Philip D. Kenneson: Publications

 

Books

        Selling Out the Church: The Dangers of Church Marketing [co-author with James Street], Abingdon Press.  February 1997; reprint, Wipf and Stock Publishers, July 2003. [Click here to see cover one and cover two of reprint editions.]

        Beyond Sectarianism: Re-Imagining Church and World. Christian Mission and Modern Culture Series. Edited by Alan Neely, H. Wayne Pipkin, and Wilbert R. Shenk. Trinity Press International.  June 1999.

        Life on the Vine: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit in Christian Community.   InterVarsity Press.  October 1999. 

              Spanish edition: El fruto del Espritu en la comunidad cristiana .  Buenos Aires: Kairos, 2004. 

              Chinese edition: Jie guo zi de sheng ming: zai jidu tu qun ti zhong pei yang sheng ling de guo zi.  Hong Kong: Fellowship of Evangelical Students, 2008.

              Korean edition.  Seoul: Holy Wave Plus Publishing Company, 2010.

       The Shape of Our Lives: Study One in the Ekklesia Project's Getting Your Feet Wet Series. Wipf and Stock Publishers, July 2008.

       The Shape of God's Reign: Study Two in the Ekklesia Project's Getting Your Feet Wet Series.  Wipf and Stock Publishers, July 2008.

 

Articles and Essays

        "Nicholas Lash on Doctrinal Development and Ecclesial Authority," Modern Theology 5.3 (April 1989): 271-300.

        "Jesus and/as the Non-Violent Imagination of the Church" [co-author with Stanley Hauerwas], Pro Ecclesia 1.1 (Fall 1992): 76-88.

        "Selling [Out] the Church in the Marketplace of Desire," Modern Theology 9.4 (October 1993): 319-48.

        "Pluralism, Political Liberalism, and the Need for a New Moral Language." Discernment 3.1 (Winter 1994): 4-5.

        "There's No Such Thing as Objective Truth, and It's a Good Thing, Too."  In Christian Apologetics In The Postmodern World.  Edited by Timothy R. Phillips and Dennis L. Okholm.   Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1995; pp. 155-70.

        "The Alleged Incorrigibility of Postliberal Theology: Or, What Babe Ruth and George Lindbeck Have in Common."   In The Nature of Confession: Evangelicals and Postliberals in Conversation.   Edited by Timothy R. Phillips and Dennis L. Okholm.  Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1996; pp. 93-106.

        "Worship Wars and Rumors of Worship Wars." Reviews in Religion and Theology (May 1996): 72-75.  Reprinted in Baptists Today (An official publication of the Baptist Union of South Africa), Nov./Dec. 1996.

        "Spirituality American Style." Reviews in Religion and Theology (May 1997): 72-75.

        "(To Market)2." (Pro/Con Discussion of Church Marketing) Vital Ministries, Jan-Feb 1999: 44-49.

        "The Frog in the Kettle." [Reprint of Chapter 1 of Selling Out the Church: The Dangers of Church Marketing.]  The Restoration Herald 78.2 (February 1999): 1-6.

        "Can the Christian Faith Survive If Belief in Objective Truth is Abandoned?" Stone-Campbell Journal 2.1 (April 1999): 43-56.

        "Visible Grace: The Church as God's Embodied Presence." In Grace Upon Grace: Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Langford.   Edited by Robert K. Johnston, L. Gregory Jones, and Jonathan R. Wilson.  Abingdon Press, 1999; pp. 169-179.

        "Out of Control: Cultivating Selfless Self-Control."  Prism 6.6 (November/December 1999): 10-13. [Excerpt from Life on the Vine, IVP, 1999]

        "truth."  In Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Interpretation.  Edited by A. K. M. Adam.  Chalice Press, 2000; pp. 268-75.

        "Trinitarian Missiology: Mission as Face-to-Face Encounter."  In A Scandalous Prophet: The Way of Mission after Newbigin.  Edited by Thomas F. Foust, George R. Hunsberger, J. Andrew Kirk and Werner Ustorf.   Eerdmans, 2001; pp. 76-83.

        "Gathering: Worship, Imagination and Formation."  In The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics.  Edited by Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells.  Blackwell Publishers, 2004; pp. 53-67; Second Edition, 2011; pp. 55-69.

        " Learning to Take Joy in Our Work: Some Preliminary Theological Reflections."  Leaven 12.2 (2004): 80-88.

        "Cultivating a Generous Heart: Part One."  Christian Standard, Vol. 140, no. 16 (April 17, 2005): 244-45, 249.

        "Cultivating a Generous Heart: Part Two."  Christian Standard, Vol. 140, no. 17 (April 24, 2005): 260-63.

        "What's in a Name? A Brief Introduction to the 'Spiritual but not Religious.'"  Liturgy 30.3 (2015): 3-13.

         "Exegeting Culture: Formation, Identity, Mission."  Leaven 24.1 (2016): 12-16

 

Review Essays

        "Flight from Foundationalism, Or, Things Aren't As Bad As They Seem" [co-author with Stanley Hauerwas], Soundings 71.4 (Winter 1988): 683-99.  Review of Jeffrey Stout, Ethics After Babel: The Languages of Morals and Their Discontents. Beacon Press, 1988.

        "Taking Time for the Trivial [:] Reflections on Yet Another Book from Hauerwas," Asbury Theological Journal   45.1 (Spring 1990): 65-74.  Review of Stanley Hauerwas, Christian Existence Today: Essays on Church, World and Living in Between. Labyrinth Press, 1988.

        "Contingency, Techne and Alterity: The Making of Religious Studies." Reviews in Religion and Theology   6.2 (May 1999): 121-26.  Review of Jon R. Stone (ed), The Craft of Religious Studies.  Macmillan Press, 1998.

         "The Nature of Christian Freedom,"  Special issue on "Freedom" in Christian Reflection: A Series in Faith and Ethics (Vol. 39, Spring 2011).  Review of Richard Bauckham, God and the Crisis of Freedom: Biblical and Contemporary Perspectives, Westminster John Knox, 2002; Reinhard Hutter, Bound to Be Free: Evangelical and Catholic Engagements in Ecclesiology, Ethics, and Ecumenism, Eerdmans, 2004; Gilbert Meilander, The Freedom of a Christian: Grace, Vocation, and the Meaning of Our Humanity, Brazos Press, 2006.   

 

Book Reviews

            Review of Lewis S. Mudge, The Sense of a People: Toward a Church for the Human Future (Trinity Press International, 1992).   In Modern Theology 10.2 (April 1994): 221-25.

            Review of Colin E. Gunton, The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 1993).  In Modern Theology 11.2 (April 1995): 270-72.

            Review of Ralph McInerny, Modernity and Religion (University of Notre Dame Press, 1994).  In Religious Studies Review 21.2 (April 1995): 117.

            Review of R. Laurence Moore, Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture (Oxford University Press, 1994).   In Reviews in Religion and Theology (May 1996): 66-69.

            Review of Rodney Clapp, Families at the Crossroads: Beyond Traditional and Modern Options (InterVarsity Press, 1993).   In Pro Ecclesia  5.3 (Summer 1996): 374-75.

            Review of Gregory Baum, Essays in Critical Theology (Sheed and Ward, 1994).  In Modern Theology 13.2 (April 1997): 283-85.

            Review of Philip F. Esler (ed.), Christianity for the Twenty-First Century (T. & T. Clark, 1998). In Reviews in Religion and Theology 6.1 (February 1999): 102.

            Review of Kathryn Tanner, Theories of Culture (Fortress Press, 1997).  In Anglican Theological Review  81.1 (Winter 1999): 174-75.

            Review of Ian Markham, Truth and the Reality of God: An Essay in Natural Theology (T. & T. Clark, 1998).   In Reviews in Religion and Theology 6.2 (May 1999): 192-95.

            Review of Miroslav Volf, After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity (Eerdmans, 1998).  In  Modern Theology 15.3 (July 1999): 373-75.

            Review of Donald E. Miller, Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millenium (University of California Press, 1997).  In Pro Ecclesia 8.4 (Fall 1999): 501-502.

            Review of Michael Budde, The [Magic] Kingdom of God: Christianity and Global Culture Industries (Westview Press, 1997).  In Pro Ecclesia 9.1 (Winter 2000): 119-121.

           Review of Gerhard Sauter, What Dare We Hope: Reconsidering Eschatology (Trinity Press International, 1999).  In Modern Theology 16.4 (October 2000): 569-71.

           Review of Michael Jinkins, The Church Faces Death: Ecclesiology in a Post-Modern Context (Oxford University Press, 1999).  In Anglican Theological Review 82.4 (Fall 2000): 847-48.

           Review of Nicholas Sagovsky, Ecumenism, Christian Origins and the Practice of Communion (Cambridge University Press, 2000).  In Reviews in Religion and Theology 7.5 (November 2000): 518-20.

            Review of Graham Ward (ed.), The Postmodern God: A Theological Reader (Blackwell, 1997) and Phillip Blond (ed.), Post-Secular Philosophy: Between Philosophy and Theology (Routledge, 1998).  In Anglican Theological Review 83.1 (Winter 2001): 155-61.

            Review of Marcel Gauchet, The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion (Princeton University Press, 1997).  In  Anglican Theological Review 83.2 (Spring 2001): 311-12.

            Review of The Wisdom of the Cross: Essays in Honor of John Howard Yoder.  Edited by Stanley Hauerwas, Chris K. Huebner, Harry J. Huebner, and Mark Thiessen Nation (Eerdmans, 1999).   In Pro Ecclesia 10.2 (Spring 2001): 242-43.

            Review of Gerhard Lohfink, Does God Need the Church?  Toward a Theology of the People of God (Liturgical Press, 1999).  In Anglican Theological Review 83.3 (Summer 2001): 624-25.

            Review of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Discipleship. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 4. English Edition Edited by Geffrey B. Kelly and John D. Godsey (Fortress Press, 2001).  In Theology Today 59.1 (April 2002): 115-18.

            Review of Stephen H. Webb, Good Eating, The Christian Practice of Everyday Life Series (Brazos Press, 2001).  In Reviews in Religion and Theology 9.4 (September 2002): 369-70.

            Review of Eric O. Springsted, The Act of Faith: Christian Faith and the Moral Self (Eerdmans, 2002).  In Modern Theology 19.2 (January 2003): 303-05.

            Review of Natalie K. Watson, Introducing Feminist Ecclesiology (Sheffield Academic Press, 2002).  In Reviews in Religion and Theology 10.4 (September 2003): 426-29.

            Review of Richard Bauckham, Bible and Mission: Christian Witness in a Postmodern World  (Baker Academic, 2003).  In  Stone-Campbell Journal 7.2 (Fall 2004): 278-80.

            Review of Kevin J. Vanhoozer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology (Cambridge University Press, 2003).  In Stone-Campbell Journal  8.1 (Spring 2005):107-08.

            Review of James K. A. Smith,  Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-Secular Theology (Baker Academic, 2004).  In Stone-Campbell Journal  9.2 (Fall 2006): 267-68.

            Review of Dee Dyas and Esther Hughes, The Bible in Western Culture: The Student's Guide (Routledge, 2005). In Reviews in Religion and Theology 14.2 (March 2007): 178-79.

            Review of Harvey Gillman, Consider the Blackbird: Reflections on Spirituality and Language (Quaker Books, 2007). In Reviews in Religion and Theology 15.3 (July 2008): 371-72.

            Review of Kelly S. Johnson, The Fear of Beggars: Stewardship and Poverty in Christian Ethics (Eerdmans, 2007). In Stone-Campbell Journal 11.2 (Fall 2008): 257-59.                                                                

            Review of Elizabeth Newman, Untamed Hospitality: Welcoming God and Other Strangers (Brazos Press, 2007). In Reviews in Religion and Theology 16.1 (January 2009): 57-59.

            Review of Norman Wirzba, Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight (Brazos Press, 2006). In Reviews in Religion and Theology 16.1 (January 2009): 61-64.

Review of Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice, Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing (InterVarsity Press, 2008).  In Reviews in Religion and Theology 17.2 (March 2010): 194-96.

Review of Serene Jones, Trauma and Grace: Theology in a Ruptured World (Westminster John Knox Press, 2009).  In Reviews in Religion and Theology 18.2 (March 2011): 344-46.

Review of Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, God's Economy: Redefining the Health and Wealth Gospel (Zondervan, 2009).  In Reviews in Religion and Theology 18.2 (March 2011): 267-69.

Review of Daniel M. Bell, Jr., Just War as Christian Discipleship: Recentering the Tradition in the Church rather than the State (Brazos Press, 2009).  In Reviews in Religion and Theology 18.3 (July 2011): 428-30.

Review of Brad J. Kallenberg, God and Gadgets: Following Jesus in a Technological Age (Cascade, 2011).  In Stone-Campbell Journal 15.1 (Spring 2012): 104-06.

Review of Paul Heintzman, Leisure and Spirituality: Biblical, Historical, and Contemporary Perspectives (Baker, 2015). In Stone-Campbell Journal 18.2 (Fall 2015): 275-76.

Review of Brian Christopher Coulter, Be Holy: Find Identity/Find Belonging/Find Purpose (Chalice Press, 2014).  In Encounter 76.1 (2016): 59-60.

 

 

 

 


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