Borderlands of Theological Education
Co-edited by Joshua B. Davis and Deirdre Good (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Traditional patterns of educating and training clergy face not only crises of increasing cost and declining enrollment, but also a crisis of identity, since at present it is the academy, not the church, that shapes formation for ministry. This collection of essays outlines a history and a new vision of the church as the primary location of ministerial formation for the future of theological education…
Courage Beyond Fear
with Katie Day (Wipf & Stock, 2019)
The aim of this book, is to combat actual crises we have survived in theological institutions. We first document responses of resistance to authoritarian structures in student and faculty meditations and sermons. Then through them we identify dispositions in community crises …
Studying the New Testament
with Bruce Chilton (2010)
This book offers an introduction to the literature of the New Testament, demonstrating how these writings can be approached and critically studied in an academic setting. Bruce Chilton and Deirdre J. Good, two respected New Testament scholars, provide a narrative of the historical context and social world …
Jesus’ Family Values
(Church Publishing, 2006)
Many people claim to know what Jesus would say or do in the kinds of ethical dilemmas we face today, but applying “traditional” Christian values out of context actually sells Jesus’ teaching short. What are Christian family values, Deirdre Good asks …
Mariam, the Magdalen, and the Mother
(Indiana University Press, 2005)
Essays in this volume offer original scholarship by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scholars on the religious and prophetic experience of Mary Magdalen and her depiction in Christian art (Miriamic Vision); on aspects of Mary Magdalen’s composite identity overlapping with …
Jesus the Meek King
(Trinity Press International, 1999)
What sort of king was Jesus? What is the meaning of Jesus’ description of himself in Matthew’s Gospel as the meek king? Jesus the Meek King is an exploration of a specific virtue in Paul, Matthew, the Hellenistic world, and English literature …
