Books & Articles

Below please find a partial list of recent publications (both books, chapters, and articles) written by Mockler Fellows. They cover a wide range of topics relating to faith, work, business, and economics. We have included links to sites where they may be found and/or accessed.

Books

• Sabbath as Resilience (Wipf & Stock, 2025) edited by Ken Barnes & Sara Minard, foreword by Peter Heslam, with chapters by K. Barnes, S. Minard, Autumn Ridenour, Natt Gantt, Kara Martin, Jeffrey Hansen, and James Longhurst.
• Redeeming Capitalism (Eerdmans, 2018) by K. J. Barnes (Named among the Top Faith Animating Learning Books (Business) by Christian Scholar’s Review  and starred review from Publisher’s Weekly.
• Keeping Faith: How Christian organisations can stay true to the way of Jesus (2024: Langham Press) by Kara Martin, with John Swinton and Stephen Judd
• A Time for Sorrow: Recovering the Practice of Lament in the Life of the Church (Hendrickson Publishers, 2019) by Sean McDonough and Scott Harrower
• Workship 2: How to Flourish in Your Work (2018: Graceworks) by Kara Martin
• Workship: How to Use your Work to Worship God (2017: Graceworks) by Kara Martin
• Light From the Dreaming Spires(Wipf & Stock, 2017) by K. J. Barnes
• Work Out Your Salvation: Moral Formation in the Marketplace (Fortress Press, 2024) by Glenn Butner
• Jesus the Refugee: Ancient Injustice and Modern Solidarity (Fortress Press, 2023) by Glenn Butner
• The Preacher’s Greek Companion to Philippians: A Selective Commentary for Meditation and Sermon Preparation (Hendrickson, 2023) by Sean McDonough
• Creation. by Sean McDonough, co-authored with Daniel Driver. TOBITH series. Edited by Reinhard Feldmeier and Hermann Spieckermann. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming.
• Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine (Oxford University Press, 2009) by Sean McDonough
• Cosmology and New Testament Theology. . (T&T Clark International, 2008) Co-Edited Sean McDonough and Jonathan T. Pennington
• YHWH at Patmos: Revelation 1:4 in its Hellenistic and Early Jewish Setting  (Mohr Siebeck, 1999) by Sean McDonough

Book Chapters

• Barnes, Kenneth, “Faith, Work and Economics: a Mission to the Church, a Mission of the World” in Transforming Work: Missiological Perspectives for the Church in the World (Brill, 2024)
• Martin, Kara, “Formed to be on Mission for God in the Workplace” in Cronshaw, Kappelhoff & Taylor,  Transforming Work (2024: Brill)
• Barnes, Kenneth, “Forward” in Whatever Became of Love (Wipf & Stock, 2023)
• Barnes, Kenneth, “Reclaiming the Arts Through Worship” in Beholding Beauty: Worshipping God Through the Arts (Wipf and Stock, 2022)
• Martin, Kara, ““Forming the Telos of Workers”, and Introduction and Conclusion, in Benson, Martin & Sloane, Transforming Vocation: Connecting Theology, Church, and the Workplace for a Flourishing World (2021: Wipf & Stock)
• Martin, Kara, “Grounded in Work as Christians” in Firth & Cooper, Grounded (2021: Wipf & Stock)
• Martin, Kara, ““Christian Identity and Work” in Miner & Stephens, Identifying as a Christian in an Alien Public Arena (2018: CHILD)
• Butner, Glenn, “Mammon.” In Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. Third edition. Edited by Daniel J. Treier. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2017. [with D. Stephen Long]
• Martin, Kara, “Women in Theological Education in the ACT in Twenty-First Century Australia” (with Powell du Toit, Firth and Dale), in Bain & Hussey, Theological Education: Foundations, Practices and Future Directions (2017: Wipf & Stock)
• Martin , Kara, “Theology for the iGeneration” in Ball & Harrison, Learning & Teaching Theology (2014: Morning Star)
• McDonough, Sean, “Paul and the Semantics of ‘Justification’: or What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Righteousness?” In The Crucified Apostle. Edited by Todd Wilson and Paul House. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017.
• McDonough, Sean, “Being and Nothingness in the Book of Revelation.” Pages 77-98 in Creation Ex Nihilo. Edited by Gary A. Anderson and Markus Bockmuehl; Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017.
• McDonough, Sean, Creation and New Creation: Understanding God’s Creation Project. Christian Doctrine in Historical Perspective Series. Edited by Alan P.F. Sell. Bletchley: Paternoster, 2016.
• McDonough, Sean, “Jesus the Baptist: The First Temptation of Christ.” In In the Fullness of Time: Essays on Christology, Creation, and Eschatology in Honor of Richard Bauckham. Edited by Daniel M. Gurtner, Jonathan T. Pennington, and Grant Macaskill. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016.
• McDonough, Sean, “Paradise by the Desolation Trail: De-creation in the New Testament.” In As Long as the Earth Endures: The Bible, Creation, and the Environment. Edited by Jonathan Moo and Robin Routledge. Nottingham: IVP, 2014.
• McDonough, Sean, “Revelation” (co-written with G.K. Beale). Pages 1081-1162 in Commentary on the New Testament use of the Old Testament. Edited by G.K. Beale and D.A. Carson. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007.

Articles

• Hanson, J., “Thomas Aquinas and the Qualification of Monastic Labor” in Religions 2024, 15(3), 366; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15030366
• Minard, Sara, “The Resilience of the Rested: How Practices of Sabbath Can Build Faithful Resilience and Renew Our Relationships in a Distracted and Restless World”, Faith in Business Quarterly, 2024 Vol. 23.2, pp. 16-19.
• Barnes, Kenneth “We Need New, Public Conversations About Ethics” Common Good Magazine (Jan. 2024)
• Gantt, L.O.N., “The Centrality of Spiritual Well-being to Professional Formation” (2024)
• Barnes, Kenneth, “Shedding The Yoke of Mammon: Economic Stress and the Gift of Sabbath” (with S. Minard), in Faith in Business Quarterly (Cambridge, Q2, 2024)
• Barnes, Kenneth, “Business Ethics and the Character of God”, Common Good Magazine (February 2024) www.commongoodmag.com
• Barnes, Kenneth, “The Emperor’s New Coins” in The Journal of Ethics in Entrepreneurship and Technology (June 2023)
• Barnes, Kenneth, Review of “Radical Sufficiency: Work, Livelihood, and a US Economic Ethic” in Studies in Christian Ethics (May 2022)
• Barnes, Kenneth, “Forward” in Abraham Kuyper’s On Business and Economics, Lexham Press, 2021.
• Martin, Kara, “Precarious work environments and the gifts of routine, space, people and purpose” (with Peter Cumming) in Faith in Business Quarterly, 2022.1
• Martin, Kara, “Who am I?” An exploration of faith and identity in the workplace (with Peter Cumming) in Faith in Business Quarterly, 2021.4
• Barnes, Kenneth, “TrueFootprint, Ltd.: a case study in the use of SME innovation to combat the COVID-19 pandemic” in the Journal of Ethics, Entrepreneurship and Technology, September, 2021.
• Barnes, Kenneth, “Self-serving Vice or Social-building Virtue” in Christian History Magazine, November 2020.
• Barnes, Kenneth, “Virtue at Work by Geoff Moore,” Book Review in Faith in Business Quarterly, Cambridge, Q3, 2019.
• Barnes, Kenneth, “Build a New Foundation for Capitalism,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 2018.
• Barnes, Kenneth, “Business Ethics and Religious Belief” in The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics, Routledge, 2018.
• Barnes, Kenneth, “Biblical Wisdom for the Workplace”, Reconnecting Faith in the Workplace Conference, Derby Cathedral, October 2013
• Barnes, Kenneth, “Religious Wisdom in Business and Entrepreneurship,” P. Fiddes Book Launch, Oxford University, October 2013
• Barnes, Kenneth, “A Theology of Work for a Post-industrial Workplace,” Theology of Work Project, Boston, April 2013
• Butner, Glenn, “The Trinity in the Theology of Economics.” Faith & Economics. 76 (Fall 2020): 29–42.
• Butner, Glenn, “Gradualism and Impossibility in Labor Markets: Reflections on the Ethics of the Living Wage.” Review and Expositor. 116.1 (April 2019): 65–74.
• Butner, Glenn, “Orthodoxy, Orthopraxis, and Orthopathy: Trajectories for Collaborative Scholarship Between Economists and Theologians.” Faith & Economics. 67 (2016): 85–104.
• Butner, Glenn, “Transformative Models: Economic Modeling, Relational Ontology, and the Image of God.” Journal of Markets and Morality. Vol. 17.2 (Fall 2014): 355–379.
• Butner, Glenn, “The Chastened Defense of Capitalism: A Survey of Recent Scholarship.” Journal of Markets and Morality 22.2 (Fall 2019): 407–22.
• McDonough, Sean, “Small Change: Saul to Paul, Again.” Journal of Biblical Literature 125 (2006): 390-91.
• McDonough, Sean, “Competent to Judge: The Old Testament Connection Between 1 Corinthians 5 and 6.” Journal of Theological Studies 56 (2005): 99-102.