A Mystical-Political Reading of Moby Dick via Stanislaus Breton. Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology. 26:111-118. 2017
- Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction by Nicholas M.Healy (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014), xii + 142 pp.. Modern Theology. 32:300-301. 2016
- Kirsi Stjerna and Deanna A. Thompson, editors, On the Apocalyptic and Human Agency: Conversations with Augustine of Hippo and Martin Luther. Augustinian Studies. 47:119-120. 2016
- Technology as Principality: The Elimination of Incarnation. Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology. 24:162-177. 2015
- TECHNOLOGY AS PRINCIPALITY: THE ELIMINATION OF INCARNATION. Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology. XXIV:162-177. 2015
- Gulag Ethics: Russian and Mennonite Prison Memoirs from Siberia. Journal of Mennonite Studies. 30:251-268. 2014
- Review of: Rethinking Philosophy and Theology with Deleuze: A New Cartography. Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology. 2014
- Canada's Catholic Bishops and the Economy: A Theological Ethical Analysis. Toronto Journal of Theology. 2:3-18. 2013
- Mennonite and Metis: Adjacent Histories, Adjacent Truths. Journal of Mennonite Studies. 28:187-202. 2012
- Rich Mennonites in an Age of Mammon: Is a Messianic Political Economy Possible. Journal of Mennonite Studies. 27:167-178. 2011
- Messianic Political Theology: Yoder contra Redekop. Direction. 38:67-78. 2009
- Book Review: George Pattison, Thinking about God in an Age of Technology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). 278 pp. £50 (hb), ISBN 0—19—927977—2. Studies in Christian Ethics. 20:438-440. 2007
- Oliver O'Donovan and Joan Lockwood O'Donovan, Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics Past and Present. Political Theology. 8:123-125. 2007
- Review of: The Gift of Difference: Radical Orthodoxy, Radical Reformation. Conrad Grebel Review. 31:95-97. 2007
- Messianic freedom and the secular academy: educating the affections in a technological culture. Consensus. 31. 2006
- Whither Messianic Ethics?. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. 25:37-58. 2005
- IS A MESSIANIC POLITICAL ETHIC POSSIBLE? Recent Work by and about John Howard Yoder. Journal of Religious Ethics. 33:141-174. 2005
- Educative Violence or Suffering Love? Radical Orthodoxy and the Radical Reformation. Conrad Grebel Review. 23:19-24. 2005
- Review of: Craig Carter, The Politics of the Cross: The Theology and Social Ethics of John Howard Yoder. Journal of Mennonite Studies. 20:268-270. 2002
- Eschatology and Ethics: Luther and the Radical Reformers. Consensus. 27:9-25. 2001
- The War of the Lamb: Postmodernity and John Howard Yoder’s Eschatological Genealogy of Morals. The Mennonite quarterly review. LXXIV:295-310. 2000
- Review of: Richard B. Hays, New Testament Ethics: The Story Retold. Journal of Mennonite Studies. 18:234-236. 2000
- Why Oliver O'Donovan's Christendom is not Constantinian and John Howard Yoder's "voluntariety" is not Hobbesian: A debate in theological politics re-defined (Exploring the modern liberal split between politics and religion through neutral moral discourse mediation). Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. 20:41-64. 2000
- Anabaptists and Existential Theology. Conrad Grebel Review. 17:69-88. 1999
- Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: Reflections on Jesus and Socrates: Word and Silence Paul W. Gooch New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. xii + 308 p. Studies in Religion-Sciences Religieuses. 27:323-324. 1998
- Book Reviews : Authentic Transformation: a new vision of Christ and Culture, with a previously unpublished essay by H. Richard Niebuhr, by Glen H. Stassen, D. M. Yeager, John Howard Yoder. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996. 299 pp. pb. no price. Studies in Christian Ethics. 11:105-109. 1998
- Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: The Origins of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Ethics Donovan Smucker Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. x + 173 p. Studies in Religion-Sciences Religieuses. 26:246-247. 1997
- Spirituality and Occupational Therapy in a Secular Culture. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy. 64:122-126. 1997
- The Peaceable Creation: Stanley Hauerwas and the Mennonites. Conrad Grebel Review. 13:136-141. 1997
- Spirituality and Occupational Therapy in a Secular Culture. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy. 64:122-126. 1997
- Review of: John Howard Yoder, For the Nations: Essays Public and Evangelical. Canadian Mennonite. 1997
- Theocentric Ethics and Politics. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. 17:19-27. 1997
- Theocentric ethics and policy (James Gustafson, religious piety, "paideia" and political theory). Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. 17:19-27. 1997
- Faith and Philosophy: The Correspondence between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, 1934–1964Peter Emberley and Barry Cooper, trans. and eds. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993, pp. xxvi, 368. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 28:164-165. 1995
- Review of: Timothy Byrnes, Catholic Bishops in American Politics. North American Religion. 4. 1995
- Reply to Donald Wiebe. Studies in Religion-Sciences Religieuses. 23:81-82. 1994
- REPLY TO WIEBE,DONALD + THE AUTHOR OF A REVIEW ARTICLE OF THE 'IRONY OF THEOLOGY AND THE NATURE OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT' RESPONDS TO THE AUTHORS REACTION. Studies in Religion-Sciences Religieuses. 23:81-82. 1994
- The Humanization of Production: A Critique of Economic Justice For All. Eglise et Theologie. 25:65-83. 1994
- The ironic cage of positivism and the nature of philosophical theology. Studies in Religion-Sciences Religieuses. 22:93-103. 1993
- Review of: Harry Huebner and David Schroeder, Church as Parable: Whatever Happened to Ethics?. Mennonite Reporter. 23:10-11. 1993
- The Theological Politics of Plato and Isaiah: A Debate Rejoined. Journal of Religion. 73:16-30. 1993
- Theology, ethics and social theory: The social gospel quest for a public morality. Studies in Religion-Sciences Religieuses. 20:181-199. 1991
- Pluralism and Policy Monism: The Political Irrelevance of Theology. Toronto Journal of Theology. 7:35-43. 1991
- Ethics, Economics, and Christian Realism: Religious Social Theories of Reinhold Niebuhr and Gregory Vlastos. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. 8:77-89. 1988
- The U.S. Bishops and Their Critics: An Economic and Ethical Perspective Walter Block Vancouver, Bc: The Fraser Institute, 1986. x + 128 p. Studies in Religion-Sciences Religieuses. 16:257-257. 1987
- Ethics, Economics, and Christian Realism. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. 8:77-89.
- Review of: On the Apocalyptic and Human Agency: Conversations with Augustine of Hippo and Martin Luther
- Why O'Donovan's Christendom is not Constantinian and Yoder's Voluntariety is not Hobbesian. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. 20:41-64.
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presentations
- Scandalous Displacements: 'Word' and ' Silent Light' in Miriam Toews's Irma Voth 2017
- Figural Theology: Mennonite Theology and Literature 2017
- Saint Paul at Sea: a Mystical Political Reading of Moby Dick 2016
- George Grant's Contribution to Technology Ethics 2016
- Mystical Messianic Materialism: Stanislaus Breton and Melville's Moby Dick 2014
- Technology as Principality 2014
- Darkness Unveiled: The Apocalypse of Chrapitalism in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness 2014
- Mennonites and Mammon: Economies of Desire in a Post-Christian World 2013
- Augustine's Apocalyptic Political Theology: A Critical Appraisal of Political Augustinianism 2013
- Gulag Ethics: Russian and Mennonite Prison Memoirs in Siberia 2010
- The Politics of Torture and Punishment: Dostoevsky and Nietzsche on Crime and Conscience 2010
- Living 'As IfNot': Pauline Messianism and Continental Political Philosophy 2010
- Whither Apocalyptic? Critical Reflections 2009
- On the Difference Between Torture and Punishment: Theology, Liturgy and Human Rights 2009
- An Apocalyptic Rejoinder to Charles Taylor's Political Augustinianism 2009
- Politics and the Ordering of Love: Augustinian Ethics of Democratic Citizenship 2009
- Rich Mennonites in an Age of Mammon: Is a Messianic Political Economy Possible? 2008
- Flannery O'Connor's Apocalypse: Catastrophic Conversion in The Violent Bear it Away 2008
- Living 'As IfNot': Messianic Becoming or the Practice ofNihilism? 2008
- Making Strange in Church: Harry Huebner's Church-World Distinction 2008
- Pauline Messianism and Continental Philosophy 2008
- Messianic Political Theology 2007
- The Ethics of 'As IfNot': Pauline Messianism and Continental Philosophy 2007
- Pauline Messianism and Empire Politics 2005
- "Jesus is the Christ: Imitation of Christ and Antichrist in the Political Theologies of Augustine and Hobbes, 2005
- Liturgies of Litigation: Rituals of Justice in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov 2005
- Ethics and Art in Flannery O'Connor 2005
- Whither Messianic Ethics? Paul as Postmodem Political Theorist 2005
- Diaspora Ethics and Technological Secularism: Freeing the Academy 2004
- Democracy, Tradition and Religious Discourse in a Secular Society 2004
- Religious Communities in a Technological Culture: Rebuilding the Secular 2003
- Breakfast with an Author 2003
- Radical Orthodoxy and the Radical Reformation: What is Radical about Radical Orthodoxy 2002
- Ethics and Immortality: God, Moral Judgement and Political Order 2001
- Dostoevsky's Apocalyptic Poetics and Monastic Spirituality: Elder Zosima on Restorative Justice 2001
- Prophetic Ethics and Poetics 2001
- Whose Life is it Anyway? A Response to the Latimer Case 2001
- Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Human 2000
- Genetics, Generation, and the Good: Ethical Considerations in Microbiology and Biotechnology 2000
- Why O'Donovan's Christendom is not Constantinian and Yoder's Voluntariety is not Hobbesian: A Debate in Theological Politics Re-defined 2000
- Dostoevsky: Prophet of the Future 1999
- The War of the Lamb: The Eschatological Genealogy of Morals 1998