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PH. D. FACULTY PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

ATHENA EVELYN O. GOROSPE
Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary (USA)

Selected Publications and Presentations

Books

2016
Judges. Asia Bible Commentary Series. Edited by Federico Villanueva.  Carlisle, Cumbria, UK: Langham Global Library. (with Charles Ringma)
2007Narrative and Identity: An Ethical Reading of Exodus 4. Leiden: Brill.

Articles and Essays

2020

“When Disaster Strikes:  Lament, Liminality and Living in the In-Between.” In To Whom Shall We Go: Faith Responses in a Time of Crisis. Edited by Irene Alexander and Christopher Brown. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2020.
2017

“Marginalizing God in the Book of Judges.” In Breath and Bone: Living Out the Mission of God in God’s World. Edited by Riad Kassis, Pieter J. Kwant, and Paul Windsor. Carlisle, Cumbria, UK: Langham Global Library.
“Downward Mobility.” In Passion & Power: Pulpit Messages from the Filipino Heart. Manila: OMF Literature.
2016Judges: Study Notes.” God’s Justice: NIV Study Bible. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.
2015

“What does the Bible say about Migration: Three Approaches to the Old Testament.” In God at the Borders: Globalization, Migration, and Diaspora. Edited by Charles R Ringma, Karen Hollenbeck-Wuest, and Athena E. Gorospe. Mandaluyong City, Phils.: OMF Literature.
2013

“Old Testament Narratives in Context: Moses’ Reverse Migration and a Hermeneutics of Possibility.” In The Gospel in Culture: Contextualization Issues through Asian Eyes. Edited by Melba Maggay. Mandaluyong City, Phils.: OMF Literature.
“Going Beyond Stewardship of Creation: The Call to a Theology of Life.” In Light for our Path: The Authority, Inspiration, and Meaning of Scripture. Manila: Asia Theological Association.
“Evangelicals and the Environment: Beyond Stewardship.” Evangelical Review of Theology 37 (July 2013): 256-66.
“The Divine Trickster in the Samson Narrative.” Phronesis 20, 131-56.

Edited Works

2018
The Challenge and Promise of Reconciliation and Peace. General editor, with Charles R. Ringma. Carlisle, UK: Langham Literature.
2017

Disaster, Resiliency and the People of God. General Editor, with Charles R. Ringma and Karen Hollenbeck-Wuest. Mandaluyong City, Phils.: OMF Literature.
2015
God at the Borders: Globalization, Migration, and Diaspora. Co-editor with Charles R. Ringma and Karen Hollenbeck-Wuest. Mandaluyong City: OMF Literature.

Paper Presentations

2019

“Duterte, the Bible, and the Strongman Narrative.” Presented at the 2019 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. San Diego, California, USA, Nov 23-26.
“Memory and Reconciliation: Perspectives from Paul Ricoeur.” Presented to the Faculty of Biblical Seminary of Colombia, Medellin, Colombia, March 28.
2018

“Remembering as Resistance: Memory and Forgetting in the Struggle Against
Dictatorship and Impunity.” Society of Ricoeur Studies Conference. Los Angeles, Nov 2-. 4.
“The Church in Response to the Strongman: Reflections from the Abimelech Narrative (Judges 9).” Stott-Bediako Forum 2018 on Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation: The Church in Response to Political Conflict. Manila, Sept 14-15.
2016
“Revisiting the Double Introduction Structure of the Book of Judges.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. San Antonio, Texas, USA, Nov 19-22.
“Women and Justice in the Book of Judges.” Asia Theological Association Triennial General Assembly. South Korea, July 25-29.
2015

“God’s Narrative Identity in Exodus 2:23-4:31 and its Implications for Ethical Identity: A Ricoeurian Reading.” Paul Ricoeur in Asia: Reflections on Politics, Society, and Religion. Ateneo de Manila University and University of Sto. Tomas, Metro Manila, Philippines, Nov 19-21.