Featured Faculty Publications

Recent faculty talks and publications

Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History

2026, May - “After the Monastery: Acedia, Spiritual Exhaustion and the Formation of the Reformed Conscience in the Sixteenth Century,” University of Geneva, Faculty of Theology, Switzerland

Associate Professor of Ethics, Philosophy, and Africana Studies

2026 March 12 - “Richard Shusterman on the Art and Ethics of Social Criticism,” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Las Vegas, NV

Samuel Abbot Professor of Christian Theology at Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School

2026, February - Theology and Medicine in Conversation: How the Healing Happens

Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs; Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics

2026, May - “Pennington and the Black Atlantic,” Modern Theology

2026, May - “AI and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically after ChatGPT,” Modern Theology

2026, May - “Commerce and Communion: Business, Profit and the Circulation of Wealth in Christian Thought,” In Search of the Spirits of Capitalism: World Religions on Markets and Morality

2026, May 6 - “Inside the Ethical: Non-Reductive Naturalism and the Revelation of the Good,” Political Philosophy Colloquium, Sun Yat-Sen University, China (online)

2026, Apr 15 - “Ethics at the Boundaries of Humanity: A Book Talk Event,” Yale University Divinity School

2026, Apr 9 - “Ethics Beyond the Human: A Book Discussion Panel,” Duke University Divinity School

2026, Mar 26 - “Devotion and Idolatry,” Conference on Devotion, Existential Commitment, and Ethics, Boston University

2026, Mar 12 - “The Battle to Take the Land: Higher Education and the Classical Christian Education Movement,” Journal of Moral Education

2026, Feb 12 - “Why Pay Attention? Play, Art, and Worship”, Commonweal Roots: Dialogues for the Common Good, Union Theological Seminary

2026, Feb 10 - “AI, Agency, and Human Relations”, 2026 Seminar in Private Law, Yale Law School

2026, Jan 30 - “The Problem of Particular and Universal Loves: Confucian, Stoic, and Augustinian”, Changing Discourse on “Love” in Chinese Christianity: Engaging Western Perspectives, Yale University

2026 - “Commerce and Communion: Business, Profit and the Circulation of Wealth in Christian Thought”, In Search of the Spirits of Capitalism: World Religions on Markets and Morality

McDonald Agape Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity

2026 April 23 - “Christologies of Care,” Conference: Fully Human: Ecologies of Care, University of Oxford

2026 Feb. 9 - “Roman Faith and Christian Faith,” The Biblical Time Machine Podcast

2026 - “The Innovative Shape of Early Christian Preaching,” S. L. Jonsson, S. Luther, and J. P. B. Mortensen eds., Innovation and Appropriation in Early Christianity: Authors, Topics, Texts, Genres. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: 569-88.

Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation, joint appointment in the Department of Religious Studies

2026, March - “Interrupting Scriptures: Homer, the New Testament and Divination,” University of Pittsburgh Divination Series.

2026, March - “Divining Scriptures: Homer, the Gospels, and Divination,” Princeton University Magie Lecture. Humanities Council Program in the Ancient World.

2026 -“Curses and the Pauline Letters,” in Alexi Chantziantoniou, Paula Fredriksen, and Stephen Young, eds., Paul Within Paganism: Restoring the Mediterranean Context to the Apostle. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2025.

2026 - Laura Nasrallah and Joseph Lee, “Ethnicities in Ancient Corinth,” in Andreas-Christian Heidel et al., eds, Early Christian Centers. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2026.

Assistant Professor of Liturgical Studies

2026 - “Domestic Eucharists and Wedding Feasts in Fourth-Century Egypt: A Neglected Source from the Alexandrian Canonical Responses,” Ex Fonte: Journal of Ecumenical Studies in Liturgy

Robert S. Tangeman Professor in the Practice of Music History

2026, April 27 - “The Life of a Migrant: Johann Sebastian Bach on the Move,” Boston Musical Intelligencer

2026, March 30 - “What Bach’s St. Matthew Passion Can Teach Us About Patience,” The Living Church - Covenant

2026, March 19 - “A Matter of Perspective: The Manuscripts of Recently Discovered Works by Bach and Mozart Have Been Around for Decades. What Changed?”, Van Magazine

2026, March - “Flowers, Stones, and Scorpions: Nature and Cosmos in Baroque Passion Settings,” Worship in Communion with Creation: Recognizing a Broader Participation, ed. by Melanie C. Ross and Karen B. Westerfield Tucker (Liturgical Press, 2026), 239-268.

2026, March - “ ‘About Organs’: A Lutheran Statement about Organ Music from 1597, and Its Historical Context,” Yale Journal of Music and Religion 12/1 (2026), 48-65

2026, February 22 - “Cuff’s Violin: The Sound of Freedom in Colonial Boston,” The Boston Musical Intelligencer

2026, February - “What Is the Right Time for the Actus Tragicus? Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cantata BWV 106 and the Liturgical Calendar,” CrossAccent: Journal of the Association of Lutheran Church 33/3 (pp. 52-58)

2026, January 27 - “What is so Amazing about Grace? ‘Amazing Grace’ in the Contexts of Eighteenth-Century Theology and Hymnody”, Amazing Grace at 250: Global Heritage and Contested Legacies (edited by M. V. Clarke and G. Atkins, Routledge 2026)