Educational History Selected Bibliography
Teaching Positions Administrative Positions
Membership in Professional Societies, Councils, Boards Scholarships, Fellowships, Awards, Grants
    Congressional Achievements
 
   

Selected Bibliography
Books

1972 - Time Invades the Cathedral: Tensions in the School of Hope. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.

1972 - Ways of Understanding Religion. New York: Macmillan.

1976 - Hope Against Hope : Moltmann to Merton in One Theological Decade. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.

1978 - Silent Fire: an Invitation to Western Mysticism. 1st ed, Harper Forum Books. San Francisco: Harper & Row.

1982 -The Unfinished War: Vietnam and the American Conscience. Boston: Beacon Press.

1983 - The Monastic Impulse. New York: Crossroad.

1990 - The New Religious Right: Piety, Patriotism, and Politics. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press.

1995 - Religious Studies: The Making of a Discipline. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

 

Edited Books

Ed. 1970 - The Future of Hope: [Symposium, Institute on Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1968]. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.

Ed. 1976 - Seeing with a Native eye : Essays on Native American Religion. New York: Harper & Row.

Ed. 1989 - Thomas Merton: Preview of the Asian Journey. New York: Crossroad.

Ed. 1991 -The Vietnam Reader. New York: Routledge.

 

Co-authored and co-edited Books

1970 - The Religious Personality. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth.

Capps, Donald, Walter H. Capps, and M. Gerald Bradford, eds.

1977 - Encounter with Erikson : Historical Interpretation and Religious Biography [bibliog], Series on Formative Contemporary Thinkers 2. Missoula, Mont: Scholars Press.

 

Book Chapters

1970 - Mapping the Hope Movement in The Future of Hope, Philadelphia: Fortress Press.

1975 - Uppsala Methodology and the Problem of Religious Syncretism in Religious Syncretism in Antiquity. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press.

1977 - Erikson's Orientation as Process Philosophy in Encounter with Erikson. Missoula, Mont: Scholars Press.

1977 - Christianity: Actional and Contemplative in East/West Cultures. Santa Barbara: Educational Futures.

1978 - The Interpenetration of New Religion and Religious Studies in Understanding the New Religions. New York: Seabury Press.

1979 - Commentary: [on papers by H Biezais on Typology of Religion and C Colpe on Symbol and Copy Theory, pp 143-173] in Science of Religion. The Hague: Mouton Publishers.

1996 - Religion and Politics : Finding Normative Factors in Current Discussions in Religion and the Political Order. Atlanta: Scholars Press.

 

Encyclopedia Entries

1983, 1985, 1990 - Religion in World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago: World Book.

1987 - Society and Religion in Encyclopedia of Religion. New York: Macmillan and Free Press.

 

Articles

1965 - "'Being and Becoming' and 'God and the World': An Analysis of Whitehead's Account of Their Early Association," Revue Philosophique de Louvain LXIII:572-590.

1966 - "Harnack and Ecumenical Discussion," Journal of Ecumenical Studies 3:486-502.

1967 - "Plurality of Theologies : A Paradigmatic Sketch," Religious Studies 3:355-367.

1968 - "Via Positiva in Kant," Journal of Religion 48:351-375.

1968 - "The Hope Tendency," Cross Currents XVIII (3):257-272.

1968 - "An Assessment of the Theologyical Side of the School of Hope," Cross Currents XVIII (3):319-335.

1969 - "Nathan Sšderblom: Homo Religiosus?" Lutheran Quarterly 21:392-396.

1969 - "Meaning of Secular, Secularism, and Secularization," Lutheran World 16 (3):263-270.

1970 - "Religion in State University Curricula: Future Theological Reverberations," Lutheran World 17 (2):167-172.

1971 -"Motif-Research in Irenaeus, Thomas Aquinas, and Luther," Studia Theologica 25 (2):133-159.

1971 - "Revolution in Theology: [review article]," Journal of Religion 51:67-74.

1972 - "Reflections on Theological Reconstruction," Lutheran Quarterly 24:387-396.

1972 - "Motif-research as a Comparative Technique in Theological Systems," Santa Barbara, Calif.

1973 - "Geo Widengren on Syncretis: On Parsing Uppsala Methodological Tendencies," Numen 20:163-185.

1974 - "On Religious Studies: In Lieu of an Overview [with responses]," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 42:727-733.

1975 - "Origins of the Theology of Hope. Interpretation - A Journal of Bible and Theology," 29 (1):84-86.

1977 - "First Impressions - and Second Thoughts," Council on the Study of Religion Bulletin 8:37,39-40.

1978 - "Vocational Crisis : Symptom of a Deeper Illness," Council on the Study of Religion Bulletin 9:65+.

1978 - "Impressions From Wingspread Religious Studies: The State of the Art," Council on the Study of Religion Bulletin 9:41-42.

1981 - "Contemporary Socio-Political Change and the Work of Religious Studies," Council on the Study of Religion Bulletin 12:93-95.

1982 - "Theology as Art Form: [reply to G Kaufman, pp 73-79]," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 50:93-96.

1984 - "Religious Studies - theological studies: The St Louis Project," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 52:721-730.

1984 - "Religion and Truth - Towards an Alternative Paradigm for the Study of Religion," Zygon 19 (1):99-100.

1985 - "A Note on the Rise of the New Religious Right". Dialog 24:248-251.

1987 - "A Response to Dr Strenski: ["Our very own contras", 54:323-335 Sum 1986]," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 55:125-126.

1987 - "The Quest for Transcendence," Word & World 7:125-130.

1988 - "Religious Studies and Creative Reflection: [reply to Colloquy presentations, pp 207-346]," Soundings 71:373-379.

1988 - "Professor Berger's Lament: [reply to P L Berger, pp 90-96]," Dialog 27:101-104.

1991 - "Content and Message in Teaching about Religion. Religion and Public Education," 18:223-227.

1993 - "Keeping Pace with the Code of Code : [The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project, ed by Daniel J Kevles and Leroy Hood; review essay]," Christian Century 110:373-375.

1996 - "Religious Authority In An Ecumenical Age And A Pluralistic World: [Paul Wattson Lecture, Univ of San Francisco, 1996]," Ecumenical Trends 25:65-69.

1997 - "Interpreting Václav Havel: [on his intellectual heritage]," Cross Currents 47:301-316.

1997 - "The Dialogue with the 'New Europe': A Two-Way Street," Religion, State and Society 25 (1):37-40.

1999 - "Mr Christian's seminar. In The future of Religion: Festschrift for Ninian Smart," London: Middlesex University Press.

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