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Scholars involved 

Prof. Samuel E. Balentine, Professor of Old Testament

Prof. John T. Carroll, Professor of New Testament

Prof. Dawn DeVries, Professor of Systematic Theology

Prof. Andreas K. Schuele, Professor of Biblical Theology

Prof. Stanley H. Skreslet, Professor of Christian Mission

Prof. Karen-Marie Yust, Professor of Christian Education

Prof. Samuel E. Balentine

Professor of Old Testament

Union Theological Seminary and
Presbyterian School of Christian Education
3401 Brook Road
Richmond, VA 23227
USA

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Homepage: http://www.union-psce.edu/faculty_staff/fulltime/balentine.php

Research Profile

Biblical interpretation (with emphasis on Torah and Wisdom Literature); Biblical theology; Hermeneutics (with particular attention to reception history).

Current projects: reception history of the Book of Job; commentary on Lamentations; ethics and the moral vision of the OT; seeing and hearing scripture with artists, musicians, and poets.

Selected Publications

The Hidden God. Oxford, 1983.

Prayer in the Hebrew Bible. Fortress, 1993.

Language, Theology and the Bible:  Essays in Honour of James Barr. Oxford, 1994.

“The Politics of Religion in the Persian Period,” in After the Exile: Essays on Biblical Interpretation, J. Barton, ed. Mercer University Press, 1996: 129-146.

“What are Human Beings, That You Make So Much of Them?” in God in the Fray: A Tribute to Walter Brueggemann. T. Linafelt and T. Beal, eds. Fortress, 1998: 259-278.

The Torah’s Vision of Worship. Fortress, 1999.

Leviticus. Interpretation Commentary Series. John Knox, 2002.

“The Emergence of Scripture,” in Judaism From Moses to Muhammed, J. Neusner, A. Avery-Peck, Wm. Scott Green, eds. Brill, 2005: 53-78.

“I Was Ready to Be Sought Out By Those Who Did Not Ask,” and “Afterword,” in Seeking the Favor of God. Vol.1: The Origins of Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism, M. Boda, D. Falk, R. Werline, eds. Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

“Inside the Sanctuary of Silence: The Moral and Ethical Demands of Suffering,” in Character and Ethics in the Torah: Moral Dimensions of Scripture, M.D. Carroll, J. Lapsley, ed. Westminster John Knox, 2007: 63-80. 

Job. Smyth and Helwys, 2007.

Prof. John T. Carroll

Professor of New Testament

Union Theological Seminary and
Presbyterian School of Christian Education
3401 Brook Road
Richmond, VA 23227
USA 

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Homepage: http://www.union-psce.edu/faculty_staff/fulltime/carroll.php

Research profile

Prof. Carroll’s primary research activities and interests are the Gospel of Luke, early Christian interpretation of the death of Jesus, early Christian eschatology, the career and message of Jesus, and theological interpretation of the Bible.

A commentary on the Gospel of Luke is in preparation for the New Testament Library (Westminster John Knox Press).

Teaching profile

Prof. Carroll teaches courses at both master’s and doctoral levels in New Testament interpretation, New Testament Gospels, the letters of Paul, and the Book of Revelation, as well as interdisciplinary courses exploring the connections between biblical interpretation and various theological disciplines (e.g., preaching, pastoral care, and systematic theology).

Selected publications

Response to the End of History: Eschatology and Situation in Luke-Acts. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988.

(with Joel B. Green.) The Death of Jesus in Early Christianity. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1995.

(with James R. Carroll) Preaching the Hard Sayings of Jesus. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996.

(with Alexandra R. Brown, Claudia Setzer, and Jeffrey S. Siker) The Return of Jesus in Early Christianity. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2000.

"Luke's Crucifixion Scene" in Reimaging the Death of the Lukan Jesus. Dennis D. Sylva, ed. Frankfurt am Main: Anton Hain, 1990: 108-24, 194–203.

“Luke-Acts,” in The New Testament Today. Mark Allan Powell, ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1999: 58–69.

“Eschatology,” in Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. David Noel Freedman, ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000: 420–22.

“Creation and Apocalypse,” in God Who Creates: Essays in Honor of W. Sibley Towner, William P. Brown and S. Dean McBride, eds. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000: 251–60.

“Children in the Bible,” Interpretation 55 (2001): 121–34

“The God of Israel and the Salvation of the Nations: The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles,” in The Forgotten God: Perspectives in Biblical Theology. Essays in Honor of Paul J. Achtemeier on the Occasion of His Seventy-fifth Birthday, A. A. Das and F. J. Matera, eds. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002: 91–106

Prof. Dawn DeVries

Professor of Systematic Theology

Union Theological Seminary and
Presbyterian School of Christian Education
3401 Brook Road
Richmond, VA 23227
USA

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Homepage: http://www.union-psce.edu/faculty_staff/fulltime/devries.php

Research Profile

Prof. DeVries’s research interests include Reformation theology with a specialization in the thought of John Calvin, 19th century theology, the thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher, feminist theology, religion and childhood studies, and theology of preaching. 

Selected Publications

Servant of the Word: Selected Sermons of Friedrich Schleiermacher. transl. and ed. by D. DeVries, Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987.

Jesus Christ in the Preaching of Calvin and Schleiermacher. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996.

ed. with B. A. Gerrish, The New Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, forthcoming. 

“”Schleiermacher’s Christmas Eve Dialogue: Bourgeois Ideology of Feminist Theology?” Journal of Religion 69 (1989): 169-183.

“Creation and Handicappism,” in Reconstructing Christian Theology, Rebecca Chopp and Mark Kline Taylor, eds. Minneapolis: Fortress Press (1994): 124-140.

“’Be Converted and Become as Little Children’: Friedrich Schleiermacher on the Religious Significance of Childhood,” in Children in Christian Thought, Marcia J. Bunge, ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2001: 329-349, 484-485.

“The Living God: The Problem of Divine Personality in Reformed Theology,” in Reformed Theology for the Third Christian Milennium, B. A. Gerrish, ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press (2003): 61-81.

“Calvin’s Preaching,” in The Cambridge Companion to Calvin, Donald McKim, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004: 106-124.

“Providence and Grace: Schleiermacher on Justification and Election,” in The Cambridge Companion to Friedrich Schleiermacher, Jacqueline Mariña, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005: 189-207.

“’Ever to Be Reformed According to the Word of God’: Can the Scripture Principle be Redeemed for Feminist Theology?”  in Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics, A. Plantinga and  Pauwand/Serene Jones, eds. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006: 40-57.

Prof. Andreas K. Schuele

Professor of Biblical Theology

Union Theological Seminary and
Presbyterian School of Christian Education
3401 Brook Road
Richmond, VA 23227
USA 

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Homepage: http://www.union-psce.edu/faculty_staff/fulltime/schuele.php

Research profile

Prof. Schuele is the Aubrey Lee Brooks Professor of Biblical Theology at Union-PSCE. His research focuses on language, literary history, and theology, especially of the Pentateuch and the Psalms. He has also published extensively on the intersection between exegesis and constructive theology. Among his recent work are books on primeval history, the book of Numbers, theology in Israel and its neighboring cultures, the social theory of Niklas Luhmann and its impact on theology, as well as two edited volumes on contemporary Christology. Schuele’s current projects include a theological study “In the Vicinity of God: Concepts of Divine Nearness in the Hebrew Bible” and a commentary on primeval history for the Zurich Bible Commentary Series.

Teaching Profile

Prof. Schuele teaches courses both at master’s and the doctoral levels in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. Seminars include “Crafting the Human (Genesis 1-11),” “Anthropology of the Psalms,” “Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls,” “Biblical Aramaic,” as well as interdisciplinary seminars in Bible/Theology.

Selected Publications

Der Prolog der hebräischen Bibel. Der literar- und theologiegeschichtliche Diskurs der biblischen Urgeschichte (Gen 1-11). Arbeiten zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments.  Zürich: Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2006.

(ed. with Günter Thomas) Who is Jesus Christ for us today? Pathways to contemporary Christology.  Louisville KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009 (forthcoming).

(ed. with Konrad Schmid) Theologie in Israel und seinen Nachbarkulturen. Altes Testament und Moderne 9. Münster: Lit-Verlag, 2004.

"Evil from the heart. Qoheleth's negative anthropology and its canonical context," in: A Berlejung/P. van Hecke, eds., The Language of Qohelet in its Context. Essays in Honor of Anton Schoors. Peeters: Leuven 2007, OLA 164: 157-176

"Meinst du, dass dir Zorn zusteht?; Der theologische Diskurs des Jonaschlusses" (Jona 3,6-4,11) in Theologische Literaturzeitung 131 (2006): 676-688

"Die Würde des Bildes. Eine Re-Lektüre der priesterlichen Urgeschichte," in Evangelische Theologie 66 (2006): 440-454

"Made in His Image: The Concepts of Divine Images in Gen 1-3," in Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 117 (2005): 1-20

"Sharing and Loving: Love, Law, and the Ethics of Cultural Memory in the Pentateuch," in: W. Schweiker/C.T. Mathewes, eds.  Having. Property and Possession in Religious and Social Life. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004: 51-68

"Denn er ist wie du. Die Übersetzung und Bedeutung des Liebesgebots von Lev 19,18," in Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 113 (2001): 315-334
 

Prof. Stanley H. Skreslet

Professor of Christian Mission

Union Theological Seminary and
Presbyterian School of Christian Education
3401 Brook Road
Richmond, VA 23227
USA

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Homepage: http://www.union-psce.edu/faculty_staff/fulltime/skreslet.php

Research profile

Prof. Skreslet's research interests have centered on the history and theology of Christian mission, with a special focus on the region of the Middle East.  Presently, he is working on a new introduction to the discipline of missiology.

Teaching profile

History of Mission to 1910
Mission and Missiology since 1910
Religion of Islam
Middle East Travel Seminar
History of Christianity in Africa
Co-teach History of Christianity II (Reformation to the present)

Selected publications:

Picturing Christian Witness: New Testament Images of Disciples of Mission. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2006

“American Presbyterians and the Middle East,” a chapter in A History of Presbyterian Missions, 1944-2007, ed. by Scott W. Sunquist and Caroline N. Becker. Louisville: Geneva Press, 2008.

“Thinking Missiologically about the History of Mission,” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 31 (2007): 59-65

“Configuring Missiology: Reading Classified Bibliographies as Disciplinary Maps,” Mission Studies 23 (2006): 171-201

“Doctoral Dissertations on Mission: Ten-Year Update, 1992-2001,” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 27 (2003): 98-133

“Among the Believers: Muslims and Christians in the Dar al-Islam,” a chapter in Presbyterian Mission for a New Millennium.  Bonnie Sue Lewis and Tricia Lloyd-Sidle, eds. Louisville: Geneva Press, 2001

“Impending Transformation: Mission Structures for a New Century,” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 23 (1999): 2-6. 

“Networking, Civil Society and the NGO: A New Model for Ecumenical Mission,” Missiology 25 (1997): 307-319.

“Emerging Trends in a Shifting Global Context: Mission in the New World Order,” Theology Today 54 (1997): 150-164

“The Empty Basket of Presbyterian Mission: Limits and Possibilities of Partnership,” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 19 (1995): 98-104

Prof. Karen-Marie Yust

Professor of Christian Education

Union Theological Seminary and
Presbyterian School of Christian Education
3401 Brook Road
Richmond, VA 23227
USA

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Homepage: http://www.union-psce.edu/faculty_staff/fulltime/yust.php

Research Profile

Prof. Yust’s work focuses on the spiritual formation and transformation of persons across the lifespan and in a variety of roles and settings, with a specialization in children’s spirituality. She is particularly interested in the interplay of ideas and practical strategies arising from cultural studies, human development frameworks, teaching/learning theories and classical spiritual practices.

Teaching Profile

Prof. Yust teaches master’s and doctoral level courses in the theory and practice of religious education, as well as interdisciplinary courses in theology and educational theory.

Selected Publications

(coauthored with E. Byron Anderson) Taught by God: Teaching and Spiritual Formation. Chalice Press, 2006.

(edited volume) Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World’s Religious Traditions. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

Real Kids, Real Faith: Practices for Nurturing Children’s Spiritual Lives. Jossey-Bass, 2004.

Attentive to God: Spirituality in the Church Committee. Chalice Press, 2001.

“The Toddler and the Community” in Felicity Kelcourse, ed., Faith and Human Development. Chalice Press, 2004.

"Forming a Critical Imagination" in Religious Studies News: Spotlight on Theological Education. AAR, March 2008.

“Childhood and spiritual wisdom: constructing a critical conversation for the 21st century,” International Journal of Children’s Spirituality 12:1 (April 2007).

“Being a Child, Becoming Christian” Lifelong Faith 1:1 (April 2007).

"Creating an Idyllic World for Children's Spiritual Formation," International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 11:1 (March 2006).

“Sanctification: Intellectual Inquiry and Holy Conformity” in Peter Heltzel, ed., Introduction to Disciples Theology. Chalice Press, 2008.

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Prof. Samuel E. Balentine, Professor of Old Testament

Prof. John T. Carroll, Professor of New Testament

Prof. Dawn DeVries, Professor of Systematic Theology

Prof. Andreas K. Schuele, Professor of Biblical Theology

Prof. Stanley H. Skreslet, Professor of Christian Mission

Prof. Karen-Marie Yust, Professor of Christian Education