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Elizabeth Newman

Instructor, Special Programs
Divinity School

Selected Publications


Living the Liturgy Enlarging the Baptist Vision

Book · September 2024 Living the Liturgy displays in particular ways and through specific examples how an ecumenically informed understanding of liturgy can cultivate an enriched Baptist self-understanding and witness in a late modern context. ... Cite

Remembering Churches

Chapter · November 30, 2022 This book contends that the distinctive Baptist ecclesial vision is best embodied in twelve core practices of Baptist churches and their interrelationship: covenanting, discerning, gathering, befriending, proclaiming, equipping, baptizing, ... ... Cite

Introduction to the Symposium

Journal Article Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology · November 2021 Full text Cite

Where in the world is God? On finding the Divine in Esther

Journal Article Review & Expositor · May 2021 The word “God” does not appear in the book of Esther. Some argue that this divine absence highlights human action over against Divine providence or sovereignty. I maintain, however, that it is a theological mistake to place divine and human action ... Full text Cite

Failure and the Modern Academy

Chapter · September 24, 2020 In short, this book invites readers to consider how both theology and failure can help us ask new questions, discover new possibilities, and refuse the ways of the world. ... Cite

Divine Abundance Leisure, the Basis of Academic Culture

Book · August 14, 2018 True leisure reconfigures our compartmentalized space and distorted time, allowing us to experience Divine abundance that opens a path to the true restoration of the life of the mind. ... Cite

Healing Eucharistic Amnesia

Chapter · April 20, 2018 This volume reflects on the many themes of Dean George's life and ministry, including theology, church history, gospel, church, worship, tradition, and engagement. ... Cite

“All generations shall call me blessed”: A Baptist recovery of Mary

Journal Article Review & Expositor · May 2017 In Baptist life, Mary typically appears only at Christmas. Accordingly, there is minimal theological reflection on Mary as a resource for ecclesial self-understanding. This article argues for embracing Mary as a figure of the church. Rightly under ... Full text Cite

Incarnational Theology

Chapter · September 14, 2016 The twelve contributors in this collection explore outgrowths and implications of Poteat’s thought. ... Cite

Set free from freedom: Stanley Hauerwas among Baptist politics

Journal Article Review & Expositor · February 2015 Our dominant political culture understands freedom primarily as the individual’s right to choose. Such freedom, typically described as purely procedural, elevates the good of the nation state over that of the church. In fact, such freedom makes th ... Full text Cite

Baptism: The Substance and the Sign

Chapter · August 27, 2013 Concerned to think intentionally about liturgy in Baptist life and thought, this book aims to address the practices of Christian worship in a theological light, examining how each brings individual Christian believers and communities of ... ... Cite

Attending the Wounds on Christ's Body Teresa's Scriptural Vision

Book · October 18, 2012 As a Baptist whose academic background focused on the Orthodox Church and whose teaching has included Catholic and Protestant contexts, this division is for Elizabeth Newman personal and professional. ... Cite

Practicing the Nicene Faith

Chapter · November 1, 2011 In this volume, top scholars examine the Nicene Creed's connection with the evangelical tradition, helping readers see evangelicalism as a renewal movement within the one holy catholic and apostolic church. ... Cite

William H. Poteat and the Convertibility of Logic and Love

Journal Article Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical · 2009 Full text Cite

The Politics of Higher Education: How the Love of Hospitality Offers an Alternative

Chapter · 2008 Offers a look at how Baptists have formed and sustained scholarly life in America. ... Cite

The Priesthood of All Believers and the Necessity of the Church

Chapter · October 1, 2007 Recycling the Past or Researching History? brings together an international group of Baptist scholars who explore various issues in Baptist historiography and myths. ... Cite

Untamed Hospitality Welcoming God and Other Strangers

Book · April 2007 Untamed Hospitality digs into the important biblical theme of hospitality, providing a profound initiation into this important but often misunderstood practice. ... Cite

Hotel or Home? Hospitality and Higher Education

Chapter · 2004 Boldly challenges Christians to rethink liberal assumptions about higher education, envisioning a church-centered education. ... Cite

Hospitality and Christian Higher Education

Journal Article Christian Scholar's Review · 2003 Cite

E= MC2 and 'God Was in Christ Reconciling the World to Himself': An Unbridgeable Chasm?

Chapter · 1996 This collection of essays from the 38th meeting of the College Theology Society addresses the roles of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in contemporary society. ... Cite

Rethinking the Eucharist: Towards a Unity of Word and Deed

Journal Article The Ecumenical Review · October 1993 Full text Cite

An Alternative Form of Theological Knowing

Journal Article Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical · 1993 Full text Cite