Publications (the more recent titles are “live”):

2020
Forthcoming:
Hearers of the Word
Praying & Exploring the Readings for Easter and Pentecost Year A (2020)

Review of the Revised New Jerusalem Bible Study Edition in
Search 43.1 (2020) pp. 73-75. You may like to read the review itself here.

2019
Hearers of the Word
Praying & Exploring the Readings for Lent & Holy Week: Year A (2020)

2019
Hearers of the Word
Praying & Exploring the Readings for Advent & Christmas: Year A (2019/2020)

“Let the Spirit Lead: Missionary Lessons from the Acts of the Apostles” in Fabrizio Meroni (Ed) Missio Ad Gentes in the Acts of the Apostles (2019; pp. 13-25)

2018
How to Sit with God
A Practical Guide to Silent Prayer (2018)
(translated from French)

“The Catholic Lectionary: Its Creation, Reception and Challenge” in B.A. Anderson and J. Kearney (Eds)
Ireland and the Reception of the Bible (2018; pp. 107-119)

2016
Speaking from Within
Biblical Approaches for Effective Preaching (2016)

2013
“Why no Lord’s Supper at the Last Supper? John 6 and 13” in the collected papers of the International Eucharistic Congress 2012 (to be published in 2013).

Papyrus 46” in Treasures of Irish Christianity: Images and the Word (provisional title; 2013)

“St Paul, mentor for a recovering church? Gender, ethics and ministry in radical perspective” in
Broken Faith: Re-Visioning the Church in Ireland (2013)

“Speaking from within: more effective preaching” in Priesthood Today (2013)

2012
Do We Still Need St Paul?
A Contemporary Reading of the Apostle (2012; second expanded edition)

The Last Supper: What Happened and What Did It Mean? Dublin: NBSI, 2012

2009
What the Bible Says about the Stranger
Click on the link for a free PDF (2009)

The Pauline Writings, 2 vols, Dublin: The Priory Institute, 2009

Do We Still Need St Paul? Dublin: Veritas, 2009

“The Audience of Romans” in Lapko, Róbert (ed.) The Letter to the Romans, Szeged: Gerhardus Kiadó, 2009, 31-54.

“Stones that Speak: St Paul and Archaeology” Milltown Studies 63, 2009, 85-106

2007
Bible et Terre Sainte (ed. with J-E Aguilar, M Roger), New York: Peter Lang, 2007

“The Location of the Crucifixion: a Symbol of Paul’s Theologia Crucis” in Bible et Terre Sainte (ed. with J-E Aguilar, M Roger), New York: Peter Lang, 2007, 299-306

2003
Christian Origins. Worship, Belief and Society
(ed.) JSNTS 241, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 2003

“Imagining a Roman Audience”, in Christian Origins. Worship, Belief and Society (ed.) JSNTS 241, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 2003, 191-213

2002
“The Rhetorical Dispositio of 1 Thessalonians” in PIBA 25 ,2002, 81-96


2000
Pauline Persuasion - a Sounding in 2 Corinthians 8-9, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 2000

1999
What the Bible Says about the Stranger. Biblical Perspectives on Racism, Immigration, Asylum and Cross-Community Issues, Dublin, The Churches’ Peace Education Programme, 1999

“The Rhetoric of Benefaction” in PIBA 22, 1999, 9-40

“The Rhetoric of Resurrection (1Cor 15): An Illustration of a Rhetorical Method” in Milltown Studies 43, 1999, 112-144

1997
“Roman Corinth - Christian Corinthians” in Scripture in Church 27, 1997, 115-124

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