Project director (and principal writer), African Christianity in Religious and Cultural Context: An National Endowment for the Interdisciplinary Examination of Diverse Forms of Ancient Christianity, Humanities: Division of Research -- Collaborative Grants, 1996 Younger Scholars’ Award, Association of Theological Schools, Theological Research and Scholarship Award, 1994-1995 Summer Seminar Fellow, American Numismatics Society, 1983 Grants: Institutional Henry Luce III Foundation Grant to the Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, principal writer, Nov. 2008 ($136,000) Henry Luce III Foundation Grant to Vanderbilt University Divinity School for development of a program in Religion and Contemporary Culture, Nov. 2007 ($340,000) Henry Luce III Foundation Grant to the Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, principal writer, Nov. 2008 ($136,000) Project director (and principal writer), Luce Foundation grant for Andover Newton Theological School’s Program in Theology and the Arts ($275,000) Books (Single Author) (Harvard University Press, 2017). The History, Art, and Controversy with J. Patout Burns Christianity in Roman Africa: The Development of its Practices and Beliefs, (Eerdmans Press, 2014). Winner, 2015 Catholic Press Association Book Award (History). (Baker Academic Press, 2012). Second place, 2013 Catholic Press Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity Association Book Award (Liturgy). (Brill Publishers, Living The Art and Architecture of Ancient Christian Baptism Vigiliae Christianae Supplementary Series, 2011). (Fortress Press, 2005). Face to Face: The Portrait of the Divine in Christianity (Eerdmans Press, 2004). The Substance of Things Seen: Art, Faith, and the Christian Community (Routledge Press, 2000). Understanding Early Christian Art Edited Books co-edited with Mark Ellison (Routledge Press, The Routledge Handbook to Early Christian Art, forthcoming 2018, currently in press). co-edited with Lee Jefferson (Fortress Press, The Art of Empire: Christian Art in its Imperial Context, 2015). co-editor with Kimberly Vrudny (Liturgical Press, 2009). Visual Theology, In progress: co-edited with Leonard Rutgers, Jodi The Cambridge History of Late Antique Archaeology, Magness, and Neil Christie (Cambridge University Press, anticipated 2019).
Project director (and principal writer), African Christianity in Religious and Cultural Context: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Diverse Forms of Ancient Christianity, National Endowment for the Humanities: Division of Research -- Collaborative Grants, 1996 Younger Scholars’ Award, Association of Theological Schools, Theological Research and Scholarship Award, 1994-1995 Summer Seminar Fellow, American Numismatics Society, 1983 Grants: Institutional Henry Luce III Foundation Grant to the Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, principal writer, Nov. 2008 ($136,000) Henry Luce III Foundation Grant to Vanderbilt University Divinity School for development of a program in Religion and Contemporary Culture, Nov. 2007 ($340,000) Henry Luce III Foundation Grant to the Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, principal writer, Nov. 2008 ($136,000) Project director (and principal writer), Luce Foundation grant for Andover Newton Theological School’s Program in Theology and the Arts ($275,000) Books (Single Author) The History, Art, and Controversy (Harvard University Press, 2017). Christianity in Roman Africa: The Development of its Practices and Beliefs, with J. Patout Burns (Eerdmans Press, 2014). Winner, 2015 Catholic Press Association Book Award (History). Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity (Baker Academic Press, 2012). Second place, 2013 Catholic Press Association Book Award (Liturgy). Living The Art and Architecture of Ancient Christian Baptism (Brill Publishers, Vigiliae Christianae Supplementary Series, 2011). Face to Face: The Portrait of the Divine in Christianity (Fortress Press, 2005). The Substance of Things Seen: Art, Faith, and the Christian Community (Eerdmans Press, 2004). Understanding Early Christian Art (Routledge Press, 2000). Edited Books The Routledge Handbook to Early Christian Art, co-edited with Mark Ellison (Routledge Press, forthcoming 2018, currently in press). The Art of Empire: Christian Art in its Imperial Context, co-edited with Lee Jefferson (Fortress Press, 2015). Visual Theology, co-editor with Kimberly Vrudny (Liturgical Press, 2009). In progress: The Cambridge History of Late Antique Archaeology, co-edited with Leonard Rutgers, Jodi Magness, and Neil Christie (Cambridge University Press, anticipated 2019).
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