Selected Articles
“Augustine, Luther, and the Critique of the Sovereign Self,” in On the Apocalyptic and Human Agency, eds. Kirsi Stjerna and Deanna A. Thompson.
“Authority in the Church: A Plea for Critical Dogmatics,” in Seeking New Directions for Lutheranism, eds. Carl E. Braaten and Paull Spring.
Synopsis of Theodor Dieter’s Der Junge Luther und Aristoteles.
“Verbum Externum: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Bethel Confession,” in God Speaks to Us: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Biblical Hermeneutics, eds. Ralf K. Wuestenberg and Jens Zimmermann.
“Seeing the God of the Gospel: Robert W. Jenson (1930-2017),” The Christian Century (October 11, 2017): 10-11.
“Changing Church(es): Remaining Lutheran in the Changing Churches,” Afterword in Changing Churches, eds. Mickey Mattox and A. G. Roeber.
“Are the Scriptures Holy?” The Power of Words: Papers in Honor of Tibor Fabiny’s Sixtieth Birthday, ed. Eniko Sepsi.
“The Incarnation of the Eternal Son: Fitting, not Necessary,” Pro Ecclesia XXI/4 (2012): 542-558.
“An Irony of Enthusiasm: The Reversal of Luther’s Epithet in the Enlightenment,” in A Man of the Church: Essays in Honor of Ralph Del Colle, ed. Michel Rene Barnes.
“Metaphorical Truth and the Language of Christian Theology,” in Indicative of Grace—Imperative of Freedom, ed. R. David Nelson.
“Leibniz and the Theology of the Beloved Community,” Pro Ecclesia XXI/1 (2012): 25-50.
“Leibnizian Transformation? Reclaiming the Theodicy of Faith,” in Transformations in Luther’s Theology, eds. Christine Helmer and Bo Kristian Holm.
“Luther on Ecclesiastes: Nature in the Light of Grace,” Word & World 43/1 (2023): 31-42.
“The Use of Luther’s Thought in Pietism and Enlightenment,” in Oxford Handbook to Martin Luther, eds. R. Kolb, I. Dingel, and L. Batka.
“Luther’s Anti-Docetism in the Disputatio de divinitate et humanitate Christi (1540),” in Creator est creatura, eds. Oswald Bayer and Benjamin Gleede.
“Luther’s ‘Atheism,’” in The Devil’s Whore, ed. Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth.
“The Doctrine of the New Birth from Bullinger to Edwards,” in Missio Apostolica VII/2 (1999): 102-119.
“Purgatory Now!” in Christian Century (July 5, 2017): 30-34.
“Cross, Contestation, Consummation: An Engagement with Ted Peters’ God — the Future of the World,” in The International Journal of Systematic Theology 19/3 (2017): 306-28.
“Prima Scriptura: Saving Sola Scriptura from Itself,” in dialog 55/3 (2016): 220-228.
“The ‘Powers and Principalities’: Problems and Prospects for Christian Doctrine Today,” in Life Amid the Principalities, eds. Michael Root and James J. Buckley.
“Problems of Evil,” in V sluzbe obnovy, eds. Milan Jurik and Jozef Benka.
“Quaternity or Patrology?” Pro Ecclesia XXIII/1 (2014): 46-52.
“The Truth about ‘Radical Hospitality,’” Lutheran Forum (Fall 2014): 37-39.
“Tilted in the Direction of Duns Scotus: Sonderegger’s ‘Formal Distinction’ and the Theologia Crucis,” Pro Ecclesia 27/1 (2018): 56-61.
“The Lutheran Dilemma,” Pro Ecclesia VIII/4 (1999): 391-422.
“Theological Anthropology: Toward Integrating Theosis and Justification by Faith,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 34/1 (1997): 38-73.
“Sin, Death and Derrida,” in Lutheran Forum (Summer 2010 )52-59.
“Why Virtual Communion Is Not Nearly Radical Enough,” in Lutheran Forum (Summer 2020) 17-24.
“Why Luther Still Matters,” in Lutheran Forum (Spring 2014) 30-35.
“Confessional Subscription Today,” in Lutheran Forum (Spring 2012) 47-53.
“The Theology of the Divine Warrior in the Book of Joshua,” in Word & World 37/3 (Summer2017) 271-280.
“Luther in Marx,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther eds. Derek Nelson & Paul R. Hinlicky.
“After Schism,” in Lutheran Forum 43/2 (Summer 2015) 44-50.
“Hitler's Theology: A Cautionary Tale for Today's Peril,” in dialog 60/1 (March 2021).”
“The Theology of the Martyrs” in Martyrdom and the Suffering of the Righteous. Edited by Paul R. Hinlicky and R. David Nelson. (Delhi, NY: ALPB Books, 2016) 87-107.
“Law, Gospel and Beloved Community” in Preaching and Teaching the Law and Gospel of God. (Delhi, NY: ALPB Books, 2013), 91-114.
“Authority in the Church: A Plea for Critical Dogmatics” in New Directions for Lutheranism. Edited by C. Braaten. (Delhi, NY: ALPB Books, 2010), 123-53.
“Liberating Sacrifice: Solidarity and Substitution in the Atoning Work of Christ,” and in Who is Jesus Christ for Us Today? Part Two: The Work of Christ edited R. David Nelson (Delhi NY: LPV books, 2018) 39-61.
“Complicity and the Truth of the Christological Path of Ecclesial Resistance: Summons to a New Catechesis for a Time of Despair” in Truth-Telling and Other Ecclesial Practices of Resistance edited by Christine Helmer (Lexington /Fortress Academic, 2021) 47-62.
“Resurrection and the Trinitarian Knowledge of God,” Word and World 41/4. (October 2021) 344-54.
“Antinomianism – the “Lutheran” Heresy,” Chapter 3 in Lutheran Theology and Secular Law: The Work of the Modern State," Marie A. Failinger and Ronald W. Duty, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2018) 28-38.
“Luther and Liberalism” in A Report from the Front Lines: Conversations on Public Theology. A Festschrift in Honor of Robert Benne, ed. Michael Shahan, (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009), 89-104.
Book Reviews and Review Essays
“Why not, ‘Stalin is risen!’?” (A symposium on David Congdon, The Mission of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann’s Dialectical Theology) Syndicate: A New Forum for Theology (September-October 2016: 3/5) 95-102.
“On the ‘Sacrifice of Conscience’” in Symposium on Ephraim Radner's A Brutal Unity Syndicate: A New Forum for Theology (May/June 2014: 1/1) 11-17.
Review of Crucified and Resurrected by Ingolf Dalferth in Modern Theology 33/4 (2017): 678-680.
Review of 300 Jahre Essais de Theodicee: Rezeption und Transformations, eds. Wenchao Li and Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann in Renaissance Quarterly 67/3 (2014): 1049-1051.
Review of Augustinian Perspectives in the Renaissance by Ake Bergvall in Sixteenth Century Journal XXXVII/3 (Spring 2006): 936-937.
Review of Critical Issues in Ecclesiology: Essays in Honor of Carl E. Braaten, eds. Alberto L. Garcia and Susan K. Wood in Lutheran Quarterly 27/1 (Spring 2013): 104-6.
Review of Renaissance Humanism in Support of the Gospel in Luther’s Early Correspondence: Taking All Things Captive by Timothy P. Dost, Sixteenth Century Journal XXXIV/3 (Fall 2003): 796-7.
Review Essay: “Divine Simplicity: A Dogmatic Account by Steven J. Duby,” in Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies 4/2 (2019): 207-214, 224-227.
Review of Wittenberg Meets the World: Reimagining the Reformation at the Margins by Alberto L. Garcia and John A. Nunes, in The Journal of Theological Studies 69/2 (October 2018): 921–923.
Review of A Contemporary in Dissent: Johann Georg Hamann as a Radical Enlightener by Oswald Bayer, in Lutheran Quarterly 27/1 (Spring 2013): 94-6.
Review Essay on Theology and the End of Doctrine by Christine Helmer, in Pro Ecclesia XXV/1 (Winter 2016): 105-111.
Review Essay: “How Theological Exegesis Disrupts Theological Tradition: Review of Robert W. Jenson’s The Triune Story: Collected Essays on Scripture,” in Harvard Theological Review 114/1 (2021): 143-157.
Review Essay: “Luther and Heidegger,” review of Heidegger’s Religious Origins by Benjamin D. Crowe, in Lutheran Quarterly XXII (2008): 78-86.
Review of Documents from the History of Lutheranism ed. Eric Lund and A History of Lutheranism by Eric W. Gritsch, in Sixteenth Century Journal XXXIV/3 (2003): 803-5.
Review of Trinitarian Theology in the Medieval West ed. Pekka Karkkainen, in Lutheran Quarterly XXV/1 (Spring 2011): 104-6.
“A Review Essay on Peter Ochs’ Another Reformation,” in Journal of Scriptural Reasoning 13/2 (2014).
Review of Lutheran Theology by Stephen D. Paulson, in International Journal of Systematic Theology 16/4 (2014): 489-492.
Review of How Can the Petrine Ministry Be a Service to the Unity of the Universal Church? ed. James F. Puglisi, in Lutheran Quarterly XXVI/3 (2012): 366-68.
Review of The Interruptive Word by R. David Nelson, in International Journal of Systematic Theology 17/4 (October 2015): 476-479.
Review Essay on Trinitarian Grace in Martin Luther’s The Bondage of the Will by Miikka Ruokanen, in Modern Theology 39/3 (2023): 535-39.
Review of Justification and the Future of the Ecumenical Movement ed. William G. Rusch, in Lutheran Quarterly.
Review of Transfiguring Luther: The Planetary Promise of Luther’s Theology by Vitor Westhelle, in Scottish Journal of Theology 72/3 (2019): 338-340.
Review of After Heresy by Vitor Westhelle, in Lutheran Quarterly XXVII/2 (2013): 227-9.
Review of Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation by John Witte Jr., in Sixteenth Century Journal XXXV/2 (2004): 534-6.
Review Essay: “The Experience of Incongruous Grace,” review of The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience by Simeon Zahl, in Anglican Theological Review 104/4 (2022).