Dr. Charlene P.E. Burns - Publications
Books:
More Moral Than God: Taking Responsibility for Religious Violence. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2008
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Divine Becoming: Rethinking Jesus and Incarnation, (Minneapolis; Fortress Press, 2002)
http://www.augsburgfortress.org/store/item.jsp?clsid=111623&productgroupid=0&isbn=0800632788
Dissertation:
Re-Imagining Incarnation: The Participation of God in Creation, defended 02/14/2000
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters:
"Self-Sacrificial Love: Evolutionary Deception or Theological Reality?" Faith, Science, and the Future. p. 105-120. Edited by Charles P. Henderson. CrossCurrents Press, 2007.
"Self-Sacrificial Love: Evolutionary Deception or Theological Reality?" CrossCurrents Vol. 57, No. 1 (Spring 2007): 102-115.
"Our Gods are Monsters: Representations of the Evolution of Religion in Popular Culture," in Sorcha Ni Fhlainn (Ed), Monsters and the Monstrous - Myths: Metaphors and Enduring Evil, Oxford, Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2007. ISBN 1-904710-42-5.
"Honesty About God: Theological Reflections on Violence in an Evolutionary Universe," Theology and Science, Vol. 4.3 (Fall 2006): 279-290.
"A Jungian Perspective on Religious Violence and Personal Responsibility, " CrossCurrents, Vol. 56, no. 1 (Spring, 2006): 16-24.
"Altruism in Nature as Manifestation of Divine Energeia." Zygon Journal of Religion & Science, Vol. 41, no. 1 (March, 2006): 125-137.
"Do Cognitive Dissonance Theory and the Induced-Compliance Paradigm Raise Concerns for Teaching Religious Studies?" Teaching Theology and Religion. Vol. 9, no. 1 (January, 2006): 3-8.
"Cognitive Science and Christian Theology," in Soul, Psyche, Brain: New Directions in the Study of Religion and Brain-Mind Science, p. 174-196. Edited by Kelly Bulkeley. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
"The 'Jesus Sutras': Ironies of Enculturation and Romanticized Visions of the East." with Andrew Ruggles, Journal of Theta Alpha Kappa. Vol. 29, no. 1 (Spring, 2005): 57-72.
"Mystic River: A Parable of Christianity's Dark Side," Journal of Religion and Film, Volume 8 (April, 2004) no 2.
"Soul-less Christianity and Buddhist Empirical Self: Buddhist-Christian Convergence?" Buddhist-Christian Studies. Vol. 23 (2003): 87-100.
"Resources for Teaching 'Women and Religion,'" Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources. Vol. 24 (2003) no. 2: 5-8.
"Teaching and Self-Formation: or Why the Ignoble 'Introduction to World Religions' Really Matters", Teaching Theology and Religion, Vol. 4 (Feb. 2001) no. 1: 15-22.
"Theology and Winnicott's Object Relations Theory," Journal of Psychology and Theology, Vol. 27 (1999) no. 1: 3-19.
"The 'Somethingness' of Evil in the Writings of St. Augustine," Journal of Theta Alpha Kappa, Vol. 20 (1996): 30-51.
Book Reviews:
Satan: A Biography. Henry Ansgar Kelly (Cambridge University Press, 2006). 12/07 http://catholicbooksreview.org/
Though the Fig Tree Does Not Blossom. Ellen Ott Marshall (Abingdon, Nashville, 2006). Religious Studies Review. April 2007 - Vol. 33 Issue 2, pp 125-126.
World Without End: Christian Eschatology from a Process Perspective. Joseph A. Bracken, S.J., ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2005) Catholic Studies. 12/06 http://catholicbooksreview.org/
Constructive Theology: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Themes, Serene Jones & Paul Lakeland, eds. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005). Religious Studies Review. January 2006 - Vol. 32 Issue 1, p 32.
Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon, John Milbank (New York: Routledge, 2003). Religious Studies Review.
On Thinking the Human: Resolutions of Difficult Notions, Robert W. Jenson (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2003). Religious Studies Review. Vol. 30 (2004): 291-292.
Act and Being: Towards a Theology of the Divine Attributes, Colin Gunton (London: SCM Press, 2002). Religious Studies Review. Vol. 29 (2003): 272.
Original Sin, Talitha Wiley (Paulist Press, 2002). Catholic Studies, April 2003 Online Reviews.
God and the Universe, Arthur Gibson (New York: Routledge Press, 2001). Religious Studies Review. Vol. 28 (2002): 240.
A New Handbook of Christian Theology, Edited by Donald W. Musser and Joseph L. Price (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992). Religious Studies Review. Vol. 24 (1998): 178.
