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1991
Don Browning, “The Shape of the Family: A New Love Ethic.” Christian Century 108[33] (November 13, 1991): 1060-1062.
Don Browning, “Family Ethics and the Ethics of Ministerial Leadership.” In Clergy Ethics in a Changing Society. Edited by James P. Wind, J. Russell Burck, Paul F. Camenisch, and Dennis McCann. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox, 1991.
1992
Don Browning, Carol Browning, and Ian Evison, “Family Values and the New Paternalism.” Christian Century 109[19] (June 3, 1992): 572-573.
Don Browning, “Altruism and Christian Love.” Zygon: A Journal on Religion and Science 27[4] (December 1992): 421-436.
1993
Don Browning and Ian Evison, “The Family Debate: A Middle Way.” Christian Century 110[21] (July 14-21, 1993): 712-716.
Don Browning, “The Religion Culture and Family Project: An Interim Report.” Criterion 32[2] (Spring 1993): 5-11.
Don Browning, “A Conversation with Don S. Browning.” Initiatives in Religion: A Newsletter of Lilly Endowment Inc. 3[1] (Winter 1994): 3-4. [NO COPY AVAILABLE]
1994
Don Browning, “Egos Without Selves: A Practical Theological Critique of the Family Theory of the Chicago School of Economics.” In Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, Autumn 1994: 127-145.
Don Browning, “Is the Family a Conservative Issue” Rerum Novarum Lecture, Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne, Australia. June 6, 1994. Concilium. Also printed as “Re-Building the Nest: Families and the Need for a New Social Agenda.” Just Reading No.3. Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.
1995
Don and Carol Browning, “Better Family Values: A New Paradigm for Family Policy Can Bridge the Partisan Gap.” Christianity Today, 39[2], (February 9, 1995): 29-32.
Don Browning, “Chastening Liberalism.” Christian Century 112[4] (February 1-8, 1995): 121-124.
Don Browning, “Children, Mothers, and Fathers in the Post-Modern Family.” In Pastoral Care and Social Conflict, pp 71-85. Edited by Pam Couture and Rodney Hunter. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995.
Don Browning, “The Family and the Male Problematic.” Dialog 34[2] (Spring 1995): 123-130.
Don Browning, “Contractual Problems.” Christian Century, June 7-14, 1995.
Don Browning, “Religion and Family Ethics: A New Strategy for the Church.” In Work, Family and Religion in Contemporary Society. Edited by Wade Clark Roof and Nancy Tatom Ammerman. New York and London: Routledge, 1995.
Don Browning, “Christian Ethics and the Family Debate: An Overview.” In Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, 1995. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1995.
Don Browning, “Altruism, Civic Virtue, and Religion.” In Seedbeds of Virtue: Sources of Competence, Character and Citizenship in American Society. Edited by Mary Ann Glendon and David Blankenhorn. New York: Madison Books, 1995. (First published in Institute for American Values Publication WP29, October 1992).
Don Browning, “The Idea of the International Academy of Practical Theology” in proceedings of the First International Academy for Practical Theology, volume 18-22, August 1993. Reprinted in Pastoral-Theologische Informationen, June 1995. Title of conference: “The Struggle Over the Future of the Church: Practical Theology as a Discipline.”
1996
Don Browning, David Balch, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Pamela Couture, and Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, “Family Values, Christian Values: A Roundtable Discussion” conducted by David Heim. Christian Century, January 31, 1996.
Don Browning, “Biology, Ethics, and Narrative in Christian Family Theory.” In Promises to Keep. Edited by Jean Bethke Elshtain and David Popenoe. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996.
Don Browning, “Diagnosis Maybe; Solution, No.” Society, Volume 33, Number 5, July-August 1996.
Don Browning, “Altruism and Christian Love.” Dokumentation eines Kolloquiums an der Evangelischen Akademie Loccum (April 2-5, 1992). Germany: Kirchliche Verwaltungsstelle Loccum, 1996. (Originally published in Zygon, 1992).
Don Browning, “Churches Charged With Re-Creating Our Culture.” Plano Star Courier, November 24, 1996.
Don Browning, “How the Family Became a ‘Liberal Issue’ in the United States.” Concilium: International Review of Theology 264 (1996): 27-39. (Published in English, French, German, and Dutch).
1997
Don Browning, “Practical Theology and the American Family Debate.” International Journal of Practical Theology, Volume I, 1997.
Don Browning, “Fatherhood and Religion: The University of Chicago Project.” In newsletter of the National Fatherhood Initiative, 1997.
1998
Don Browning, “Marriage and the American Family Debate.” Circuit Rider, July-August 1998, pp 6-8.
Don Browning, “Self-Sacrifice, Self-Fulfillment, and Mutuality: The Evolution of Marriage.” The Responsive Community (Winter 1997-1998), 58-62.
Don Browning and Carol Browning, “The Church and the Family Crisis: A New Love Ethic.” In Moral Issues and Christian Response. Edited by Paul Jerrold et al. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 1998. (Originally published as “The Shape of the Family: A New Love Ethic” in Christian Century, 1991).
Don Browning, “The Task of Religious Institutions in Strengthening Families.” Circulated as a joint publication of the Religion, Culture and Family Project and the Communitarian Network, August, 1998.
1999
Don and Carol Browning, “Looking for Daddy: Confronting Fatherhood in Black America.” Chicago Tribune, September 26, 1999. (Reprint of “Black Fatherhood/Whole Fatherhood” in Christian Century, Summer 1999).
Don Browning, “When Theory Meets Practice: Communitarian Ethics and the Family.” In The Responsive Community (Winter 1998-99): 52-61.
Don Browning, “Family Theory and the Thickness of Communitarian Ethics.” (This is the longer, documented, manuscript version of the article published in “Responsive Community” under the title “When Theory Meets Practice” in 1999 and the edited collection Marriage in America).
Don Browning, Carol Browning, and John Wall, “Marriage as Public Policy.” Christian Century, January 20, 1999, pp 44-45.
Don Browning, “Fatherhood as a Point of Convergence: Beyond Old Categories.” In The Faith Factor in Fatherhood: Renewing the Sacred Vocation of Fathering. Edited by Don Eberly. New York, NY: Lexington Books, 1999.
Don Browning and Bonnie Miller-McLemore, “Globalisation and the Family - A Practical Theological Analysis.” In Globalisation and Difference: Practical Theology in a World Context. Edited by Pam Couture and Paul Ballard. Fairweather, Cardiff, UK: Cardiff Academic Press, 1999.
Don Browning, “Christian Equal Regard and the Male Problematic.” In Theology in the Service of the Church: Essays in Honor of Thomas W. Gillespie. Edited by Wallace M. Alston, Jr. Eerdmans, 1999.
Don Browning, “Ehe: Praktisch-theologisch.” In Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Volume 2, C-E, pp 1085-1088. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr–Paul Siebeck, 1999. (English translation of article is included at end).
Don Browning, “Eheberatung.” In Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Volume 2, C-E, pp 1090-1091. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr–Paul Siebeck, 1999. (English translation of article is included at end).
Don Browning, “Ehescheidung: Praktisch-theologisch.” In Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Volume 2, C-E, pp 1101-1102. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr–Paul Siebeck, 1999. (English translation of article is included at end).
Don Browning, John Wall, Thomas Needham, and Susan James, “The Ethics of Relationality: The Moral Views of Therapists Engaged in Marital and Family Therapy.” Family Relations 48[2] (1999). Published by National Council on Family Relations.
Don Browning, “Christian Strategies of Family Ministry: Possible Implications for Judaism.” Paper delivered at conference on Jewish family practices held at Brandeis University, Spring 1999.
Don Browning, “The Idea of the International Academy of Practical Theology” in Practical Theology—International Perspectives. Edited by Friedrich Schweitzer and Johannes A. van der Ven. Peter Lang, 1999.
Mark A. Yarhouse, “Shaping the Contours of the American Family Debate: An Interview with Don Browning,” 47-56. In Marriage and Family: A Christian Journal 2[1] (1999).
2000
Don Browning, “Fundamentals of Teaching Practical Theology: A Way from Ethics to Practical Theology” published as “Hermeneutik als Grundlage und Aufgabe praktisch-theologischer Ethik.” In Christentum und Spätmoderne: Ein Internationaler Diskurs über Praktische Theologie und Ethik. Stuttgart, Germany: W. Kohlhammer GmbH, 2000. (English translation of article is included at the end).
Don Browning, “Familie: Socializations-theoretisch.” In Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Volume 3, F-H, pp 21-22. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr–Paul Siebeck, 2000.
Don Browning, “The Task of Religious Institutions in Strengthening Families,” and “When Theory Meets Practice: Communitarian Ethics and the Family.” In Marriage in America: A Communitarian Perspective. Edited by Martin King Whyte. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
Don Browning and Gloria Rodriguez, “Toward a Public Philosophy of Faith-Based and Community-Based Organizations in Their Service to Families.” Prepared for a leadership roundtable sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Morehouse College, December 2000.
Don Browning, “Mutual Respect Between Spouses Will Improve Marriage.” In What Will Improve Male/Female Relationships Based on Chapter Four of Male/Female Roles: Opposing Viewpoints. Edited by Laura Egendorf. USA: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 2000. (The complete essay found in chapter four was first published as “Self-Sacrifice, Self-Fulfillment, and Mutuality: The Evolution of Marriage” in The Responsive Community, 1998).
2001
Don Browning, “World Family Trends.” In The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics. Edited by Robin Gill. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Don Browning, “What Kind of Love The Equal-Regard Marriage and Children.” In American Experiment Quarterly, Summer 2001.
Don Browning, “The World Situation of Families: Marriage Reformation as a Cultural Work.” In Celebrating Christian Marriage, pp. 3-21. Edited by Adrian Thatcher. Edinburgh, Scotland, and New York, NY: Continuum, 2001.
Don Browning, “The Dialectic of Archaeology and Teleology in Christian Family Theory.” Currents in Theology and Mission 28[3-4] (June/August 2001): 298-305.
Don Browning, “What is Marriage An Exploration.” In The Book of Marriage. Edited by Dana Mack and David Blankenhorn. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2001.
2002
Don Browning, “The Language of Health Versus the Language of Religion: Competing Models of Marriage for the 21st Century.” In Revitalizing the Institution of Marriage for the 21st Century: An Agenda for Strengthening Marriage. Edited by Alan Hawkins et al. United States: Praeger, 2002.
Don Browning, “Science and Religion on the Nature of Love.” In Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue. Edited by Stephen Post et al. Oxford University Press, 2002.
Don Browning, “Violence, Authority, and Communities of Reconstruction.” In Divine Justice – Human Justice. Edited by J.S. Dreyer and J. A. Van der Ven. Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2002.
Don Browning, “Should Churches Know About the Communitarians” Family Ministry 16[1] (Spring 2002).
Don Browning, “Marriage in the New Millennium.” Thresholds: A Magazine About Marriage Education 69 Winter (July) 2001: 7-8.
2003
Don Browning, “How Inclusiveness Becomes Elitist: Reflections on the Presbyterian Report on Families.” Disseminated via the Religion, Culture, and Family Project website and the Smartmarriages website, May 2003.
Don Browning, “Inclusive Without Consequences.” Wall Street Journal, Friday, May 23, 2003. (A shorter version of “How Inclusiveness Becomes Elitist: Reflections on the Presbyterian Report on Families.”)
Don Browning, “Empty Inclusivism” Christian Century, June 28, 2003: 8-9.
Don Browning, “Feminism, Family and Women’s Rights: A Hermeneutic Realist Perspective.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 38[2] (June 2003): 317-332.
Don Browning, “Can Marriage Be Defined” Word and World: Theology for Christian Ministry 23[1] (Winter 2003): 5-14.
Don Browning, “Family and Moral and Spiritual Development.” In Developing a Public Faith: New Directions in Practical Theology, 213-227. Edited by Richard R. Osmer and Friedrich L. Schweitzer. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2003.
2004
Don Browning, “Mutuality, Reason and Family Policy.” In Mutuality Matters: Family, Faith, and Just Love, 43-56. Edited by Herbert Anderson, Edward Foley, Bonnie Miller-McLemore, and Robert Schreiter. U.S.A.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004. (Originally given as a lecture under the title “Reason and the American Debate over the Family” at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, and published on its website, November 1999.)
Don Browning, “Christian Equal-Regard and the Male Problematic” and “Does Male Responsibility Really Require Male Headship A Response to Allan Carlson and John Miller.” In Does Christianity Teach Male Headship The Equal-Regard Marriage and Its Critics. Edited by David Blankenhorn, Don Browning, and Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.
Don Browning, “Critical Familism, Civil Society, and the Law.” Hofstra Law School Journal. (forthcoming, 2004).
Don Browning, “The World Situation of Families: Marriage Reformation as a Cultural Work.” In Family in Interdisciplinary Perspective. Edited by Stephen Tipton and John Witte. (forthcoming: Princeton University Press, 2004). (A revised version of an article with the same title published in Adrian Thatcher’s Celebrating Christian Marriage, 2001).
Don Browning, “Adoption and the Moral Significance of Kin Altruism.” In Theological Perspectives on Adoption. Edited by Timothy Jackson. (forthcoming: Eerdmans, 2004).
Don Browning, “The Relation of Practical Theology to Theological Ethics.” In Practical Theology and Ethics. Edited by Michael Welker and Friedrich Schweitzer. (forthcoming, 2004). This paper was presented at the Heidelberg conference in Autumn 2000, and is an expansion of the appendix of From Culture Wars to Common Ground.
Don Browning, “Response to Jennifer Schmidt’s ‘Religiosity, Emotional Well-Being, and Family Processes in Working Families.’” In Work and Family. Edited by Linda Waite. (forthcoming, 2004).
Don Browning, “Critical Familism and the Reconstruction of Marriage.”
INTAMS – Journal of Marital Spirituality. (forthcoming, 2004).