SELECTED PUBLICATIONS OF HERBERT E. ANDERSON

This is a list of publications; I’ll be adding to them as I get them scanned and uploaded. The links will take you to a separate Box.com site, where the files are stored and where you can download them. Note that many of these files are quite large (10–30MB), so you’ll want to be sure you have a decent internet connection. 

Recent additions to the publications page:

• Herbert Anderson 2019 The promise and peril of finite forever: The paradox of ageing

• Anderson What Consoles? (1993)

• Anderson, The Congregation as a Healing Resource (in Religious Ethical Factors in Psychiatric Practice, ed. Don S. Browning, Thomas Jobe, and Ian S. Evison, 1990)

• Anderson and Foley 1997 Experiences in Need of Ritual

• Anderson 2009 Common Grief, Complex Grieving

• Anderson 1988 Incarnation and Pastoral Care

• Anderson 1994 The Recovery of Soul

• Anderson 1995 What does baptism have to do with the Christian life

• Anderson and Foley 2019 "The Power of Story Telling (ch 1 of Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals)

• Anderson & Fitzgerald 1978 Use of Family Systems in Preperation for Ministry

  • ABSTRACT: Understanding the systematic dynamics of one’s family of origin is necessary in preparation for ministry and can be most powerfully effected by engaging students in one of several family therapy techniques. Moreover, a fami- ly systems orientation is useful for theological explorations regarding family and Church as family, as well as enhancing skills for ministering to the contemporary family in all its diversity.

LOSS, GRIEF, DEATH, AND GRIEVING

• A Spirituality for Family Living

• Ministry with Families Experiencing Loss

• The Death of a Parent: Its Impact on Middle-Aged Sons and Daughters

• Book Review: Grieving and the 1980s

• Liturgy and Pastoral Care: The Parable of Dying and Grieving

• Living Until We Die: Reflections on the Dying Person’s Spiritual Agenda

• Ministry with Families Experiencing Loss

• Moments of Loss, Seasons of Grief

• Prologue to book Letters to Peter: On the Journey from Grief to Wholeness (Daniel Mayer)

• Suppose You Are Facing Death

• The Congregation as a Healing Resource

• The Gift of Grieving: 10 Ideas to help you understand your grief (with illustrations)

• The Nature of Loss

• What Consoles

• Becker on Meaningful Dying

• Common Grief, Complex Grieving: 25 years after the publication of **"All Our Losses, All Our Griefs’

• Deciding Moments about Life’s Ending

• Eggs Are Not Hatched in Vain: the Science of Man and the Nature of Faith

• Facing Finitude: The Wisdom of Aging

• Finitude and Faithful Care of the Dying: Lessons from Ernest Becker

• God’s Continuity, Human Discontinuity

• Grief After Violent Death

• Living Toward Death, Waiting to Die

PASTORAL THEOLOGY OF CHILDREN AND THE FAMILY

• Anderson et al (ed) Mutuality Matters: Family, Faith, and Just Love (full book)

• A Home With a Room of It’s Own

• A Sanctuary for Childhood in a Culture of Indifference

• A Spirituality for Family Living

• Anderson 1984 The Family and Pastoral Care

• Be Not Afraid

• Chautauqua and Generational Care

• Do We Value our Children

• Facing Family Change

• Faithful Becoming: Forming Families in the Art of Paradoxical Living in a Fragmented and Pluralistic World

• Feet Planted Firmly in Midair

• Herbert Anderson: Faithful Becoming: Forming Families in the Art of Paradoxical Living in a Fragmented and Pluralistic World

• Infant Baptism and the Psychology of Growth

• Learning from Children

• Leaving Home: Helps for Parents & College Students

• Making Families ‘Good Enough’

• Preaching as Validation: The Christmas Story and Family Birth Stories

• The Church as Sanctuary for Children

• The Family as a Context for Change and as a Changing Context

• The Purpose of Families

• Christian Century Review of Anderson’s 5-volume Family Living in Pastoral Perspective: “Theology for the Family”

• You Must Leave Before you can Cleave: A Family Systems Approach to Premarital Pastoral Work

MEN AND WOMEN AND GENDER

• Between Rhetoric and Reality: Women and Men as Equal Partners in Home, Church, and the Marketplace

• Herbert Anderson, Jacob’s Shadow: Christian Perspectives on Masculinity (full book)

• Husband, Pastor’s

• Marriage Matters

• Men and Grief The Hidden Sea of Tears Without Outlet

• So Happy Together

• The Lonely Male

• To Be a Man: Maleness as a Gift of God

MINISTRY AND FORMATION

• Authenticity and Character in Pastoral Ministry

• Forming A Pastoral Habitus: A Rich Tapestry With Many Threads

• Herbert Anderson and Bonnie Miller-McLemore: Faith’s Wisdom for Daily Living

• Leaders Are Lovers

• Safe on the Way

• Sermon: Miller Chapel

• The Pastor as Wordsmith

• The Sex Eduction of Ministers

• Use of Family Systems in Preperation for Ministry

REFLECTIONS ON THE SOUL AND THE STATE OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

• Book Review: Death by Choice

• Book Review: Gandhi’s Truth

• Book Review: Gods and Games

• Modern Maladies of the Soul: Waiting in the Darkness - Images of Despair Today

• New and Selected Poems: Mary Oliver

• Open House (column for The Lutheran)

• Psalms and Laments: Weems

• Reconciliation as Widening Circle

• The Paradox of Being Bodies and Having Bodies

• The Recovery of Soul

• Sense and Nonsense in the Wisdom of Dr. Seuss

• The Transfiguration of our Lord: One Preacher’s Approach: 1984

• Theological Foundations of the Augustana Lutheran Church

• A Paradoxical Understanding of Persons

• Waiting in the Darkness: A Good Friday Reflection

PASTORAL AND PRACTICAL THEOLOGY

• Incarnation and Pastoral Care

• Individual Psychology and Pastoral Psychology, Some Common Concerns

• Pastoral Epilogue to Developmental Disabilities and Sacramental Access

• Pastoral Theology After Christendom

• Violent Death, Public Tragedy, And Rituals of Lament An Interfaith Agenda

• Whatever Happened to “Seelsorge”?

PASTORAL CARE

• A Protestant Perspective on Suicide

• After the Diagnosis An Operational Theology for the Terminally Ill

• Book Review: The Family and Pastoral Care

• Empathy Consoles

• Pastoral Care in the Process of Initiation

• Pastoral Reflections on Outpatient Care

• Pastoral Supervision at the Crossroads (for the Symposium: “Twenty Years of Supervision and Training in Ministry: Where Have We Been? Where Will We Go?”)

• Recent Books in Pastoral Care: 1970

• Recent Books in Pastoral Care: 1972

• Seeing the Other Whole A Habitus for Globalisation

• Spiritual Care: The Power of an Adjective

• Spirituality and Supervision: A Complex but Necessary Connection

• The Bible and Pastoral Care

• The Spirituality of Learning to Care

RITUAL AND SACRAMENT

• How Rituals Heal

• Anderson and Foley, Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals: Weaving Together the Human and the Divine

• Ritual Moment and Pastoral Process: Rethinking Pastoral Theology

• The Agreed Statement on Justification: A Lutheran Perspective

MISCELLANEOUS

• Anderson and Miller-McLemore: A Tribute to Don S Browning, 1934–2010

• On Suffering: Lecture One (Houston, 2010)

• Note from the Editor

• What does Baptism have to do with the Christian Life