Robert O. Smith

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book

• Martinez, A.Y., Smith, R.O. (2025). The Origins of Critical Race Theory. New York City, NY, New York University Press. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479832729.001.0001
• Smith, R.O. (2014). Comprehending Christian Zionism: Perspectives in Comparison.
• Smith, R.O. (2013). More Desired than Our Owne Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism. New York, Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/book/25941
• Smith, R.O. (2013). More Desired than Our Owne Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199993246.001.0001
• Smith, R.O. (2013). More Desired than Our Owne Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism. 225. New York:, Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/more-desired-than-our-owne-salvation-9780199993246?cc=us&lang=en&#
• Smith, R.O. (2006). Christians and a Land Called Holy: How We Can Foster Peace, Justice and Hope.

Book Chapter

• Smith, R.O., Martinez, A.Y. (2025). And We Are Not Saved?: Historicizing the Evangelical Christian Media’s "Holy War" on CRT. Critical Race Theory and the American Media. 77-94. New York City, NY, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003595069-7
• Smith, R.O. (2023). An Urgent Call to Challenge Christian Zionism. Blessed are the Peacemakers: Theology, Compassion, and Action for a Global Mission. 351-364. Helsinki, Luther-Agricola Society.
• Smith, R.O. (2023). Pandemic Politics: Critical Social Theory and Societal Chaplaincy. Theology and Ethics for the Public Church: Mission in the 21st Century World. 171-185. Minneapolis, Fortress Press.
• Smith, R.O. (2022). Christian Zionism, Settler Coloniality, and Supersessionist Anxiety. Global Transformation of Christian Zionism, ed. Yoshihiro Yakushige. Kyoto, Kyoto University Press.
• Smith, R.O. (2021). The Ecumenical Deal, the Judeo-Christian Tradition, and the Christian Colonization of Judaism. New Diaspora and the Global Prophetic: Engaging the Scholarship of Marc H. Ellis. 53-70. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978719859.ch-3
• Smith, R.O. (2020). State(s) of Exception. T&T Clark Handbook of Political Theology. 485-494. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780567670427.ch-031
• Smith, R.O. (2019). State(s) of Exception: Christian Zionism, Replacement Theology, and the Right of Conquest.
• Smith, R.O. (2019). Christian Zionism and Jerusalem Holy Places. Fscire Research and Papers 1. 119-126. Göttingen, V&R Unipress. https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737009737.119
• Smith, R.O. (2014). The Quest to Comprehend Christian Zionism. Comprehending Christian Zionism. 325-336. 1517 Media. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9m0srs.19

Editor of a Special Issue of Dialog Journal

• Rowe, T.T., Smith, R.O., Woods, J., Crockett, C., Grau, M., Pranger, J., Weaks, D. Theological Responses to Energy and Extraction. Other. (Summer 2023)

Journal Article

• Smith, R.O., Martinez, A.Y. (2023). Critical Race Religious Literacy: Exposing the Taproot of Contemporary Evangelical Attacks on CRT. Journal of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. 1 (1) 83-104. https://scholar.stjohns.edu/jcres/vol1/iss1/7/
• Smith, R.O. (2023). Christian Responsibility and Anti-Jewish Theology: Revisiting “Reclaiming Bonhoeffer After Auschwitz. Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies. (6) Rochester, NY, Camden House.
• Smith, R.O. (2023). Acknowledge the Land: An Indigenous Historical Reflection on Extractive Theology. Dialog. 62 (2) 148-155.
• Smith, R.O., Younan, M.A. (2023). Critical Approaches to Christian Zionism. International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church. 22 (4) 324-332.
• Smith, R.O. (2021). “The Ecumenical Deal, the Judeo-Christian Tradition, and the Christian Colonization of Judaism,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2019). Disintegrating the Hyphen: The “Judeo-Christian Tradition” and the Christian Colonization of Judaism. Other. 5 (1) London, Pluto Journals. https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.5.1.0073
• Smith, R.O. (2019). “Bonhoeffer Moment(s)?: Learning to See ‘From Below’ in Indian Country,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2019). “Disintegrating the Hyphen: The ‘Judeo-Christian Tradition’ and the Christian Colonization of Judaism,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2019). “State(s) of Exception: Christian Zionism, Replacement Theology, and the Right of Conquest,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2019). Bonhoeffer Moment(s)?. Other. 76 (2) 145-157. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/0040573619843906
• Smith, R.O. (2018). “Today, Know This,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2018). Sanctifying the Settler-Colonial Gaze: Nineteenth-Century American Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Other. 74 (4) 365-375. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/0040573617731715
• Smith, R.O. (2016). “Civilization, Savagism, and the Presence of Burning Children,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2014). “Prophecy, the Pope, and the Turk: Luther’s Pastoral Apocalyptic,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2014). “Reading Palestine Realities with American Indian Eyes,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2012). “Anglo-American Christian Zionism: Implications for Palestinian Christians,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2012). “Interpreting the Bible, Interpreting the World: Anglo-American Christian Zionism and Palestinian Christian Concerns,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2012). “Replacement Theology, Christian Zionism, and the Anglo-American Protestant Tradition of Judeo-Centric Prophecy Interpretation,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2011). “American Expansionism, Theologies, and the Israel/Palestine Question,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2009). “Toward a Lutheran Response to Christian Zionism,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2007). “Implications of Christian Zionism for Interfaith Relations,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2007). “Jewish-Christian Difficulties in Challenging Christian Zionism,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2007). “Luther, the Turks and Islam,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2006). “Bonhoeffer and Musical Metaphor,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2005). “Palestinian Nationalism(s): Religious and Secular,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2005). “Response to the Respondents,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2005). “Secular and Religious: ELCJHL Contributions to Palestinian Nationalism,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2004). “Between Restoration & Liberation: Theopolitical Contributions & Responses to U.S. Foreign Policy in Israel/Palestine,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2004). “Reclaiming Bonhoeffer After Auschwitz,”.
• Smith, R.O. (2004). “Response to Dahill on Bonhoeffer,”.