PUBLICATIONS
Thesis & Dissertation
Contestant Theology: Toward a Play Theology of Religions
(Ph.D. Dissertation, 2023)
Contestant Theology contributes a new vantage point to the field of the theology of religions – the lens of play. The methodology of contestant theology is a mixture of biblio-theological, religious, and popular culture studies that is grounded in the five movements of Paul’s speech to the Athenians in Acts 17:28.
Homo Resumens: Play Theology Unearths Openness to the Sabbath
(MA Thesis, 2017)
In Homo Resumens, I provide a discussion that bridges the experiences of play and Sabbath with our call to begin anew in God.
Book Chapters
“Final Fantasi’ VII: Role-Playing the Eco-Ethics of Laudato si’” in The World of Final Fantasy VII: Essays on the Game and its Legacy, edited by Jason C. Cash, Craig T. Olsen, and Matthew W. Kapell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2023.
Articles
“Video Gaming Faith: Playing Out Theologies of Religions,” Religions. 2022, 13, 944.
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13100944.
“Sabbath-Keeping is Child’s Play: Exploring The Symbiosis of Play and the Sabbath,” Pittsburgh Theological Journal. Autumn 2018: 111-136.
“There Can Only Be One: Canaanite Influences On Psalm 82,” Pittsburgh Theological Journal. Autumn 2017: 75-94.
“The Ethics of Remembering,” Pittsburgh Theological Journal. Spring 2016: 78-92.
https://issuu.com/pittsburghseminary/docs/journal_2017/78
“Embracing the Mystery of the Divine,” Pittsburgh Theological Journal. Spring 2015: 10-21. https://issuu.com/pittsburghseminary/docs/ptj_2015_web_final/12
Book Reviews
Review of Connor Kelly’s The Fullness of Free Time: A Theological Account Leisure and Recreation in the Moral Life in Journal of Moral Theology (June 2022)
Review of Patrick M. Kelly’s Youth Sport and Spirituality: Catholic Perspectives in Religious Studies Review (April 2020)