Lived Theology

Charles Marsh is Commonwealth Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.

Peter Slade is Professor of Religion at Ashland University.

Sarah Azaransky is Assistant Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary.

Sarah Azaransky is an assistant professor of social ethics at Union Theological Seminary, New York. Her publications include The Dream is Freedom: Pauli Murray and American Democratic Faith (2011), and an edited volume, Religion and Politics in America's Borderlands (2013).

Jacqueline A. Bussie is director of the Forum on Faith and Life at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota. She is the author of The Laughter of the Oppressed: Ethical and Theological Resistance in Wiesel, Morrison, and Endo (2007) and Outlaw Christian (2016).

David Dark is an assistant professor at Belmont University. He is a voracious consumer of popular culture and the author of books including Everyday Apocalypse (2002) and The Gospel According to America (2005).

Susan M. Glisson is the executive director of the William Winter Institute for Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi. Glisson specializes in the history of race and religion in the United States, especially in the black struggle for freedom. She edited The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement (2006).

John W. de Gruchy is the Emeritus Robert Selby Taylor Professor of Christian Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. De Gruchy has authored or edited more than thirty books on Dietrich Bonhoeffer; the church in South Africa; contextual, public and Reformed theology; social history; Christianity and the arts; reconciliation and justice; and Christian humanism.

Susan R. Holman is an independent scholar and consultant in poverty studies in religious history as well as in health and human rights as it relates to international poverty, religion and nutrition. She is senior writer at the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University. Susan is the author of God Knows There's Need (2009) and Beholden: Religion, Global Health, and Human Rights (2015), for which she received the 2016 Grawemeyer Award in Religion.

Lori Brandt Hale is associate professor of religion at Augsburg College, Minneapolis. She is the author of Bonhoeffer for Armchair Theologians (2009).

Willis Jenkins is associate professor of religion, ethics, and environment at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Future of Ethics: Sustainability, Social Justice, and Religious Creativity (2013) and Ecologies of Grace: Environmental Ethics and Christian Theology (2008).

Willie Jennings is associate professor of theology and black church studies at Duke Divinity School. He was the winner of the 2015 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (2011).

John Kiess is assistant professor of theology at Loyola University, Maryland. In addition to his work on the ethics of war through the lens of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he is also interested in political theology, political theory, and philosophy, and wrote Hannah Arendt and Theology (2014).

Jennifer M. McBride is associate professor of religion and Regents Chair in Ethics at Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa. She is the author of The Church for the World: A Theology of Public Witness (2011) and co-editor of Bonhoeffer and King: Their Legacies and Import for Christian Social Thought (2010).

Mary McClintock Fulkerson is professor of theology, Duke Divinity School. Her book Places of Redemption: Theology for a Worldly Church (2010) is on ecclesial practices that enable resistance to racism and other contemporary forms of social brokenness.

Charles Marsh is the Commonwealth Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and director of the Project on Lived Theology. His recent work includes Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2014) and The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today (2005).

Peter Slade is associate professor of the history of Christianity and Christian thought at Ashland University, Ohio. He is the author of Open Friendship in a Closed Society: Mission Mississippi and a Theology of Friendship (2009) and co-editor of Mobilizing for the Common Good: The Lived Theology of John M. Perkins (2013).

Ted A. Smith is associate professor of preaching and ethics at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. His work includes Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics (2014) and The New Measures: A Theological History of Democratic Practice (2007).

"I recommend this book to theologians attracted to ethnography, and vice versa, as a varied and thorough exploration of the gifts and challenges that dwell at the intersection of those endeavors. Theological educators may take an interest as well; the theme of integrating community engagement into theological study runs throughout the book. Many of the questions of scholarly subjectivity and research ethics raised herein are familiar for those trained in ethnography. However, the project is clearly breaking new ground in raising these questions in the context of theological scholarship, a development to be celebrated."-Miranda Hassett, Anglican Theological Review

"[T]his diverse work should prove engaging for any theologian interested in practices. It coheres through shared conviction that the lived realities of faith constitute a rich and primary focal point for theological inquiry. Together, the authors illustrate and explore this conviction well. I sensed an implicit camaraderie in their loosely united contributions. Their diversity provides a broad and engaging introduction to the work of lived theology while gesturing toward a much larger conversation."--Reading Religion

"Lived Theology is a book that is more than the sum of its parts. It is more because under the insightful direction of Charles Marsh, Peter Slade, and Sarah Azaransky these essays offer a theological alternative we have so desperately needed. In the very least, this book should end the unhappy tension between academic and popular theology." --Stanley Hauerwas, author of The Work of Theology

"Lived Theology is essential reading for students, activists, pastors, and scholars who are attentive to present and future opportunities for theological engagement and witness in the public square. These essays establish the importance of lived theology as a rationale and methodology for analysis of the primary source data of social change, such as field reports, position papers and oral histories, in order to discover vital theological conversations, convictions and commitments." --Cheryl J. Sanders, author of Saints in Exile

"Lived theology has been among the most vivifying and necessary scholarly movements of the last decade and a half. In illustrating how to read the texts of people's lives for clues about God, this book inspires, tempts, informs, and provokes." --Lauren F. Winner, Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Duke Divinity School