American Journal of Theology and Philosophy

Editor: Gary Slater

DETAILS

Current Volume: 45 (2024)
Issued three times per year (January, May, and September)
ISSN: 0194-3448
eISSN: 2156-4795

About

Official journal of The Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought

The American Journal of Theology & Philosophy (AJTP) is a scholarly journal dedicated to the creative interchange of ideas between theologians and philosophers on some of the most critical intellectual and ethical issues of our time. The goal of the AJTP is to promote lively conversation among theologians and philosophers by providing a forum for discussions in the following areas: 1) the interface between theology and philosophy, especially as shaped by American empiricist, naturalist, process, and pragmatist traditions; 2) the development of liberal religious thought in America.

Exceptional scholars, such as Gordon Kaufman, John Cobb, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Holmes Rolston III, Robert Neville, Delwin Brown, Wentzel van Huyssteen, Richard Rorty, Nancy Frankenberry, William Dean, Richard Bernstein, Nancy Howell, Daniel Dombrowski, Edward Farley, Victor Anderson, and Linell Cady have challenged us to think in completely new ways about topics that include public theology and American culture, religion and science, ecological spirituality, feminist cosmology and ethics, problems in religious pluralism and inter-disciplinarity, process thought, metaphysical theology, postmodern thought, the viability of historical and contemporary concepts of God, American religious empiricism and pragmatism, creative democracy, and the nature and truth-value of religious language.



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Editors

Editor
Gary Slater
Email: garyslater@gmail.com

Book Review Editor
Lisa Landoe Hedrick
Email: landoe@uchicago.edu

Editorial Office
ICS, University of Münster
Robert-Koch-Straße 29
48149 Münster
Deutschland


Editorial Board

  • Victor Anderson, Vanderbilt University 
  • Daniel A. Arnold, University of Chicago Divinity School
  • Randall Auxier, Southern Illinois University
  • Linell Cady, Arizona State University
  • Robert Corrington, Drew University
  • Donald Crosby, Colorado State University 
  • William Dean, Iliff School of Theology 
  • Mary Doak, University of San Diego
  • Gary Dorrien, Union Theology Seminary 
  • Ronald Engel, Meadville/Lombard
  • Nancy Frankenberry, Dartmouth College
  • Charley Hardwick, American University 
  • William David Hart, Macalaster College
  • Michael S. Hogue, Meadville Lombard Theological School
  • Nancy Howell, St. Paul School of Theology 
  • Tyron Inbody, United Theology Seminary 
  • Jennifer Jesse, Truman State University 
  • Jonathon S. Kahn, Vassar College
  • Catherine Keller, Drew University
  • Erin McKenna, University of Oregon
  • Robert Mesle, Graceland College 
  • Anthony Pinn, Rice University
  • Scott L. Pratt, University of Oregon
  • Wayne Proudfoot, Columbia University
  • Michael L. Raposa, Lehigh University
  • John Shook, University of Buffalo
  • Jerome Stone, William Rainey Harper College
  • Jeffrey Stout, Princeton University
  • Marjorie Suchocki, School of Theology, Claremont
  • E. J. Tarbox, Indiana State University 
  • David Tracy, University of Chicago
  • Wentzel van Huyssteen, Princeton Theology Seminary 
  • Donald Viney, Pittsburgh State University 
  • Demian Wheeler, United Theological Seminary
  • Carol White, Bucknell University
  • Wesley Wildman, Boston University

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Submissions

The goal of the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy is to promote lively conversation among theologians and philosophers by providing a forum for discussions in the following areas:


  1. The interface between theology and philosophy, especially as shaped by American empiricist, naturalist, process, and pragmatist traditions;
  2. The development of liberal religious thought in America.

Articles should be submitted electronically to the journal's online manuscript submission system. This secure, personalized resource will allow you to track your manuscript through each step of the review and acceptance process. To begin, click here to set up your personal account and upload your submission.


Manuscripts should be approximately 15 to 18 (and no longer than 25) double spaced pages. We follow the Chicago Manual of Style and use footnotes instead of endnotes. All papers are refereed using a peer-review system. Direct inquiries to editor Gary Slater at garyslater@gmail.com.

 

Peer Review Policy:

The practice is for the editor to make an initial decision about whether a just-submitted manuscript merits peer review. If it does, then two reviewers are solicited who are chosen on the basis of their expertise in the subject matter at hand, and who agree to provide reviewer feedback according to an agreed timetable. Reviews are double-blind, i.e., the author does not know the identity of the reviewers, and vice versa. Reviewers are external to the journal, meaning that the editor selects reviewers who are experts in the field and are not directly involved in the editorial management of the journal. 

Once both sets of reviewer feedback are received, this feedback is shared with the author. There are four possibilities at this point: rejection, acceptance-without-revisions, acceptance-with-revisions, revise-and-resubmit. A timetable for revision is also communicated. Normally, two rounds of reviewer feedback is the most that a given manuscript receives, and two is the number of reviewers who provide feedback. 

The one exception to this external peer review policy is the AJTP lecture, which is held each year at the annual meeting of the AAR/SBL, and is given at the invitation of the editor with the promise of publication after the fact.

View our Publications Ethics and Malpractice Statement


Featured Articles



Neo-Hegelian Theology as Process Theodicy and Socialist Idealism
Gary Dorrien
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjtheophil.41.2-3.0007
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/785722

Royce's The Problem of Christianity and Peirce's Epistemology
Richard Kenneth Atkins
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjtheophil.41.2-3.0039
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/amerjtheophil.41.2-3.0039?refreqid=excelsior%3A5104279029b5c59db82fc4916e17db1e

The Neglected Lectures on Conversion and Saintliness in The Varieties of Religious Experience: William James's Search for Redemptive (Saving) Facts
Dan D. Crawford
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjtheophil.41.2-3.0056
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/amerjtheophil.41.2-3.0056?refreqid=excelsior%3Ad44bc1206a84ba97b6f95d8397571707

Review: Explaining the Quantum of Explanation
David E. Conner
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjtheophil.41.2-3.0082
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/amerjtheophil.41.2-3.0082?refreqid=excelsior%3A5f7b8c24f5fbb00b62ae6a46480e8ac9

Deliberating on Dewey: A Pragmatic Response to Jeffrey Stout's Public Philosophy
Jeremy Sorgen
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjtheophil.41.2-3.0096
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/amerjtheophil.41.2-3.0096?refreqid=excelsior%3Ab9618ccf37c186061e5e75e2f3ec67f9

Environmental Justice as Counterpublic Theology: Reflections for a Postpandemic Public
Andrew R. H. Thompson
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjtheophil.41.2-3.0114
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/amerjtheophil.41.2-3.0114?refreqid=excelsior%3Ac6f44f7fddcbc41268788c2a418e9283

The Reach of Empathy: William James's Metaphysics and the Environmental Crisis
Donald A. Crosby
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjtheophil.41.2-3.0133
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/amerjtheophil.41.2-3.0133?refreqid=excelsior%3A08c8690b601776fc4b7c7dc6e3f95f53

Toward a Comprehensive Interpretation of Aesthetics
Walter B. Gulick
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjtheophil.41.2-3.0151
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/amerjtheophil.41.2-3.0151?refreqid=excelsior%3Ae08c0740c80349c513c0cd42d59dc0dd

Naturalistic Empiricism as Process Theology
Gary Dorrien
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/911921

The Influence of Personalism on Harkness and King, Their Pacifism, and Their Persistence
Natalya A. Cherry
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/911922

William James, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Art of New Religious Ideals
Kolby Knight
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/911923