Dr Gesa E. Thiessen

Books:

Ecumenical Ecclesiology – Unity, Diversity and Otherness in a Fragmented World, ed., Ecclesiological Investigations (series editor: Gerard Mannion), vol. 5, London/New York, T & T Clark/Continuum, 2009, pp. xii+247.

Trinity and Salvation – Theological, Spiritual and Aesthetic Perspectives, Studies in Theology, Society and Culture (eds. Declan Marmion, Gesa Thiessen, Norbert Hintersteiner), vol. 2, Oxford/Bern, Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 184 (edited with D. Marmion).

Theology in the Making - Biography, Contexts, Methods, Dublin, Veritas, 2005, pp. 130 (edited with D. Marmion).            

Theological Aesthetics – A Reader, London, SCM Press / Grand Rapids, MI, Eerdmans, 2004, pp. 400.

Theology and Modern Irish Art, Dublin, Columba, 1999, pp. 304.
           

Articles / Book Chapters:

Forthcoming: 2011 ‘Artistic Imagination and Religious Faith’ in Handbook of Theology and the Arts, ed. Frank Burch Brown, to be published by Oxford University Press.

Forthcoming: 2010 Entry ‘”blessing” in the visual arts’, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), to be published in 30 vols., chief editors Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Hans-Josef Klauck, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Bernard McGinn, Eric Ziolkowski, et al, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, from 2008.

‘Imaging the Dogma of the Trinity’, Communio Viatorum (Charles University Prague), LI, 1, 2009, 4-21.

‘Converted through an Image: Paul Tillich’s Theology of Art’, trans. into Czech: ‘Konvertitou díky obrazu: Teologie umĕni Paula Tillicha’, Konverze a Konvertité, Quaestiones quodlibetales, no.9, Jiři Hanuš and Ivana Noble, eds., Brno, Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2009, 61-69.

‘Seeking Unity: Reflecting on Methods in Contemporary Ecumenical Dialogue’, Ecumenical Ecclesiology – Unity, Diversity and Otherness in a Fragmented World, Gesa E. Thiessen, ed.,  London/New York, T & T Clark/Continuum, 2009, 35-48.

‘Images of the Trinity in Visual Art’, Trinity and Salvation – Theological, Spiritual and Aesthetic Perspectives, Studies in Theology, Society and Culture, vol. 2, D. Marmion and G. Thiessen, eds., Oxford/Bern, etc., Peter Lang, 2009, 119-140.

‘The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity’, Irish Theological Quarterly, 72, no. 1, 2007, 74-87.

‘Theological Aesthetics’, in The Cambridge Companion to Karl Rahner, eds. Declan Marmion and Mary Hines, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 225-334.

‘Seeing God – A Brief Outline of Aesthetics in Patristic Theology’, in Milltown Studies, 54, Winter 2004, 1-8.

‘Towards a Theological Aesthetics: Karl Rahner’s Contribution’, in Theology and Conversation, Towards a Relational Theology, Jacques Haers, Peter de Mey, eds., Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium CLXXII, Leuven University Press/Peeters, 2003, 857-864.

‘Genius in One House’, an article on the writer brothers Thomas and Heinrich Mann in Lübeck, The Irish Times, 5 January 2002.

‘Exploring a locus theologicus: Sacramental Presence in Modern Art and its Hermeneutical Implications for Theology’, in selected papers from the 2. LEST Conference in Leuven, 1999: The Presence of Transcendence, Thinking ‘Sacrament’ in a Postmodern Age, Lieven Boeve, John Ries, eds., Leuven, Paris, Sterling, VA, Peeters, 2001, 213-222. 

‘Dorothee Sölle: A Radical Theologian’, Milltown Studies, 46, Winter 2000, 93-111.

The official translation into English of Karl Rahner’s last talk, held at the Katholische Akademie der Diözese Freiburg, ‘Erfahrungen eines katholischen Theologen’, in A. Raffelt (Hg.), Karl Rahner in Erinnerung, Düsseldorf, Patmos Verlag, 1994: ‘Experiences of a Catholic Theologian’, Theological Studies, ed. Michael Fahy SJ, Marquette University, vol. 61, March 2000, 3-15. (with Declan Marmion)

‘The Theological and Spiritual in the Life and Work of Painter Colin Middleton (1910-1983)’, Studies, Summer, 1999, 199-208

‘Spiritual Dimensions in Modern Art: The Painter Patrick Scott’, Doctrine and Life, April, 1999, 194-201.

‘Imaging God: Spiritual Dimensions in Modern Art’, in Anne M. Murphy, Eoin G. Cassidy, (eds.), Neglected Wells – Spirituality and the Arts, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1997, 97-113.

‘The Church and Contemporary Visual Art: Is the Divorce Final?’, Doctrine and Life, November, 1996, 535-538.

‘Religious Art is Expressionistic - A Critical Appreciation of Paul Tillich's Theology of Art’, Irish Theological Quarterly, vol. 59, no. 4, 1993, 302-311.

‘Faith into Art - The Religious Quest of Vincent van Gogh’, Doctrine and Life, May/June, 1993, 267-273.

‘Religion and the Beautiful’ (a summary report on the international Rudolph Otto Symposium, which I attended at Marburg University, 20.- 23.5.93), Doctrine and Life, September, 1993, 437-439.

Book Reviews in: Theological Studies, Milltown Studies, Irish Theological Quarterly, The Furrow, Studies, The Irish Times