Brian R. Brock MA DPhil
Curriculum Vitae
29 October 2014
Personal Information
Current address: 31 St. Machar Dr., AB24 3RY
Telephone: (044) 01224 482917
E-mail: [email protected]
Birth: October 29, 1970, Pasadena, Texas
Marital status: Married August 1997 to Stephanie L. (Jensen) Brock, RN; Adam
R. born August 29, 2003, Erlangen, Germany; Caleb T. born February 3, 2006,
Aberdeen, Scotland, Agnes R. born March 3, 2011.
Education
BA
1993
Biology, Colorado Christian University, Lakewood, Colorado
MA
1996
Biomedical and Clinical Ethics, Loma Linda University,
Loma Linda, California
Diploma 1997
Theology, Oxford University
MA
1999
Christian Ethics, King’s College, London
D.Phil.
2003
Christian Ethics at King’s College, London (Supervisor:
Michael Banner; Second: Colin Gunton. Examiners: John
Webster and Robert Song.)
April 2003 to
September 2004
July 2008 to
July 2009
April-June 2014
Visiting Scholar in the theological faculty, Friedrich
Alexander University, Erlangen-Nurnberg.
Visiting Scholar, Duke Divinity School,
Durham, North Carolina
Visiting Scholar, Theologishe Universiteit Gereformeerde
Kerken, Kampen, Netherlands.
Currently
Reader in Moral and Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, hired in October 2004.
Classes taught
DR2050 What does it Mean to be Human? Learning from the Margins
DR2020 Christian Doctrine and Practice
DR3559 Traditions in Christian Ethics
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DR4050 Christian Ethics in a Technological Age
DR5532 Creation in Christian Ethics
DR5602 Theology in the University
ME33DS, “Disability Studies,” MB ChB Medical Humanities SSC Option,
School of Medicine and Dentistry, David Smith Coordinator, Autumn terms
2009 and 2010.
Doctoral Supervision
Completed
Odle, Andy: Homelessness: A Bonhofferian Practical Theology of
Sociality with Special Reference to Homelessness in the United States
and the Response of Dennis Culhane and the National Alliance to End
Homelessness’ “10 Year Plan to End Homelessness” (2008).
Draycott, Andy: Mission as the Key to Political Theology for an Account
of Preaching as Public Speech, with Particular Reference to Oliver
O’Donovan and Bernd Wannenwetsch (2009).
Boyd-MacMillan, Ronald: The transforming sermon: a study of the
preaching of St. Augustine, with special reference to the Sermones ad
populum, and transformation theory of James Loder (2009).
Vaughan, Amie: Reading and Spiritual Formation: Toward a Place for
Literature within Parent-Child, Domestic Church and Body of Christ
Relationships for Raising Children in Christian Faith (2010).
Prather, Scott: The Powers and the Power of Mammon: Karl Barth and
John Howard Yoder in Dialogue (2011).
Price, Timothy: Pedagogy as Theological Praxis: Martin Luther and
Herman Bavink as sources for Engagement with Classical Education
and the Liberal Arts Tradition (2013).
Wall, Benjamin: Theology, Psyche and Social Services: Benedict’s Rule
and Vanier’s L’Arche as Exemplars of Social Care Provision for the
Mentally and Emotionally Needy (2013).
Atkinson, Tyler: Singing at the Winepress: Ecclesiastes and the Ethics of
Work (2013).
Orye, Godelieve: Embracing Life Radically: A Reweaving of Theology,
Ethnography and Anthropology.
Laffin, Michael: Martin Luther in the Modern Political Narrative: A
Constructive Reappraisal of Luther’s Political Theology with Special
Reference to the Institutions in Critical Conversation with John
Milbank and Jennifer Herdt.
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Draper, Andrew: A Theology of Race and Place: An Analysis of the
Duke Divinity School of Theological Race Theory.
In progress
Herzberg Frederik: Economic ethics
Keuer, Andrew: Concepts of Order in Augustine and Nietzsche
Ben Paulus: Chastity as a political virtue
Broen, Jacqueline: Theological Approaches to Raising Ecological
Awareness.
Guy, Robert: Missiology in Colonial America
Foley, Tony: The politics of Jesus
Hodder, Margret: Theologies of disability
Crown, Abiola: Violence against Women and the Kenyan Church.
Aghajan, Shawn: Theologies of Just War in an Age of Terror.
Hargaden, Kevin: Theology and Economics in Ireland
Tsukada, Jutara: Hauerwas’ Constantinian Critique and Japanese culture
Halbach, Ross: Theology and gentrification
Schaefer, Stephen: The theologies of gay marriage
Pritchett, Justin: Wilderness theology
Patterson, Daniel: An analysis of gender neutral policies
Lilley, David: Contemporary Sabbath practice
Errington, Andrew: Biblical wisdom and Christian Ethics
Previously supervised
David Robinson: Theologies of exile
Lowry, Robert: Jonathan Edward’s Theology of Democracy.
Ramirez, Johnny: The Imago Dei and Mental Disability.
Administrative Duties
Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Body, 2014-present.
Undergraduate Program Coordinator 2012-2013
Undergraduate advisor, 2005-8, 2010-11.
Program co-coordinator for the MTh in Practical Theology and Christian
Ethics, 2010-11.
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Convener of Practical Theology/Theological Ethics Research Seminar
2006, 2010-11, 14-15.
Member of the Vice Principal’s Advisory Panel on Equality and Diversity,
2009-present.
Research Committee, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, 200910.
Curator of the Christ’s College Library, 2009-present.
Professional Background
Other Graduate Courses Taught
“‘Ethics’ by Way of Luther and Kierkegaard,” XTIANETH 333.01, with
Amy Laura Hall, Duke Divinity School, Fall Term, 2008.
“The Bible and Christian Ethics in Contemporary Anglo-American
Thought,” Übung, Friedrich Alexander University, Summer Semester
(April-July), 2004.
Seminary lectures, “Biblical Theology and Christian Moral Reasoning,”
Harvest Yu Evangelical Seminary, Novi Sad, Serbia, 5-10 May 2003.
Seminary lectures in Ecclesiology, Bristol Baptist College, University of
Bristol, February 2003.
Graduate seminars in Methods and Foundations of Christian Ethics and
Social Ethics, and undergraduate lectures in Methods and Foundations
of Christian Ethics conducted in the Department of Religion and
Theology, King’s College London, 2001-2002.
Principles of Biomedical Ethics, at Beeson Divinity School (Samford
University), Birmingham, Alabama, January Term 1996.
Research/Teaching Assistant
Research and Teaching Assistant at the Center for Christian Bioethics,
Faculty of Religion, Loma Linda University, 1994-96. Lectures given
in medical ethics graduate program: Christian Bioethics, Christian
Social Ethics. Lectures given in Loma Linda School of Medicine:
Christian Ethics and Health Care, Medicine and Ethics, God and
Human Suffering.
Editorial boards
Book Review Editor, The Journal of Religion, Disability & Health, 2011present
Committees
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Society for the Study of Christian Ethics, committee member, 2007-2013.
Kirby Laing Institute of Christian Ethics, advisory council, 2005-2014.
Welcoming Churches Forum, committee member, 2009-present.
Conferences Organized
“Freedom of a Christian Ethicist”, large international two-day conference
University of Aberdeen, in Aberdeen, 24-25 October 2014.
“Disability Theology in a European Context.” Invite only two day
discussion at the University of Aberdeen, funded by the Principal in
Aberdeen, 11-12 September 2012. Attended by discipline shaping
practitioners of disability theology in Europe including: Martina
Holder of the Swiss evangelical Church; Ralph Kunz, University of
Zurich; Axel Legiois, Faculté de Théologie – K.U. Leuven; Medi
Volpe, Cramner Hall, University of Durham; Linda Vikdahl, Umeå
University; Cristina Gangemi, Kairos Forum, Diocese of Westminster;
Tasia Scrutton, University of Leeds; Hans Reinders, Free University of
Amsterdam.
“Embedding Equality and Diversity in the Humanities Curriculum,”
Higher Education Authority workshop, University of Aberdeen, 19
June 2012.
“Workshop on Adoption: Honing Reflections from Practical Theology and
Christian Ethics.” Research symposium, organizing with John
Swinton, University of Aberdeen, 27-28 May, 2012.
“Theology of Adoption: Critical Reflections from Practical Theology and
Christian Ethics.” Research symposium, organized with John Swinton,
University of Aberdeen, 24-26 May, 2010.
“The Moral and Theological Vision of St. Paul and its Challenge for
Today: Theological Exposition Reloaded.” Colloquium on an early
draft of the 1 Corinthians commentary by Bernd Wannenwetsch and
Brian Brock to appear in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the
Bible series. Harris Manchester College, Oxford, 8-9 January 2010.
Third Annual Postgraduate Theological Symposium, International Baptist
Theological Seminary, Prague, Czech Republic, 15 February 2007.
“Genes, Eugenics and the Future of Persons: Some Steps on the Road to
Humanness.” University of Aberdeen, 23-25 May 2005.
Second Annual International Postgraduate Theological Symposium, Cluj,
Romania, 5 May 2005.
International Postgraduate Theological Symposium, Evangelical
Theological Seminary, Osijek, Croatia, 6 May 2004.
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“Trading Genes: The Power of the Market in Shaping a New Genomic
Order.” Goodenough College, London, 27 March 2003. Speakers
included Ray Orbach, Director of the Department of Energy, Office of
Science, USA (cf.
http://www.er.doe.gov/Sub/speeches/speeches/Trading_Genes.htm);
and philosopher of science Mary Midgely.
Awards and Scholarships
Appointment as convener of a 3 year UK Higher Education Academy
project, “Embedding Equality and Diversity in Higher Education,”
+£3,000 annual budget award, 2010.
Research grants from the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy,
separately awarded each year from 2007-2009.
Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the
United Kingdom Overseas Research Award, 2001-2003.
King’s College Theological Trust Grant, 2000.
1999 Associated Press Managing Editors Award: First prize for general
editorial columns. Honorable mention for special reporting.
Invited Lectures
“Living Sabbath Today,” plenary address, Abbey Summer School,
Edinburgh, 24 July 2014.
“Mercy, Compassion and the Flesh,” plenary address, Academic
Symposium on Mercy, University of Apeldoorn, Netherlands, 20 June
2014.
“Jesus the Gardener: Christian Care and the Perceptive Heart,”
Theologishe Woche, “Mission Heute—Begründung and Gestaltung,”
conference of the Evangelical Free Church of Germany, Ewersbach,
Germany, 3 April 2014.
“Technology and the Mark of Cain: A Contemporary Theology of
Technology,” Keynote Lecture, First Things, God, Science and
Technology conference, Union League Club, New York City, 10
March 2014.
“Disability, Perception, and the Christian Tradition,” Theology and Ethics
Research Seminar, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, 16
October 2013.
“Managing Childhood Disability with Parents of Different Faiths,” NHS
Grampian Child Development Teams’ Day on Culture and Diversity in
the North East of Scotland, Suttie Centre, Aberdeen, 4 July 2013.
“Quality of Life and the Statistical Outlier: On Caring in an Industrialized
World,” keynote address, European Society for the Study of Theology
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and Disability, Catholic University of Lille; Lille, France, 29 June,
2013.
“Screening and Receiving: Why Science Needs the Church,” Helsinki
Cathedral, Helsinki, hosted by the Lutheran Church of Finland, 5 May
2013.
“Disability and the Christian Tradition,” and “Created to be Gardeners:
Christian Care and the Perceptive Heart,” keynote addresses at the
Nordic conference for staff working with people with learning
disabilities, Järvenpää, Finland, 7-8 May 2013.
“The Psalms and Luther’s Praise Inversion: Cultural Criticism as
Doxology Detection,” World Lutheran Federation Theological
Consultation; “Towards a Lutheran Hermeneutics on Psalms”.
Eisenach, Germany, 25 March 2013.
“Whom should we Praise in a Globalizing World?” Keynote speech,
International Federation of Free Evangelical Churches Theological
Conference, Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece 18 September 2012.
“Assessing the Various Values of Economic Exchange,” Fabian Student
Society meeting on Christian Ethics and the Economy, University of
Aberdeen, 26 April 2012.
“Theology, Religion, and the University,” Modernity and the Category of
Religion Workshop, Centre for Society and the Rule of Law,
University of Aberdeen, 24 April 2012.
“The Medical Ethics Industry and Contemporary Medical Care,”
University of Aberdeen Medical Ethics Society, University Library,
University of Aberdeen, 27 February 2012.
“King James in the Blogosphere,” Church and Culture Talks 2011,
Holburn West Church, Aberdeen, 28 November 2011.
“The Environmental, Bioethical, and Demographic Challenges of China’s
Growth: A Conversation between Professor John Nagle (Law,
University of Notre Dame, USA) and Dr. Brian Brock (University of
Aberdeen), ” Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics, St. Mary's
College University of St. Andrews, 20 October 2011.
“Discipline, Sport, and the Religion of Winners: Paul on Running to Win
the Prize,” Society for the Study of Christian Ethics, Wescott House,
Cambridge, 2 September 2011.
“Mission as Gardening” Keynote address, Tyndale Fellowship, Ethics and
Social Theology Group, Cambridge, 2 July 2011 (delivered in
abstentia by Andy Draycott due to family sickness).
“Is Disability a Spiritual Gift?” Keynote address, European Society for the
Study of Theology and Disability, Schoorl (Amsterdam), Netherlands,
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30 June 2011 (delivered in abstentia by John Swinton due to family
sickness).
“Creation and Christian Ethics,” Society for the Study of Christian Ethics
Postgraduate Forum, New College, Edinburgh, 28 April 2011.
“What does it mean to be a Christian Ethicist?” Society for the Study of
Christian Ethics Postgraduate Forum, New College, Edinburgh, 28
April 2011.
“Care of the Handicapped,” Care conference, Trinity College, Cambridge,
6 April 2011.
“Disability and the Practice of Medicine,” Kirby Laing Institute for
Christian Ethics, Summer School in Medical Ethics and Bioethics,
Cambridge, 2 September 2010.
“Religion, Theology and the University,” Religious-Secular Distinctions
Conference, British Academy, London, 16 January 2010.
“Where Does a Public Come From? Or, Is the Public Sphere Created by
Reconciliation Awaited or Experienced? The Authority of the Gospel:
Explorations in Moral and Political Theology in Honour of Oliver
O’Donovan, Festschrift symposium, St. John’s College, Durham, 13
January 2011.
“What do we do when we don’t like Paul? 1 Corinthians 2, from Brazos
Theological Commentary on Scripture,” New Testament Research
Seminar, University of Aberdeen, 4 November 2009.
“Singing the Ethos of God: A Conversation with Brian Brock and Bernd
Wannenwetsch,” Duke Divinity School, chaired by Stanley Hauerwas,
24 March 2009.
“The Doctrine of Creation in Christian Ethics,” A four lecture series
sponsored by the Clarence Jordan Center for Christian Ethical
Concerns and the Department of Theology, The Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, 29-31 October 2008.
“Christ, Categories and Moral Claims: The Doctrine of Creation in
Christian Ethics,” Public Lecture sponsored by the Religion
Department and the Presbyterian Foundation, Hampden-Sydney
College, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia, 15 October 2008.
“Torah,” Religion Department, Hampden-Sydney College, HamdenSydney, Virginia, 16 October 2008.
“Are Moral and Systematic Theology Different Disciplines? Considering
the Imago Dei,” University of Oxford Christian Ethics Research
Seminar, 5 June 2008.
“Why Genesis? Why now? Outline of a Project,” Stead Center Lecture,
Garrett Seminary, Chicago, 14 November 2007.
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“Amniocentesis as Antidoxology,” “Personale Freiheit in pluralistichen
Gesellschaften,” Conference, University of Regensburg, 11 November
2007.
“Why Genesis? Why now? The Role of the Text of Genesis in the
Generation of Categories in Christian Ethics,” 2007 Tyndale Ethics
and Social Theology Lecture, Tyndale Fellowship, Tyndale House,
Cambridge, 5 July 2007.
Invited Templeton Foundation Symposium Participant, “Learning from
Disabled Persons,” Trosly-Breuil, France, 17-19 March 2007.
“Genetic Testing and the Disabled: A Case Study,” Christ College
Divinity Lecture, University of Aberdeen, 23 September 2007.
“Genetic Testing and the Disabled: A Case Study,” and “Singing the Ethos
of God: A Precis,” University of Craiova, Romania, 16-17 May 2006.
Papers and Presentations
“Disability and the ‘Normal’: Examining the History,” Café Controversial,
with Prof. John Swinton, Satrosphere Science Centre, Aberdeen, 19
November 2014.
“Protestant Ethics Reloaded: On the Luther we Never Knew,” Freedom of
a Christian Ethicist conference, University of Aberdeen, 24 October
2014.
Scientists in Congregations Conference, official respondent. St. Ternan’s
Church, Banchory, 4 Oct 2014. This day conference is part of the St.
Andrews run “Scientists and the Congregation” conference program.
“World Cup Theology: A Conversation on Theology and Sport,”
WTCLive! on line discussion of theology and sport, hosted by
Westminster Theological College, 11 June, 2014.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KxxUkaTXWk
“Culture as Flight from God: Jacques Ellul on the Fall,” Fall Narratives
Interdisciplinary Workshop, University of Aberdeen, 26 March 2014.
“What does it mean to be human?” PechaKucha Night, Belmont Picture
House, Aberdeen, 10 December 2013.
“Response to ‘Screening Pigs,’ by Laura McMahon,” Film Farm workshop
hosted by the Aberdeen University department of Film Studies,
University of Aberdeen, 13 June 2013.
“Garbage: Its Origins and Ends, Theologically Considered,” The Centre
for the Study of History, Culture and the Environment, University of
Aberdeen, 14 May 2013.
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“Disability and the Practice of Medicine,” Christian Medical Fellowship
lunchtime session, Suttie Centre, University of Aberdeen, 11 February
2013.
“Inclusion and Tradition: Some Philosophical Reflections,” joint Dept. of
Education and Theological Ethics research Seminar, University of
Aberdeen, 28 November 2012.
“Dickens as Christian Prophet,” Church and Culture series, Holburn West
Church, Aberdeen 16 November 2012.
“Eden and the Myth of Original Markets,” Systematic Theology Research
Seminar, University of Aberdeen, 22 October 2012.
“Pariahs and Politics: Broaching Sensitive Issues,” main session address at
the workshop, Embedding Equality and Diversity in the Humanities
Curriculum, Higher Education Authority workshop, University of
Aberdeen, 19 June 2012.
“Life in the Spirit of Adoption” presented at the symposium, Theology of
Adoption: Critical Reflections from Practical Theology and Christian
Ethics, University of Aberdeen, 27 May 2012.
“Allocated to Each, For the Whole: 1 Corinthians 12, the Spirit, and the
Gifts of the Spirit,” with Bernd Wannenwetsch, Society for the Study
of Theology, University of York, 27 March 2012.
“Technology Will Save the World,” Café Controversial, Satrosphere
Science Centre, Aberdeen, 7 November 2011.
“Is Belief in God a Force for Good in Society?” Panel discussion,
Aberdeen University Philosophy Society and the Humanist Society of
Aberdeen, Blue Lamp, Aberdeen, 25 March 2011.
“Controversy in Christian Ethics: The Case of Stanley Hauerwas,”
conference presentation, Theology, the Church and Controversy: Nihil
Illegitimi Corborundum, University of Aberdeen, 2 July 2010.
Response to Andrew Walls, “The World Missionary Conference,
Edinburgh 1910 and the Birth of a World Church,” Aberdeen School
of Christian Studies, Gilcomston South Church, 29 June 2010.
“Adoption: A Portable Metaphor?” presented at the symposium, Theology
of Adoption: Critical Reflections from Practical Theology and
Christian Ethics, University of Aberdeen, 24 May 2010.
“The Conversion of Creatures: On the Six Days of Creation,” Systematic
Theology Research Seminar, University of Aberdeen, 9 March 2010.
“On the Difference Between a Systematic Theology of Creation and an
Ethic of Creatureliness,” Systematic Theology Research Seminar,
University of Aberdeen, 2 March 2010.
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“Heidegger on Technology: A Theological Analysis,” Centre for Modern
Thought Research Seminar, University of Aberdeen, 19 February
2010.
“Augustine as Christian Apologist,” training day for Aberdeen Street
Pastors, Aberdeen Christian Fellowship, 03 October 2009.
Panellist discussing Theology, Disability and the New Genetics (John
Swinton and Brian Brock, eds.) in the Religion and Disability Study
Group, American Academy of Religion, Chicago, 2 November 2008.
“Autism, Care and Christian Hope,” Second ASCS and Religion
Symposium, Department of Religious Studies, University of Cardiff, 8
April 2008.
“The Computer Does Not Impose on us the Ways It Should Be Used:
Internet Ethics,” Moral Maze Series, Lower Deeside Churches, St.
Devenicks, Bieldside, 30 March 2008.
“Disability in the Christian Tradition,” American Academy of Religion,
Religion and Disability Study Group, San Diego, 20 November 2007.
“Augustine’s Incitement to Lament, from the Enarrationes in Psalmos,”
Symposium, Klage, Heilsbron, 3 November 2007.
“Why the Estates? Hans Ulrich’s Recovery of an Unpopular Notion,”
Symposium on Hans Ulrich’ Wie Geschöpfe Leben, Society for the
Study of Christian Ethics, 5 September 2007.
“Supererogation, Justice and the Disabled,” Templeton Foundation
Symposium “Learning from the Disabled,” Trosly-Breuil, France, 19
March 2007.
“Should Theology be Taught in a University? Or, Why Aberdeen is Better
off with a Divinity Department,” Soapbox Presentation, University of
Aberdeen Interdisciplinary Forum, 7 March 2007.
“Ethical Thinking at the Crossroads of European Reasoning,” Keynote
address, with Doc. Dr. Parush Parushev, Third Annual Theological
Symposium, International Baptist Theological Seminary, Prague,
Czech Republic, 15 February 2007.
“Foucault on Technology, Or: Pondering the Uses and Abuses of Cultural
History,” Cultural History Seminar Series, History Faculty, University
of Aberdeen, 5 December 2006.
“The Public Sphere, Theologically Defined,” Interdisciplinary Workshop:
The Place of Religion in the European Public Sphere. Law Faculty,
University of Aberdeen, 4 November 2006.
“‘Sorrow and Joy’: Public Disasters, Works of Love, and the Inwardness
of Faithfulness,” Theology and Ethics Research Seminar, New
College, University of Edinburgh, 26 October, 2006.
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“Being Disabled in the New World of Genetic Testing” and “Overview of
Ethics in Scripture,” University of Craiova, Romania. Guest of
Theological Faculty and His Eminence Teofan Savu, Metropolitan of
Olteniei. 23-24 May 2006.
“The Christian Concern with a Good Death,” Care Not Killing: Christian
Perspectives on the Current Euthanasia Debates, Aberdeen School of
Christian Studies, 22 April 2006.
“‘Sorrow and Joy’: Public Disasters, Works of Love, and the Inwardness
of Faithfulness,” Bonhoeffer’s Theology Through the Lens of His
Poetry conference, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, 3 January
2006.
“Can We Still Read Together if We Disagree About Method? Scripture as
the Limit of Hermeneutics,” International Postgraduate Theological
Symposium, Cluj, Romania, 5 May, 2005.
“Critical Biblical Methods and Constructive Christian Ethics: Thoughts on
Luther’s Psalms Exegesis,” International Postgraduate Theological
Symposium, Evangelical Theological Seminary, Osijek, Croatia, 6
May, 2004.
“Justice as Technological and Economic Advance in Late Capitalism: The
Case of Genetically Modified Crops,” European Society for the Study
of Ethics (Societas Ethica), Sigtuna, Sweden, 13 August 2003.
“How Can Christians and Jews Read the Psalms Together?” 35th Annual
Jewish-Christian Bible Week, Hedwig-Dransfeld-Haus, Bendorf,
Germany, 15 July 2003.
“Divine Action and Created Order: Locating a Point of Stability,” Society
for the Study of Theology Seminar Paper, Lancaster University, 9
April 2002.
Various papers for the Research Institute in Systematic Theology at King’s
College, London, 2000-2002.
“The Coherent Institutional Philosophy, Myth, or Mandate?” The Future
of Genetics conference, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield,
Illinois, 19 July 1996.
“Technology and the Christian Mind: The Question of Genetic
Manipulation,” Christian Worldview Conference, Trinity Institute,
Dallas, Texas, 8 July 1996.
“Wholeness at Loma Linda School of Medicine,” Center for Christian
Bioethics Conference, Palm Springs, California, November 1995.
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Brian R. Brock MA DPhil
Publication Record
19 December 2014
Books
Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture. Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007 (xxi+386 pp.).
Christian Ethics in a Technological Age. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010
(x+408pp.).
Captive to Christ, Open to the World: On Doing Christian Ethics in Public,
Kenneth Oakes, ed. (Eugene: Cascade, 2014).
1 Corinthians: A Theological Commentary, with Bernd Wannenwetsch, (under
contract, manuscript complete).
Form as Freedom: A Christian Ethic of Creatureliness, (manuscript completion
2016).
Editor
A Graceful Embrace: Theology and Ethics of Adoption. (Brill, in press).
Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader. With John Swinton (Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012) (528pp.).
Evoking Lament: A Systematic Theological Enquiry. With Eva Harasta. London:
T&T Clark, 2009 (228pp.).
Theology, Disability and the New Genetics: Why Science Needs the Church. With
John Swinton. London: T&T Clark, 2007 (x+251pp.).
Ethical Thinking at the Crossroads of European Reasoning. With Parush R.
Parushev and Ovidiu Creangă, Proceedings of the 3rd Annual
Theological Symposium of the International Postgraduate Theological
Fellowship. Prague: IBTS Publisher, 2007 (222pp.).
Peer Reviewed Publications
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“Christianity, Boxing and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)”, with Nick Watson,
Journal of Religion and Society (in press).
“Globalization, Eden and the Myth of Original Markets,” Studies in Christian
Ethics, (accepted, in press).
“Discipleship as Living with God, or Wayfinding and Scripture,” Journal of
Spiritual Formation & Soul Care, 7:1, 2014, 22-34.
“Quality of Life and the Statistical Outlier: On Caring in an Industrialized Age,”
in The Journal of Disability & Religion, 18:4, 2014, 318-339.
“Looking at “Us”, Attending to “Them”, Seeking the Divine: Revisiting Disability
in the Christian Tradition,” The Journal of Religion, Disability & Health,
Special Issue on Disability in the Christian Tradition, 17.3, 2013, 327-337.
“Discipline, Sport and the Religion of Winners: Paul on Running to Win the
Prize,” Studies in Christian Ethics, 25.1, February 2012, 4-19.
“Theologizing Inclusion: 1 Corinthians 12 and the Politics of the Body of Christ,”
in The Journal of Religion, Disability & Health, 15.4, 2011, 351-376.
“On Generating Categories in Theological Ethics: Barth, Genesis and the
Ständelehre,” Tyndale Bulletin, 61.1, 2010, 45-67.
“Attunement to Saints Past and Present: Clarifications and Convergences,”
European Journal of Theology, 18:2, 2009, 155-164.
“Autism, Care, and Christian Hope,” in The Journal of Religion, Disability &
Health, 13:1, January-March 2009, 7-28.
“Why the Estates? Hans Ulrich’s Recovery of an Unpopular Notion,” Studies in
Christian Ethics, 20:2, 2007, 179-202.
“The Physician As Political Actor: Late Abortion and the Strictures of Liberal
Moral Discourse,” with John Wyatt, Studies in Christian Ethics, 19:2, January
2006, 153-168.
“Bonhoeffer and the Bible in Christian Ethics: Psalm 119, the Mandates, and
Ethics as a ‘Way’,” Studies in Christian Ethics, 18:3, December 2005, 7-29.
[This article was the journal’s second most electronically accessed article (831
downloads) from July 2006-July 2007.]
“The Form of the Matter: Heidegger, Ontology, and Christian Ethics,” in The
International Journal of Systematic Theology, 3:3, 2001, 257-279.
“‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’ and the Resuscitation of Christian Medical Ethics,”
Ethics and Medicine, 16:2, 2000, 40-47.
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“The Coherent Institutional Philosophy, Myth, or Mandate? An Ethnography of
Faculty Worldviews at a Christian University,” with Johnny Ramirez, The
Journal of Research in Christian Education, 5:1, Spring, 1996, 3-32.
Book Chapters
“Mercy, Compassion, and the Flesh: On the Inbreaking of Divine Mercy” in Hans
Schaeffer ed. Mercy (in press).
“Culture as Flight from God: Jacques Ellul on the Fall,” Aine Larkin ed. Fall
Narratives (Ashgate, in press).
“Theology, Religion, Government, and the University,” in Trevor Stack ed. The
Category of Religion (in press).
“Jesus, der Gärtner: Christliche Fürsorge und das einfühlsame Hertz,” Wilfrid
Haubeck and Wolfgang Heinrichs, eds., Mission heute—Gestalt und
Begründung, Theologische Impulse vol. 26 (Witten: Bundes Verlag, 2014),
160-178.
“The Psalms and Luther’s Praise Inversion: Cultural Criticism as Doxology
Detection”, Singing the Songs of the Lord in Foreign Lands: Psalms in
Contemporary Lutheran Interpretation, Lutheran World Federation document
59/2014, Kenneth Mtata, Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Miriam Rose eds. Leipzig:
Evangelische Verlagsanstalt (EVA), 2014, 191-212.
“Creation: Mission as Gardening,” in Andy Draycott and Jonathan Rowe, eds.,
Living Witness: Explorations in Missional Ethics. Nottingham: IVP, 2012, 5778.
“What is ‘the Public’? Theological Variations on Babel and Pentecost,” in Robert
J. Song and Brent Waters. eds., The Authority of the Gospel: Explorations in
Moral and Political Theology in Honor of Oliver O’Donovan. Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 2014, 160-178.
“Disability in the Christian Tradition: Introduction,” in Brian Brock and John
Swinton, eds., Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader. Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans. 2012.
“Augustine’s Hierarchies of Human Wholeness and their Healing,” in Brian Brock
and John Swinton, eds., Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader. Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012.
“Supererogation and the Riskyness of Human Vulnerability,” in Hans Reinders,
ed., The Paradox of Disability: Responses to Jean Vanier and L'Arche
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Communities from Theology and the Sciences. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010,
127-139.
“Controversy in Christian Ethics: The Case of Stanley Hauerwas,” in Francesca
Murphy, ed., Theology, the Church and Controversy. Aldershot: Ashgate
(forthcoming).
“Was ist ursprünglich an der Ursünde? Anti-Doxologie und der Leib der Sünde,”
in Eva Harasta, ed., Erbsünde: Neue Zügange zu einem zwielichtigen Begriff.
Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 2012, 95-122.
“Christian Ethics,” in Kelly M. Kapic and Bruce L. McCormack, eds., Mapping
Modern Theology: A Thematic and Historical Introduction. Grand Rapids:
Baker, 2012, 293-317.
“Praise: The Prophetic Public Presence of the Mentally Disabled,” in Stanley
Hauerwas and Sam Wells, eds., Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, 2nd
ed. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, 139-151.
“The Grammar of Baptist Assent,” invited afterward for Simon Woodman and
Helen Dare eds., The ‘Plainly Revealed’ Word of God? Baptist Hermeneutics
in Theory and Practice. Helen Dare and Simon Woodman, eds., Macon GA:
Mercer University Press, 2011, 273-293.
“‘Sorrow and Joy’: Public Disasters, Works of Love, and the Inwardness of
Faithfulness,” in Bernd Wannenwetsch, ed., Who Am I? Bonhoeffer’s Theology
Through His Poetry. London: T&T Clark, 2009, 47-69.
“Augustine’s Incitement to Lament, from the Enarrationes in Psalmos,” in Brian
Brock and Eva Harasta, eds., Evoking Lament: A Systematic Theological
Enquiry. London: T&T Clark, 2009, 183-202.
“Menschliche Freiheit in der Medizinethik,” in Markus Mühling ed., Gezwungene
Freiheit? Personale Freiheit in pluralistichen Gesellschaften. 1st and 2nd ed.,
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009, 222-243.
“Augustins Aufforderung zur Klage nach den Enarrationes in Psalmos,” in Eva
Harasta, ed., Mit Gott klagen: Eine theologische Diskussion. NeukirchenVluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 2008, 194-215.
“The Disabled in the New World of Genetic Testing: A Snapshot of Shifting
Landscapes,” with Stephanie Brock. In John Swinton and Brian Brock, eds.,
Theology, Disability and the New Genetics: Why Science Needs the Church.
London: T&T Clark, 2007, 29-43.
“Genetics, Conversation and Conversion: A Discourse at the Interface of
Molecular Biology and Christian Ethics,” with Walther Doerfler and Hans
Ulrich. In John Swinton and Brian Brock, eds., Theology, Disability and the
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New Genetics: Why Science Needs the Church. London: T&T Clark, 2007,
146-160.
“Four Questions about Sexual Desire,” Andrew Goddard ed., Marriage and
Homosexuality. Malton: Gilead Books (in press).
“Singing Psalms in the Suburbs: The Introit as Social Ethos,” Bernd
Wannenwetsch and Dan Hardy, eds., Liturgy in Ethics: Lutherans and
Anglicans Together (in press).
Published Conference Papers
“What Does it Mean to Study Theology? On the Dangers of Seminaries and
Universities,” in Parush R. Parushev and Ovidiu Creangă and Brian Brock,
eds., Ethical Thinking at the Crossroads of European Reasoning. Prague:
IBTS Publisher, 2007, 9-25.
“Justice as technological and economic advance in late capitalism: The case of
genetically modified crops,” Societas Ethica, Jahresbericht/Annual 2003:
Economics, Justice and Welfare, Wirtschaft, Gerechtigkeit and Gemeinwohl.
Societas Ethica: Basel, 2004, 163-171.
Other Publications
“Religion in the Ring: Death, Concussion and Brain Bleeds,” with Nick Watson,
Theos, Public Theology Think-Tank blog, 15 December 2014,
(http://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/comment/2014/12/15/religion-in-the-ringdeath-concussion-and-brain-bleeds#sthash.abzLnS69.dpuf).
“Striving Together: Celebrating Competiveness in Sport”, panel member and coauthor, Church of Scotland Society, Religion and Technology Committee
report, May 2014.
Preface to Andrew Parker and Nick J. Watson Sport and the Christian Religion: A
Systematic Review of Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2014)
“The Seduction of Transparency” Second Nature blog, February 10, 2014,
(http://secondnaturejournal.com/the-seduction-of-transparency/ ).
“The History of Disability in Christian Thought”, post for Disability History
Month, Disability and Industrial Society project, 13 December 2013.
(http://www.dis-ind-soc.org.uk/en/blog.htm?id=25 )
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“The Lure of Eugenics,” Christian Reflection: A Series in Faith and Ethics,
Disability, (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2012), 68-78.
“Hearing Paul for Us Today in I Corinthians,” with Bernd Wannenwetsch, in
Lutheran Forum, 46:3, Fall 2012, 9-13.
“Response to Timothy Gorringe’s review of Christian Ethics in a Technological
Age,” Conversations in Religion and Theology, 9:1, May 2011, 42-47.
“Theological Blogging: A Contradiction in Terms?” Princeton Theological
Review, 17:2, issue 43, Fall 2010, 101-114.
“Ein moralisches Angebot für die ‘Generation Porno,’” with Bernd
Wannenwetsch, Saltzkorn, vol. 242, April/June 2010, 92-97.
“Rethinking the Role of Scripture in Christian Ethics,” Contact, 34.3 March, 2008
(http://www.catalystresources.org/issues/343Brock.htm).
“What Role Ought the Bible Play in Christian Ethics? ‘Developing a
Hermeneutic’ vs. ‘Immersion in a Tradition,’” in Ethics in Brief, 12.2, 2007,
1-4.
“The Naked Truth About Disability,” The Tablet, 24 April 2005, 10-11.
“Made Strange by the Word in a Technological Age,” The Bible in Transmission,
Bible Society UK, Summer 2003, 7-9
(http://www.biblesociety.org.uk/exploratory/articles/brock03.pdf).
Book Reviews
Review of Brent Waters' Christian Moral Theology in the Emerging
Technoculture
Global Justice, Christology and Christian Ethics, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Modern
Theology (in press).
On Animals: Volume 1, Systematic Theology, David L. Clough, International
Journal of Systematic Theology (in press).
Adam Smith as Theologian, Paul Oslington ed. Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical
Theology, 30.2, Autumn 2012, 236-239.
Theological Perspectives on a Surveillance Society: Watching and Being
Watched, Eric Stoddart, Themelios (in press).
The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race, Willie Jennings,
Studies in Christian Ethics 25.1, February 2012, 99-103.
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Theology and Down Syndrome: Reimagining Disability in Late Modernity, Amos
Yong, Scottish Journal of Theology (in press).
Ethik und Erzählung: Theologische und philosophische Beiträge zur narrativen
Ethik, Marco Hofheinz, Franco Mathwig and Matthias Zeindler, eds., Pro
Ecclesia, 20.2, Spring 2011, 218-222.
God Against Religion: Rethinking Christian Theology through Worship, Matthew
Meyer Boulton, Theology, CXIII:871, Jan/Feb 2010, 53-54.
Secret Faith in the Public Square: An Argument for the Concealment of Christian
Identity, Jonathan Malesic, Studies in Christian Ethics, 23:3, 2010, 330-333.
The Family in Christian Social and Political Thought, Brent Waters, European
Journal of Theology, 19:1, April 2010, 88-89.
Praise Seeking Understanding: Reading the Psalms with Augustine, Jason
Byassee, Studies in Christian Ethics, 22:1, 2009, 113-117.
Aiming to Kill: The Ethics of Suicide and Euthanasia, Nigel Biggar, The Scottish
Journal of Theology, 62:3, 2009, 393-395
Imitating Jesus: An Inclusive Approach to New Testament Ethics, Richard A.
Burridge, European Journal of Theology, 18:1, 2009, 72-73.
Faith: A Practical Theological Reconstruction, F. Gerrit Immink, European
Journal of Theology, 17:2, 2008, 173-174.
The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics, Gilbert Meilaender and William
Werpehowski, eds., Themelios, 33:1, May 2008, 100-101.
Conceiving Parenthood: American Protestantism and the Spirit of Reproduction,
Amy Laura Hall, Divinity 7:3, Spring 2008, 24-25
(http://www.divinity.duke.edu/publications/2008.05/depts/bookmark.htm).
A Theology of Work: Work and the New Creation, and The Heavenly Good of
Earthly Work, Darrell Cosden, in European Journal of Theology, XVII:1,
2008, 93-94.
Nietzsche and Theology: Nietzschean Thought in Christological Anthropology,
David Deane, in European Journal of Theology, XVII:1, 2008, 94-96.
The Church and Deaf People: A Study of Identity, Communication and
Relationships with Special Reference to the Ecclesiology of Jürgen Moltmann,
Roger Hitching, in European Journal of Theology, XV:2, 2006, 158-159.
Economic Compulsion and Christian Ethics, Albino Barerra, European Journal of
Theology, XV:2, 2006, 159-160.
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Brave New World: Theology, Ethics and the Human Genome, Celia DeaneDrummond, ed., and Re-Ordering Nature: Theology, Society and the New
Genetics, Celia Deane-Drummond and Bronislaw Szerszynski, with Robin
Grove-White, eds., Studies in Christian Ethics, 19:1, April 2006, 110-116.
Karl Barth: Theologian of Christian Witness, Joseph L. Mangina, “Letters in
Canada 2004,” The University of Toronto Quarterly, 75:1, January 2006, 330332.
Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics: In the Time of Many Worlds, William
Schweiker, The International Journal of Systematic Theology, 7:3, July 2005,
316-319.
Danny’s Challenge: The True Story of a Father Learning to Love His Son, by
Danny Mardell, The Tablet, 30 April 2005, 28.
Holiness, by John Webster, and Holiness Past and Present, by Stephen C. Barton,
ed. Studies in Christian Ethics, 17:3, December 2004, 56-61.
The Ecclesiology of Stanley Hauerwas: A Christian Theology of Liberation, John
B. Thomson, The International Journal of Systematic Theology, 6:2, April
2004, 204-211.
American Protestant Ethics: and the Legacy of H. Richard Niebuhr, William
Werpehowski, Theology, 107:836, March/April 2004, 144-145.
The Revelation of Nature, Paul Matthews, The International Journal of Systematic
Theology, 5:2, 2003, 237-241.
Living the Christian Story, John E. Colwell, Themelios, 28:3, 2003, 127-128.
The Ethics of Community, Frank G. Kirkpatrick, The International Journal of
Systematic Theology, 4:1, 2002, 122-127.
Genetic Turning Points: The Ethics of Human Intervention, James C. Peterson,
Themelios, 27:2, 2002, 101-102.
Resurrection and Moral Order, Oliver O’Donovan, RTSF Bulletin (Religious and
Theological Studies), 12, September/October 1996.
Bioethics and the Future of Medicine, N. DeCameron ed., RTSF Bulletin, 11,
March/April 1996: 22-23.
Translations
Bernd Wannenwetsch, “Multiplicitous Sensitivity: The Perception of Faith in the
Age of Virtual Reality,” Studies in Christian Ethics (forthcoming).
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Hans G. Ulrich, “Fides Quarens Intellectum: Reflections Toward an Explorative
Theology,” trans. from German, The International Journal of Systematic
Theology, 8:1, January 2006, 42-54.
Hans G. Ulrich, “On the Grammar of the Lutheran Ethic,” Lutheran World
Federation Work Group, Discerning and Living Humanly in the World,
Transcultural Lutheran Perspectives on the Christian Moral Life (in press).
Radio Interviews
“On Disability in the Christian Tradition,” an hour long audio interview conducted
by Ken Myers. Mars Hill Audio Journal, July/August. 2012, vol. 116.
“On Christian Ethics in A Technological Age,” an hour long audio interview
conducted by Ken Myers. Mars Hill Audio Journal, Sept./Oct. 2010, vol.
105.2.1.
“Autism and Religion”, on “All Things Considered,” BBC Radio Wales, broadcast
6 April 2008, podcast at
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/wales/atc/rss.xml.
Interviews about my work
Arni Zachariasen, “After Dark: Theology in the Real World with Dr. Brian
Brock,” posted on the website Theologues, on 20 November 2014.
(http://www.theologues.com/podcast/after-dark-theology-in-the-real-worldwith-dr-brian-brock/)
Sanna-Maaria Tornivaara, “Asenteet vammaisia ihmisiä kohtaan ovat hyvä peili”
(“Attitudes towards the disabled people are a good mirror”) Kirkonkelloverkkojulkaisu (Church magazine of the Lutheran Finnish Church), in print
and on line, 23 May 2013. (http://www.kirkonkello.fi/?p=933)
Jacqueline Lee Hall Broen did 6 hours of interviews which were transcribed and
analyzed in her M.Litt. thesis for the University of St. Andrews, submitted in .
She also interviewed Prof. John Nagle (an expert in ecology law) of Notre
Dame, comparing our theory and practice of acting as Christian facilitators of
environmental discussions in the university.
Herman Paul (Leiden University) and Bart Wallet (University of Amsterdam),
published an extended interview on Singing the Ethos of God and Christian
Ethics in a Technological Age for Wapenveld (www.wapenveldonline.nl) a
Dutch-language Protestant magazine. “Christelijke ethiek is geen
karakterkwestie: Waarom Brian Brock liever psalmen zingt dan hermeneutiek
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bedrijft,” Wapenveld, 60.5, Oct. 2010, 12-19. Parts of the interview were also
published in the Dutch Christian newspaper: Nederlands Dagblad, on 30 Oct.
2010, vol 67.17.537, pp. 18-19
(http://www.nd.nl/images/library/PDF/101030.pdf). The article is part of a
series introducing noteworthy Christian thinkers in the English-speaking
world to a (relatively large) Dutch audience. A book was released containing
my own interview alongside the chapter-length interviews with Richard Hays,
Stanley Hauerwas, Tim Keller, Oliver O’Donovan, Bernd Wannenwetsch,
Miroslav Volf, Tom Wright and Samuel Wells as Oefenplaatsen:
Tegendraadse theologen over kerk en ethiek, Herman Paul and Bart Wallet
eds. (Zoetermeer: Uitgeverij Boekencentrum, 2012).
Reviews of my work
Carol J. Austin, “Disability in the Christian Tradition,” Intégrité, 12.2, Fall 2013,
54-56. https://www.mobap.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/IntegriteFall2013.pdf
Peter Kevern, “Disability in the Christian Tradition,” Theology, 116:5, Sept/Oct
2013, 392-393. http://tjx.sagepub.com/content/116/5.toc
Sharon V. Betcher, “Disability in the Christian Tradition,” Modern Believing,
55.1, January 2014.
Louise Hickman, “Christian Ethics in a Technological Age,” Reviews in Science
and Religion, May 2012.
Brent Waters, “Christian Ethics in a Technological Age,” Scottish Journal of
Theology 66:3, 367-368.
Jan Arkills, “Disability in the Christian Tradition,” The Lamplighter, 44.4, 2013.
Michael Mawson, “Guest Editor’s Introduction,” The Journal of Religion,
Disability & Health, Special Issue on Disability in the Christian Tradition,
17.3, 2013, 233-235.
Amos Yong, “Disability in the Christian Tradition: Overview and Historiographic
Reflection,” The Journal of Religion, Disability & Health, Special Issue on
Disability in the Christian Tradition, 17.3, 2013, 236-243.
Elizabeth L. Antus, “Disability at the Heart of Theology: On Marginality, Method,
and Overcoming ‘Best-Case Anthropologies’,” The Journal of Religion,
Disability & Health, Special Issue on Disability in the Christian Tradition,
17.3, 2013, 244-262.
Sarah J. Melcher, “Disability in the Christian Tradition's Potential Contribution to
Teaching,” The Journal of Religion, Disability & Health, Special Issue on
Disability in the Christian Tradition, 17.3, 2013, 263-270.
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John Goldingay, “Remembering Ann: A Personal Reflection on Disability in the
Christian Tradition,” The Journal of Religion, Disability & Health, Special
Issue on Disability in the Christian Tradition, 17.3, 2013, 271-280.
Deborah Beth Creamer, “Re-reading Calvin and Disability,” The Journal of
Religion, Disability & Health, Special Issue on Disability in the Christian
Tradition, 17.3, 2013, 281-286.
Thomas E. Reynolds, “Past and Present with Disability in the Christian
Tradition,” The Journal of Religion, Disability & Health, Special Issue on
Disability in the Christian Tradition, 17.3, 2013, 287-294.
Willie James Jennings, “Reading Bodies from Hidden Places: Reflections on
Disability in the Christian Tradition,” The Journal of Religion, Disability &
Health, Special Issue on Disability in the Christian Tradition, 17.3, 2013, 295300.
Emily Stetler “Narrating Suffering, Remembering Hope: Metz's Theology as
Paradigm for Examining Mental Illness and Disability Theology,” The Journal
of Religion, Disability & Health, Special Issue on Disability in the Christian
Tradition, 17.3, 2013, 301-316.
M. J. Iozzio “Liturgical Anthropology of a Soulful Sister: Thea Bowman, FSPA,”
The Journal of Religion, Disability & Health, Special Issue on Disability in the
Christian Tradition, 17.3, 2013, 317-326.
John Swinton, “Moving Beyond Time: Finding God “In The Past”,” The Journal
of Religion, Disability & Health, Special Issue on Disability in the Christian
Tradition, 17.3, 2013, 338-343.
David W. Gill, “Christian Ethics in a Technological Age,” Journal of the Society
of Christian Ethics, 33.1, Spring/Summer 2013, 188-190.
Marc J. de Vries, “Christian Ethics in a Technological Age,” Philosophia
Reformata, 77, 2012: 182-185.
John Dyer, “Christian Ethics in a Technological Age,” Themelios, 37:3,
November (2012): 580-581. http://thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/issue/37-3/
Wesley Vander Lugt, “Christian Ethics in a Technological Age,” Presbyterion,
Spring, (2012): 286–288.
Gerald McKenny, “Book Review: Brian Brock, Christian Ethics in a
Technological Age,” Studies in Christian Ethics, 25:3 (2012), 372-375.
Gerard Magill, “Christian Ethics in a Technological Age. By Brian Brock;
Bioethics. Justin Oakley , ed.; The Philosophy of Public Health. Angus
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Dawson , ed.,” The Heythrop Journal, 53, 2012: 845–849. doi: 10.1111/j.14682265.2012.00757_10.x
Stephen Lawson, Christian Ethics in a Technological Age, Reviews in Religion &
Theology, 19, (2012): 286–288.
Richard Higginson, “Christian Ethics in a Technological Age,” Evangelical
Quarterly, October 2011.
Linus Hauser, “Christian Ethics in a Technological Age,” Theologische
Literaturzeitung, vol. 137, 2012.
Joel James Shuman, “Christian Ethics in a Technological Age,” Modern
Theology, April 2012, 345-348.
Andrew Cameron, “Finding Life in a World Made Strange” Review article of
Christian Ethics in a Technological Age, Churchman, 126:1, 2012, 51-70.
Adam Sheridan, “Book Uncovers Hidden Moral Complexities,” National Catholic
Reporter, 14 October 2011.
Helen Oppenheimer, “Christian Ethics in a Technological Age,” Theology,
March/April 2011, 676-677.
James A. Kelhoffer, “Withstanding Persecution as a Corroboration of Legitimacy
in the New Testament: Reflections on the Resulting Ethical and Hermeneutical
Quandary,” Dialogue: A Journal of Theology 50:2, June 2011, 120-132.
Book notice: “Christian Ethics in a Technological Age” Theological Studies, 72:3
2011, 676-677.
Timothy Gorringe, “Christian Ethics in a Technological Age,” Conversations in
Religion and Theology 9:1, May 2011, 35-47.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1479-2214.2011.00207.x/full.
Peter J. Leithart, “Christian Ethics in a Technological Age,” Fermentations, 2:2,
2011, 38-39.
T. Renz, “Singing the Ethos of God,” in Journal for the Study of the Old
Testament, 32.5, 2008, 153.
Robin Gill, “Beware a world that is shaped by electronics,” Review of Christian
Ethics in a Technological Age, Church Times, 19 November 2010.
Jana Bennett, “Christian Ethics in a Technological Age,” The Christian Century 2
March 2011, http://www.christiancentury.org/reviews/2011-02/christianethics-technological-age.
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Christian Ethics in a Technological Age named one of the top twelve publications
of 2010 in Christopher Benson, “Notable Books of 2010,” First Things, 21
December 2010, http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/12/notablebooks-of-2010.
Jana Bennett, “Singing the ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in
Scripture,” Pro Ecclesia, 19:2, Summer 2010, 237-240.
Brandon Froiland, “Singing the ethos of God: on the place of Christian ethics in
Scripture,” Logia, 18:1, Epiphany 2009, 50-51.
Peter Perry, “Singing the Ethos of God,” Currents in Theology and Mission, June
2009, 36:3, 212.
Michael Jensen, “Singing the Ethos of God: The Place of Christian Ethics in
Scripture,” Anvil, 25:1, 2008, 68.
Mark Biddle, “Singing the Ethos of God,” Review and Expositor, Summer 2008,
105:3.
Ondrej Hron, “Singing the ethos of God: on the place of Christian ethics in
Scripture,” Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology, 26:1, Spring 2008, 9899.
Simon Woodman, “‘An Alien in the Land’: A Summary of Singing the Ethos of
God by Brian Brock,” European Journal of Theology, 18:2, 2009, 105-114.
Gordon J. Wenham, “Reflections on Singing the Ethos of God,” European
Journal of Theology, 18:2, 2009, 115-124.
Bernd Wannenwetsch, “Conversing with the Saints as they Converse with
Scripture: In Conversation with Brian Brock's Singing the Ethos of God,”
European Journal of Theology, 18:2, 2009, 125-136.
Hans G. Ulrich, “On Finding Our Place: Christian Ethics in God's Reality,”
European Journal of Theology, 18:2, 2009, 137-144.
Donald Wood, “Some Comments on Moral Realism and Scriptural Authority,”
European Journal of Theology, 18:2, 2009, 145-154.
Amos Yong, Theology, Disability and the New Genetics, Studies in Christian
Ethics, 2009, 22:1, 120-122.
Raymond F. Collins, Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics
in Scripture, Theological Studies, 69:4, December 2008, 921-922.
Simon Robinson, Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in
Scripture, Ethical Perspectives, 14:2, June 2007.
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Simon Perry, “Read Carefully, Then Start Singing the Psalms,” Baptist Times, 28
February 2008, 19.
Jason Byassee, Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in
Scripture, Studies in Christian Ethics, 21:3, December 2008, 434-438.
Mark Elliot, Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in
Scripture, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 70:3, July 2008, 562-564.
Caroline Collie, Theology, Disability and the New Genetics, Practical Theology,
1.1, 2008, 141-142. doi: 10.1558/prth.v1i1.141.
Gerard McLarney, Singing the Ethos of God, Irish Theological Quarterly, 73:12,
February, 2008, 208-209.
Jan G. van der Watt, review of Brian Brock, Singing the Ethos of God: On the
Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture, Review of Biblical Literature, June
2008, http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleID=6049.
John Thompson, Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in
Scripture, Reviews in Religion & Theology, 15:2, March 2008, 154-156.
doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9418.2007.00376_4.x.
Scott R. Swain, “God’s Use of Scripture in Christian Ethics: Brian Brock, Singing
the Ethos of God,” The Expository Times, 119, 2008, 358. doi:
10.1177/00145246081190071115
Angus Paddison, Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in
Scripture, International Journal of Systematic Theology, 10:2, April 2008,
239-242. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2400.2008.00335.x
John Rogerson, “Read and Mark—it’s the key to morality,” Church Times, 7557,
18 January, 2008.
John M. Quillin, Theology, Disability and the New Genetics: Why Science Needs
the Church, Journal of Genetic Counseling, published online: 2 April 2008.
doi: 10.1007/s10897-008-9155-2.
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Brian R. Brock MA DPhil
References
Primary References
Prof. Stanley Hauerwas
Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics
308 Gray
Duke Divinity School
Box 90968
Durham, NC 27708-0968
Phone: (919) 660-3420
e-mail: [email protected]
Revd. Dr. Michael Banner MA DPhil
Dean Of Chapel
Trinity College
Cambridge
CB2 1TQ
UK
Phone: 01223 338 400
Phone: 01223 338 564
e-mail: [email protected]
Prof. John Webster MA PhD DD
Professor of Systematic Theology
St Mary's College
The School of Divinity
University of St Andrews
South Street
St Andrews
Fife KY16 9JU
Scotland, United Kingdom
Phone: + 44 (0)1334 462864
Fax: + 44 (0)1334 462852
e-mail: [email protected]
Prof. Paul Griffiths
Warren Professor of Catholic Theology
056 Langford
Duke Divinity School
Box 90968
Durham, NC 27708-0968
Phone: (919) 660-3413
e-mail: [email protected]
Secondary References
Prof. John S. Wyatt BSc MB BS FRCP FRCPCH (jointly with UCL)
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Professor of Neonatal Paediatrics
The Department of Paediatrics and Child Health (Bloomsbury Campus)
University College London
Rayne Institute,
5 University Street
London WC1E 6JJ
UK
Phone: 0207-679 6113
e-mail: [email protected]
Prof. Christian Smith, MA PhD
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study
of Religion and Society
University of Notre Dame
816 Flanner Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
USA
Phone: (574) 631-4531
e-mail: [email protected]
Prof. Johnny Ramirez MA EdD
Professor of Theology, Psychology, and Culture
Faculty of Religion
Loma Linda University
Griggs Hall, Room 216
Loma Linda, California 92350
USA
Phone: (909) 558-1000, extension 42942
e-mail: [email protected]
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