Gordon S Mikoski
Biographic Data
| ID | 6000168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon S Mikoski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon S |
| FAMILY NAME | Mikoski |
| SIGNATURE | MIKOSKI G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Editor |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2852-0492 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 56 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Basic Unit of Christianity
Zones of Authenticity
Keeping the main thing, the main thing
An empirical study in five denominations in the United States provided a snapshot of current conceptions and practices of confirmation. Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: Using a mixed-methods approach, this study yielded important comparative results among Presbyterians, Methodists, Episcopalians, Lutherans, and African Methodist Episcopalians, highlighting denominational distinctives. The quantitative findings indicated pr…
Puzzling about Providence
Pre-emptive Rethinking
The Absurdity of the Modern “Hundred Years War”
Fuel for the Fire
Religious education in the Reformed Protestant tradition offers some key insights toward the development of theologies of innovation. From fields like paleoanthropology, the experimentalist pedagogy of John Dewey, neuroscience, biblical studies, and creativity pedagogy, educational ministry offers ways to think about innovating work that can contribute to a wider conversation about innovation and theology
“Will the real God please stand up?”
The long-running popular American television show “To Tell the Truth” involved having celebrity panellists select the real holder of an unusual job from a group made up of two imposters and an authentic contestant. After a period of questioning and reflection, the big reveal would come with the now iconic tag line, “Will the Real X please stand up?” Like multiple contestants on the game show, empirical research consistently demonstrates that peop…
Musings on Things I Don’t Understand
The Crucial Issue
Partial Iconoclasm
The Reformed and Presbyterian traditions, characterized by their iconoclasm and anti-idolatry, stress the importance of rejecting false gods and idolatry, with a political theology that allows for critique of unjust authorities. Yet, there's a dichotomy in how leaders like Witherspoon applied these principles, as they criticized oppressive systems while simultaneously benefiting from the oppression of enslaved Black individuals. With respect to e…
From Princeton to Monrovia
Will There Be Anything Left For Us
Fuzzy Theo-logics
Hopeful Dissent
Talking Over the Back Fence
Imagining Realities Human and Divine
Re-membering the Body”
Remembering Small, Beautiful Things
Heavy Metal Magnificat
Theology for Empathic Imagination
The Times They Are a Changin’”
Dramatic demographic shifts in patterns of partnering and parenting in the United States since the 1970s pose serious theological questions and confront churches with pressing dilemmas. Fresh theological reflections on parenting and partnering in light of far-reaching changes of American behavior patterns must arise from careful consideration of sociological “facts on the ground.” This article served as the basis for a brief presentation on chang…
Rebuilding our Humanity
Hungry for Theology
Confirmation Project Panel Discussion
We Have Met the Enemy And
We live in an age in which ... honesty is possible only when it skirts the edges of cynicism. All this is rather tragic. ... Yet there is beauty in our tragedy. We are, at least, rid of some of our illusions. We can no longer buy the highest satisfactions of the individual life at the expense of our social injustice. We cannot build individual ladders to heaven and leave the total human enterprise unredeemed of its excesses and corruptions. —Rein…
Speaking of Religious Practices
Bringing the Body to the Table
Everything is changing. We are living through a period of unparalleled technological and cultural transformation. A large percentage of this seismic change comes from making the transition into worldwide electronic interconnection. It seems increasingly right to see the era through which we are now passing as the end of the Gutenberg age and the beginning of the digital age. More and more, we conduct business, get information, look up answers to …
Questions old and new
Traditioned Innovation
On Gratitude
On dying and rising
The turn to each other
Prelude to a Golden Future
Looking for a New Equilibrium in Theology
In my role as both reviews editor and now as editor for this journal over the course of the past seven years, I have been struck repeatedly by a trend in theological books and articles. Theology as a large-scale, systematic, and comprehensive endeavor would appear to be on the wane if not in outright decline. Instead, more and more theologians work on reflective interrogation of particular social realities and forms of human experience. In a post…
On Cultivating a Transgressive Theological Imagination
While doing archival research for my part of a book on the history of practical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, I came across very disturbing evidence for a fundamental failure of theological imagination on the part of seminary faculty during the nineteenth century. On the vexed matters of slavery and race, every faculty member at PTS who taught anything about practical theology until nearly the end of the 1800s could not imagine a so…
What Theology Can Bring to the Table
Several years ago, a philosopher friend asked me about what, if anything, Christian theology might contribute materially to philosophical thought. My friend doubted that theology could actually contribute anything of real significance to a wider contemporary intellectual conversation, especially with respect to understanding the human phenomenon. He thought that he had stumped me with his challenge. With theologians like Augustine, Calvin, and Ki…
On the Complexities of Forgiveness
Just Water
Although key baptismal theologians like Gregory of Nyssa, John Chrysostom, and John Calvin made explicit connections between the sacrament of baptism and ethical living, they did so only in relation to Uri Bronfenbrenner’s categories of micro-, meso-, and exosystems. They did not spell out connections between baptism and social witness in relation to the macrosystem of society as a whole. The linkage between the praise of God in and through bapti…
An “Adventurous Faith in God”
The worldwide church and the theological academy owe a great debt of gratitude to John A. Mackay, third president of Princeton Theological Seminary and founding editor of Theology Today. Missionary, theological educator, ecumenist, author – Mackay was by any set of criteria an extraordinary leader. This year marks the 125th anniversary of his birth and we take this opportunity to remember and give thanks for the man and his many important contrib…
Encoded Theology
Mercersburg revisited”
Better together
Of texts lost and found
Homo doxologicus
A failure of theological imagination
Princeton Theological Seminary has an ambiguous legacy around issues of slavery and race. From its founding in 1812 through at least the period of Reconstruction, the seminary’s faculty espoused African colonization as the only viable response to the problems caused by slavery in the United States. In their enthusiastic support for the colonization effort, the seminary’s faculty manifested a profound failure of theological imagination in that the…
Is Everyone Just Playing Defense Now?”
The Ten Commandments
Bind us Apart
Martin Luther and Anti-Semitism
This transcription of the Question and Answer period for the public event “Martin Luther and Anti-Semitism” was held at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City on November 13, 2016. This event was co-presented by the Morgan Library & Museum, the Leo Baeck Institute, the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Paul in New York City, and the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany. The discussion session—as well as the two lectu…
Philosophy (53 works) · Theology (50 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (9 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Educational Leadership and Practices (6 works) · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies (6 works)