Barry Harvey

Contact Information:
Department of Religion
Baylor University
One Bear Place #97284
Waco, TX 76798-7284

Office: Brooks College 156

Phone: (254) 710-4535

Email:
Barry_Harvey@baylor.edu

Professor
Professor of Theology in the Honors College

Education:

• Ph.D. - Duke University, Durham, NC (1987)Major: Christian Theology and Ethics - Academic Honors:Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship
• M. Div. - The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY(1982)- Academic Honors: American Bible Society Award in Biblical Studies
• M. Mus. Ed. - The University of Colorado at Boulder (1978)- Major: Music Education, Choral Literature and Conducting
• B. Mus. Ed. - The University of Colorado at Boulder (1976)- Major: Music Education

Biography:

An ordained Baptist minister and native of Denver, Colorado, Harvey is married to Sarah Harvey, who is also an ordained Baptist minister, and has two children: Rachel, who is a graduate of Baylor, and John, currently a student at Baylor.

Academic Interests and Research:

Christian Theology (Systematic and Philosophical Theology, Theological Ethics)

Philosophy, Hermeneutics, and Social Theory

Professional Awards and Activities:

American Academy of Religion

International Bonhoeffer Society, English Language Section - Member, Board of Directors (2004–present)

Member, Editorial Board, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, English Language Edition, published in conjunction with Fortress Press (1998–present)

National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion Pro Ecclesia (A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology) - Member, Advisory Council (2005–present)

Selected Research Articles:

"Life in Exile, Life in the Middle of the Village: A Contribution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer to a Post-Christendom Ecclesiology," in Dietrich Bonhoeffers Theologie heute, edited by Christiane Tietz, Stephen J. Plant and John W. de Gruchy. Gütersloh: Gütersloher, 2009, 227–41.

"Preserving the World for Christ: Toward a Theological Engagement with the ‘Secular'," in Scottish Journal of Theology 61 (January 2008): 64–82.

"Augustine and Thomas Aquinas in the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer," in Bonhoeffer's Intellectual Formation: Theology and Philosophy in His Thought, edited by Peter Frick. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008, 11–29.

"Accounting for Difference: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Contribution to a Theological Critique of Culture," in Mysteries in the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, edited by Kirsten Busch, Ulrik Nissen and Christiane Tietz. G"ttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007, 81–109.

"Imagination and Natural Evil," in Theology Today 63 (January 2007): 450–458.

"City of Carnage, City of Refuge: Accounting for the Wages of Reason in the Ecclesially-Based University," in Conflicting Allegiances: The Church-Based University in a Liberal Democratic Society, edited by Michael L. Budde and John Wright. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2004, 53–74.

"The Democratization of Science," First Things 101 (March 2000): 17¬–20.

"The Eucharistic Idiom of the Gospel," Pro Ecclesia 9 (Summer 2000): 297–318.

"The Body Politic of Christ: Theology, Social Analysis, and Bonhoeffer's Arcane Discipline," Modern Theology 13 (July 1997): 319–346.

"Insanity, Theocracy, and the Public Realm: Public Theology, the Church, and the Politics of Liberal Democracy," Modern Theology 10 (January 1994): 27–57.

Books:

Can These Bones Live? A Catholic Baptist Engagement with Ecclesiology, Hermeneutics, and Social Theory. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2008.

StormFront: The Good News of God, with James V. Brownson, Inagrace T. Dietterich and Charles C. West. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2003.

Another City: An Ecclesiological Primer for a Post-Christian World. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1999.

Politics of the Theological: Beyond the Piety and Power of A World Come of Age. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Co., 1995.

Courses Taught at Baylor

• REL 4353 Historical of Christian Theology II: 9th through 17th Centuries
• REL 4354 Historical of Christian Theology III: 17th through 20th Centuries
• REL 4390 Contemporary Christian Ethics Theory (a topics course in which I have taught seminars on a variety of themes):Atonement, Violence and Moral Reasoning Black and Latin American Liberation Theologies; Moral Theology of Thomas Aquinas
• REL 5356 Contemporary Systematic Theologies
• REL 5360 Contemporary Theological Problems (a topics course in which I have taught seminars on a variety of themes): Jewish-Christian Engagements; Christian Theology and Social Theory Narrative Theology and Biblical Hermeneutics