A 1982 Guggenheim Fellow, she has written and edited dozens of books, including Augustine on the Body (1979), Image as Insight (1985), Immaculate and Powerful (1985), Shaping New Vision: Gender and Values in American Culture (1987), Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies (1997), Plotinus on Body and Beauty (1999), Carnal Knowing (2006), Desire and Delight (2006), and A Complex Delight (2008).
[1] She obtained her PhD from the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in 1977;[1] her dissertation was named St. Augustine's idea of the meaning and value of the body in relation to the whole personality.
[6] In addition, she worked at the American Baptist Seminary of the West as a professor of historical theology.
[8] She edited two volumes with Clarissa W. Atkinson and Constance Buchanan: Immaculate and Powerful (1985) and Shaping New Vision: Gender and Values in American Culture (1987).
[16] She has also released several religion books through Wipf and Stock, including Carnal Knowing (2006) and Desire and Delight (2006).