Dr. J. August Higgins

Experience 

Dr. August Higgins’ research is in the areas of Evangelical spirituality, philosophy and method, and bridging the divide between academia and local church ministry. He hs over 5 years of church ministry experience, and teaching experience at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral level in spirituality, church history and theology.

Publications

Books

The Crisis of Conversion: Reimagining Religious Experience for a Postmodern Evangelical Spirituality. The Amsterdam Series in Baptist and Mennonite Theology. Eugene OR: Wipf & Stock. Forthcoming.

Edited Volumes

John Markey and J. August Higgins, eds. Mysticism and Contemporary Life: Essays in Honor of Bernard McGinn. New York: Crossroad. 2019.

Articles

“Sandra Schneiders and the Question of Normativity: Spirituality Studies and the Postmodern Situation,” in Supplement Series of Spirituality Studies, proceedings of The Study of Christian Spirituality e la Teologia Spirituale: Metodologie in Evoluzione – Evolving Methodologies, Peeters Publishing: Leuven, Belgium. Forthcoming.

“Ralph Wldo Emerson and the Politics of the Natural,” in Spirituality Studies, proceedings of Down Town / Down Soul: Early Modern Mysticism & the Political, Peeters Publishing: Leuven, Belgium, 2021, 91-110.

“Sandra Schneiders and the Question of Normativity: Spirituality Studies and the Postmodern Situation,” Mysterion: Rivista di Ricerca in Teologia Spirituale, Vol. 12. Bo. 2 (2019), 203-215.

“The Aesthetic Foundations of Religious Experience in the Writings of Jonathn Edwrds and Ralph Wldo Emerson,” American Journal of Theology & Philosophy, Vol. 38, No. 2-3 (May-September 2017), 152-166.

“Spirit and Truth: Gadamer’s Fusion of Horizons and Contemporary Spirituality Studies,” Philosophy & Theology 28, no. 2 (July 2016), 469-490.

“Broken Promises: The Inadequacy of U.S. Policy in Sudan,” The Othl Brand Chir Texas Journal of Free Enterprise and Public Policy, edited by Justin D. Murphy and Tristan Summers, Spring 2009 (Brownwood: Howrd Payne University), 80-92.

Ferguson, M., Meyer, C., Ingle, H., Higgins, A., Morgan, C., Smith, D., & Thompson, T. (2007). “The effect of expectancy violations on negotiation outcomes” (Empirical paper). Annual Meeting of the International Association of Conflict Management, Budapest, Hungary.

Book Reviews

Cramer, David C., and Myles Werntz. A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence: Key Thinkers, Activists, and Movements for the Gospel of Peace, Offerings: A Journal of Practical Theology and Spirituality, Volume 16 (2022).

John J. Markey, Moses in Phraoh’s House: A Liberation Spirituality for North Americ, Offerings: A Journal of Practical Theology and Spirituality, Volume 11 (2019), 95-97.

18. Bruce Hindmarsh, The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism: True Religion in a Modern World, Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, 18.2 (Fall, 2018), 283-285.