The Department of Philosophy & Religion offers majors and minors in both philosophy and religion, as well as a combined philosophy and religion major.
Below you will find scholarly and other professional works of faculty in Philosophy & Religion.
Documents from 2013
Hindu-Christian Conflict in India: Globalization, Conversion, and the Coterminal Castes and Tribes, Chad M. Bauman
Documents from 2012
Christianity and Hinduism: An Annotated Bibliography, Chad M. Bauman, Arun Jones, Brian Pennington, Joseph Prabhakar Dayam, and Michelie Voss Roberts
Review of "An Introduction to Christian Theology", Brent A. R. Hege
Review of "Take My Hand: A Theological Memoir", Brent A. R. Hege
Review of "The Church Event: Call and Challenge of a Church Protestant", Brent A. R. Hege
Review of "What’s Wrong with Sin? Sin in Individual and Social Perspective from Schleiermacher to Theologies of Liberation", Brent A. R. Hege
Review of The Messiah: A Comparative Study of the Enochic Son of Man and the Pauline Kyrios, James F. McGrath
Barack Obama as Just War Theorist: The Libyan Intervention, Harry van der Linden
On the Violence of Systemic Violence: A Critique of Slavoj Žižek, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2011
Indian Christian Historiography from Below, from Above, and in Between., Chad M. Bauman
Review of "Missionaries and their Medicine", Chad M. Bauman
Singular and General Causal Relations: A Mechanist Perspective, Stuart Glennan
Review of Introduction to Modern Theology: Trajectories in the German Tradition, Brent Hege
Review of "Thinking with the Church: Essays in Historical Theology", Brent A. R. Hege
Robots, Rights and Religion, James F. McGrath
On Hearing (Rather Than Reading) Intertextual Echoes: Christology and Monotheistic Scriptures in an Oral Context, James F. McGrath
Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2010
Mechanisms (Oxford), Stuart Glennan
Review of Contemporary Christologies: A Fortress Introduction, by Don Schweitzer, Brent Hege
Review of Contemporary Christologies: A Fortress Introduction, by Don Schweitzer., Brent Hege
A Reforming Tradition Struggles with Change: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Historic Vote on LGBT Ordination, One Year Later, Brent A. R. Hege
The Online Theology Classroom: Strategies for Engaging a Community of Distance Learners in a Hybrid Model of Online Education, Brent A. R. Hege
The Suffering of God? The Divine Love and the Problem of Suffering in Classical and Process-Relational Theisms., Brent A. R. Hege
Reading the Story of Miriai on Two Levels: Evidence from Mandaean Anti-Jewish Polemic about the Origins and Setting of Early Mandaeism, James F. McGrath
Just Military Preparedness, U.S. Military Hegemony, and Contingency Planning for Intervention in Sudan: A Reply to Lango and Patterson, Harry van der Linden
Documents from 2009
Review of "Religious Division and Social Conflict", Chad M. Bauman
The Specter of ‘Spirituality’—On the (In)Utility of an Analytical Category, Chad M. Bauman
Out of India: Immigrant Hindus and South Asian Hinduism in the United States Chad Bauman and Jennifer Saunders, Chad M. Bauman
Fuzzy But Not Warm: On the (Continuing) Descriptive and Analytical Inutility of ‘Spirituality', Chad M. Bauman, Gene Gallagher, and Davina Lopez
Lies, Lyres, and Laughter in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, Christopher Bungard
Faith at the Intersection of History and Experience: The Theology of Georg Wobbermin, Brent A. R. Hege
Jesus Christ as Poetic Symbol: Wilhelm Bousset’s Contribution to the Faith-History Debate, Brent A. R. Hege
The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in its Jewish Context, James F. McGrath
Barack Obama, Resort to Force, and U.S. Military Hegemony, Harry van der Linden
From Hiroshima to Baghdad: Military Hegemony versus Just Military Preparedness, Harry van der Linden
Questioning the Resort to U.S. Hegemonic Military Force, Harry van der Linden
Documents from 2008
Postcolonial Anxiety and Anti-Conversion Sentiment in the Report of the Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee, Chad M. Bauman
Review of The Crisis of Secularism, Chad M. Bauman
Book Review of "Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal", Chad M. Bauman
Redeeming Indian ‘Christian’ Womanhood?: Missionaries, Dalits, and Agency in Colonial India, Chad M. Bauman
Productivity, relevance and natural selection, Stuart Glennan
History and fiction in the Acts of Thomas: The state of the question, James F. McGrath
Review of Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels, James F. McGrath
Documents from 2007
Whose Science and whose Religion? Reflections on the Relations between Scientific and Religious Worldviews, Stuart Glennan
Artificial Minds and Human Religions: An illustration of the diversity of possible intersections between religious thought and practice and technological advances, James F. McGrath
Was Jesus illegitimate? The evidence of his social interactions, James F. McGrath
Is Global Poverty a Moral Problem for Citizens of Affluent Societies?, Harry van der Linden
Would the United States Doctrine of Preventative War Be Justified as a United Nations Doctrine?, Harry van der Linden
Documents from 2006
Singing of Satnam: Blind Simon Patros, Dalit Religious Identity, and Satnami-Christian Music in Chhattisgarh, India, Chad M. Bauman
Introduction to the Modern Orthodox Tradition, Paul Valliere
The Left and Humanitarian Intervention, Harry van der Linden
Documents from 2005
Modeling mechanisms, Stuart Glennan
“Questioning Just War Theory,” review of Michael Walzer, Arguing About War, Harry van der Linden
Economic Migration and Justice, Harry van der Linden and Josh Clark
Documents from 2004
Two Powers’ and Early Jewish and Christian Monotheism, James F. McGrath and Jerry Truex
The Modernity of Khomiakov, Paul Valliere
"Immigration," "Immanuel Kant", and "Kantian Ethics", Harry van der Linden
Documents from 2003
Explaining, Assessing, and Changing High Consumption, Harry van der Linden
Documents from 2001
Review of Alexander Kaufman, Welfare in the Kantian State (1999), Harry van der Linden
Documents from 1998
A rebellious son? Hugo Odeberg and the interpretation of John 5.18, James F. McGrath
Change in Christology: New Testament Models and the Contemporary Task, James F. McGrath
Documents from 1997
Going up and coming down in Johannine legitimation, James F. McGrath
Prologue as Legitimation: Christological Controversy and the Interpretation of John 1:1-18, James F. McGrath
Review of James C. VanderKam's The Dead Sea Scrolls Today, James F. McGrath
Uncontrived Messiah or Passover Plot? A Study of A Johannine Apologetic Motif, James F. McGrath
Russian Orthodoxy and Human Rights, Paul Valliere
Review of Roger J. Sullivan, An Introduction to Kant's Ethics (1994), Harry van der Linden
Documents from 1996
Johannine Christianity: Jewish Christianity?, James F. McGrath
Review of Barbara Thiering, "Jesus of the Apocalypse. The Life of Jesus after the Crucifixion”, James F. McGrath
Review of Lawrence H. Shiffman "Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls. The History of Judaism, the Background of Christianity, The Lost Library of Qumran", James F. McGrath
Review of The World of Classical Myth, by Ruck and Staples, Paula Saffire
Marx's Political Universalism, Harry van der Linden
Documents from 1995
Review of Parasarathy's translation of the Cilappatikaram of Ilanko Atikal, Paula Saffire
Kant, the Duty to Promote International Peace, and Political Intervention, Harry van der Linden
Review of Kenneth Baynes, The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls, and Habermas (1992), Harry van der Linden
Documents from 1994
Why There Can't be a Logic of Induction, Stuart Glennan
Whip, Whipped, and Doctors: Homer's Illiad and Camus' The Plague, Paula Saffire
Cohens sozialistische Rekonstruktion der Ethik Kants, Harry van der Linden
Hermann Cohen’s Political Philosophy and the Communitarian Critique of Liberalism, Harry van der Linden
Documents from 1992
Review of Philip Arieti's Interpreting Plato, Paula Saffire
Review of Hans Reiss, editor, Kant, Political Writings (1991), Harry van der Linden
Review of Richard Dien Winfield, The Just Economy (1988), Harry van der Linden
Documents from 1991
Review of Joan De Jean's Fictions of Sappho, Paula Saffire
Cohen, Collective Responsibility, and Economic Democracy, Harry van der Linden
Review of Richard L. Velkley, Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy (1989), Harry van der Linden
Documents from 1990
Review of Helmut Holzhey, Cohen und Natorp (1986): Volume I, Ursprung und Einheit; Volume II, Der Marburger Neukantianismus in Quellen, Harry van der Linden
Documents from 1988
Creative Involvement with the Texts: Bernhard Goetz and the Ancient Historians, Paula Saffire
Documents from 1984
Marx and morality: an impossible synthesis?, Harry van der Linden
Documents from 1983
Review of Mandelbaum's Odyssey of Homer, Paula Saffire
The Spirituality of War, Paul Valliere
Documents from 1982
"The lady and the wench" : a practical theodicy in Russian literature., Paul Valliere
Documents from 1978
Russian Orthodoxy and the challenge of modernity: the case of Archimandrite Makary, Paul Valliere
