Religious Studies Faculty Publications
The University of Dayton Department of Religious Studies is a community of scholars serving the University, academic and local communities through teaching, research, prophetic criticism, and action.
Faculty scholarship addresses religious experience, expression and thought, with special emphasis on the Roman Catholic tradition and in dialogue with other Christian traditions and other world religions. Faculty in the department are committed to lifelong growth through effective learning.
This collection provides a sampling of the scholarly work of the department’s faculty.
Submissions from 2010
Prescient Pacifists, William Vance Trollinger
Review: Mark Noll's 'The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith', William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 2009
Review: 'Human Sexuality in the Catholic Tradition', Jana Marguerite Bennett
Lonergan and Shea on Belief and Knowledge: Positions, Counter-Positions, and Contexts, Dennis M. Doyle
Wesley’s Methodist Movement: What Might It Have to Offer to Contemporary Roman Catholics?, Dennis M. Doyle
Teaching Engineering Ethics by Conceptual Design: The Somatic Marker Hypothesis, Brad Kallenberg
Review: 'Jesus: Word Made Flesh', William L. Portier
An Outpouring of ‘Faithful’ Words: Protestant Publishing in the United States, William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 2008
Modernism and Postmodernism, Brad Kallenberg and Ethan Smith
A Response to John Sommerville’s 'The Decline of the Secular University', William Vance Trollinger
Reports from Fundamentalism’s Front Lines: ‘The Pilot’ and Its Correspondents, 1920-1947, William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 2007
The Descriptive Problem of Evil, Brad Kallenberg
Review: 'The Gospel of Faith and Justice', Cyril Orji
Submissions from 2006
Review: 'The Church Unfinished: Ecclesiology Through the Centuries', Dennis M. (Dennis Michael) Doyle
Review: 'The 'Priesthood of the Faithful': Key to a Living Church', Dennis M. (Dennis Michael) Doyle
What Mega-churches Can Learn from Catholics, Aaron James and Brad Kallenberg
Some Things Are Worth Dying For, Brad Kallenberg
Submissions from 2005
Review: 'Yves Congar's Theology of the Holy Spirit', Dennis M. (Dennis Michael) Doyle
Confessions of a Fractured Catholic Theologian, William L. Portier
Review: 'Spirit and Flesh: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church', William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 2004
On Locating Disaster, Brad Kallenberg
Praying for Understanding: Reading Anselm through Wittgenstein, Brad Kallenberg
The Strange New World in the Church: A Review essay of 'With the Grain of the Universe' by Stanley Hauerwas, Brad Kallenberg
On Writing a History of the College Theology Society: Reviewing Fifty Years of Theological Conversations, Sandra Yocum Mize
Review: 'Goodbye Father: The Celibate Male Priesthood and the Future of the Catholic Church', William L. Portier
Review: 'A Spirituality of Dating, Love, Dinner, and the Divine', William P. Roberts
No More Death Row, William Vance Trollinger
Review: 'Religion in America Since 1945: A History', William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 2003
Review: 'The Liberation of the Laity: in Search of An Accountable Church', Dennis M. (Dennis Michael) Doyle
Professional or Practitioner? What’s Missing from the Codes?, Brad Kallenberg
The 'P'-Word: Conversion in a Postmodern Environment, Brad Kallenberg
Defending Hauerwas, Brad Kallenberg, Terrence W. Tilley, and M. Therese Lysaught
Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition: Christian Ethics after MacIntyre, Nancey C. Murphy, Brad Kallenberg, and Mark Thiessen Nation
Fundamentalism, William Vance Trollinger
Protestantism and Fundamentalism, William Vance Trollinger
Review: 'Anabaptist World USA', William Vance Trollinger
Review: 'Gods of War, Gods of Peace: How the Meeting of Native and Colonial Religions Shaped Early America', William Vance Trollinger
Review: 'Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Society, 1862-1935', William Vance Trollinger
Review: Jacob Dorn's 'Socialism and Christianity in Early 20th-century America', William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 2002
'Communion Ecclesiology' (2000): The Author's Response to Challenging Criticism, Dennis M. (Dennis Michael) Doyle
Review: 'Jesus in Solidarity with His People: A Theologian Looks at Mark', Dennis M. (Dennis Michael) Doyle
Review: 'The A to Z of Catholicism', Dennis M. (Dennis Michael) Doyle
Live to Tell, Brad Kallenberg
Review: 'Faith in the Living God: A Dialogue', Brad Kallenberg
Review: 'If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: The African American Sacred Song Tradition', Cecilia Moore
Is There a Center to American Religious History?, William Vance Trollinger
Review: Stuart Banner's 'The Death Penalty: An American History', William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 2001
All Suffer the Affliction of the One: Metaphysical Holism and the Presence of the Spirit, Brad Kallenberg
Ethics as Grammar: Changing the Postmodern Subject, Brad Kallenberg
Review: 'Thomas Merton And the Monastic Vision', Sandra Yocum Mize
Review: 'Catholic Divorce: The Deception of Annulments', William P. Roberts
Faith, History, and the Conference on Faith and History, William Vance Trollinger
In Lockdown America: The Corruption of Capital Punishment, William Vance Trollinger
Managing a Merger, William Vance Trollinger
Nonviolent Voices: Peace Churches Make a Witness, William Vance Trollinger
Review: 'Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880–2000', William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 2000
Review: 'Women and Redemption: A Theological History', Dennis M. (Dennis Michael) Doyle
How John Nelson Darby Went Visiting: Dispensational Premillennialism in the Believers Church Tradition and the Historiography of Fundamentalism, William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 1999
Review: 'Small Christian Communities: Imagining Future Church', Dennis M. (Dennis Michael) Doyle
Review: 'Inside the Vatican: the Politics And Organization of the Catholic Church', Sandra Yocum Mize
Review: 'Building Sisterhood: A Feminist History of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary', Sandra A. Yocum
Submissions from 1998
Review: 'Ongoing Incarnation: Johann Adam Mohler and the Beginnings of Modern Ecclesiology', Dennis M. (Dennis Michael) Doyle
Review: 'The Catholic Faith: An Introduction', Dennis M. (Dennis Michael) Doyle
Review: 'Religion And the Public Schools in 19th-Century America: The Contribution of Orestes A. Brownson', Sandra Yocum Mize
Review: 'Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement', Cecilia Moore
My Friend's Execution, William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 1997
Review: 'Toward A Catholic Constitution', Sandra Yocum Mize
Review: 'Ecology and Liberation: A New Paradigm', Pamela Thimmes
Review: 'With Roots and Wings: Christianity in an Age of Ecology and Dialogue', Pamela Thimmes
Submissions from 1996
Review: 'Who Are the People of God? Early Christian Models of Community', Pamela Thimmes
Submissions from 1995
Dorothy Day Apologia for Faith After Marx, Sandra Yocum Mize
Review: 'Ecological Prospects: Scientific, Religious, and Aesthetic Perspectives', Pamela Thimmes
Creationism in Twentieth-century America: The Antievolution Pamphlets of William Bell Riley, William Vance Trollinger
Review: 'Where Have You Gone, Michelangelo: The Loss of Soul in Catholic Culture', Sandra A. Yocum
Submissions from 1994
Review: 'Salt, Leaven and Light: The Community Called Church', Dennis M. (Dennis Michael) Doyle
Review: 'Unresting Transformation: The Theology and Spirituality of Maude Petre', Dennis M. (Dennis Michael) Doyle
Submissions from 1993
Review: 'Double Belonging: Interchurch Families and Christian Unity', William P. Roberts
Submissions from 1992
Review: 'The Universal Catechism Reader: Reflections and Responses', Dennis M. Doyle
Submissions from 1991
Review: 'Under God: Religion and American Politics', Dennis M. Doyle
Defending Roman Loyalties And Republican Values : The 1848 Italian Revolution in American Catholic Apologetics, Sandra Yocum Mize
Submissions from 1990
Review: 'Divorce and Remarriage in the Catholic Church', William P. Roberts
God's Empire: William Bell Riley and Midwestern Fundamentalism, William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 1989
Review: 'Deepening Christian Life: Integrating Faith and Maturity', William P. Roberts
Submissions from 1988
Review: 'The Creed in the Gospels', William P. Roberts
Riley’s Empire: Northwestern Bible School and Fundamentalism in the Upper Midwest, William Vance Trollinger
Submissions from 1987
Review: 'What's Right with the Church: A Spirited Statement For Those Who Have Not Given Up On the Church and For Those Who Have', Dennis M. (Dennis Michael) Doyle
Review: 'Sex and Marriage in the Unification Movement: A Sociological Study', William P. Roberts
Submissions from 1985
Review: 'Divorce and Remarriage', William P. Roberts
Submissions from 1984
Review: 'Jesus in Focus: A Life in Its Setting', William P. Roberts
Review: 'Sacraments and Sacramentality', William P. Roberts
Review: 'The Catholic Sacraments', William P. Roberts
