Drew University Archives
Finding Aid for Janet Forsythe Fishburn Papers
Box 1: Curriculum Vitae, Books, and Articles
Box 2: Articles
Box 3: Articles
Box 4: Reviews, Encyclopedia Articles, Professional Activities (lectures and sermons),
Addenda to Curriculum Vita, Personal Reading, and Public Presentations
Box 1:
Folder 1. Curriculum Vitae, 2013;Curriculum Vitae, 2005
Folder 2. Books.
The Fatherhood of God and the Victorian Family: The Social Gospel in America.
Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982.
Confronting the Idolatry of Family: A New Vision for the Household of God. Nashville:
Abingdon Press, 1991. (On-line at http://www.religion-online.org/, 1999.)
Parenting is for Everyone: Living Out Our Baptismal Covenant. Louisville: Presbyterian
Mariners, 1996.
Folder 3. Articles.
“Changing Family Life: How Will the Church Respond?” A.D. (United Church of Christ
Edition), November 1975.
“Church, Family and Intergenerational Education.” Report of the Association for
Professional Education for Ministry, 1980.
“Faith Formation in Family Clusters.” The Church School, October 1980.
“Religious Experience in Paul Tillich.” Theological Field Education: Key Resources,
1981.
Folder 4. Articles.
“Children and the Bible: Are They Learning What We Intend?” The Church School,
February 1982.
“More Help on the Children’s Sermon.” Word and Witness, Spring 1982.
“Male Clergy Adultery as Vocational Confusion.” The Christian Century, September 1522, 1982.
“Family Cluster House Church, A Model for Intergrational Education,” Share, Winter
1982.
“The Family as a Means of Grace in American Theology.” Religious Education, Winter
1983.
“Seminary Education Tested By Praxis.” The Christian Century, February 8-15, 1984.
(With Neill Q. Hamilton.)
“The Methodist Social Gospel and Woman Suffrage.” The Drew Gateway, Winter/Spring
1984.
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Folder 5. Articles.
“Soren Kiekergaard, Exegete.” Interpretation, July 1985.
“Church and Family: The Conflict Between Civil Religion and Sacramental Christianity.”
Quarterly Review, Summer 1985.
“Church and Family: The Conflict Between Civil Religion and Sacramental Christianity.”
Quarterly Review, Summer 1985.
Box 2:
Folder 1. Articles.
“Seminary, Ministry and Social Responsibility.” The Christian Century, February 4-11,
1987.
Folder 2. Articles.
“Leading: Paideia in a New York.” Congregations: Their Power to Form and Transform,
C. Ellis Nelson, editor. Louisville: John Knox Press, 1988.
“Characteristics of the Effective Minister: A Research Report.” Quarterly Review, Spring
1989. (with Neill Q. Hamilton.)
Folder 3. Articles.
“The Sexuality of Pastors: What Is the Issue?” Church and Society, November/December
1989.
“Pennsylvania Awakenings, Sacramental Seasons and Ministry,” Bard Thompson
Festschrift. Edward Mellon Press, 1990.
“Moving Out of Complacency: A Response to Nicholas Wolterstorff.” Theology Today,
April 1991.
Folder 4. Articles.
“Are There Better Ways to Elect Bishops?” Circuit Rider, July-August 1992. (With Peter
C. Fishburn and Arthur Hagy.)
“A Vision for Presbyterian Church (USA) Family Ministries with Study Guide,” editor
and writer for the Christian Nurture Ministry Unit, Presbyterian Church USA, 1992.
“Mainline Protestants and the Social Impulse.” The Church’s Public Role. Dieter Hessel,
editor. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993.
Box 3:
Folder 1. Articles.
“Family Values and Family Ministry.” Church and Society, Nov./Dec.
Folder 2. Articles.
“Gilbert Tennet, Established Dissenter.” Church History, March 1994.
Folder 3. Articles.
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“Beyond Idolatry of Family to Participation in the Household of God.” Open Hands,
Spring 1993.
“Cultural Diversity and Seminary Teaching.” Religious Education, Winter 1995.
“The Role of the Media: Confusing the Languages of Moral Discourse,” in The Sexuality
Debate in North American Churches 1988-1995. John J. Carey, editor. Lewiston,
N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995.
“Home is Where the Heart Is.” Association of Presbyterian Christian Educators
Advocate, Summer 1996.
“Family Values—Are They Biblical?” Horizons, March/April 1997.
Folder 4. Articles.
“Theological Education: A Reformed Imperative.” Festscrift in Honor of Charles Speel.
Thomas J. Sienkewicz and James E. Betts, editors. Monmouth College: Monmouth
Illinois, 1996.
“Media, Church and Ministry.” The Clergy Journal, April 1998.
“The Social Gospel, Gender and Homosexuality: Then and Now,” Chris Evans, ed.
Social Gospel Today (Louisville, Westminster John Knox, 2001).
“The Social Gospel as Missionary Ideology,” Wilbert R. Shenk, ed. North American
Foreign Missions, 1810-1914: Theology, Theory, and Policy (Grand Rapids, MI:
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004)
“Family Values and ‘Complementarity.’”Covenant Network of Presbyterians. On-line at
http://covnetpres.org/2010/03/family-values-and-complementarity/ , 2010.
Box 4:
Folder 1. Book Reviews.
“Three Victorian Women Who Changed the World,” “The Female Experience and the
Nature of the Divine,” “Woman and Religion in America, Vol. I.” Theology Today,
October 1982.
“Presbyterian Women in America,” The American Historical Review, June 1984.
“Simple Prayer,” “Can We Still Call God Father?” Theology Today, January 1985.
“A Way in the World: Family Life as Spiritual Discipline.” Drew Gateway, Spring 1986.
“The Christian Home in Victorian America.” The American Historical Review, June
1987.
“Faith Development and Fowler: A Review Essay.” The Princeton Seminary Bulletin,”
Vol. IX, No. 1, 1988.
Folder 2. Book Reviews.
“The Simple Gospel.” The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, Spring 1992.
“The Way of the Cross Leads Home: The Domestication of American Methodism.”
Methodist History, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, 1994.
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“Preacher: Billy Sunday and Big-Time American Evangelism.” American Presbyterians.
Vol. 74, No. 1, Spring 1996.
“Married to the Church.” Catholic On-Line Journal, Fall 1996.
“The Wild Man’s Journey: Reflections on Male’s Spirituality.” Catholic On-Line
Journal, Fall 1997.
“A Kingdom on Earth: Anglo-American Social Christianity.” American Historical
Review, February 1998.
“The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life.” The
Christian Century. February 4-11, 1998.
“Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday” American Historical Review, December
2001.
Folder 3. Encyclopedia Articles.
“Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye.” Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation. Abingdon, 1999.
Folder 4. Lectures.
“Make Peace Not War.” Commencement Address, The Monmouth College: Monmouth,
IL., May 1984.
“Freedom of Religion, Then and Now: What Does It Mean?” Constitution Celebration.
New Jersey Committee of the Humanities, April 1986.
“Faith Reformed Spirituality.” Greenhoe Lecturer. Faith Development Symposium,
Louisville Seminary, September 29-October 1, 1986.
“Faith Formation in the Congregation.” Symposium on Faith Development, Christian
Theological Seminary. Indianapolis, Indiana, March 1990.
“Commencement Address.” Drew University. October 21, 1994.
Folder 5. Sermons.
“Tears of Joy.” Craig Chapel. September 1988.
“Blood Kin.” Craig Chapel. May 14, 1994.
“Virtual Reality.” Craig Chapel. May 4, 1995.
Folder 6. Addenda to Curriculum Vita.
“Learning through Liturgy” and “Worship as Pastoral Care.” The Drew Gateway. Winter
1979.
“Family Clusters: Learning Together.” The Church School. September 1980. Word and
Witness: A Complete Resource for Celebrating and Proclaiming the Gospel. August
19, 1984.
Folder 7. Personal Reading.
Share. Winter 1979.
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Folder 8. Public Presentations (audio and video cassettes):
“Effective Ministry.” Craig Chapel. September 11, 1986.
“Ordination SVC: Janet Fishburn.” April 17, 1988. (video cassette.)
“Whose Child Are You?” UMC, Morristown. May 8, 1994.
“A Service of Appreciation for the Teaching Ministry of Janet Fishburn, 1978-1995.”
Craig Chapel. November 1994.
“Family Enrichment Conference.” Montreat. “Changing Culture/Changing Family,”
“Church as First Family,” “Vocation of Parents.” July 4-5, 1995.
Minister’s Week. “Family Pew in the Household of God,” “Leaving Home as an Act of
Faith,” “Church as First Family.” 1997.
“All Together Now,” Boonton, N.J., Presbyterian Church, August 25, 2002.
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