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Courses Taught
At Illinois
College:
Introduction to the Bible; Religion and Literature; God, Suffering, and Evil; Women, Race, and Theology; Contemporary Religious Issues: Women’s Ordination; Questions of Christianity; The Christian Tradition; Process Theology and Philosophy; Philosophy of Religion; Senior Seminar: Religion, War, and Peace (2005); Interfaith Dialogue (2008); First Year Seminar: Vocation – God & Work (2005); Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies; Sociology of Religion ~ team taught with Dr. Kelly Dagan; Crisis Intervention Training ~ taught in partnership with the Prairie Center Against Sexual Assault; Contemporary Religious Issues: Sex and God; Women in Islam; First Year Seminar: Religious Tolerance and Christianity; Contemporary Religious Issues: Religion & Violence
At Valparaiso University 2000 – 2002:
Foundations
and Development of Christian Thought;
The Christian Tradition: Doubt, Belief, Disbelief; Faith and Fiction; Women, Race, and Theology; Trends in 20th Century
Theology; Liberation Theologies
PUBLISHED SCHOLARSHIP:
Books:
Feminism
and Christianity: Questions and Answers
in the Third Wave. (Eugene,
Ore.: Cascade Books, Wipf and Stock Publishers, October 2009).
Two
Reformers: Martin Luther and Mary Daly
as Political Theologians. (
Coram
Deo: Human Life in the Vision of God.
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Articles, Chapters, etc.
§ “Conversations & Intersections: A Third Wave Feminist Approach to Gender, Christianity, and Theology,” in Gender and Christianity. Eds. Jack Levison and Priscilla Pope-Levison. Cascade Books. Forthcoming.
§ “Shop Away the Fear, Girls! Man Up, Boys!” Journal of Lutheran Ethics 12:1 (January 2012).
§ “Trust Women. God Does.” TheReligiousLeft.org. Online: http://www.thereligiousleft.org/2011/12/trust-women-god-does.html December 23, 2011.
§ “Who’s Afraid of a Mormon?” TheReligiousLeft.org. Online: http://www.thereligiousleft.org/2011/11/whos-afraid-of-mormon.html November 7, 2011.
§ “Those Cats and These Kids.” TheReligiousLeft.org. Online: http://www.thereligiousleft.org/2011/10/by-caryn-d.html
§ “Ann Pederson,” in Creating Women’s Theology: A Movement Engaging Process Thought, eds. Monica A. Coleman, Nancy R. Howell, and Helene Tallon Russell. (Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick Publications, 2011.)
§ “Our Own Hunger Games.” TheReligiousLeft.org Online: http://www.thereligiousleft.org/2011/08/our-own-hunger-games.html
§ “Sisterhood is Ecumenical: ‘An Open Letter to Elizabeth Johnson.’” TheReligiousLeft.org Online: http://www.thereligiousleft.org/2011/07/sisterhood-is-ecumenical-open-letter-to.html
§ “We Are Daniel.” TheReligiousLeft.org Online: http://www.thereligiousleft.org/2011/06/we-are-daniel.html . June 24, 2011.
§ “Here I Stand, Without the Goddess.” Feministing.com Online: http://feministing.com/2011/02/03/faith-feminism-here-i-stand-without-the-goddess/ . February 3, 2011.
§ “Coram Meipso: Presence, Privilege, and Vocations in Feminist and Lutheran Languages.” Dialog: a Journal of Theology 49:3 (Fall 2010), 202-209.
§ “Historical and Theological Legacies of Feminism and Lutheranism,” co-authored with L. DeAne Lagerquist, in Transformative Lutheran Theologies: Feminist, Womanist, Mujerista Perspectives, ed. Mary J. Streufert. (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2010), 15-30.
§ “Inhabiting
Paradox: God and Feminist Theology in
the Third Wave,” in in Transformative
Lutheran Theologies: Feminist, Womanist, Mujerista Perspectives, ed.
Mary J. Streufert. (Minneapolis:
Fortress, 2010), 45-56.
§ “Annoying the Student with Her Rights: Human Life Coram Hominibus, Reflections on Vocation, Hope, and Politics,” Intersections
(Spring 2010), 36-41.
§ “Coram Mundo: A Lutheran Feminist Anthropology of Hope” Dialog: a Journal of Theology 48:2 (Summer 2009) 132-139.
§ “Is This Going to be on the Test? Religion in the ’08 Election” Editorial, Political Theology 9:4 (October 2008).
§ “Imago Dei and Coram Mundo: Theological
Anthropology for Human Life Today, or The World is the Woman.” Journal
of Lutheran Ethics 8:1 (January 2008)
Also in Probing Theological
Foundations in an Age of Biological Intervention. (
§ “The
Rhetoric of Evil and Eradicating Terrorism,”
In Religion,
Terror, and Violence: Religious Studies Perspectives, edited by Bryan
Rennie and Philip L. Tite. (
§ “Certainty, Heaven, and Kittens.” The Lutheran, November 2007.
§ “The
Future of the Presidency: What
§ “Two Reformers: Martin Luther and Mary Daly as Political Theologians?” Political Theology 7:4 (October 2006).
§ “Confessing Christ in a World of Violence.” Collaborative statement with Richard B. Hays, Duke Divinity School, George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary, Richard V. Pierard, Gordon College, Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary, and Jim Wallis, Sojourners. Released to and covered by national media October 2004. Published in God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It, by Jim Wallis (Harper San Francisco, 2005). Text also available at Sojourners
§ “A Theological Response to ‘The Case for a Preemptive Strike.’” Political Theology 5:2 (March 2004).
§ “A Religious Response Veiled in a Presidential Address.” Political Theology 5:1 (January 2004).
§ “Four Fictions and their Truths.” Dialog: a Journal of Theology 42:2 (Summer 2003).
§ “From a Babylonian Captivity to the Otherworld: Martin Luther and Mary Daly.” Currents in Theology and Mission 24:1 (February 1997).
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:
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scholarly presentations
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BOOK REVIEWS PUBLISHED:
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SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:
Member, Lilly Fellows Program National Network Board. 2011-2015.
Member, Editorial Board, Political Theology
Member, Steering Committee, Religion, Social Conflict, and Peace Section, American Academy of Religion 2004-2009.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago 2000
Th.M. Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago 1997
M.A.T.S. Claremont School of Theology 1995
B.A. Augustana College, Sioux Falls 1993
DISSERTATION TITLE: “Coram Deo: Human Life in the Vision of God” LSTC, 2000
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Lilly
Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts, Instructor in Theology,
Teaching Assistant to Dr. Philip Hefner, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 1999
Teaching Assistant to Dr. Vitor Westhelle, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 1997
Admissions Associate for Financial Aid, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 1996-2000
Bush Grant Student-Mentor Research and Teaching Assistant to
Dr. Ann Pederson, Religion Department, Augustana
College, 1992-1993
Awards and Honors
§ 2007 Ambassador Award, from the Illinois College Alumni Association for representation of the college through service and work in the greater community.
§ James
A. Roehm Outstanding Advisor Award. From
the Board of the
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