Featured Faculty Publications

Recent faculty talks and publications

Professor of Hebrew Bible; Director, Center for Continuing Education

2025 - Lost in Translation: Recovering the Origins of Familiar Biblical Words

2025 - The Literary History of the Pentateuch: Collected Essays

Assistant Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Environment

2025 Nov 17 - “Rights and Why Animals Have Them,” Northrop Distinguished Lecture Series, Yale Undergraduate Society of Ethics

Professor of the Practice; Founding Dean, Andover Newton Seminary at YDS

2025, August - Cultivating Competence: The Ministry of Leadership Development

Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History

2025, October - “Prophetic Voice and Indifference: The Reformation and the Future of the Reformed Church”, The Future of the Reformed Church in Switzerland Conference, Forthcoming in German and French

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

2025 - Women, Gender, and Sex in the End-Time: Household Roles in 1 Corinthians 7

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, 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

2025, Dec 11 - “Augustine’s Ecstatic Eudaimonism and the Problem of the Christian Master,” 64th Annual Augustine Lecture, Villanova University

2025, Nov 24 - “Life, Agency, and Multispecies Freedom,” American Academy of Religion, Boston

2025, Nov 24 - “The Limits of Inclusionary Pluralism”, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Boston

2025, Nov 22 - “Creaturely Freedom and the Great Wheel of Being,” American Academy of Religion, Boston

2025 - “Perseverance and Pertinacity: Persisting in the Difficult Good,” The Virtues of Endurance, Oxford University Press

Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology

2025 - Francis of Assisi : The Life of a Restless Saint, New Haven / London : Yale University Press

2025 - Medieval Spirituality : An Introduction, Waco : Baylor

2025 - United with Christ : Martin Luther and Christian Mysticism, Minneapolis : Fortress 2025 (Lutheran Quarterly Books)

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.

2025 December 09 - “Roman Eyes on the Eyes of Faith: Early Christianity Viewed as Superstition,” “How to Write a History of Early Christianity,” KU Leuven

2025 September 11 - “Ethics across Traditions: Atonement and Repentance”: Public conversation with Prof. Louis Newman, Emory University Center for Ethics

2025 August 01 - “A New Approach to Writing the History of Early Christianity,” Society of New Testament Annual Meeting, University of Regensburg

2025 August 01 - Ancient Religiosities in Dialogue: Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian

2025 May 06 - “The Spread of Christianity in the Greek and Roman Empires,” Yale Religion Podcast

2025 April 20 - “Trust in Atonement,” The Leader’s Way Podcast

2025 April 11 - “Paul’s Language of Trust and Community,” Israel Bible Center Podcast

2025 - “Augustine on Faith: Trust, Acceptance, Credence, Belief,” E. Johnson, M. Vercesi, and T. Gray eds, Belief and Unbelief in the Ancient World. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans: 73-97.

2025 - “Histories of Early Christianity/Christianities: Recent Constructions and Some Proposals,” Early Christianity 16 (2025), 1-28.

Assistant Professor of World Christianity

2025 Feb 25 - Christians in the City of Nairobi: An African city and the future of World Christianity

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

2025 Jan - Marriage in Byzantium

Robert S. Tangeman Professor in the Practice of Music History

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 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)