[A] Book
2011—Piety and Responsibility: Patterns of Unity in Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika. New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology, and Biblical Studies. Farnham & Burlington: Ashgate, 2011. [Acquired by Routledge in 2015. Series website: Here
Reviews of Piety and Responsibility:
- Catholic Books Review, 2011. Reviewed by Peter Phan Here
- Vidyajyoti Journal of Theological Reflection 75/12 (December 2011): 57-58. Reviewed by G. Gispert-Sauch, S.J.
- Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies 25 (2012): 70-72. Reviewed by Reid B. Locklin.
- Journal of Religion 93/1 (2013): 100-102. Reviewed by Hugh Nicholson.
- Journal of Ecumenical Studies 48/2 (2013): 263-264. Reviewed by Ann Marie B. Bahr.
[B] Roundtable Guest-Editor
John N. Sheveland and Frans Wijsen, eds., “Roundtable: Exploring the field of intercultural theology,” Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology 1/1 (March 2017): 91-92 [91-152]. Here
[C] Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters
2019 – Forthcoming: “Radicalization and Bold Mercy,” Buddhist-Christian Studies 39 (2019).
2018 – Forthcoming: “Redeeming Trauma: an agenda for theology fifteen years on,” American Catholicism in the 21st Century, eds. Nicholas Rademacher and Benjamin Peters(Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2018).
2016 – “Receptive Theological Learning in and from the Asian Bishops,” Asian Horizons 10/3 (September 2016): 545-560.
2016 – “Review Symposium.” Interreligious Friendship after Nostra Aetate, eds. James Fredericks and Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), in Horizons 43/1 (2016): 168-172. Here
2014 – “Toward a Fuller Catholicity: the promise of Asian theological method,” Louvain Studies 38/2 (2014): 184-197. Here
2014 – “Restoring Intimacy: Christian-Buddhist resources toward solidarity,” Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 25/2 (2014): 152-170. Here
2014 – “In Search of Wisdom and its Blind Spots: Catholic theological reflections on the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.” International Journal of Dharma Studies 2/1 (2014): 1-16. Here
2014 – “The Rich Soil of Asia: a North American appreciation of theological method in the Federations of Asian Bishops’ Conferences,” in Shaji George Kochuthara, ed., Revisiting Vatican II: Fifty Years of Renewal (Bangalore: Dharmaram Publications, 2014), 322-336.
2014 – “What has Renaissance Polyphony to offer Theological Method?” in Peter Phan and Jonathon Ray, eds., Understanding Religious Pluralism: Perspectives from Religious Studies and Theology (Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2014), 264-276.
2010 – “Solidarity in Three Sacred Texts: Bhagavad Gītā, Dhammapada, 1 Corinthians,” Vidyajyoti Journal of Theological Reflection 74/8 (August 2010): 593-605.
- French Translation 2013 (Belgium).
2008 – “The Meaningfulness of Yoga to Christian Discipleship,” The Way: A Review of Christian Spirituality Published by the British Jesuits 47/3 (2008): 49-62. Here
2007 – “The Gita’s ‘Equal Eye’: Resourcing a Christian Concept of Neighbor without Limit,” Louvain Studies 32/4 (2007): 408-21. Here
2004 – “Tears of Dependence: Anselm and Barth on Intelligere,” The Expository Times 115/6 (March 2004): 181-186. Here
2002 – “Interreligious Momentum in David Tracy’s Postmodern Christian Theology,” Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 12/2 (2002): 207-225. Here
[D] Book Chapters and Essays
2017 – Forthcoming: “Facing Religious Neighbors: Nostra Aetate Fifty Years On,” in John K. Downey, Steven Ostovich, and Johann Vento, eds., Facing the World: Political Theology and Mercy (Paulist Press, 2017). [Invited]
2017 – Forthcoming: “Do Not Grieve: Reconciliation in Barth and Vedanta Desika,” in Christian T. Collins Winn and Martha Moore-Keish, eds., Karl Barth and Comparative Theology (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017). [Invited]
2017 – Forthcoming: “Existential Poverty, Christian and Hindu: Barth in dialogue with Vedanta Desika,” in Susanne Hennecke and George Pfleiderer, eds., ______________ (Brill, 2017). [Invited]
2011 – “Is Yoga Religious?”, The Christian Century 128/12 (June 14, 2011): 22-25. [Invited]
2010 – “Solidarity through Polyphony,” in Francis X. Clooney, S.J., ed., The New Comparative Theology: Interreligious Insights from the Next Generation (London & New York: T&T Clark International, 2010): 171-190. [Invited]
2009 – “Polyphony and the Aesthetics of Interreligious Dialogue,” in Arvind Sharma, ed., Windows to World’s Religions: Selected Proceedings of the Global Congress on World Religions After September 11th (Delhi: D.K. Printworld, 2009): 3-13. [Editor-selected]
[E] Sermon Resources for The Expository Times
2016 – “Redemptive Reversals,” The Expository Times 128/2 (November 2016): 83-84.
2015 – “For all the Saints,” The Expository Times 127/1 (October 2015): 25-26.
2015 – “Accepting Acceptance,” The Expository Times 126/5 (February 2015): 233-235.
2014 – “Listening Church, Humbled Church,” The Expository Times 125/11 (August 2014): 549-551.
[F] Encyclopedia Entries
2017 – “Nostra Aetate,” in Jeffrey Shaw and Timothy J. Demy, eds., War and Religion: an Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict. Volume II. (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, March 2017).
2007 – “Divine Love in Christianity,” in Yehudit Kornberg Greenberg, ed., Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2007): 161-62.
2004 – “Sin,” in Hans J. Hillerbrand, ed., Encyclopedia of Protestantism, Volume 4. (New York: Routledge, 2004): 1733-34.
[G] Book Reviews
2018 – Solicited: Peter C. Phan, The Joy of Religious Pluralism (Maryknoll: Orbis, 2017), for Horizons.
2015 – David Cheetham, Douglass Pratt, and David Thomas, eds., Understanding Interreligious Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), in Theological Studies 76/1 (2015): 219-220.
2014 – Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Christ and Reconciliation. A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World, Volume 1 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013), in Horizons 41/1 (2014): 186-189.
2013 – Reid B. Locklin, Liturgy of Liberation: a Christian Commentary on Shankara’s Upadesasahasri (Louvain & Grand Rapids: Peeters & Eerdmans, 2011), in Horizons 40/2 (2013): 298-300.
2008 – John Makransky, Awakening Through Love: Unveiling your Deepest Goodness (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2007), in Journal of Buddhist Ethics 15 (2008): 31-39. Here
2007 – Catherine Cornille, ed., Song Divine: Christian Commentaries on the Bhagavad-Gita (Louvain: Peeters & Eerdmans, 2006), in Theological Studies 67 (2007): 710-712.
[H] Book Review Notes for Religious Studies Review
2018 – Elizabeth J. Harris, Paul Hedges, and Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi, eds., Twenty-First Century Theologies of Religions: Retrospection and Future Prospects. Currents of Encounter, 54. (Leiden & Boston: Brill-Rodopi, 2016), for Religious Studies Review.
2014 – Catherine Cornille, ed., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Inter-religious Dialogue (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), in Religious Studies Review 40/2 (2014): 83.
2014 – David Cheetham, Ways of Meeting and the Theology of Religions. Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology. (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), in Religious Studies Review 40/1 (2014): 21.
2014 – Marianne Moyaert, Fragile Identities: Towards a Theology of Interreligious Hospitality. Currents in Encounter, v. 39 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011), in Religious Studies Review 40/1 (2014): 25-26.
2014 – Roger D. Haight, Christian Spirituality for Seekers: Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola (Maryknoll: Orbis, 2012), in Religious Studies Review 39/4 (2013): 242.
2012 – Richard Kearney and James Taylor, eds., Hosting the Stranger: Between Religions (Continuum, 2011), in Religious Studies Review 38/4 (2012): 221.
2012 – Leo Lefebure and Peter Feldmeier, The Path of Wisdom: a Christian Commentary on the Dhammapada. Christian Commentaries on Non-Christian Sacred Texts (Leuven: Peeters & Eerdmans, 2011), in Religious Studies Review 38/4 (2012): 226.
2012 – Francis Schussler Fiorenza and John P. Galvin, eds., Systematic Theology: Roman Catholic Perspectives, 2nd edition (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2011), in Religious Studies Review 38/3 (2012): 145-146.
2012 – Stephen B. Bevans, Prophetic Dialogue: Reflections on Christian Mission Today (Maryknoll: Orbis, 2011), in Religious Studies Review 38/1 (2012): 10-11.
2011 – Ian A. McFarland, In Adam’s Fall: A Meditation on the Christian Doctrine of Original Sin (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), in Religious Studies Review 37 (2011): 272-73.
2011 – Paul Collins, The Trinity: A Guide for the Perplexed (New York: Continuum, 2008), in Religious Studies Review 37 (2011): 267-68.
2011 – Gregory Baum, Signs of the Times: Religious Pluralism and Economic Justice (Toronto: Novalis, 2007), in Religious Studies Review 37 (2011): 110.
2010 – Susannah Heschel, The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), in Religious Studies Review 36 (2010): 277.
2010 – Kate McCarthy, Interfaith Encounters in America (Piscataway: Rutgers University Press, 2007), in Religious Studies Review 36 (2010): 62.
2009 – George Hunsinger, The Eucharist and Ecumenism: Let Us Keep the Feast (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), in Religious Studies Review 35 (2009): 244.
2009 – David S. Cunningham, Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Literary Meditations on Suffering, Death, and New Life (Louisville & London: Westminster John Knox, 2007), in Religious Studies Review 35 (2009): 35-36.
2008 – Norman Wirzba, Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2006), in Religious Studies Review 34 (2008): 278-279.
Conference Presentations
[A] International
2017 – “Karl Barth and the construction of an ecclesial theology of trauma,” Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology XI, (“Ecclesia Semper Reformanda”), Katholiek Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), October 11-14, 2017. Funded by a research grant from the Gonzaga Academic Council.
2015 – Invited Lecture. “Existential Poverty, Christian and Hindu: Karl Barth in Dialogue with Vedanta Desika,” Karl Barth und die Religion(en): Erkundungen in der Weltreligionen und in der Ökumene – Internationale, interdisziplinäre wissenschaftliche Fachtagung. University of Bonn, September 6-9, 2015. (Delivered In Absentia due to illness.)
2013 – “Theological Method According to the Asian Bishops: From Mystery to Dialogue to Pluralism,” Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology IX (‘Mediating Mysteries, Understanding Liturgies’), Katholiek Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), 23-26 October 2013.
2013 – “‘Seeing the world with fire as if ablaze’: opportunities and challenges in teaching Ashvagosha’s Buddhacarita in a Jesuit university,” European Network for Buddhist-Christian Studies, Ghent, Belgium, 27 June-July 1, 2013.
2013 – “‘The Rich Soil of Asia’: a North American appreciation of FABC Paper No. 96,” Revisiting Vatican II: 50 Years of Renewal, Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore, India, January 31–February 3, 2013.
2009 – “Cultivations of Solidarity: A Textual Analysis,” Parliament for the World’s Religions, Melbourne, Australia, December 4, 2009.
* Respondents: Robert Cathey, Prabha Duneja, Jian Ying Shifu.
2009 – “The Corporate Body and Nonviolence: Exercises in Solidarity with Santideva and St. Paul,” World Religions After September 11th: An Asian Perspective, at Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi, India, January 17-20, 2009.
2006 – “Polyphony and the Aesthetics of Interreligious Dialogue,” World Religions After 9/11: A Global Congress, Montreal, Canada, September 14, 2006.
[B] National
2017 – “Radicalization and Mercy: Christian theological learning from the Open Letter to al-Baghdadi,” Society of Buddhist-Christian Studies, American Academy of Religion, Boston, MA. November 2017.
2017 – “Redeeming Trauma: an agenda for theology fifteen years on,” College Theology Society, Salve Regina University, Rhode Island, June 1-4, 2017.
2015 – Co-presenter with Prabha Duneja, “Remembering Swami Vivekananda for 2015: a Catholic theological appreciation,” Parliament of the World’s Religions. Salt Lake City, UT. October 15-19, 2015.
2015 – Invitation: Panel review of: James Fredericks and Tracy Tiemeier, eds., Interreligious Friendships (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015). College Theology Society, University of Portland, OR. May 28-31, 2015.
2015 – “Ties that Bind: Toward a Political-Theological Reading of Nostra Aetate,” Vatican II – Remembering the Future. Georgetown University, May 21-24.
2014 – “Karl Barth and Vedanta Desika: Anthropological Gleanings,” American Academy of Religion. Additional Meeting: Barth and Comparative Theology. San Diego, CA., Friday November 21, 2015.
2014 – “Comparative Theology as Receptive: the Asian Bishops as Resource,” Receptive Ecumenism III: Receptive Ecumenism in International Perspective – Contextual Ecclesial Learning. Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT. June 9-12, 2014.
2013 – Invited Lecture. “In Search of Wisdom and its Blind Spots: Mine, Swami Vivekananda’s, and the Church’s,” Hindu-Catholic Dialogue Group, Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Loyola Marymount University, June 15, 2013.
2012 – “Renaissance Polyphony as a Model for Comparative Theology,” Understanding Religious Pluralism, Georgetown University, May 23-25, 2012.
2011 – Panel with Christian Krokus and Thomas Cattoi, “Bodhisattvas, Walis, and Sadhus: Saints in other traditions as a resource for Christian comparative theology,” Catholic Theological Society of America, San Jose, CA., June 2011. Sheveland paper title: “Sanctity as Solidarity: Gandhi, Catholic Social Teaching, and the Victims of History.”
2008 – “Undoing Religious Violence: Buddhist-Christian Resources,” Convivencia: Religious Identities in the New World. A Lilly Fellows Program National Research Conference, hosted by Loyola Marymount University, March 27-29.
2007 – “The Public Significance of Comparative Theology Curricula at Jesuit Universities,” College Theology Society, University of Dayton, Ohio, June 2007.
* Respondent: Maureen O’Connell, Fordham University.
2006 – “The Gita’s Equal Eye: a Resource for a Christian Concept of Neighbor without Limit,” Catholic Theological Society of America, San Antonio, June 2006.
2006 – “Catholics and Hindus on Human Rights: Contributions from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles,” College Theology Society, Regis University, Denver, CO., June 2006.
2005 – “Initial Theses on a Christian Appropriation of Yoga,” College Theology Society, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL., June 2005.
2004 – “Unexpected Correspondences in Karl Barth’s Theological Anthropology and Yoga Discipline,” Engaging Particularities II: New Directions in Comparative Theology, Interreligious Dialogue, Theology of Religions and Missiology, Boston College, 27 March 2004.
2004 – “Developing Comparative Theology Research: A Round-Table Discussion,” with Dan Joslyn-Siemiatkoski and Tracy Tiemeier, Engaging Particularities II: New Directions in Comparative Theology, Interreligious Dialogue, Theology of Religions and Missiology, Boston College, 28 March 2004.
2003 – “The Church as a ‘School of Wisdom’: Learning from Karl Rahner and Vedanta Desika,” College Theology Society, Marquette University, 30 May 2003.
2001 – “‘I am the Way’: The Fourth Gospel and Bhagavad-Gita on Incarnation,” College Theology Society, University of Portland, 1 June 2001.
[C] Regional
2017 – “Anti-Muslim Sentiment: what hate studies can tell us, and what Islamic studies cannot,” Fourth International Conference on Hate Studies, Gonzaga University, Oct. 19-21.
2017 – “Justice and the Teaching of Islam at a Jesuit University,” with Brian Siebeking & Shannon Dunn. Through the Eye of the Needle: Conference on the Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education. Seattle University, August 10-13.
2017 – “All in the Family?: Hindutva, ISIS, and the Alt-Right,” American Academy of Religion Pacific Northwest Region, St. Mary’s University, Calgary, May 5-7, 2017.
2016 – Plenary Session with Paul Powers, Lewis & Clark College: “Making Sense of ISIS in the Classroom,” American Academy of Religion Pacific Northwest Region, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID., May 21, 2016.
2015 – “Seeing into the Radicalized?: lessons from the psychology of hate,” American Academy of Religion Pacific Northwest Region, Marylhurst University, Portland, OR., March 27-29.
2014 – “Feminist Analysis and Rehabilitation of Ashvaghosha’s Life of the Buddha,” American Academy of Religion Pacific Northwest Region, University of Calgary, May 9-11, 2014.
2001 – “Interreligious Momentum in David Tracy’s Postmodern Christian Theology,” American Academy of Religion (New England Region), Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA., 27 April 2001.
