Drs. Kisker and Moschella contribute to expanding library of faculty publications

Published on Friday, April 18, 2008

The Rev. Dr. Scott Kisker, the James Cecil Logan associate professor of evangelism and Wesley studies at Wesley Theological Seminary, has authored Foundation for Revival: Anthony Horneck, the Religious Societies and the Construction of Anglican Pietism. The Rev. Dr. Mary Moschella, Wesley's associate professor of pastoral theology and congregational care, has authored Living Devotions: Reflections on Immigration, Identity, and Religious Imagination.

Kisker and Moschella's new texts add to a long list of publications authored by Wesley faculty members. For example, Wesley dean, the Rev. Dr. Bruce C. Birch, the Woodrow W. and Mildred B. Miller professor of Biblical theology, has written the following texts:

• What Does the Lord Require?
• Singing the Lord's Song
• Let Justice Roll Down: The Old Testament, Ethics and Christian Life
• Hosea, Joel, Amos for the Westminster Bible companion
• To Love As We Are Loved: The Bible and Relationships.
• With Larry Rasmussen, co-authored The Predicament of the Prosperous and Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life.
• One of the Old Testament editors for the New Interpreter's Bible and contributed the commentary on 1 and 2 Samuel.
• With Walter Brueggemann, Terence Fretheim, and David Petersen, co-authored A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament, now in its second edition.
• Co-authored with Lewis A Parks Ducking Spears, Dancing Madly: A Biblical Model of Church Leadership.
• Originator and editor of the curriculum, Steward: Living as Disciples in Everyday Life.

Catherine Kapikian, director of the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion at Wesley Theological Seminary, wrote Art in Service of the Sacred. Dr. Beverly Mitchell, professor of church history at Wesley, authored Black Abolitionism: A Quest For Human Dignity. And many other faculty members have written or co-written numerous scholarly texts. Find out more in the faculty profile section.

The Wesley community celebrated the release of Kisker and Moschella's books with reviews by colleagues and and discussions of these works on Tuesday April 22, 4:30 - 6 p.m. in Elderdice (in the Kresge Building on Wesley's campus).