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Spring 2020 · Vol. 49 No. 1 · pp. 101–110 

Faculty Publications 2019

Vic Froese

BOOKS

  • Baker, Mark. Mucho más que una Cruz: Imágenes de la Salvación para Diversos Contextos. Buenos Aires: Juanuno1 Ediciones, 2019. [FPBS]
  • *Carden, Allen, and Thomas J. Ebert. John George Nicolay: The Man in Lincoln’s Shadow. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2019. [FPU]
  • *Duerksen, Darren Todd, and William A. Dyrness. Seeking Church: Emerging Witnesses to the Kingdom. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2019. [FPU]
  • Heidebrecht, Douglas J. Women in Ministry Leadership: The Journey of the Mennonite Brethren, 1954-2010. Winnipeg, MB: Kindred, 2019. [MBBSC]
  • Kinnison, Quentin P., ed. A Road Too Short for the Long Journey: Reflections and Resources to Support Grieving People. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2019. [FPU]
  • Ruder, John. Winning Tennis with the Tactical Point Control System: How to Win Tennis Points against Any Opponent. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2019. [TC]

CHAPTERS

  • Brandt, Gareth. “Men in Community.” In Peaceful at Heart: Anabaptist Reflections on Healthy Masculinity, edited by Don Neufeld and Steve Thomas, 158–68. Eugene, OR: Resource Publications, 2019. [CBC]
  • Dueck-Read, Jodi. “Ethnography for Border Justice: Methodological Considerations for Peacebuilding.” In Expanding the Edges of Narrative Inquiry: Research from the Mauro Institute, edited by Laura E. Reimer, Katerina Standish, and Chuck Thiessen, 1–16. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. [CMU] {102}
  • ———. “Nonviolent Social Movements: Advancing Justice on Paths to Peace.” In Routledge Companion to Peace and Conflict Studies, edited by Thomas Matyók, Imani Michelle Scott, Sean Byrne, and Jessica Senehi, ch. 16. New York: Routledge, 2019. [CMU]
  • Dunn, Larry A. “Entering into Grief.” In A Road Too Short for the Long Journey: Reflections and Resources to Support Grieving People, edited by Quentin P. Kinnison, 30–33. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2019. [FPU]
  • Dyck, Andrew. “A Hope that Welcomes.” In As We Wait: Christmas Devotions. E-book. Langley, BC: MBBS Canada, 2018. [MBBSC]
  • Geddert, Timothy J. “Jedes der Vier Evangelien Soll in Seiner Eigenart Gelesen Werden.” In Faszination Bibel, compiled by Jürgen Kuberski, 70–71. Witten: SCM Bundes-Verlag, 2019. [FPBS]
  • Harris, Breck A. “Classroom Mobiling: A Critical Thinking Exercise for the Millennial Student.” In It Works for Me with Critical Thinking: A Step-by-Step Guide, edited by Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, and Russell Carpenter, 75–77. Stillwater, OK: New Forums, 2019. [FPU]
  • Kinnison, Quentin P. “Celebrating Our Parents, Mourning Our Losses.” In A Road Too Short for the Long Journey: Reflections and Resources to Support Grieving People, edited by Quentin P. Kinnison, 149–52. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2019. [FPU]
  • Kroeker, Wendy. “The Peacebuilding Spaces of Local Actors.” In Routledge Companion to Peace and Conflict Studies, edited by Thomas Matyók, Imani Michelle Scott, Sean Byrne, and Jessica Senehi, ch. 4. New York: Routledge, 2019. [CMU]
  • McNeely, Connie. “Until the Heart Catches Up with the Mind.” In A Road Too Short for the Long Journey: Reflections and Resources to Support Grieving People, edited by Quentin P. Kinnison, 53–54. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2019. [FPU]
  • Miller, Douglas B. “Qoheleth.” In T & T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism, edited by Daniel M. Gurtner and Loren T. Stuckenbruck, 1:455–57. London: T & T Clark, 2019. [TC]
  • Neufeld, Tim. “When Accidents Happen.” In A Road Too Short for the Long Journey: Reflections and Resources to Support Grieving People, edited by Quentin P. Kinnison, 55–58. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2019. [FPU]
  • Pope, Jay. “Grief and the DSM-5: In with the New.” In A Road Too Short for the Long Journey: Reflections and Resources to Support {103} Grieving People, edited by Quentin P. Kinnison, 141–48. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2019. [FPU]
  • ———. “A Psychological Companion for the Emotional Self: Encountering Sacred Space.” In A Road Too Short for the Long Journey: Reflections and Resources to Support Grieving People, edited by Quentin P. Kinnison, 93–108. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2019. [FPU]
  • ———. “Remembering Jeanne.” In A Road Too Short for the Long Journey: Reflections and Resources to Support Grieving People, edited by Quentin P. Kinnison, 59–64. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2019. [FPU]
  • Roberts, Laura Schmidt. “A Comfort that Leaves No Room for Grief.” In A Road Too Short for the Long Journey: Reflections and Resources to Support Grieving People, edited by Quentin P. Kinnison, 50–52. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2019. [FPU]
  • Sorensen, Sue. “From a Mere Glance: Purposeful Reticence in Victorian Gospel Illustration and the Saint John’s Bible.” In The Saint John’s Bible and its Tradition: Illuminating Beauty in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Jack Baker, Jeffrey Bilbro, and Daniel Train, 90–103. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2018. [CMU]
  • Stobbe, Stephanie. “Peacebuilding Techniques or Praxis?” In Routledge Companion to Peace and Conflict Studies, edited by Thomas Matyók, Imani Michelle Scott, Sean Byrne, and Jessica Senehi, ch. 37. New York: Routledge, 2019. [CMU] 
  • Zerbe, Gordon. “(Re)Creation in Paul: World Subjection and World Reconciliation.” In The Earth is the Lord’s and Everything in It: Essays on Creation and Biblical Theology in Honor of Ben C. Ollenburger, edited by Ryan D. Harker and Heather L. Bunce, 170–85. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2019. [CMU]

ARTICLES

  • Bartlett, Rick. “Seeking a Good Goodbye.” Didaktikos 2, no. 5 (April 2019), 6. [TC]
  • Born, J. Bryan. “A Teacher at Heart: A Tribute to Wally Unger.” Direction 48 (Spring 2019): 55–62. [CBC]
  • Brandt, Gareth. “How Experiencing History Contributes to Spiritual Formation.” Mennonite Historian 45, no. 4 (December 2019): 2, 4. http://www.mennonitehistorian.ca/45.4.MHDec19.pdf. [CBC]
  • Brubacher, John. “Not Just Another Animal: Evolution and Human {104} Distinctiveness.” Vision: A Journal of Church and Theology 20, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 21–28. [CMU]
  • Cherenkov, Mykhailo. “N. Saloff-Astakhoff and His Missions: Reflections on History that Unites.” Evangelical Missions Quarterly 55, no. 3 (July-September 2019), 16–19. [TC]
  • Doerksen, Paul G. “Developing a ‘More Honest’ Political Theology?” The Conrad Grebel Review 37, no. 1 (Winter 2019): 28–41. [CMU]
  • *Duerksen, Darren, and John Richardson. “Learning from the ‘Dones’ and ‘Nones’: What Can Those Who Are Done with Church—But Not with Spirituality—Teach Us?” The Christian Leader, March 2019. https://christianleadermag.com/learning-from-the-dones-and-nones/. [FPU]
  • Duerksen, Darren. “Yeshu Satsangs: Impulses and Challenges.” Dharma Deepika (2019): 20–30. [FPU]
  • Dyck, Andrew. “Exploring Christian Spirituality.” The Blazer: Connecting Alumni and Friends of CMU, Fall 2019, 6. [MBBSC]
  • Enns-Rempel, Kevin. “Fresno Pacific University: An Historical Overview of 75 Years.” Pacific Journal 14 (2019): 11–80. [FPU]
  • Esau, Ken. “The Gospel and the Kingdom.” Direction 48 (Spring 2019): 4–12. [CBC]
  • Geddert, Tim. “The Kingdom and the Church.” Direction 48 (Spring 2019): 13–21. (FPBS)
  • Guenther, Bruce L. “From Bible School to University: Expanding the Scope of Mennonite Post-secondary Education in Canada since 1970.” Journal of Mennonite Studies (2018): 181–213. [MBBSC]
  • ———. “Navigating Tradition: The Life and Leadership of Ältester Herman D. W. Friesen, 1908-1969.” Historical Papers: Canadian Society of Church History (2018): 75–87. [MBBSC]
  • *Harder-Viddal, Candice, Matthew McDougall, Roy Roshko, and Joerg Stetefeld. “Energetics of Storage and Diffusion of Water and Cyclo-Octasulfur for a Nonpolar Cavity of RHCC Tetrabrachion by Molecular Dynamics Simulations.” Computational and Structural Biotechnology 17 (2019): 675–83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2019.05.004. [CMU]
  • Heidebrecht, Douglas J. “Living our Identity: Mennonite Brethren as Evangelical and Anabaptist.” Mennonite Brethren Herald, 7 October 2019, 6–10. [MBBSC]
  • ———. “Shared Global Mennonite Brethren Convictions: Reflections on the ICOMB Confession of Faith.” Direction 48 (Fall 2019): 149–60. [MBBSC] {105}
  • Howard, Melanie A. “ ‘Be Not Afraid’: An Essay for My Mom and Other Worried Parents.” Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology 20, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 54–60. [FPU]
  • ———. “Beyond the Bibliography: Academic Style as a Venue for Teaching Values.” The Forum for Values in Higher Education, March 26, 2019. [FPU]
  • ———. “Roadside Assistance: Lessons in Hospitality from Weirdos on the Way.” The Christian Leader, 5 November 2019. https://christianleadermag.com/roadside-assistance/. [FPU]
  • ———. “Romanticizing Conversion Narratives: Women, Change, and Female Agency in Twilight and Joseph and Aseneth.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 31, no. 2 (August 2019): 127–38. [FPU]
  • ———. “Three Things Not to Do: The Herodians’ Guide to Parenting Fails.” The Christian Leader, 1 July 2019. https://christianleadermag.com/three-things-not-to-do/. [FPU]
  • Ito, Sally. “A Letter From Zhaoqing.” Avenue Edmonton, 5 April 2019. https://avenueedmonton.com/yeg/yeg-a-letter-from-zhaoqing/. [CMU]
  • ———. “Notes from Berlin: A Writer’s Baedeker.” The New Quarterly 151 (Summer 2019). https://tnq.ca/story/notes-from-berlin-a-writers-baedeker/. [CMU]
  • Janzen, Rod. “The Fresno Pacific Idea: Principles of Transformation.” Pacific Journal 14 (2019): 89–93. [FPU]
  • Janzen, Waldemar. “Consolation and Challenge: Signs of the Holy One.” Vision: A Journal of Church and Theology 20, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 8–14. [CMU]
  • Johnston, W. Marshall. “Ecumenism at Fresno Pacific University.” Pacific Journal 14 (2019): 175–83. [FPU]
  • Keeney, Hannah. “Fresno Pacific University Demographics.” Pacific Journal 14 (2019): 119–24. [FPU]
  • Kinnison, Quentin P. “Fresno Pacific University: An E/evangelical University?” Pacific Journal 14 (2019): 159–73. [FPU]
  • *Kinnison, Quentin P., *Julie M. Lane, and Acantha Ellard. “Creating Inclusive and Hospitable Christian Schools: Three Case Studies.” Journal for Disability and Religion 23, no. 1 (2019): 37–58. [FPU]
  • Koop, Karl. “An Appeal for Toleration in an Age of Conflict: Peter Pietersz’s ‘Way to the City of Peace’.” Mennonitica Helvetica 42 (2019): 51–63. [CMU] {106}
  • ———. “Called to Bleed and Die for the Sake of the Nation.” Canadian Mennonite 23, 21 January 2019, 4–6. [CMU]
  • ———. “Putting Doctrine in its Place: Confessions of Faith, Modernism, and the Lex Vivendi.” Direction 48 (Fall 2019): 137–48. [CMU]
  • Kunz, Michael. “The Fresno Pacific Idea: A Centered Vision.” Pacific Journal 14 (2019): 95–103. [FPU]
  • Lenz, Darin D. “ ‘Don’t You Dare Spend a Million on the Mission Field’: Mark Buntain and the Spirit of Pragmatism in Pentecostal Medical Missions in Kolkata, India.” Journal of Social History of Medicine and Health 4, no. 2 (December 2019): 119–33. [FPU]
  • Morrison, Kimberley. “A Macarism for the Displaced Person.” Direction 48 (Spring 2019): 22–37. [CBC]
  • Nekola, Anna E. “Seeking and Singing: Exploring Popular Music’s Role in Christian Worship Practices [review essay].” Journal of Popular Music Studies 31, no. 4 (Winter 2019): 161–66. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2019.31.4.161. [CMU]
  • ———. “Teaching Americans to be International Citizens: World Music and Dance on Television’s Omnibus.” Journal of the Society for American Music 13, no. 3 (August 2019): 305–37. https://doi.org/10.1017/S175219631900021X. [CMU]
  • Neufeld, Justin A. “Be Not Afraid [editorial].” Vision: A Journal of Church and Theology 20, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 3–7. [CMU]
  • Nickel, Jesse. “Jesus and the Lēstai: Competing Kingdom Visions.” Ex Auditu 34 (2018): 42–61. [CBC]
  • Nisly, Hope. “Coca-Cola, Hippies, and Two (Ex)-Amish Women.” Prometheus Dreaming, May 2019. https://www.prometheusdreaming.com/coca-cola-hippies-and-two-ex-amish-. [FPU]
  • ———. “Never Take a Drop of H2O Lightly.” Persimmon Tree: An Online Journal of the Arts, December 2019. https://persimmontree.org/winter-2020/never-take-a-drop-of-h20-lightly/. [FPU]
  • Roberts, Laura Schmidt. “Cataloguing FPU’s Theological Identity: Evangelical, Anabaptist, Ecumenical?” Pacific Journal 14 (2019): 131–57. [FPU]
  • Sears, Jonathan M. “Mali Faces a Turning Point as the Country Prepares for Legislative Poll.” The Conversation, 23 September 2018. http://theconversation.com/mali-faces-a-turning-point-as-the-country-prepares-for-legislative-poll-103447. [CMU] {107}
  • ———. “On the Brink: Why 2019 May Be another Bad Year for Beleaguered Mali.” The Conversation, 4 December 2018. https://theconversation.com/on-the-brink-why-2019-may-be-another-bad-year-for-beleaguered-mali-107444. [CMU]
  • ———. “Strengthening the Impact of Mali’s Office of the Auditor General / Renforcer l’impact du Bureau du vérificateur général du Mali.” Policy brief for the Mali Project (‘Stabilizing Mali: The Challenges of Conflict Resolution’), sponsored by the Centre FrancoPaix. February 2019. https://dandurand.uqam.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2019_02_11_Sears_policy-brief_EN.pdf. [CMU]
  • White, Paul, and *Natalie Hamrick. “How to Deal with Condescending Colleagues: Don’t Let Their Unhealthy Behaviors Become Contagious.” Rewards & Recognition: Employee Engagement Excellence by HR.com (February 2019): 12–13. https://www.hr.com/en/magazines/all_articles/how-to-deal-with-condescending-colleagues_jrvhmrsv.html. [TC]
  • White, Paul, and *Natalie Hamrick. “Understanding the Tangible Gifts Language of Appreciation.” Strategic HR Review, 18, no. 5 (2019): 222–26. https://doi.org/10.1108/SHR-03-2019-0023. [TC]
  • White, Paul, *Natalie Hamrick, and Jasmine Liew. “The Comparison of Preferred Languages of Appreciation between Singapore Employees and US Employees.” Development and Learning in Organizations 34, no. 1 (2019): 12–15. https://doi.org/10.1108/DLO-04-2019-0066. [TC]
  • White, Paul, *Natalie Hamrick, Tim Hepner, and Rob Toomey. “How Personality Type and Languages of Appreciation Interrelate.” Strategic HR Review 18, no. 1 (2019): 2–7. https://doi.org/10.1108/SHR-08-2018-0069. [TC]

FICTION/POETRY/MUSIC

  • Ito, Sally. “Rooster Song.” The Society 16 (April 2019): 35. https://stpeterscollege.ca/documents/Society%20April%202019.pdf. [CMU]
  • Sorensen, Sue. “Blue: Three Sonnets to Mary.” Poems. Exile: The Literary Quarterly 42, no. 2 (2019): 67–68. [CMU]
  • Teichler, R. Christopher. Take This Bread, Take This Cup: Piano Meditations for Communion. Dayton, OH: The Lorenz Corporation, 2019. [TC]
  • ———. Take Up Your Cross. Dayton, OH: The Lorenz Corporation, 2019. [TC] {108}

MASTER’S THESES

Nightingale, Joshua D. “Trauma in the Differentiated Presence of God.” Master of Arts (Theology). Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Defended March 29, 2018. Advisor: Gordon Zerbe.

Abstract: The altered physiology of the trauma survivor provokes questions concerning the spatial and temporal presence and absence of God. This enquiry employs the corpus of Jürgen Moltmann and the biblical witness of the Epistle to the Hebrews in order to investigate the differentiated presence of God in the midst of trauma. The trauma survivor is neuro-physiologically changed by the traumatizing event; Moltmann’s robust theology provides a language for speaking about the god-forsaken spaces, the compressed sense of time, and ultimately the vocabulary for hope and recovery. The author of Hebrews places his audience in the intermediary space of the Israelites’ wilderness wanderings. Trauma places the survivor in a similar locale: they survived their trauma and yet it persists, so they find themselves waiting for something more. Furthermore, through all these experiences encounters with God are fleeting and strange. The presence of God is currently found to be qualified and provisional. This project concludes that the cruciform community can provide a place of recovery in the liminal locale of the “wilderness” for loving endurance and hopeful anticipation of the coming integration of all things in the full indwelling of God.

Olate, Marcelo. “The Missional Church: A Contribution to the missio Dei Theology.” Master of Arts (Theology). Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Defended April 6, 2018. Advisor: Karl Koop.

Abstract: This thesis aims to enlarge an understanding of the church as essentially missional. Current discussions of mission have argued that the church is intrinsically missional because she participates in a missionary God. My thesis further develops this idea by emphasizing that mission is a constitutive dimension of the church, that the nature of the church (at all levels) is intrinsically missional, and that the church is called to participate in God’s nature and action in the world. My contribution to a deepening of the theology of the missio Dei will draw on sources that have not been used much in missional theology: the theology of Saint Paul, the notion of a Believers Church as understood by John Howard Yoder and Fernando Enns, and, finally, some significant themes in the theology of Hans {109} Urs von Balthasar. The first chapter examines Saint Paul’s theology and suggests that it provides the conceptual grid for thinking about the relation between the church’s mission and God’s. His theology of the Trinity, his concept of participation in God (being in Christ), and his understanding of the Incarnation establish the main terms of reference for developments in missional thought. Thus, the first chapter provides the foundation for the two chapters that follow. The Believers Church perspective complements the theology of Incarnation that currently informs discussions of the missio Dei in understanding the church as a visible community of believers. Finally, Hans Urs von Balthasar’s proposition that a revelation of the beautiful is the starting point of theology and his understanding of Scripture as Theo-drama rather than generic narrative offer a fresh theological framework for a theology of mission. Framed by these main principles, Balthasar’s theology of the Trinity, Incarnation, and participation are revisited for how they might extend and deepen a missional understanding of the church.

Rempel, Daniel. “Disability, Theological Anthropology, and the Church: Reading Barth’s Theological Anthropology and Doctrine of Election in Conversation with the Work of Jean Vanier.” Master of Arts (Theology). Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Defended April 6, 2018. Advisors: Chris Huebner and Justin Neufeld.

Abstract: Throughout its history, the church has done a poor job including persons with disability. This has often been the result of implicit understandings of rationalism or ableism within modern western society. Additionally, within the Christian tradition, there has been a trend to assume a link between disability and sin. In an attempt to reconcile the problem of inclusion and disability, many theologians have recently begun crafting theologies of liberation, access, and inclusion. However, many of these theologies of disability have not been inclusive of persons with profound intellectual disability, as many theologies of liberation and access assume the ability of a person to speak and act for themselves. Thus, even within these theologies of disability that attempt to provide a rationale for the inclusion of persons with disability, persons with profound intellectual disability remain actively barred from inclusion and participation.

In this thesis, I combat the exclusion of persons with disability, as well as the implicit assumptions of rationalism, ableism, and the perceived link between sin and disability, by attempting to understand persons with disability first through the lens of theological {110} anthropology. I examine the relational theological anthropology of Karl Barth, which understands humanity not through any innate capacities or abilities, but through the person of Jesus Christ, as a way of crafting a framework for disability theology. Additionally, Barth’s anthropology is grounded in his doctrine of election, which I also examine. However, in Barth’s corpus, he does not explicitly examine some of the questions surrounding persons with disability. Thus, to bridge the gap between disability and Barth’s theological anthropology and doctrine of election, I place Barth in conversation with Jean Vanier, identifying similarities between Barth and Vanier that will help us to come to a more holistic understanding of inclusion and disability.

This bibliography lists the publications of faculty, emeriti, and students of schools that sponsor Direction, identified as follows:

  • Canadian Mennonite University (CMU)
  • Columbia Bible College (CBC)
  • Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary (FPBS)
  • Fresno Pacific University (FPU)
  • Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary Canada (MBBSC)
  • Tabor College (TC)

In cases of multiple authors where one author is not from a sponsoring school, the author of interest is marked with an asterisk (*).

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