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Institute Program Publications
Sumer Consultation Publications
+J. Elmo Agrimson
Howard Anderson
Roger R. Anderson
+Colman J. Barry, OSB
+Arley R. Bjella
+Michael P. Blecker, OSB
Mary Murray Bosrock
+Robert McAfee Brown
Joan D. Chittister, OSB
Wayne K. Clymer
Alberic Culhane, OSB
+Horton Davies
Thomas Deegan
Ann M. Didier
Calvin W. Didier
+Godfrey Diekmann, OSB
Elizabeth S. Driscoll
+David J. du Plessis
+Baldwin Dworschak, OSB
+John Eidenschink, OSB
+Arthur Flemming
John E. Forliti
William W. George
Charles M. Grace
+Donald R. Grangaard
+Richard R. Green
+Louis H. Gunnemann
Tonye M. Hannah
+Terrance Hanold
Darlene K. Haskin
Janice Hennings
Ralph P. Hofstad
Patricia M. Holloran
+Ronald M. Hubbs
+Archibald Jackson
Vivian Jones
Valerie A. Karras
Timothy Kelly, OSB
David A. Koch
Katherine Kraft, OSB
+Harold LeVander
Franklin Littell
+G. Daniel Little
Arnold Lowe
Patricia Lund
+Rhoda Lund
Nancy D. Martin
+Abigail McCarthy
+James McClendon
+James I. McCord
Karla McGray
Dean C. McNeal
+Norman B. Mears
+John Meyendorff
Jim W. Miller
+Raymond P. Morris
Richard J. Mouw
+Elizabeth W. Musser
+Daniel O'Hanlon
Shaun O'Meara, OSB
John C. Parish
+Jaroslav Pelikan
+Lloyd Peterson
Laverne A. Phillips
Carol L. Pine
+H. C. Piper, Jr.
J. Timothy Power
+James S. Rausch
+Dietrich Reinhart, OSB
Kathleen Ridder
J. Deotis Roberts
Jack B. Rogers
+Alvin Rogness
Arthur A. Rouner, Jr.
+David T. Scoates
+James P. Shannon
+Gordon Shepard
Sondra Stalcup
+Clifford C. Sommer
Thomas F. Stransky, CSP
+Jerome P. Theisen, OSB
Hilary D. Thimmesh, OSB
Wayne E. Thompson
William M. Thompson
Thomas H. Tipton
Krista Tippett
Anthony Ugolnik
Elizabeth E. Villafana
+Carl A. Volz
+George G. Walker, Jr.
+Cynthia C. Wedel
+Rod Wilmoth
Sandye Wilson
+John R. Winsor
Curt D. Yaws
Paul M. Youngdahl
Summer Consultations
In the past, the Institute hosted several invitational first-person conversations on subjects of concern to the church, ecumenism, and society during the summer months. Consultations typically included 15-20 participants from a variety of traditions and perspectives. They spanned six days, some reconvened for several summers, and occasionally they yielded a publication or collaborative work. Listed below are just some of the consultations that have taken place through the years:
Confessing Faith in God Today (1976-81)
Relation of Men and Women in the Black Church (1978-81, 1983)
The Human Condition (1978-82)
Workgroup on Constructive Theology (1978-80)
Institute for Ecumenical Leadership (1981-82, 1984-85, 1987, 1989)
The Meaning of Ecumenism (1982-84)
Evangelical/Holiness/Pentecostal Christians (1985-86)
Women and the Church (1985-88)
African Americans and Biblical Interpretation (1986-89)
Transmitting Tradition to Children and Young People (1987-88)
The Content of Christian Hope (1990-93)
Christian Hope Found Outside the Church (Hope II, or Hope Too) (1990-93)
Jewish and Christian Relatedness to Scripture (1991-93)
One is Holy (North American Orthodox and Byzantine Catholics) (1992)
Ecumenism Among Us to the Turn of the Century (1995)
Virtues for an Ecumenical Heart (1996-98)
The Price of Disunity (1999)
Living Faithfully in North America Today (1999-2000)
Leadership for In-Between Times from In-Between Places (2002)
Igniting Biblical Imagination (2003-04)
Ecumenical Formation (2003)
Summer Consultation Publications
God on Our Minds.
By Patrick Henry and Thomas F. Stransky, CSP.
Philadelphia: Fortress Press; Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1982.
Consultation: "Confessing Faith in God Today."
Changing Views of the Human Condition.
Edited by Paul W. Pruyser.
Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1987.
Consultation: "The Human Condition."
Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation.
Edited by Cain Hope Felder.
Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991.
Consultation: "African American Biblical Interpretation."
Voices from Within: Faith-life Stories of Women in the Church.
By Patricia Gillespie and Mary Mathews.
Pasadena, California: Hope Publishing House, 1994.
Consultation: "Women and the Church."
Regathering: The Church from "They" to "We".
By Esther Byle Bruland.
Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995.
Consultations: "The Meaning of Ecumenism" & Evangelical/Holiness/Pentecostal Christians."
Occasional Papers
Compassion: The Core of Spiritual Leadership, by Henri J. M. Nouwen,
March 1977
Black Theologians Confess Their Faith in God, by J. Deotis Roberts and
Thomas Hoyt, Jr., November 1978
A Confession of Christ the King, by Godfrey Diekmann, OSB, January
1979
Faith and Ferment: A Study in Contemporary Christianity, by Joan D.
Chittister, OSB, January 1981
A Study in Contemporary Christianity: Some Initial Responses, by Joan
D. Chittister, OSB, April 1981
The Roots of the Moral Majority: Fundamentalism Revisited, by David E.
Harrell, Jr., May 1981
Tradition as Freedom from the Past: Contemporary Eastern Orthodoxy and
Ecumenism, by Anthony J. Ugolnik, November 1982
Faith in God: Receiving, Sharing, Confessing, by Timothy Kelly, OSB,
March 1983
Eucharistic Worship, Radical Contemplation, and Radical Politics, by
John Carmody, November 1983
God as Economist and the Problem of Property, by M. Douglas Meeks,
February 1984
Tradition Alive, by Anthony J. Ugolnik, October 1985
Deep Symbols We Share, by Thomas G. Christensen, April 1986. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn: Children's Literature and the
Understanding of Religion, by James Woelfel, November 1986. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
The Meaning of Ecumenism, by Margaret O'Gara, November 1987. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
"Evangelical": More Puzzling Than You Think, by Donald W. Dayton, May
1988. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
Virgil Michel and Ecumenism, by Patrick Henry, April 1989. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
An Embarrassing Show of Affection, by G. Daniel Little, November 1989. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
Ecumenical Ministry in the Hospital, by Patsy J. Robeck, RN, May 1991. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
1022 and All That, by Wilfred Theisen, OSB, May 1992. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
In Defense of Allegory: On Entering the "Shadows" of the Biblical Text,
by Mark S. Burrows, November 1992. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
Is Ecumenical and Cultural Research Necessary? A Parish Pastor Says
Yes!, by G. Daniel Little, May 1993. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
Nothing is Enough, by Edward A. Robinson, May 1994. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
The Rhetoric of Crisis and the Future of Mainstream Protestantism, by
Thomas E. Frank, May 1995. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
From Organization through Dialogue to Decision: The Third Stage of
Ecumenism, by John F. Hotchkin, November 1995. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
Theological Education by E-Mail: The Implications of Distance Education,
by Elizabeth L. Patterson, May 1996. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
Reflections on Children, Parenthood, and the Nature of God, by Krista
Weedman Tippett, November 1996. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
Adventures in an Ecumenical Wonderland, by Krista Weedman Tippett,
November 1997. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
Does God Bite? Selected Poems, by Kilian McDonnell, OSB, November 1998. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
Who Is Our Guest? Reflections on Benedictine Hospitality, by Diane M.
Millis, May 1999. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
Startled: My Pilgrimage from Anti-Ecumenical to Ecumenical,
by Esther Bruland, November 1999. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
The Three Rs of Ecumenism: Roots, Risk, Respect, by Paula Koshiol, May 2000. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
Women's Theological Creativity: Learning to Tell Stories about Ideas,
by Mary Farrell Bednarowski, November 2000. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
The Role of the University in the Ecumenical Movement: A Heritage to be
Recaptured in the Twenty-first Century, by R. William Franklin, May 2001. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
Ecumenism: Twenty-first Century Possibilities, by Douglas John Hall,
May 2002. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
Does Goodness Really Matter? by Gary B. Reierson, November 2002. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
Jacob's Ladder: Jaroslav Pelikan and the People of the Book, by Anthony Ugolnik, May 2003. Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.
- Note: these are books we know about that were written in whole or in part while the scholar was at the Institute; there are almost certainly others.
Ackerman, Jane John of the Cross: The Living Flame of Love: Versions A and B,
translated with introduction and commentary notes. Binghamton, New York:
Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (volume 135), 1995.
Allen, Douglas Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade, New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998.
Athans, Mary Christine The Coughlin-Fahey Connection; Father Charles
E. Coughlin, Father Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp., and Religious Anti-Semitism in the
United States, 1938-1954, New York: Peter Lang, 1991.
Austin, Gerard P., OP. Anointing with the Spirit: The Rite of
Confirmation: The Use of Oil and Chrism, New York: Pueblo Publishing Co., 1985
Bechtle, Regina, SC, and Judith Metz, SC (editors) Elizabeth Bayley Seton:
Collected Writings, Volume 1, Hyde Park, New York: New City Press, 2000.
Bird, Otto A. Cultures in Conflict: An Essay in the Philosophy of the
Humanities, Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1976.
Brown, Alexandra R. The Cross and Human Transformation: Paul's Apocalyptic Word in 1 Corinthians, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.
Callahan, Annice, RSCJ Evelyn Underhill: Spirituality for Daily Living,
Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, Inc., 1997.
Cannon, Dale W. Six Ways of Being Religious: A Framework for Comparative Studies of Religion, Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 1996.
Carmody, John Theology for the 1980s Philadelphia: The Westminster
Press, 1980.
Cherry, C. Conrad Nature and Religious Imagination, Philadelphia:
Fortress Press, 1980.
Chittister, Joan, OSB, Stephanie Campbell, OSB, Mary Collins, OSB,
Ernestine Johann, OSB, and Johnette Putnam, OSB. Climb Along the Cutting Edge: An Analysis of Change in Religious Life, New York: Paulist Press, 1977.
Coll, Regina, CSJ Supervision of Ministry Students, Collegeville: The Liturgical
Press, 1992.
Collins, John N. Are All Christians Ministers?, Newtown, Australia: E. J.
Dwyer, 1992.
Collins, Patrick W. Bodying Forth: Aesthetic Liturgy, New York: Paulist Press,
1992.
Cruikshank, Margaret Thomas Babington Macaulay, Twayne's English Authors
Series. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1978.
Crysdale, Cynthia S. W. Embracing Travail: Retrieving the Cross Today,
New York: Continuum, 1999.
Cupial, Dariusz Na drodze evangelizacji i ekumenii; Ruch Swiatlo-Zycie
w sluzbie jednosci chrzescijan, Lublin, Poland: Redackcja Wydawnictw, 1996. (A
study of the Light-Life Movement and its ecumenical activity; English summary on page 147.)
Emmert, Thomas A. Serbian Golgotha: Kosovo, 1389, New York: Columbia
University Press, 1990.
Engelsviken, Tormod Ånden i Ordet: Bibelens budskap om Den Hellige
Ånd, Oslo: Lunde Forlag og Bokhandel A/S, 1977.
Engelsviken, Tormod Besettelse og åndsutdrivelse: i Bibelen, historien
og vår egen tid, Oslo: Lunde Forlag og Bokhandel A/S, 1978.
Falardeau, Ernest, SSS A Holy and Living Sacrifice: The Eucharist in
Christian Perspective, Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1996.
Falardeau, Ernest, SSS That All May Be One: Catholic Reflections on
Christian Unity, New York: Paulist Press, 2000.
Finn, Thomas M. From Death to Rebirth: Ritual and Conversion in
Antiquity, New York: Paulist Press, 1997.
Fischer (Pittman), Linda K. The Geography of Protestant Monasticism, Ann
Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms, 1990.
Forde, Gerhard O. Theology is for Proclamation, Minneapolis: Fortress
Press, 1990.
Frank, Thomas Edward Polity, Practice, and the Mission of the United Methodist Church, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997.
Gerbrandt, Gerald Micah: Better than Rivers of Oil, Newton, Kansas:
Faith and Life Press, 1985.
Goodich, Michael E. (editor) Other Middle Ages: Witnesses at the Margins
of Medieval Society, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
Goodich, Michael E. Violence and Miracle in the Fourteenth Century:
Private Grief and Public Salvation, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,
1995.
Gratsch, Edward J. Aquinas' Summa: An Introduction and Interpretation, New
York: Alba House, 1985.
Hanhart, Karel The Open Tomb: A New Approach, Mark's Passover Haggadah (±72 C.E.), Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1995.
Hastings, C. Brownlow A Baptist View of Changes in Roman
Catholicism, Atlanta: Home Mission Board, n.d.
Hastings, C. Brownlow Introducing Southern Baptists: Their Faith and
Their Life, New York: Paulist Press, 1981.
Henry, Patrick New Directions in New Testament Study, Philadelphia:
The Westminster Press, 1979; London: SCM Press, 1980.
Hessert, Paul Christ and the End of Meaning, Rockport, Massachusetts:
Element, 1993.
Hisada, Toshio The Molly Maguire Riots (in Japanese), Japan: 1997.
Hoyt, Thomas, Jr. "The Year of Jubilee": A Fifty-Two Week Bible Study on
the Gospel of Luke, Arkansas City, KS: Gilliland Printing, 1999.
Hughes, Kathleen, RSCJ Saying Amen: A Mystagogy of Sacrament,
Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 1999.
Icaza, Rosa María, CCVI Catholic Celebration: A Reflection on the Liturgical
Renewal / Celebración Católica: Una reflexión sobre la renovación litúrgica,
San Antonio: Mexican American Cultural Center, 1989.
Jacobson, Arland D. The First Gospel: An Introduction to Q. Sonoma,
California: Polebridge Press, 1992.
Jegen, Carol Frances, BVM Jesus the Peacemaker, Kansas City: Sheed & Ward, 1986.
Jelly, Frederick M., OP Madonna: Mary in the Catholic Tradition,
Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., 1986.
Jodock, Darrell The Church's Bible: Its Contemporary Authority,
Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989.
Kärkkäinen, Veli-Matti Spiritus ubi vult spirat: Pneumatology in Roman
Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue )1972-1989), Schriften der Luther-Agricola-Gesellschaft 42, Helsinki: Luther-Agricola-Society, 1998.
Keshgegian, Flora A. Redeeming Memories: A Theology of Healing and Transformation, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2000.
LaCugna, Catherine Mowry God for Us: The Trinity and Christian Life,
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
Madigan, Shawn, CSJ (editor) Mystics, Visionaries, and Prophets: A Historical
Anthology of Women's Spiritual Writings, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998.
Martin, Charlotte Joy Dynamics of Hope: Eternal Life and Daily Christian Living, A Michael Glazier Book, Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 2002.
McGinn, Bernard The Growth of Mysticism: Gregory the Great through the 12th
Century (Volume 2 of The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian
Mysticism), New York: Crossroad, 1994.
Meeks, M. Douglas God the Economist: The Doctrine of God and Political
Economy, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989.
Merritt, Justine Journey, Pasadena: Hope Publishing House, 1993.
Mojzes, Paul Christian-Marxist Dialogue in Eastern Europe, Minneapolis:
Augsburg Publishing House, 1981.
Motter, Alton M. Ecumenism 101: A Handbook about the Ecumenical
Movement, Cincinnati: Forward Movement Publications, 1997.
Mulholland, M. Robert, Jr. Revelation: Holy Living in an Unholy World, Grand
Rapids, Michigan: Asbury Press, 1990.
Norris, Kathleen Little Girls in Church, Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 1995.
Norris, Kathleen The Astronomy of Love, New York: Haybarn Press, 1994.
Norris, Kathleen The Cloister Walk, New York: Riverhead Books, 1996.
O'Gara, Margaret The Ecumenical Gift Exchange, Collegeville: The
Liturgical Press, 1998.
Patrick, Anne E. Liberating Conscience: Feminist Explorations in
Catholic Moral Theology, New York: Continuum, 1996.
Pederson, Ann Where in the World is God? Variations on a Theme,
Saint Louis: Chalice Press, 1998.
Philibert, Paul, and Frank Kacmarcik. Seeing and Believing: Images of Christian
Faith, A Pueblo Book; Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1995.
Podgorski, Frank R. Hinduism: A Beautiful Mosaic, Bristol, Indiana:
Wyndham Hall Press, 1985.
Pohl, Christine D. Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999.
Polk, Timothy Houston The Biblical Kierkegaard: Reading by the Rule of Faith,
Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1997.
Porter, Jean The Recovery of Virtue: The Relevance of Aquinas for
Christian Ethics, Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990.
Rausch, Thomas P. SJ Catholicism at the Dawn of the Third Millennium,
Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1996.
Rogers, Jack B., and Donald K. McKim. The Authority and Interpretation
of the Bible: A Historical Approach, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979.
Saint-Laurent, George E. Spirituality and World Religions: A Comparative
Introduction, Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1999.
Sherry, Patrick Spirit and Beauty: An Introduction to Theological
Aesthetics, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
Sinclair, John H. "Historical Protestantism," in Paul E. Sigmund (editor)
Religious Freedom and Evangelization in Latin America: The Challenge of
Religious Pluralism, Religion and Human Rights Series, Maryknoll, New York:
Orbis Books, 1999, pp. 28-48.
Sinclair, John H. Juan A. Mackay: Un Escoces con Alma Latina, Mexico
City: CUPSA, 1990.
Smith, Joanmarie A Context for Christianity in the 21st Century, Allen,
Texas: Thomas More, 1995.
Sneen, Donald Visions of Hope: Apocalyptic Themes from Biblical Times,
Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1978.
Sponheim, Paul R. The Pulse of Creation: God and the Transformation of
the World, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999.
Stoneberg, Theodore "The Tasks of Men in Families," in Herbert Anderson,
Don S. Browning, Ian S. Evison, and Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, editors The
Family Handbook, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998, pp. 71-75.
Stuempfle, Herman G., Jr. Preaching Law and Gospel, Philadelphia:
Fortress Press, 1978.
Swidler, Leonard Freedom in the Church, Dayton, Ohio: Pflaum
Press, 1969.
Tannehill, Robert C. Luke, (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries).
Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.
Tate, Marvin E. Psalms 51-100 (Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 20).
Dallas: Word Books, 1990.
Taylor, Richard W. Jesus in Indian Paintings, Madras: The Christian
Literature Society, 1975.
Tekippe, Terry J. Christian Living Today: A Personal Credo, New York: Paulist
Press, 1977.
Ugolnik, Anthony The Illuminating Icon, Grand Rapids: William
B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1989.
van Aarde, Andries God-With-Us: The Dominant Perspective in Matthew's
Story, and Other Essays (Hervormde Teologiese Studies, Supplementum 5).
Pretoria: Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1994.
Vogel, Dwight W. The Psalms for Today's Worship, Saint Louis: Concordia
Publishing House, 1974.
Vogel, Dwight W. and Linda J. Vogel Sacramental Living: Falling Stars and
Coloring Outside the Lines, Nashville: Upper Room Books, 1999.
Vogel, Linda Jane Helping a Child Understand Death, Philadelphia:
Fortress Press, 1975.
Volz, Carl A. The Medieval Church: From the Dawn of the Middle Ages to
the Eve of the Reformation,Nasvhille: Abingdon Press, 1997.
Walker, Michael J. To God With Love, Collegeville: The Liturgical
Press, 1976.
Wynn, J. C. Family Therapy in Pastoral Ministry: Counseling for the
Nineties, San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, [1982] revised and expanded
edition, 1991.