Andrew W. Mellon New Directions for Scholars-Teachers Fellowship (2003-2004).
ACLS Contemplative Practice Fellowship (2000).
The Flack Faculty Fellowship, Swarthmore College (1999-2000).
Co-convener, Swarthmore Mellon Faculty Seminar, "The Alienated Academic" (1994-1995).
Brand Blanshard Faculty Fellowship, Swarthmore College (1992-93).
AAR Research Grant (1992).
NEH Summer Stipend (1989).
Mortar Board Distinguished Professor, Georgia State University (1989).
NEH Scholar, Georgia State University Humanities Workshop (October 4, 1988).
NEH Chicago/Berkeley/Harvard Summer Institute Participant on Teaching the Basic Course in Religious Studies (1987).
University of Chicago Fellow and Junior Fellow in the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion (1985-1986).
University of Chicago Divinity School Fellow (1984-1985).
Doctoral Fellowship in Church and Society, Princeton Seminary (1983).
Robert T. Maitland Prize in New Testament, Princeton Seminary (1981).

• Fragments of the Spirit: Nature, Violence, and the Renewal of Creation. New York: Continuum Publishing Company. 1996; Harrisburg: Trinity Press Internation, 2002.
  
• Figuring the Sacred: Religion, Narrative, Imagination. By Paul Ricoeur. Edited by Mark I. Wallace and translated by David Pellauer. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995. [anthology of Paul Ricoeur's religious thought]
  
• Curing Violence. Coedited with Theophus Smith, Forum Fascicles series. Sonoma, Calif.: Polebridge Press, 1994. [religion and the thought of René Girard]
  
• The Second Naiveté: Barth, Ricoeur, and the New Yale Theology, Studies in American Biblical Hermeneutics 6. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1990. Reissued with new introduction, 1995.
  

• "God is Underfoot: Pneumatology After Derrida," in Readings in Continental Philosophy: The Religious, ed. John D. Caputo (Oxford: Blackwell), forthcoming.
  
• "Earth God: Cultivating the Spirit in an Ecocidal Culture," in The Companion to Postmodern Theology, ed. Graham Ward (Oxford: Blackwell), forthcoming.
  
• "God Beyond God: Derrida's Theological Self-Portraiture," in Method as Path: Religious Experience and Hermeneutical Discourse, ed. Elliot R. Wolfson (New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2001), forthcoming.
  
• "Witness of the Spirit and Contemporary Biblical Criticism" http://www.pendlehill.com
  
• "The Green Face of God: Christianity in an Age of Ecocide," Cross Currents 50 (Fall 2000): 21- 42.
  
• "From Phenomenology to Scripture: Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutical Philosophy of Religion," Modern Theology 16 (July 2000): 300-313.
  
• "The Carnal God," Earth Letter (May 2000): 8-10.
  
• "The Wounded Spirit as the Basis for Hope in an Age of Radical Ecology," in Christianity and Ecology: Seeking the Well-Being of Earth and Humans, ed. Dieter T. Hessel and Rosemary Radford Ruether (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), 51-72.
  
• "Karl Barth and Deconstruction," Religious Studies Review 25 (October 1999): 349-54.
  "Paul Ricoeur," in Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, ed. John H. Hayes, 2 vols. (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999), 2: 403-405.
  
• "Environmental Justice, Neopreservationism, and Sustainable Spirituality," in The Ecological Community: Environmental Challenges for Philosophy, Politics, and Morality, ed. Roger S. Gottlieb (New York: Routledge, 1997), 292-310.
  
• "The European Enlightenment," in Spirituality and the Secular Quest, ed. Peter H. Van Ness, volume 22 in World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest, gen. ed. Ewert Cousins (New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 1996), 75-101.
  
• "Performative Truth and the Witness of the Spirit," Southwestern Journal of Theology 35 (1993): 29-36.
  
• "Ricoeur, Rorty, and the Question of Revelation," in Meanings in Texts and Actions: Questioning Paul Ricoeur, ed. David E. Klemm and William Schweiker, Studies in Religion and Culture (Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1993), 234-54.
  
• "The Wild Bird Who Heals: Recovering the Spirit in Nature," Theology Today 50 (April 1993):13-28.
  
• "Can God Be Named Without Being Known? The Problem of Revelation in Ogden, Thiemann, and Ricoeur," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 59 (Summer 1991): 201-228.
  
• "Parsimony of Presence in Mark: Narratology, the Reader, and Genre Analysis in Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutic," Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 18 (Spring 1989): 201-212.
  
• "Postmodern Biblicism: The Challenge of René Girard for Contemporary Theology," Modern Theology 5 (July 1989): 309-325.
  
• "Paul Ricoeur in the Classroom: Hermeneutics and the Teaching of Religion," CSSR Bulletin 18 (September 1989): 53-56.
  
• "Karl Barth's Hermeneutic: A Way Beyond the Impasse," The Journal of Religion 68 (July 1988): 396-410.
  
• "Theology Without Revelation?" Theology Today 45 (July 1988): 208-213.
  
• "The New Yale Theology," Christian Scholar's Review 17 (December 1987): 154-170. [Anthologized in The Best in Theology, ed. J. I. Packer, vol. 3 (Carol Stream, Ill.: Christianity Today, Inc., 1988), 169-86.]
  
• "The World of the Text: Theological Hermeneutics and Biblical Interpretation in the Thought of Karl Barth and Paul Ricoeur," Union Seminary Quarterly Review 41 (Fall 1986): 1-15.
  
• "An Interpretation of Religion and Society in the Thought of Karl Marx and Gibson Winter," Encounter 47 (Spring 1986): 143-157.
  

• Religion, eds. Jacques Derrida and Gianni Vattimo, in The Journal of Religion 80 (October 2000): 692-94.
  
• Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology, by Kathryn Tanner, in Religious Studies Review 26 (April 2000): 174.
  
• Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim that God Speaks, by Nicholas Wolterstorff, in Pro Ecclesia 7 (Spring 1998): 242-44.
  
• Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads, by Gil Bailie, in The Journal of Religion 77 (October 1997): 678-79.
  
• Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology: Its Genesis and Development 1909-1936, by Bruce L. McCormack, in Theology Today 53 (January 1997): 524-27.
  
• Narratives of a Vulnerable God: Christ, Theology, and Scripture, by William C. Placher, in Theology Today 52 (October 1995): 399-402.
  
• Ricoeur and Kant: Philosophy of the Will, by Pamela Sue Anderson, in The Journal of Religion 75 (July 1995): 439-40.
  
• The Body of God: An Ecological Theology, by Sallie McFague, in The Princeton Seminary Bulletin 15 (1994): 307-308.
  
• Theology in Dialogue: Essays in Conversation with George Lindbeck, edited by Bruce D. Marshall, in Modern Theology 8 (October 1992): 401-402.
  
• Hermeneutics and the Disclosure of Truth: A Study in the Work of Heidegger, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, by James J. DiCenso, in The Journal of Religion 72 (October 1992): 645.
  
• Biblical Narrative in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur: A Study in Hermeneutics and Theology, by Kevin J. Vanhoozer, in Religious Studies Review 18 (July 1992): 220.
  
• The Actuality of Atonement: A Study of Metaphor, Rationality, and the Christian Tradition, by Colin E. Gunton, in The Journal of Religion 72 (April 1992): 286-87.
  
• Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy, by Edith Wyschogrod, in Religious Studies Review 18 (January 1992): 45.
  
• The Hermeneutics of Postmodernity, by G. B. Madison, in The Journal of Religion 71 (April 1991): 276-77.
  
• The Narrative Path: The Later Works of Paul Ricoeur, edited by T. Peter Kemp and David Rasmussen, in Religious Studies Review 17 (April 1991): 141.
  
• Praxis, Truth, and Liberation: Essays on Gadamer, Taylor, Polanyi, Habermas, Gutierrez, and Ricoeur, by Terry Hoy, in Religious Studies Review 17 (April 1991): 141.
  
• The Unreal God of Modern Theology: Bultmann, Barth, and the Theology of Atheism, by Klaus Bockmuehl, in The Journal of Religion 71 (January 1991): 107.
  
• The Concept of the Knowledge of God, by Brian Haymes, and The Ocean of Truth, by Brian Hebblethwaite, in Journal of the American Academy of Religion 58 (Fall 1990): 500-503.
  
• Revelatory Positivism? Barth's Earliest Theology and the Marburg School, by Simon Fischer, in The Journal of Religion 70 (January 1990): 102-103.
  
• The Melody of Theology: A Philosophical Dictionary, by Jaroslav Pelikan, in Theology Today 46 (January 1990): 466-67.
  
• Calvin and Scottish Theology, by M. Charles Bell, in The Reformed Journal 38 (December 1988): 28.
  
• How Karl Barth Changed My Mind, edited by Donald A. McKim, in The Journal of Religion 68 (January 1988): 125-26.
  
• A Hermeneutics of Ultimacy: Peril or Promise?, by James H. Olthuis, et al., in The Reformed Journal 37 (December 1987): 22-24.
  
• Lectures on Ideology and Utopia, by Paul Ricoeur, in The Christian Century 104 (4 November 1987): 969.
  
• The Faith We Confess: An Ecumenical Dogmatics, by Jan Milic Lochman, in The Journal of Religion 67 (October 1987): 575-76.
  
• Fabrication et discussion d'une oeuvre d'historie religieuse: Jean Delumeau, edited by Louis Rousseau, in Religious Studies Review 13 (October 1987): 354.
  
• Buddhism Made Plain, by Antony Fernando and Leonard Swidler, in Religious Studies Review 13 (October 1987): 325.
  
• Theology for a Nuclear Age, by Gordon Kaufman, in The Journal of Religion 67 (July 1987): 431.
  
• Signs of the Kingdom: A Ragaz Reader, edited and translated by Paul Bock, in Religious Studies Review 12 (April 1986): 143.
  
• Christian Faith and Public Choices: The Social Ethics of Barth, Brunner and Bonhoeffer, by Robin W. Lovin, in The Princeton Seminary Bulletin 7 (Winter 1986): 89-91.
  

• Paper, "Quo Vadis? A Way Beyond the Keygmatic/Correlationist Impasse in Dialogue with Paul Ricoeur and Emmanuel Levinas,"AAR/SBL National Meeting, Nashville, November 21, 2000.
  
• Paper, "The Witness of the Spirit and Contemporary Biblical Criticism,"Pendle Hill Lecture Series, Wallingford, Pa., October 30, 2000.
  
• Paper, "Earth God and the Environmental Crisis in Christian Thought," Religion and Ecology Conference for High School Teachers, Bucknell University, Penn., June 25, 2000.
  
• Paper, "Performing the Truth, Augustine's Rule of Love, and Encountering the Dark Side of God in Biblical Hermeneutics," The Bible and Truth Conference 2, Princeton Theological Seminary, January 22-23, 2000.
  
• Respondent, "Mimetic Theory and the Spirit of God," AAR/SBL National Meeting, Boston, November 20, 1999.
  
• Paper, "The Summoned Self: Ethics and Hermeneutics in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur and Emmanuel Levinas," Paul Ricoeur and Ethics Conference, University of Chicago, October 21-22, 1999.
  
• Paper, "God Beyond God: Derrida's Theological Self-Portraiture," Method as Path: Religious Experience and Theory Construction in the Academic Study of Religion, New York University, April 16-18, 1999.
  
• Paper, "Wrestling with God in the New Millennium," Quest Lecture, Ohev Shalom Synagogue, Wallingford, Pa., January 25, 1999.
  
• Paper, "Performing the Truth and Encountering the Dark Side of God," The Bible and Truth Conference, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, Calif., January 8-10, 1999.
  
• Paper, "The Wounded Spirit as the Basis for Hope in an Age of Radical Ecology," Christianity and Ecology Conference, Harvard University, April 16-19, 1998.
  
• Paper, "The Green Face of God: Recovering the Spirit in an Ecocidal Era," Advents of the Spirit Conference, Marquette University, April 17-19, 1998.
  
• Paper, "Ghosts, Spirits, Hauntings: The Return of the Sacred in Derrida's Recent Philosophy," University of Pennsylvania, April 9, 1998.
  
• Paper, "From Phenomenology to Scripture: Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutical Philosophy of Religion," AAR/SBL National Meeting, San Francisco, November 24, 1997.
  
• Paper, "Green Religion and Brown Fields," Sustainable Society Action Project Conference, Swarthmore College, November 9, 1997.
  
• Paper, "Green Religion, Wilderness Preservation, and the Antitoxics Movement," La Salle University, Philadelphia, March 25, 1997.
  
• Paper, "Green Religion, Brown Fields, and the Antitoxics Movement," AAR/SBL National Meeting, New Orleans, November 25, 1996.
  
• Paper, "Reimagining the Spirit," Westminster Club, Philadelphia, October 14, 1996. Paper, "Spirit and Earth: Toward an Ecological Pneumatology,"AAR/SBL National Meeting, Philadelphia, November 20, 1995.
  
• Paper, "Reenchanting the World: Nature, Religion, and Postmodernism," Swarthmore College Faculty Lecture Series, March 30, 1994.
  
• Convener, Panel Discussion of Curing Violence: Religion and the Thought of René Girard, AAR/SBL National Meeting, Washington, D. C., November 19, 1993.
  
• Paper, "Jesus and Postmodernism: Mother, Trickster, Liberator," Pendle Hill Lecture Series, Wallingford, Pa., March 30, 1992.
  
• Panelist, review of Eugene Webb's Philosophers of Consciousness, AAR/SBL National Meeting, Kansas City, November 23, 1991.
  
• Panelist, review of Paul Ricoeur's Soi-même comme un autre, AAR/SBL National Meeting, Kansas City, November 24, 1991.
  
• Paper, "David Tracy and New Testament Narrative Discourse," Lonergan Workshop, Boston College, March 8, 1991.
  
• Panelist, review of Mark Kline Taylor's Remembering Esperanza, AAR/SBL National Meeting, New Orleans, November 18, 1991.
  
• Paper, "The Failure of Theodicy," AAR/SBL National Meeting, New Orleans, November 19, 1990.
  
• Paper, "Sacred Violence and the Peril of Postmodernism in René Girard," Gest lecture, Haverford College, March 7, 1990.
  
• Paper, "The Rhetoric of Revelation in Paul Ricoeur," Meanings in Texts and Actions: The Questions of Paul Ricoeur Conference, The University of Iowa, March 29-April 1, 1990.
  
• Paper, "Can God Be Named Without Being Known?" AAR Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, St. Joseph's University, Pennsylvania, April 5, 1990.
  
• Paper, "Paul Ricoeur in the Classroom: Hermeneutics and the Teaching of Religion," AAR/SBL National Meeting, Chicago, November 24, 1988.
  
• Paper, "'The Rock of Stumbling, the Stone of Offense': Interpretation Theory in René Girard and Paul Ricoeur," Westar Institute, Atlanta, October 15, 1988.
  
• Paper, "Parsimony of Presence: Narratology and Biblical Interpretation in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur," AAR/SBL National Meeting, Boston, December 6, 1987.
  
• Paper, "Whither Creation? The Parity of Cosmology and Anthropology in Paul Ricoeur's Exegesis of Genesis 1-2," AAR/SBL National Meeting, Boston, December 5, 1987.
  
• Paper, "Feminist Theology Today," Women's Studies Program, Georgia State University, Atlanta, October 28, 1987.
  
• Paper, "Are All Religions the Same?" Philosophy Forum, Georgia State University, Atlanta, October 16, 1987.
  
• Paper, "Barth's Hermeneutic: A Way Beyond the Impasse," AAR/SBL New England Regional Meeting, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, March 27, 1987.
  
• Paper, "The New Yale Theology," AAR/SBL Midwestern Regional Meeting, Indiana State University, April 4-5, 1986.
  
• Paper, "Schubert Ogden's Theological Method," Schubert Ogden: A Review Symposium, University of Chicago Divinity School, November 12, 1985.
  
• Paper, "Hermeneutics in Barth and Ricoeur," AAR/SBL Midwestern Regional Meeting, Rockford College, Illinois, April 12-13, 1985.
  
• Paper, "Karl Marx, Gibson Winter and Liberation Theology," Marxism and Religion Conference, University of Northern Iowa, October 12-13, 1984.
  

Editorial Board, "Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series, American Academy of Religion," Oxford University Press (1998-).
Editorial Board, Journal of Scriptural Reasoning (2000-).
Subnetwork Editor for Books in "Theological Hermeneutics and Foundational Theology" and "Religion, Ecology, and the Natural Sciences" Religious Studies Review (1994-).
Editorial Board, Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture (1994-).
Editorial and Advisory Board, "Colloquium on Violence and Religion" (1990-95).
NEH Referee, "Love and Justice" Summer Seminar (1996).
Steering Committee, "Theology and Religious Reflection" section, AAR (1995-).
Steering Committee, "Narrative Interpretation and Theology" group, AAR (1990-91).
Steering Committee, "Bible in American Cultures" consultation, AAR/SBL (1989-91).
Chair, "American Biblical Hermeneutics" section, AAR/SBL Southeast (1989).
Reviewed manuscripts for Journal of Religion, SUNY Press, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture, Philosophical Psychology, Oxford University Press, Rowman & Littlefield, Prentice Hall, Wadsworth.