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Publications by Dr. Michael Cartwright Books: (Single Author) Publications by Dr. Michael Cartwright Books: (Single Author) Practices, Politics, and Performance: Toward a Communal Hermeneutic for Christian Ethics. Princeton Theological Monographs Series No.57. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Books, 2006. Books: (Multiple Authors) Watching Over One Another in Love: Reclaiming the Wesleyan Rule of Life for the Church's Mission with Andrew D. Kinsey (Wipf & Stock Publishing Co., 2011). Profiles in Service: 1905-2005 with Rebecca Blair and James Fuller (U of Indianapolis, 2006). Books: (Edited/Co-edited) Called to Unite Knowledge & Vital Piety: Indiana's Wesleyan-Related Universities with Merle D. Strege (University of Indianapolis Press, 2012). Exploring Christian Mission Beyond Christendom: United Methodist Perspectives (University of Indianapolis Press, 2010). The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited by John Howard Yoder, co-edited with Peter Ochs for the "Radical Traditions" series (London, SCM Publishing Company, 2003; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2003; reprinted by Herald Press, 2009). The Hauerwas Reader, Co-editor with John Berkman, (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001). The Royal Priesthood: Essays Ecclesiological and Ecumenical by John Howard Yoder (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1994; reprinted Herald Press, 1998). Articles: (juried journals) Scripture and Ethics Symposium: "Learning to 'Plunder the Egyptians' with Prophetic Urgency" The Covenant Quarterly February May 2011, Vol. 69, Nos. 1-2. "The Founding of Indiana Central University: Another Chapter in the History of United Brethren Higher Education" in Methodist History Vol. XLVI (July 2008) No. 4, 212-222. "Sharing the Table of Study: Jewish-Christian-Muslim Trialogue on Jonah Texts” in The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning Vol. 3, No. 1 (on-line journal of the Society of Scriptural Reasoning). " Sharing the House of God: Learning to Read Scripture with Anabaptists" in Mennonite Quarterly Review Vol. 74(October 2000): 593-621. "Church Discipline in the American Methodist Experience" in Wesleyan Theological Journal Vol. 34, No. 2 (Fall 1999), 7-51. "Remembering Our Hope: The Ecumenical Significance of Evangelical Revisionism" in Faith and Freedom: A Journal of Christian Ethics (Australia), 5/1-2 (June 1996): 48-53. "Ideology and the Interpretation of the Bible in the African-American Christian Tradition" in Modern Theology 9/2 (April 1993): 141-158. "The Uses of Scripture in Christian Ethics--After Bakhtin" in The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics 1992(Georgetown University Press, 1992), 263-276. "The Pathos and Promise of American Methodist Ecclesiology" in Asbury Theological Journal 47/1 (April 1992): 5-25. "The Practice and Performance of Scripture: Grounding Christian Ethics in a Communal Hermeneutic" in The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics 1988 (Georgetown University Press, 1988), 31-53. "A Call to Ecclesial Responsibility" and "Response to Gary Shiplett" in Quarterly Review, 8 (Spring 1988): 54-59, 65-68. Chapters/Articles in Books: "Answering the Call to Reform: Wesleyans on the Stage of Higher Education in Indiana" (Introduction to Called to Unite Knowledge & Vital Piety: Indiana's Wesleyan Related Universities edited by Michael G. Cartwright and Merle D. Strege (University of Indianapolis Press, 2012), 1-26. "Who Do We Think We Are? Wesleyans on the University Stage in the Twenty-First Century" (Chapter Nine) in Called to Unite Knowledge & Vital Piety: Indiana's Wesleyan Related Universities edited by Michael G. Cartwright and Merle D. Strege (University of Indianapolis Press, 2012), 157-196. "Practicing Truth and Honor as Verger of te Church-Related University: Assessing Hauerwas's Contributions to Moral Formation in Higher Education" in Unsettling Arguments: A Festchrift on the Occassion of Stanley Hauerwas's 70th Birthday edited by Charles Collier, Kelly Johnson, and Charles Pinches, (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2010), 332-352. "Conflicting Interpretations of Christian Pacifism" in Christian Political Ethics edited by John Coleman (Princeton University Press, 2009). This text is a revised version of a previously published essay in Nardin as listed below. "Raising Up Leaders for the Kingdom: Arkansas Methodist Involvement in the Struggle for Racial Integration of Van Buren High School" in Conscience in Crisis: Arkansas Methodists in the Civil Rights Struggle edited by James T. Clemons and Kelly L. Farr (Little Rock, AR: The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 2007), 39-61. "Leading Arkansas Methodists 'Out of the Widerness of Fear and Prejudice': The Struggle for Racial Integration of Hendrix College, 1955-1965" in Conscience in Crisis: Arkansas Methodists in the Civil Rights Struggle edited by James T. Clemons and Kelly L. Farr (Little Rock, AR: The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 2007), 62-91. “Misleading Metaphors and Muddled Missions: Vocation and Formation of Students at An Ecclesially Based University” in Contested Allegiances: The Ecclesial-Based University edited by John Wright and Michael Budde (Brazos Press, 2004). "Being Sent -- Witness" for The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics edited by Samuel Wells and Stanley Hauerwas (forthcoming from Blackwell, 2004), pp. 481-494. This article has been updated for a second edition forthcoming. "Afterword: 'If Abraham is Our Father...': The Problem of Christian Supersessionism After John Howard Yoder" in The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited (SCM, 2003), 205-240. "Afterword: Stanley Hauerwas's Essays in Theological Ethics: A Reader's Guide" in The Hauerwas Reader (Duke University Press, 2001). "The Once and Future Church Revisited" in Embodied Holiness: Toward a Corporate Theology of Spiritual Growth, edited by Michael E. Lodahl and Samuel M. Powell (InterVarsity Press, 1999), 115-144. "The Discipline in Black and White: Conflicting Legacies of Nineteenth Century African- American Methodist and Euro-American Methodist Disciplinary Practices " in The Discipline and the Disciplines edited by Dennis Campbell, Russell Richey and William B. Lawrence Vol. 3. in the United Methodism and American Culture series (Abingdon, 1999), 105-135. "Sorting the Wheat from the Tares: Interpreting Niebuhr's Interpretation of Christian Ethics" in The Wisdom of the Cross: Essays in Honor of John Howard Yoder" ed. Stanley Hauerwas, Chris Huebner, Harry Huebner and Mark Nation (Eerdmans, 1999), 349-372. "Wrestling With Scripture: Can Euro-American Christians and African-American Christians Read Scripture Together" in The Gospel in Black & White: Theological Resources for Racial Reconciliation ed. Dennis L. Okholm (InterVarsity Press, 1997), 71-114, 170-181. "Conflicting Interpretations of Christian Pacifism" in The Ethics of War and Peace: Religious and Secular Perspectives, ed. Terry Nardin (Princeton University Press, 1996), 197-213. Reprinted in new edition for 2005. "Radical Reform, Radical Catholicity: John Howard Yoder's Vision of the Faithful Church" Editorial Introduction to The Royal Priesthood: Essays Ecclesiological and Ecumenical by John H. Yoder, ed. Michael G. Cartwright (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Co.,1994), 1-49. "Biblical Argument in International Relations" (chapter 13) in Traditions of International Ethics ed. Terry Nardin and David Mapel (Cambridge University Press, 1992), 270-296. "Looking Both Ways: A `Holy Experiment' in American Higher Education" in Schooling Christians: "Holy Experiments" in American Education ed. Stanley Hauerwas & John Westerhoff (Eerdmans, 1992), 184-213. "Vital Congregations: Mission and Vision in the Local Church" chapter co-authored with L. Gregory Jones for The Mission of the Church in Methodist Perspective ed. Alan Padgett (Edwin Mellen Press, 1992), 85-120. “Hermeneutics” in The Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement (Geneva, Switzerland: World Council of Churches, 1991; Grand Rapids, MI; Eerdmans Pub. Co.,1991), 454-458. This article has been updated for the 2nd Edition of The Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement, 2002. 513-518. Articles: (commissioned): "Learning about Providence with 'Hannah's Child'" for Faith & Leadership (July 20, 2010). “Stanley Hauerwas and the University” for Faith & Leadership (July 20, 2010). "Christian Engagements with Other Religions: An Ethos of Hospitality Makes a Difference" for The Matthew's House Project blog (March 2009). "Treasures from the United Methodist Attic" for Hoosier United Methodist Together (September 2008), p.9 “Offering Hospitality Under the Cross and Flame” -- cover story for the United Methodist ministries in Higher Education issue of Hoosier United Methodists Together (Winter 2003), 12- 15. “The `General Rules' Revisited” in Catalyst: Contemporary Evangelical Resources for United Methodist Seminarians Vol. 24, No. 4 (April 1998): 1-2. “Radical Catholicity: the Witness of John H. Yoder 1927-1997” memorial article about the lifework of the Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder for The Christian Century, (January 21, 1998): 44-46. “The Gospel's Radical Alternative: A Dialogue on Christian Peacemaking in the Nuclear Age” (with Stanley Hauerwas), in The Other Side, Vol. 23, No. 6 (July-August 1987): 22-26, 45. See also the “response article” by Jim and Shelley Douglass in the same issue. “Christian Reflection on Peace” ( article for United Methodist Curriculum publication) Youth Counselor Teacher, (Fall, 1987): 13-17. Review Essay Articles: “American Protestant Story-telling in the New Old Church” Cresset: A Review of Literature, Arts and Public Affairs Vol. LXVIII, No.4 (April 2005), 22-25. “Shall We Gather At the River? Introducing the Incomplete Angler:
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