Table of Contents
●  Introduction
●  Abbreviations Used
●  Writings and Published Interviews (by year below)
     1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
  1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
  1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966
  1967 1968 1669 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977
  1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988
  1989 Date Unknown
●  Audio / Video Recordings
●  Articles
●  Books and Dissertations
●  Reviews of Books by Sittler
●  Festschriften
●  News Articles and Historical Accounts featuring Joseph Sittler
●  Obituaries and Memorials
●  Sources used for this Compilation
●  About this Version
●  About the Bibliography Developer

 

Introduction
As this Archive makes clear, Joseph Sittler was not an unusually prolific writer. Much of his contribution was oral; thus, we are working to collect all the audio and video tapes of his speeches and sermons (see Archive Catalogue). But his written work is very important — from The Doctrine of the Word in 1948 to Essays on Nature and Grace in 1972. His more recent collections of shorter pieces, Grace Notes and Other Fragments and Gravity and Grace have made Sittler accessible to people in all walks of life; both, alas, are out of print. Sittler’s writings reflect the same enormous themes, such as the expanding scope of grace, that characterize him.

This bibliography was created by Peter Bakken, Ph.D., to whom we are indebted for permission to use it. It is very complete, organized by type of work and, within each type, Sittler’s writings are organized chronologically. The bibliography also includes works about Sittler, listed alphabetically by author. Ultimately, we plan to indicate in the bibliography which publications are actually available in the Sittler Archive at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.

 

Abbreviations Used

CLTSR

 —  

Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary Record

ELCA

 —  

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

LCA

 —  

Lutheran Church in America

LSAA

 —  

Lutheran Student Association of America

ULCA

 —  

United Lutheran Church in America

 

Writings and Published Interviews
Titles or descriptions in parentheses ( ) have been provided by compiler or have been taken from source indexes. Entries in brackets [ ] are unsigned, but appear to be Sittler’s by their style and content.

1934

  • “Religious Significance of Bach’s Music.” The American Organist 17, no. 7 (July 1934): 1-.

1935

  • Untitled editor’s note. Credo Ecclesiam (Toledo, Ohio) 1, no. 1 (April 1, 1935): [1].
     

  • Untitled editor’s note. Credo Ecclesiam (Toledo, Ohio) 1, no. 2 (August 25, 1935): [1] 2.

1936

  • “Editorial Forward.” Credo Ecclesiam (Toledo, Ohio) 2, no. 4 (April 1936?), [1].

1937

  • “The Parable of the Soils.” (Four-part series of articles.) The Lutheran (ULCA) 19, no. 37 (9 June 1937): 3 4; no. 38 (16 June 1937): 6 7; no. 39 (23 June 1937): 6 7; no. 40 (30 June 1937): 12 13. Excerpt appeared in Grace Notes and Other Fragments, pp. 35.

1939

  • Review of The Life of J. H. W. Stuckenberg: TheologianPhilosopherSociologist, by John O. Evjen. The Lutheran 21, no. 15 (January 11, 1939): 22 23.

19411942

  • “On the Literary Tradition in Preaching.” The Lutheran Church Quarterly, 14, no. 2 (April 1941): 164 73.
     

  • “Evangelical Christians and War.” (Three-part series of articles.) Student Service Bulletin (American Lutheran Conference) 4, no. 2 (1 October 1941): 5 6; no. 3 (1 November 1941): 7 8; no. 5 (1 January 1942): 6, 6a.
     

  • “A Statement from the Editor” and “About Manuscripts.” Credo Ecclesiam (Cleveland, Ohio) 3, no. 1 (February 15, 1942): [1].
     

  • Untitled editorial note. Credo Ecclesiam (Cleveland, Ohio) 3, no. 2 (August 1, 1942): 9.

1944

  • “A Meditation for Lent.” American Lutheran Student 21, no. 3 (Spring 1944): n.p.

1945

  • Review of What Is a Mature Morality? by Harold Titus. Lutheran Church Quarterly 18 (January 1945): 104 105.
     

  • “The Grace Note.” (A Late Sunday Night Ride on the El.) CLTSR 50, no. 3/4 (July-October 1945): 22 23. Excerpt appeared in Grace Notes and Other Fragments, pp. 22 23.

1946

  • “The Grace Note: A meditation for the New Year on the Text, ‘Even so, come, Lord Jesus.’“ CLTSR 51, no. 1 (January 1946): 52 55.
     

  • “The Grace Note.” (John Donne.) CLTSR 51, no. 2 (April 1946): 3 4.
     

  • “The Grace Note.” (Elmer F. Krauss.) CLTSR 51, no. 3 (July 1946): 3.
     

  • “The Grace Note.” (Naturalness.) CLTSR 51, no. 4 (October 1946): 40 41.

1947

  • Review of P. S. Minear, Eyes of Faith. Lutheran Church Quarterly 20 (January 1947): 107 108.
     

  • “The Grace Note.” (Incompetent worship.) CLTSR 52, no. 1 (January 1947): 4 5.
     

  • “The Grace Note.” (Critique of theological education.) CLTSR 52, no. 2 (April 1947): 4 6. Excerpt appeared in Grace Notes and Other Fragments, p. 28.
     

  • “The Grace Note.” (Proposal for theological education.) CLTSR 52, no. 3 (July 1947): 3 5.
     

  • “The Grace Note.” (Hypocritical “soap bubbles”.) CLTSR 52, no. 4 (October 1947): 3 4.

1948

  • The Doctrine of the Word in the Structure of Lutheran Theology. The Knubel-Miller Foundation Lectures [ULCA]. Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1948; Board of Publication of the United Lutheran Church in America, 1948.
     

  • “The Grace Note.” (“Here we stand” vs. “Here we go.”) CLTSR 53, no. 3 (July 1948): 3 4.
     

  • “The Grace Note.” (The Confessions.) CLTSR 53, no. 4 (October 1948): 11 13. Excerpt appeared in Grace Notes and Other Fragments, p. 35.

1949

  • “The Grace Note: Barabbas.” CLTSR 54, no. 2 (April 1949): 3 4. Also appeared as: 188; 191, pp. 45 46. Excerpt appeared in Grace Notes and Other Fragments
     

  • “The Cruciform Character of Human Existence.” CLTSR 54, no. 3 4 (October 1949): 18 21. Excerpt appeared in 191, p. 116 118.

1950

  • Review of Let God Be God! by Philip Watson. Lutheran Quarterly 2 (August 1950): 354 355.
     

  • “Jerusalem and America (A Sermon for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity).” CLTSR 55, no. 4 (October 1950): 21 26.
     

  • Review of Karl Barth, Dogmatics in Outline. Lutheran Quarterly 2 (November 1950): 465 466.

1951

  • “The Grace Note.” (“The Promise and Hope of American Life.”) CLTSR 56, no. 2 (April 1951): 2 4. Excerpt appeared in 191, p. 101 102.
     

  • “The Shape of the Kerygma.” CLTSR 56, no. 3 (July 1951): 31 36.
     

  • Review of Positive Protestantism, An Interpretation of the Gospel, by Hugh Thompson Kerr, Jr. Lutheran Quarterly 3 (August 1951): 317.

1952

  • “Roman Catholic Religiousness (A Preliminary Essay).” Typescript. Jesuit-Krauss-McCormick Library, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. [1952]
     

  • “The Parabola of Grace.” Campus Lutheran [LSAA] 3, no. 4 (February 1952): 2 6, 25 28.
     

  • “The Grace Note.” (Letter to nephew entering ministry.) CLTSR 57, no. 2 (April 1952): 4 7.

1953

  • “The Lund Conference of Faith and Order.” The Lutheran Quarterly 5, no. 1 (February 1953): 49 55.
     

  • “The Grace Note.” (Theological education.) CLTSR 58, no. 2 (April 1953): 6 7.
     

  • “The Sacraments and Mystery.” CLTSR 58, no. 3 (July 1953): 12 15. Excerpt appeared in 191, p. 30 33.
     

  • “God, Man and Nature.” The Pulpit 24, no. 3 (August 1953): 16 17. Partly incorporated into 47.
     

  • “The Grace Note.” (Church architecture.) CLTSR 58, no. 4 (October 1953): 3 4.

1954

  • “Letter to Editor.” Campus Lutheran (LSAA) 5 (January 1954) 3: 18 19.
     

  • “A Christology of Function,” The Lutheran Quarterly 6 (May 1954): 122 131.
     

  • “Pre-Evanston Notes for the Layman.” CLTSR 59, no. 3 (July 1954): 5 7.
     

  • Daily column during the World Council of Churches meeting in Evanston, IL. Chicago Sun-Times, 15 20 August 1954. Individual columns also appeared as: 46; 49; 54; 55; 56; 57.
     

  • “Grace Note.” (The Ecumenical Experience.) CLTSR 59, no. 4 (October 1954): 3 4. Also appeared as: 45, 20 August 1954.
     

  • “A Theology for Earth.” The Christian Scholar 37 (September 1954): 367 374. Includes material from 40; Also appeared as 63.
     

  • “Eschatology and the American Mind.” In Charisteria Iohanni Köpp: Octogenario Oblata, ed. J. Aunver and A. Vööbus, 137 147. Holmiae: Estonian Theological Society in Exile, November 9 1954. [Or: Stockholm, 1954.] Partly incorporated into 152.
     

  • “Christ the Hope of the World.” Campus Lutheran (LSAA) 6 (December 1954) 3:18 19. Also appeared as: 45.

1955

  • “Love Calls Us to Repentance.” (First of a four-part series on the Exhortation.) The Lutheran (ULCA) 37, no. 16 (19 January, 1955): 12 13.
     

  • “The Situation from Below.” (Second of a four-part series on the Exhortation.) The Lutheran (ULCA) 37 , no. 17 (26 January 1955): 12 13.
     

  • “The Situation from Above.” (Third of a four-part series on the Exhortation.) The Lutheran (ULCA) 37, no. 18 (2 February 1955): 17 18.
     

  • “God Calls Us to a New Kind of Living.” (Last of a four-part series on the Exhortation.) The Lutheran (ULCA) 37, no. 19 (9 February 1955): 13 14.
     

  • “Teaching About Christ Walks on Two Legs.” frontiers (LSAA) 6, no. 4 (January 1955): 26 27. Also appeared as: 45.
     

  • “A Man’s Ties to Church.” frontiers (LSAA) 6, no 5 (February 1955): 21 22. Also appeared as: 45.
     

  • “Why WCC Assembly Differed Over the Theme.” frontiers (LSAA) 6, no. 5 (March 1955): 26 27. Also appeared as: 45.
     

  • “Deepest Meaning of Ecumenical Movement.” frontiers (LSAA) 6, no. 8 (May 1955): 23 24. Also appeared as: 45.
     

  • “The Abiding Concern of the Church for the Jewish People.” The Ecumenical Review 7 (April 1955): 221 224.
     

  • “On Christianity and Art.” Student World (World Christian Student Federation) 48, no. 2 (Second Quarter 1955): 140 146.
     

  • “The Necessity of Faith.” The Christian Scholar 38 (September 1955): 198 205.
     

  • “The Grace Note: How Bitterness May Praise,” CLTSR 60, no. 4 (October 1955): 3.
     

  • “Precision and Culture.” Motive 16, no. 2 (November 1955): 2 3.
     

  • “Meant for Each Other.” Motive 16, no. 3 (December 1955): 6 9. Also appeared as: 47.
     

  • “Worship and the Arts in the Lutheran Tradition.” Architectural Record 118, no. 6 (December 1955): 190 191.

1956

  • “Easter.” Christianity and Crisis 16, no. 4 (19 March 1956): 25 26. Also appeared as: 95.
     

  • “Grace Note.” (John Donne.) CLTSR 61, no. 2 (April 1956): 28 29.

1957

  • “The Structure of Christian Ethics.” In Christian Social Responsibility, vol. 3, Life in Community, ed. Harold Letts, 3 39. Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1957. Excerpt appeared in 191, pp. 69 73, 77 78; incorporated into 74.
     

  • “Lutheran Tradition.” In Religious Buildings for Today, ed. John Knox Shear, 62 63. N.p.: F. W. Dodge Corporation, 1957. Reprint of 64.
     

  • “Hammer, the Incarnation, and Architecture.” Christian Century 74, no. 13 (27 March 1957): 394 395.
     

  • “Poor Tom’s A-Cold.” Columbia Engineering Quarterly (October 1957): 14 16.
     

  • “The Shape of the Church’s Response in Worship.” Motive 18, no. 2 (November 1957): 14 17, 33 34. Also appeared as: 72; 73; 93, chap. 6; excerpt appeared in 191, p. 42 44.

1958

  • “The Shape of the Church’s Response in Worship.” In The Nature of the Unity We Seek, ed. Paul S. Minear, 177 87. Saint Louis: Bethany Press, 1958. Also appeared as: 71.
     

  • “The Shape of the Church’s Response in Worship.” The Ecumenical Review 10 (January 1958): 140 52. Also appeared as: 71.
     

  • The Structure of Christian Ethics. The Rockwell Lectures [The Rice Institute, Houston, TX]. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1958. Incorporates material from 67.
     

  • “Strategy of Religion for Nurturing Sacred Images of Man.” Religious Education 13 (March-April 1958): 138 143.
     

  • “Ethics and the New Testament Style.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 13 (May 1958): 29 36.
     

  • “The Wood’s In Trouble.” Discourse: A Review of the Liberal Arts (Moorhead, Minn.) 1 (July 1958): 139 53.
     

  • “The Gospel for Septuagesima: Theological Background.” (Lecture from one week of a team-taught course on “Preaching From the Pericopes.”) CLTSR 63, no. 3 (July 1958): 11 13.
     

  • “The Treasure and the Vessel.” The Christian Scholar 41 (Autumn 1958): 187 92.

1959

  • “In the Light of Our Biblical Tradition.” In What Is the Nature of Man?, Religious Education Association, pp. 185 94. Philadelphia: Christian Education Press, 1959.
     

  • “Festus.” In Preaching the Resurrection, ed. Alton Motter, 159 164. Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1959. Also appeared as: 82.
     

  • “Festus.” Motive 19, no. 6 (March 1959): 2 4. Also appeared as: 81.
     

  • “The Maceration of the Minister.” Christian Century (10 June 1959): 698 701. Also appeared as: 93, ch. 5; 191, pp. 57 68.
     

  • “Commencement Address.” CLTSR 64, no. 4 (November 1959): 34 37.
     

  • “The Faith Situation.” Motive 15, no. 2 (November, 1959): 2 7.
     

  • “Theology and the Arts.” Response (Lutheran Society for Worship, Music and the Arts) 1, no. 2 (Advent 1959): 3 8.

1960

  • “The Context of Confirmation (of being in a state of grace).” The Christian Scholar 45 (Winter 1960): 298 308.
     

  • Report on behalf of the North American Section of the Worship Commission. In Commission on Faith and Order: Minutes of the Commission Meeting Held at St. Andrews, Scotland August 3rd to 8th, 1960, pp. 90 91. Geneva: World Council of Churches Commission on Faith and Order, 1960.
     

  • “Johann Sebastian Bach: An Essay in Discovery.” (Two-part series of articles.) Music Ministry 1, no. 13 (October 1960): 2 5; no. 14 (November 1960): 6 8.
     

  • “Christianity and Mass Communication.” frontiers (LSAA) 12, no. 4 (December 1960): 16 19.
     

  • “Children and Youth, 1960: Appraising Ideals and Values in their Changing World.” Washington, D.C.: White House Conference on Children and Youth, 1960. Mimeograph. [Jesuit-Krauss-McCormick Library, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.] Published as 94.
     

  • “The Shaping of Practice” in “Report of the Comission on the Sacrament of the Altar and its Implications.” In Minutes of the Twenty-Second Biennial Convention, ULCA, 926ff. ULCA, 1960. [A note in the Sittler papers at the ELCA Archives, Chicago, IL, says that at least the first sections of this item were authored by Sittler, according to James Crumley (a member of the commission at that time).]

1961

  • The Ecology of Faith. The Lyman Beecher Lectures [Yale Divinity School]. Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1961; reprint, Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1970. Includes 83, 71.
     

  • “The Interior Aspects of Change.” In Values and Ideals of American Youth, ed. Eli Ginzberg, 289 295. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. Also appeared as: 91.
     

  • “Easter: A Time for Poetry...of the Right Kind.” Christian Advocate, 30 March 1961, 9. Also appeared as: 65.
     

  • “‘Lord, Have Mercy on Us’- 1961.” (Poem.) The Lutheran (ULCA) 43, no. 27 (April 5, 1961): 16-17. Also appeared as: 211.
     

  • “A Christian Prolegomenon to a Conference on Christianity and Law.” (March 3 5, 1961, Greenwich, CT.) Student World 54, no. 4 (1961): 346 358.
     

  • “The Cosmic Christ.” (Excerpt from an address to the WSCF, Stasbourg [sic], 1961.) Religion and Society (Bangalore) 8 (December 1961): 38 42.

1962

  • “The Matrix of Form in Church Architecture.” In Christian Faith and the Contemporary Arts, ed. Finley Eversole, 212 216. New York: Abingdon Press, 1962. Also appeared as: 108.
     

  • “Urban Fact and the Human Situation.” In Challenge and Response in the City, ed. Walter Kloetzli, 9 20. Rock Island, IL: Augustana Book Concern, 1962.
     

  • “Called to Unity.” (Address, World Council of Churches Third Assembly, New Delhi, 1961.) The Ecumenical Review 14 (January 1962): 177 87. Translated: Verbum Caro 16 (1962): 115 126 (French); Istina 10 (April 1964): 301 10 (French); Neu-Delhi 1961, Dokumentarbericht über die dritte Vollversammlung des Oecumenischen Rates der Kirchen (Stuttgart, 1962) (German). Also appeared as: 102; 103; 104; 105; 210; excerpt appeared in 191, pp. 114 15.
     

  • “Called to Unity.” Vital Speeches 28 (15 February 1962): 281 85. Also appeared as: 101.
     

  • “Called to Unity.” South East Asia Journal of Theology 3 (April 1962): 6 15. Also appeared as: 101.
     

  • “Called to Unity.” Criterion 1 (Spring 1962): 2 5. Also appeared as: 101.
     

  • “Called to Unity.” Pulpit Digest 42, no. 290 (July-August 1962): 11 18. Also appeared as: 101.
     

  • “A Measure of Unity: The World Council of Churches.” Perspectives 7, no. 2 (March-April 1962): 32 35.
     

  • “End or Beginning?” (Review of Gabriel Vahanian, The Death of God, 1961.) The Christian Scholar 45 (Spring 1962): 74 75.
     

  • “Faith and Form.” Theology Today 19 (July 1962): 207 11. Also appeared as: 99.

1963

  • “The Care of the Earth.” In Sermons to Intellectuals from Three Continents, ed. Franklin Littell, 18 28. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. Also appeared as: 117, ch. 7.
     

  • Untitled articles. In Images of Faith, ed. Wendell Matthews and Robert P. Wetzler, 95 105, 111 12. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1963.
     

  • “Introduction.” In Worship in Scripture and Tradition, ed. Massey H. Shepherd, Jr., 3 8. New York: Oxford University Press, 1963.
     

  • “Über den Gottesdienst des Volkes Gottes.” In Stimmen aus der Oekumene, 222 23. Berlin: Lettner-Verlag, 1963.
     

  • Introduction to “The Contemporary Liturgy” by Daniel Moe and John Arthur. Lutheran Student Association of America, 1963.
     

  • “The Architectural Implications of Theology.” Journal of the American Society for Church Architecture No. 3 (January 1963): 5 9.
     

  • “The Real Jesus.” The Lutheran (LCA) 1, no. 7 (27 March 1963): 12 13.
     

  • “Christian Higher Education as Liberation.” Brethren Life and Thought 8, no. 4 (Autumn 1963): 4 8.

1964

  • The Care of the Earth and Other University Sermons. The Preacher’s Paperback Library, v. 2. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1964; 1969. Includes 109; ch. 6 appeared as 191, pp. 47 56.
     

  • “Report of Committee I, As Amended After Plenary Discussion: Creation, New Creation, and the Unity of the Church.” In Minutes of the Meetings of the Faith and Order Commission and Working Committee held at the University of Aarhus, Denmark 15 27 August 1964, 43 46. Paper No. 44. Geneva: World Council of Churches, Commission on Faith and Order, 1965. [According to Conrad Simonson, The Christology of the Faith and Order Movement (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972), 151f, this report was authored by Sittler.]
     

  • “Commencement Sermon. Delivered at the graduation exercises of the seminary May 29, 1964.” (Romans 11:33 36.) Bulletin, Lutheran Theological Seminary (Gettysburg, Pa.) 44, no. 3 (August 1964): 33 38.
     

  • “All Occasions Invite God’s Mercies.” (Review of W. R. Mueller, John Donne, Preacher, 1962.) The Christian Scholar 47 (Fall 1964): 252 56.
     

  • “Nature and Grace: Reflections on an Old Rubric.” Dialog 3 (Autumn 1964): 252 256.
     

  • “God, Grace, and the Libido.” The Lutheran (LCA) 2, no. 24 (18 November 1964) pp. 19 22.
     

  • “The Church and the Arts.” (Address, National Council of Churches General Board meeting, October 1963.) Mid-Stream 3 (1964): 169 174.
     

  • “Christ and the Cosmos--God’s Work and Man’s Search.” (Address, National Council of Churches, Division of Christian Life and Work.) Mid-Stream 3 (1964): 175 181.

1965

  • S.v. “Social Gospel” in The Encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church, ed. Julius Bodensieck. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1965.
     

  • “Christmas, the Messiah and the Small Town.” Christian Century 82, no. 51 (22 December 1965): 1576 77. Also appeared as: 142; 192.

1966

  • The Anguish of Preaching. The Zimmerman Lectures [Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg PA]. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1966. Includes 130.
     

  • “A Protestant Point of View.” In Vatican II: An Interfaith Appraisal, ed. John H. Miller, C.S.C., 422 27. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1966.
     

  • “The Faith Situation.” Motive 26, no. 5 (February 1966): 36 40.
     

  • “Faith and Form.” Una Sancta 23, no. 3 (March 1966): 34 36. Also appeared as: 127, ch. 4.
     

  • “A Christian Prolegomena to a Conference on Christianity and Law.” Student World [World Student Christian Federation] 54, no. 4 (Fourth Quarter 1966): 346 358.
     

  • “The Principal Problem for Protestant Theology Today.” In The Word in History, ed. T. Patrick Burke, 60 68. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1966.
     

  • “Freedom and Responsibility.” In Proceedings of the Institute on Problems that Unite Us. Dubuque, IA: Sisters of Charity, BVM, Mt. Carmel, 1966.

1967

  • “The Role of the Spirit in Creating the Future Environment.” In Environment and Change, ed. William R. Ewald, Jr., 55 68. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1967.
     

  • “Effort and Serenity.” In Rockefeller Chapel Sermons of Recent Years, ed. Donovan E. Smucker, 3 10. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1967.
     

  • “Depersonalization.” In The Layman and the Church: The Church’s Responsibility and Concern for its Professionally Trained Laity, ed. Andrew J. Buehner, 161 169. St. Louis: Lutheran Academy for Scholarship, 1967.
     

  • (Autobiographical note with photo.) Criterion 6 (Winter 1967): 21 23.
     

  • “The Conversion of St. Paul.” The Lutheran (LCA) 5, no. 2 (18 January 1967): 5 6.

1968

  • “The Achievement of Values in Architecture.” (With a response by Daniel Callahan.) Faith and Form 1 (January 1968): 21 22.

1969

  • “Intercommunion and the Cultural Reality.” In The Future of Empirical Theology: 100th Anniversary of the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, ed. Bernard Meland, 307 320. Essays in Divinity, no. 7. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.
     

  • “Man on the Moon.” The Lutheran (LCA) 7, no. 16 (20 August 1969): 16 17.
     

  • Review of The Cosmic Christ, by George A. Maloney. Lutheran Quarterly 21 (November 1969): 469.
     

  • “When They Sang the Messiah.” The Lutheran, (LCA) 7, no. 23 (3 December 1969): 17 19. Also appeared as: 126.

1970

  • “An Old Alliance: Retrospect and Prospect.” In God and Man in Contemporary Christian Thought, ed. Charles Malik, 78 89. Beirut: American University in Beirut, 1970.
     

  • “A Sense of Limit.” Una Sancta 27, no. 2 (February 1970): 52 55.
     

  • “Ecological Commitment as Theological Responsibility.” Zygon 5 (June 1970): 172 181. Also appeared as: 146; 151.
     

  • “Ecological Commitment as Theological Responsibility.” IDOC International, North American Edition 9 (1970): 75 85. Also appeared as: 145.
     

  • “Joseph Haroutunian: Total Theologian.” Journal of Religion 50 (July 1970): 215 28.
     

  • Review of The Dominion of Man: The Search for Ecological Responsibility, by John Black. Zygon 5 (December 1970): 370.

1971

  • “The Presence and Acts of the Triune God in Creation and History.” In The Gospel and Human Destiny, ed. Vilmos Vajta, 90 135. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1971. Incorporated into 154.
     

  • “Gegenwart und Wirken des dreienigen Gottes in Schöpfung und Geschichte.” Kapitel IV in Das Evangelium und die Bestimmung des Menschen, herausgegeben von Vilmos Vajta. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [1971]. German translation of 149.
     

  • “Ecological Commitment as Theological Responsibility.” South Western Journal of Theology 13 (Spring 1971): 35 45. Also appeared as: 145.
     

  • “An Aspect of American Religious Experience.” Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America 26 (14 17 June 1971): 1 17. Incorporates material from 48; Also appeared as: 172; excerpt appeared in 191, pp. 92 95.
     

  • “Two Temptations--Two Corrections.” National Parks and Conservation Magazine: The Environmental Journal 45, no. 12 (December 1971): 21.

1972

  • Essays on Nature and Grace. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1972. Incorporates material from 149; excerpts appeared in 191, pp. 79 91.
     

  • “Response to Johannes Metz.” In Hope and the Future of Man, ed. Ewert H. Cousins, 131 134. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1972.
     

  • “The New Creation.” Chap. in The Human Crisis in Ecology, ed. Franklin L. Jensen and Cedric W. Tilberg, 96 103. [Philadelphia]: Board of Social Ministry, Lutheran Church in America, 1972. [According to the Forward, Sittler had “primary responsibility” for this chapter.]
     

  • Untitled personal profile of Franklin Clark Fry. In Franklin Clark Fry: A Palette for a Portrait, ed. Robert H. Fischer, 57 59. Lutheran Quarterly 24, Supplementary Issue (1972).
     

  • “Theological Developments in the Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue.” Chicago Studies 11, no. 1 (Spring 1972): 45 58.
     

  • “The Scope of Christological Reflection.” Interpretation 26 (July 1972): 328 337.
     

  • “The Perils of Futurist Thinking.” In Shaping the Future: A Discussion at the 1971 Nobel Conference Organized by the Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN, ed. John D. Roslansky, 67 82. Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Co., 1972.

1973

  • “Evangelism and the Care of the Earth.” In Preaching in the Witnessing Community, ed. Herman G. Steumpfle, Jr., 100 104. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1973.
     

  • “Dogma and Doxa.” In Worship: Good News in Action, ed. Mandus A. Egge, 7 23. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1973.
     

  • “Serendipity and Systematics.” (On leaving the University of Chicago Divinity School.) Criterion 13, no. 1 (Autumn 1973): 23 24.
     

  • “The Love I Speak of Is....” (Devotional address.) The Cresset (June, 1973): 8 9.

1974

  • “Reflections on Christmas in Church.” The Grace Note (Augustana Lutheran Church, Chicago) 1, no. 5 (November 1974): 3 4. [Unsigned, but also appeared as: 186; 191, pp. 11 12.]
     

  • “Streaking.” (Poem.) [Periodical title unknown] (April 12, 1974): 6.

1975

  • (Chesterton on tradition.) The Grace Note (Augustana Lutheran Church, Chicago) 2, no. 2 (February 1975): n.p. [Signed “J.S.”]
     

  • [“Demythologizing a Myth.” The Grace Note (Augustana Lutheran Church, Chicago) 2, no. 6 (June 1975): 1 2.]
     

  • [“A Spiritual Exercise.” The Grace Note (Augustana Lutheran Church, Chicago) 2, no. 6 (June 1975): 2.]
     

  • “Saint Augustine, Polish Sausage, and the Moral Life” The Grace Note (Augustana Lutheran Church, Chicago) 2, no. 7 (July 1975): n.p. Also appeared as: 185, 191, pp. 74 76.
     

  • “Reflections on Liturgy.” The Grace Note (Augustana Lutheran Church, Chicago) 2, no. 8 (September 1975): 2. [Signed “J.S.”] Incorporated into 184, p. 915.

1976

  • “Space and Time in American Religious Experience.” Interpretation 30 (January 1976): 44 51. Also appeared as: 152.
     

  • “Reflection Upon Advent.” The Grace Note (Augustana Lutheran Church, Chicago) 2, no. 11 (January 1976): 1. [Signed “J.S.”]
     

  • “On Polishing the Perfect.” The Grace Note (Augustana Lutheran Church, Chicago) 3, no. 1 (February 1976):3. [Article unsigned but manuscript on file at Augustana Lutheran Church was initialed “J.S.”]
     

  • “Visitor to Columbus Swept with Nostalgia.” (Letter to the Editor.) Columbus, Ohio Dispatch, April 6, 1976.

1977

  • [“Goal Setting and the Church.” The Grace Note (Augustana Lutheran Church, Chicago) 3, no. 6 (August 1977): n.p.]
     

  • Review of School in the Woods: The Story of an Immigrant Seminary by Thorvald Hansen. The Lutheran (December 1977): 33.

1978

  • “The Sittler Speeches.” In Center for the Study of Campus Ministry Yearbook 1977 78, 10 61. Valparaiso, IN: Valparaiso University, [1978]. (Contents: I. On Krister Stendahl’s Paul among Jews and Gentiles; II. Biblical Interpretation Today; III. Christology and Grace; IV. A Little Discourse on Style; V. Eternal Life; VI. The New Situation in Ethics; and running sidebar, “Comments.” Transcript of talks given June 12 17, 1977.) Excerpts appeared in 191, pp. 14, 24, 27, 38 41, 96, 100.
     

  • “Thought, Action and the Christian Life.” The Grace Note (Augustana Lutheran Church, Chicago) 5, no. 8 (September 1978): n.p. Signed “J.S.”
     

  • Joseph A. Sittler interviewed by Robert H. Fischer, September 14, 1978. Oral History Collection, Archives of Cooperative Lutheranism, Lutheran Council in the U.S.A. Bound typescript at ELCA Archives, Chicago IL.
     

  • “Sittler Talks Theology.” (Transcript of lectures.) Podium (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Saskatoon, Canada) 11, no. 3, 4 (Spring/Summer 1978): n.p.

1979

  • “Probings by Sittler: Published in Celebration of Joseph A. Sittler’s 75th Birthday.” Edited by Robert M. Herhold. Chicago: Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 1979. Almost entirely reprinted as 191: pp. 13, 16 20, 98 99, 103 113, 118, 119 21; excerpts appeared in 184.
     

  • “Conversation with Sittler.” Interview by Robert M. Herhold. Partners 1, no. 3 (June 1979): 6 9. Excerpts appeared in 191, pp. 25 26, 29, 36, 37.
     

  • “Probings by Sittler.” Edited by Robert M. Herhold. Christian Century 96 (26 September 1979): 915 917. Excerpts from 182; material incorporating 171 appears as 191, p. 34.
     

  • “Saint Augustine, Polish Sausage, and the Moral Life” The Lutheran 17, no. 21 (5 December 1979): 12 13. Also appeared as: 170.
     

  • “The Simple and the Sublime.” Christian Century 96 (19 December 1979): 1258. Also appeared as: 165.

1980

  • “Lenten Meditation: Driven To Deeper Reflection.” Christian Century 97, no. 10 (19 March 1980): 311.
     

  • “Nobody Wants Barabbas: Holy Week Meditation.” Christian Century 97, no. 12 (2 April 1980): 365 366. Also appeared as: 26.
     

  • “George Buttrick: A Tribute and a Reflection.” Christian Century 97, no. 14 (16 April 1980): 429 430.
     

  • “Now I Think: About Chanters Who Can’t.” The Lutheran 18, no. 13 (July 1980): 32.

1981

  • Grace Notes and Other Fragments. Selected and edited by Robert M. Herhold and Linda Marie Delloff. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981. Includes or excerpts: 5; 13; 20; 25; 26; 27; 31; 39; 67; 71; 83; 101; 117; 152; 154; 165; 170; 178; 183; 182; 184.
     

  • “Christmas, the ‘Messiah’ and the Small Town.” Christian Century 98 (16 December 1981): 1315 1317. Also appeared as: 126.

1982

  • “Of Pot Roasts an Preachers.” (Appeared in brochure for Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Chicago IL, c. 1982.)
     

  • “The Haunting Allure of Jesus.” (Commencement sermon at Trinity Lutheran Seminary, 22 May 1982.) Trinity Seminary Review 4, no. 2 (Fall 1982): 32 35.

1983

  • “Spirituality and Discipline.” Word and World 3 (Spring 1983): 123 128.

1984

  • “Wilhelm Pauck: Constructive Theologian.” In In Memory of Wilhelm Pauck (1901 1981): Memorial Notes, Essays and Addresses, ed. David W. Lotz, 71 77. Union Papers, no. 2. New York: Union Theological Seminary, 1982.
     

  • “Joseph Sittler and the Theatre of Human Existence: An Interview.” Interview by Linda M. Delloff. Christian Century 101 (1 8 February 1984): 113 115.
     

  • “An Open Letter by Joseph Sittler.” (Comments on LCA Social Statement, “Peace and Politics.”) Xeroxed typescript, March 7, 1984. Published as: 200.
     

  • “Aging: An Awkward Problem.” Health and Medicine; Journal of the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group 2, no. 4 (Summer/Fall 1984): 3, 36. Also appeared as: 205, pp. 120 123.
     

  • “An Open Letter by Joseph Sittler.” (Comments on LCA Social Statement, “Peace and Politics.”) Currents in Theology and Mission 11 (October 1984): 269 277. Also appeared as: 198; 201; 205, pp. 108 118.

1985

  • “Moral Discourse in a Nuclear Age.” (Comments on LCA Social Statement, “Peace and Politics.”) The Christian Century 102 (6 March 1985): 242 245. Also appeared as: 200.
     

  • “Closing Address: Creating a Rhetoric of Rural Values.” In “Preliminary Report: A Family Farm Action Agenda,” 37 47. Xeroxed booklet from “A Time to Choose: An Ecumenical Event on the Future of Family Farm Agriculture in Wisconsin,” Madison, Wis. 8 9 March 1985. Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Conference of Churches, 1985. (See 238)
     

  • “Exploring the Multiple Dimensions of Aging.” Journal of Religious Aging 2, no. 1 2 (Fall-Winter 1985 86): 165 172.
     

  • “Return to New Delhi: A Lutheran Partners Interview with Theologian Joseph A. Sittler.” Interview by Robert M. Herhold. Lutheran Partners 1, no. 4 (November/December 1985): 8 11, 25.

1986

  • Gravity and Grace: Reflections and Provocations. Edited by Linda Marie Delloff. Forward by Martin E. Marty. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg, 1986. Includes: 200, as pp. 108 118; 199, as pp. 120 123; 206; 209.
     

  • “Provocations on the Church and the Arts.” Christian Century 103 (19 26 March 1986): 291 294. Excerpts from 205.

1987

  • “The Last Lecture: A Walk Around Truth, Eternal Life, Faith.” Religion and Intellectual Life 4, no. 2 (Winter 1987): 59 65.
     

  • “Love Calls Us.” The Cresset 51, no. 1 (November 1987): 43 45. (From a symposium on “Christianity and Culture.”)

1988

  • “Education as Furniture and Propellant.” Christian Century 105 (February 3 10, 1988): 102 04. Excerpts from 205.

1989

  • “Called to Unity.” Currents in Theology and Mission 16, no. 1 (February 1989): 5 13. Also appeared as: 101.
     

  • “A Call to Christian Reflection . . . ‘Lord, Have Mercy on Us’- 1961.” Currents in Theology and Mission 16, no. 1 (February 1989): 19. Also appeared as: 96.
     

  • Faith, Learning and the Church College: Addresses by Joseph Sittler. Edited by Connie Gegenbach. Introduction by Harold Ditmanson. Northfield, MN: St. Olaf College, 1989.

Date Unknown

  • “Commencement Address.” (Uses of knowledge: power, delight, criticism.) Typescript. Sittler papers, ELCA Archives.
     

  • “Christian Theology and Christian Counseling.” (Introductory remarks for a Spring Conference on the theme, “Christian Counseling and Christian Theology: Complimentary [sic] or Contradictory” held by the Chicago-area [sic] of the Interseminary Movement.) Typescript. Sittler Papers, ELCA Archives.
     

  • “Salvation: The New Context.” In Salvation in Christ: The Problem and the Promise [?]. Tantur (Jerusalem): Ecumenical Institute for Advanced Theological Studies, [1972?]. Offprint in Sittler papers, ELCA Archives, Chicago, IL.

 

Audio/Video Recordings
Note: location information for starred (*) items can be retrieved through the OCLC online database. Items marked “+” were on a list in the Sittler papers, ELCA Archives, Chicago, Illinois, as having been deposited in LCA Archives. May now be among unsorted items in ELCA Archives, Chicago, or at LSTC.

  • “The Faith Situation.” Recorded at Chicago Theological Seminary, 22 February, 1965. *
     

  • “Where is God? An Interview with Joseph Sittler by Robert Karsten.” Film. 23 min. Directed by Richard T. Stevens. “A Stimulus Series Motion Picture.” LCA Parish Education Cirriculum, School of Religion Series. [1966]. +
     

  • “Doctrine of Grace II.” Los Angeles: Pacifica Tape Library, 1968. *
     

  • ”Time, Space, and the American Experience.” Reel-to-reel audio tape. University of Chicago Office of Radio and Television Production Center, “From the Midway” series, August 13,
    1969 +
     

  • “Components for Ecological Reflection.” Thesis Theological Cassettes 2, no. 7 (1971). *
     

  • “The Relation of American Space to American Ethics.” Audio Recording. Recorded at the Ecumenical Institute held 31 July, 1973. Worchester, Mass.: Assumption College, 1973. *
     

  • “A Theological Overview.” Reel-to-reel audio recording. Workshop on Ministering among the Aging, L.S.T.C., September 25, 1974. +
     

  • “Theological Method.” Reel-to-reel audio recording. 13 tapes. Course lecture at L.S.T.C., Sept. 30, 1974--October 28, 1974. +
     

  • “Spirit and Creation.” Lecture given at Bishop Brent House, Chicago, Ill., 22 January, 1975. Chicago: Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago Inter Media Center, [1975]. +
     

  • “Joseph Sittler--July 4, 1976: Augustana Lutheran Church, Chicago.” Chicago: Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago Inter Media Center, [1976].
     

  • “Theological Education.” (Also includes Walter Wolbrecht on Seminary Life Appeal and Fred Lubs [M.Div. Student, 1976] on C.P.E. [Clinical Pastoral Education].) Reel to reel audio
    tape. +
     

  • “Fireside Chat.” Chelan, Wash.: Holden Village Tape Ministry, 1977.
     

  • [Sermons.] “The Dimensions of Prayer (v. 8);” “On the Undemonstrative Knowledge of God (v. 9);” “The Web of Life (v. 10).” Recorded as presented during Phillips University Minister’s Week, 24 26 January, 1978. Enid, OK.: Phillips University, 1978. *
     

  • “New Situation in Ethics”. [21 min.] Thesis Theological Cassettes 9, no. 2 (March 1978). *
     

  • “Space, Time and American Religion.” From a convocation held at Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa, 18 January, 1979. *
     

  • “The Future Task of Theology.” 1979. *
     

  • “Reflections on the Augsburg Confession.” 1979. *
     

  • “The Word and Scripture.” 1979. *
     

  • “Speaking of God.” [28 min. 30 sec.] Thesis Theological Cassettes 10, no. 11 (December 1979). *
     

  • “The Ministry of the Laity.” St. Paul, Minn.: Media Services Center, The American Lutheran Church, 197-.*
     

  • “Modern Day Demands upon Christian Tradition.” Thesis Theological Cassettes 12, no. 4 (May 1981), side 1. *
     

  • “The Holy Spirit and Human Reflection;” “The Presence of Grace in Creation, Redemption and Sanctification.” Lectures given on the theme, “Nature and Grace: Three perspectives” (with Martin Marty and Charles Curran) at Concordia Summer Theological Conference, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn., 26 July 1982. Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia Summer Theological Conference, 1982. *
     

  • “Love Is Not Enough.” [World hunger.] Video Publishing, 1982. VHS video, 30 min. Available from ELCA Distribution Service (426 S. 5th St., Box 1209, Minneapolis, MN 55440).
     

  • “Theology of the Land.” Black Earth, Wis.: Wisconsin Rural Development Center, 1985. See 202. *
     

  • “Keynote Address.” Inauguration of Rev. Dr. John Warren Vannorsdall as president of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. 1986. *
     

  • “A Few Moments with Mr. Sittler.” Videotape. Produced by Lutheran General Hospital for L.S.T.C. 1987.

 

Articles

  • Anderson, Wilhelm. “Jesus Christus und der Kosmos.” Evangelische Theologie 23. Jahrgang (18. Jahrgang der neuen folge), Heft 9 (1963): 471 493.
     

  • Brauer, Jerald C. “An Appreciation of Joseph Sittler.” The Journal of Religion 54 (April 1974): 97 101.
     

  • Bürkle, Horst. “Die Frage nach dem ‘kosmischen Christus’ als Bespiel einer ökumenisch orientierten Theologie.” Kerygma und Dogma 11. Jahrgang (1965): 103 115. English translation: “The Debate of the “Cosmic Christ” as Example of an Ecumenically Oriented Theology.” In Indian Voices in Today’s Theological Debate, ed. Horst Bürkle and Wolfgang M. W. Roth, 198 214. Lucknow, India: Lucknow Publishing House; Delhi, S.P.C.K., 1972.
     

  • Burtness James A. “The New Morality.” Dialog 5 (1966): 10 17.
     

  • Carlson, Walter D. “The Maceration of the Minister.” (Extending Sittler’s 1959 agenda--see 83.) Dialog 32 (Winter 1993): 9 13.
     

  • Cromie, Thetis. “Feminism and the Grace-full Thought of Joseph Sittler.” Christian Century, 97, no. 13 (9 April 1980): 406 408.
     

  • Crow, Paul. “Montreal and the Church in the Purpose of God.” Midstream 3 (December 1963): 17 18.
     

  • Gruetzner, James K. “The Church and National Security Policy.” (Response to item # 200 above.) Currents in Theology and Mission 13 (April 1986): 81 88.
     

  • Hefner, Philip. “The Politics and the Ontology of Nature and Grace.” Journal of Religion 54 (April 1974): 138 153.
     

  • Heggen, Bruce. “Hammer-Handle Piety and the Care of the Earth: Joseph Sittler on Ecology and Christian Faith.” ARC: The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University 18 (Spring 1990): 115 128.
     

  • Hovda, Robert W. “Pentecost, Distinctive Cultures and Common Prayer” (The Amen Corner). Worship 62 (May 1988): 260 265.
     

  • Kurtaneck, Nickolas. “Are Seminaries Preparing Pastors to Preach the Word of God?” Grace Theological Journal 6, no. 2 (Fall 1985): 361 371.
     

  • McCormick, Richard A. “Notes on Moral Theology: April-September 1970.” (See section “Towards an Ethics of Ecology.”) Theological Studies 32 (March 1971): 66 107. Reprinted in his Notes on Moral Theology 1965 1980 (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1981).
     

  • Milhaven, John G., and David J. Casey, “Introduction to the Theological Background of the New Morality.” Theological Studies 28 (1967): 213 44.
     

  • Northcutt, Kay Bessler. “Aging and Innerlichkeit: My Conversations with Joseph Sittler.” Second Opinion 19 (July 1993): 11 19.
     

  • Olson, Alan M. Review of The Embers and The Stars by Erazim Kohak. International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion 17 (1985): 88 90. (Compares Kohak and Paul Ricoeur with Sittler.)
     

  • Rochelle, Jay. “A Call to Intellectual Spirituality: Homage to Joseph Sittler.” Circle Magazine [Campus Ministry Communications, DCMES-LCUSA] January-February 1981, n.p.
     

  • Ross-Bryant, Lynn. “Theodore Roethke’s Poetry of the Earth.” The Drew Gateway 46, no. 1 3 (1975 76): 85 94.
     

  • Scott, Nathan A. Jr. “The Poetry and Theology of Earth: Reflections on the Testimony of Joseph Sittler and Gerard Manley Hopkins.” Journal of Religion 54 (April 1974): 102 118.
     

  • van Bavel, T. J. “Kosmische Christologie of Theologie van de Natuur: Een Verkenning Rond de Theologie van Joseph Sittler.” [Cosmic Christology or Theology of Nature?]. Tijdschrift Voor Theologie 20 (1980): 280 303.

 

Books and Dissertations

  • Bakken, Peter W. “The Ecology of Grace: Ultimacy and Environmental Ethics in Aldo Leopold and Joseph Sittler.” Ph.D. Diss., University of Chicago, 1991
     

  • Bouma-Prediger, Steven C. “Toward a New Christian Theology of Nature: A Critical Comparison of Rosemary Radford Ruether, Joseph Sittler, and Juergen Moltmann.” Ph.D. Diss., University of Chicago, 1992.
     

  • Creede, Moira. “Logos and Lord: A Study of the Cosmic Christology of Joseph Sittler.” Ph.D. Diss., Katholieke Universiteit Te Leuven, 1977.
     

  • Derr, Thomas Sieger. Ecology and Human Need. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1975. Originally published as Ecology and Human Liberation. ([Geneva:] World Council of Churches and World Student Christian Federation, 1973). (Pp. 34 35)
     

  • French, William Cullen. “Christianity and the Domination of Nature.” Ph.D. Diss., University of Chicago, 1985. (Pp. 146 151)
     

  • Gustafson, James M. Christ and the Moral Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1968. (Pp. 151, 174 75, 186)
     

  • _______. Christian Ethics and the Community. Philadelphia: United Church Press, A Pilgrim Press Book, 1971. (Pp. 51 52, 107 108.)
     

  • _______. Protestant and Roman Catholic Ethics: Prospects for Rapprochement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. (Pp. 120 121, 125, 183)
     

  • Hall, Douglas John. Imaging God: Dominion as Stewardship. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1987. (See esp. pp. 115-116, 124-125, 134-135, 177-78)
     

  • Long, Edward Leroy. A Survey of Christian Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. (Pp. 117, 126f., 143 5, 221, 294)
     

  • Lyons The Cosmic Christ in Origen and Teilhard: A Comparative Study. Oxford Theological Monographs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. (Pp. 50, 57, 59 68, 72 73.)
     

  • Moltmann, Jürgen. The Way of Jesus Christ: Christology in Messianic Dimensions. Translated by Margaret Kohl. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1990. (Pp. 276 78)
     

  • Nash, Roderick Frazier. The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. (Pp. 98 99.)
     

  • Simonson, Conrad. “Faith and Order Christology.” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago Divinity School, 1970. Published as: The Christology of the Faith and Order Movement, Oekumenische Studien, no. 10 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972).
     

  • Stewart, Claude Y. Nature in Grace: A Study in the Theology of Nature. National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion Dissertation Series, No. 3. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1983. (Pp. 27 30, 31, 292.)

 

Reviews of Books by Sittler

  • The Doctrine of the Word
        —
      Theology Today 8 (May-July 1951): 264 265. W. F. Orr.
     

  • The Structure of Christian Ethics
        —
      Chicago Theological Seminary Register 49 ,no. 1 (January 1959):
        —
      10 11. James M. Gustafson.
        —
      Concordia Theological Monthly 30 (May 1959): 394 395. R. R. Caemmerer.
        —
      Journal of Religion 40 (April 1960): 142 143. Paul Ramsey.
        —
      Lutheran World 6 (1959 1960): 194 197. Franklin Sherman.
     

  • The Ecology of Faith
        —
      Christianity Today 6, no. 6 (22 December 1961): 34 5. A. W. Blackwood.
        —
      Dialog 1, no. 2 (Spring 1962): 71 72. J. Knudsen.
        —
      Foundations 3 (1960): 272 273. Joseph D. Barr.
        —
      Union Seminary Quarterly Review 17 (January 1962): 199. P. Scherer.
     

  • The Care of the Earth
        —
      Lutheran Quarterly 17 (November 1965): 366 7. R. P. Roth.
     

  • The Scope of Grace (Festschrift edited by Philip J. Hefner)
        —
      Christian Scholar 48 (Winter 1965): 316 318. Carl Michalson.
        —
      Dialog 5, no. 1 (Winter 1966): 75 6. J. Burtness.
        —
      Journal of Religion 45 (October 1965): 354 355. Edgar M. Carlson.
        —
      Lutheran Quarterly 17 (November 1965): 367 8. R. P. Roth.
        —
      Una Sancta 22, no. 4 (1965): 85 86. Andrew Weyermann.
     

  • The Anguish of Preaching
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      Foundations 11 (April-June 1968): 176 80. R. G. Middleton.
        —
      Interpretation 21 (October 1967): 497 8. C. P. Price.
        —
      The Springfielder (Concordia Theological Seminary, Springfield IL) 30, no. 4
        —
      (Winter 1967): 60 1. H. J. Eggold.
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      Theology Today 24 (July 1967): 238 9. C. H. Massa.
     

  • Essays on Nature and Grace
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      Christian Century 89 (29 November 1972): 1218. D. A. Fox.
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      Dialog 12 (Autumn 1973): 312. R. P. Scharlemann.
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      Journal of the American Academy of Religion 41 (December 1973): 641. R. Kress.
        —
      Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses 3, no. 3 (1973 74): 285 7. J. C.
        —
      Robertson, Jr.
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      Lutheran Quarterly 25 (February 1973): 110 111. John G. Kuethe.
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      The Circle [Lutheran Council in the USA, Chicago, IL]. October 1973. Warren Strickler.
     

  • Grace Notes and Other Fragments
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      Christian Century 98 (15 April 1981): 452 453. D. B. Watermulder.
     

  • Gravity and Grace
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      Book Newsletter of Augsburg Publishing House (Minneapolis) no. 521
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      (May-June 1986): 1 2. Harold H. Ditmanson.
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      Calvin Theological Journal 23 (Nov 1988): 258 259. Douglas J. Schuurman.
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      Christian Century 103, no. 24 (August 13 20 1986): 717. Nathan A. Scott, Jr.
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      Entree [National Lutheran Campus Ministry Communications]. Harold Ditmanson.
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      Lutheran Theological Journal 21 no. 1 (May 1987): 42 43. Noel E. Weiss.
        —
      Trinity Lutheran Seminary Review 8 no. 2 (Fall 1986): 105. Donald G. Luck.

 

Festschriften

  • The Scope of Grace: Essays on Nature and Grace in Honor of Joseph Sittler. Edited by Philip J. Hefner. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1964.
    Contents:
        —
      N. A. Scott, Jr., “Mimesis and Time in Modern Literature;”
        —
      H. G. Davis, “Nature, Love and Robert Frost;”
        —
      S. Reinhart, “Reality and the Creative Force;”
        —
      J. Pelikan, “The Mortality of God and the Immortality of Man in Gregory of Nyssa;”
        —
      A. Vööbus, Theological Reflections of Human Nature in Ancient Syrian Traditions;”
        —
      J. Knudson, “The Gnostic View;”
        —
      B. E. Meland, “New Perspectives on Nature and Grace;”
        —
      J. Haroutunian, “Toward a Piety of Faith;”
        —
      P. J. Hefner, “Nature, Grace and the Christian Indicative;”
        —
      K. H. Hertz, “The Social Role of the Man of God;”
        —
      F. Sherman, “The Vital Center: Toward a Chalcedonian Social Ethic;”
        —
      J. C. Brauer, “His Church and His World;”
        —
      C. Bergendorff, “The Ethical Thought of Einar Billing;”
        —
      “Bibliography of the Published Writings of Joseph Sittler.”
     

  • Journal of Religion 54 (April 1974): 97 165, 181 3.
    Contents:
        —
      Brauer, J. C., “In Appreciation of Joseph Sittler”;
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      Meland, B., “Grace: A Dimension within Nature?”;
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      Haroutunian, J., “The Church, the Spirit, and the Hands of God”;
        —
      Hefner, P., “The Politics and Ontology of Nature and Grace”;
        —
      Scott, Nathan A., Jr., “The Poetry and Theology of Earth: Reflections
        —
      on the Testimony of Joseph Sittler and Gerard Manley Hopkins;”
        —
      Davis, Daniel J., “A Selected Bibliography of the Writings of Joseph Sittler.”

 

News Articles and Historical Accounts featuring Joseph Sittler

  • Jessup, John Knox. “Challenges to American Faith: The World, the Flesh and the Devil.” Life Magazine 39 no. 26/40 no. 1 (26 December 1956): 140 143.
     

  • “The Ecumenical Century.” Time Magazine 78, no. 3 (8 December 1961): 76 80. Excerpt reprinted in Philip Maury, “Ecumenical Chronicle: A Survey of Press Comments on the Third Assembly: Part II,” Ecumenical Review 14 (July 1962): 480 503 [See p. 501].
     

  • Nelson, J. Robert. “Imperatives of Our Common Calling: Analyses of Three Assembly Statements: Unity.” Christian Century 79, no. 2 (10 January 1962): 53 55.
     

  • “Faith and Order Meeting Seeks Greater Unity.” Lutheran Standard 3, no. 17 (13 August 1963): 3.
     

  • “De-Polluting the World.” Lutheran Standard 9, no. 5 (4 March 1969): 24.
     

  • Kildegaard, Fylla. “The Many Lives of Jeanne Sittler.” The Lutheran 8 no. 6 (18 March 1970): 12 14.
     

  • Bukro, Casey. “In the Beginning, There Was Concern for Ecology.” Chicago Tribune, April 1976.
     

  • “Sittler at Conference.” Lutheran Standard 18, no. (20 June 1978): 16.
     

  • “‘Ethical Inventiveness’ Needed in Coping with Today’s Culture, Sittler Contends.” Lutheran Standard 18, no. 12 (5 September 1978): 18.
     

  • Oregon Statesman (Salem, OR?). October, 1978. See 191, p. 21.
     

  • Larson, Roy. “Tradition: Theologian on the Hoof Keeps Faith Going.” Chicago Sun-Times, February 18, 1974.
     

  • Nelson, E. Clifford, ed. Lutherans in North America (Revised edition). Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980. (P. 505.)
     

  • Klein, Christa, with Christian von Dehsen. Politics and Policy: The Theology and Genesis of Social Statements in the Lutheran Church in America. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1989. (Pp. 34-36, 46-53, 63-66, 124-127.)

 

Obituaries and Memorials

  • “Rev. Joseph Sittler, 83, Theologian and Author.” [obituary] Chicago Sun Times, 30 December 1987, 56.
     

  • “Rev. Joseph Sittler, Theology Prof.” [obituary] Chicago Tribune, 30 December 1987, sec. 2, p. 11
     

  • “Sittler, Joseph A., 1906 1987.” [obituary] Criterion 27, no. (Winter 1988): 102 104.
     

  • Groenewold, Sonia. “Theologian Joseph Sittler, 83, Dies.” The Lutheran (ELCA) 1, no. 2 (27 January 1988): 22 23.
     

  • Hallemeier, Christine Kouhi; William E. Lesher; Nathan Scott; Linda-Marie Delloff, Herbert Chilstrom, Martin E. Marty. “Reflections on the Life of Joseph Sittler.” Currents in Theology and Mission 16, no. 1 (February 1989): 20 28.
     

  • Hefner, Philip. “In Memoriam: Elements of Joe Sittler’s Style.” Dialog (St. Paul, Minn.) 27 (Spring 1988): 82 83.
     

  • _______. “Joseph Sittler: In Memoriam.” (Sermon.) Currents in Theology and Mission 16, no. 1 (February 1989): 14 18.
     

  • Marty, Martin E. “Mentor to Many.” Christian Century 105 (January 27, 1988): 95.

 

Sources used for this Compilation

  • “Bibliography of the Published Writings of Joseph Sittler.” In The Scope of Grace, ed. Philip J. Hefner, 307 310. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1964. [to 1964]
     

  • “A Selected Bibliography of the Writings of Joseph Sittler.” Compiled by Daniel J. Davis. The Journal of Religion 54 (April 1974): 181 183. [to 1973]
     

  • Card catalog. Jesuit-Krauss-McCormick Library, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Chicago IL.
     

  • “Sources.” In Grace Notes and Other Fragments, pp. 123 124. Selected and ed. Robert M. Herhold and Linda M. Delloff. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1981.
     

  • Index to Religious Periodical Literature, vols. 5 12.
     

  • Religion Index One: Periodicals, vols. 1 11, 13 25 no. 1.
     

  • Religion Index Two: Festschriften 1960 1969
     

  • Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works, vols. 1 17.
     

  • Index to Book Reviews in Religion, 1949 1974, 1986 1991.
    Citations provided by the Rev. James B. Olson and the Rev. Frederick J. Schmidt, from E.L.C.A. archives; and by Melvin D. George.
     

  • Review of issues and indexes of Lutheran Church Quarterly, vols. 1 21; Lutheran Quarterly, vols. 1 29; Lutheran World (all vols.); The Lutheran (ULCA) vols. 43 45 (5 October 1960 19 December 1962); The Lutheran (LCA) vols. 1-19 (1963 1981), CLTSR vols. 50 62 (1945-1957), Grace Note (Augustana L.C., Chicago) 1974 1979, Lutheran Standard vols. 1 11, 16 18.
     

  • OCLC search performed by Ms. Emilie Pulver, Jesuit-Krauss-McCormick Library, February 1989.
     

  • Sittler papers, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Archives, Chicago, IL.
     

  • Creede, Moira. “Bibliography.” In: “Logos and Lord: A Study of the Cosmic Christology of Joseph Sittler,” pp. xxxiii ff. Ph.D. Diss., Katholieke Universiteit Te Leuven, 1977.

 

This Version
June 21, 2004.
For additions, corrections, or copies please contact: Peter W. Bakken (see below)

 

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