Publications

• Patterns of abuse. What enables abuse against women and why it is not recognised as such, Ostfildern 2026 (forthcoming).
• Understanding spiritual abuse. Scientific essays on self-loss and alienation from God, ed. together with Barbara Haslbeck, Ostfildern 2024.
• Loss of self and alienation from God. Spiritueller Missbrauch an Frauen in der katholischen Kirche, ed. together with Barbara Haslbeck, Regina Nagel, Philippa Rath, Ostfildern 2023. reviews: Andreas Batlogg, Hölle und Hörigkeit: Spiritueller Missbrauch in der Kirche, in: www.furche.at/religion/hoelle-und-hoerigkeit-spiritueller-missbrauch-in-der-kirche-12796650, Barbara Zehnpfennig, Wie man den Glauben verlieren kann, in: IkZ 54(2025), 327-330; DOI: doi.org/10.23769/communio-54-2025-327-330, Lucia Scherzberg, in: theologie.geschichte 20 (2025); DOI: doi.org/10.48603/tg-2025-rez-13, Judith Könemann, in: TheolRev 122 (2026); DOI: doi.org/10.17879/thrv-2026-9263. Online: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/thrv/article/view/9263/9216.
• Catholic Women - Women from all over the world for a more just church, (ed.) Würzburg 2021.
• Holding the void. Sketches for a theology that lets go, ed. together with Michael Lohausen, Jörg Seip, Bernhard Spielberg. Würzburg 2021.
• GOD.MAKES.PUBLIC. Women in the field of tension between church and public. Ed. together with Gunda Werner. Ostfildern 2021.
• Storytelling as resistance. Reports on spiritual and sexual abuse of adult women in the Catholic Church, ed. together with Barbara Haslbeck, Regina Heyder, Dorothee Sandherr-Klemp, Münster 2020.
• Ecumenism that writes life. Konfessionelle Identität und ökumenisches Engagement in Zeitzeuginnenberichten, ed. together with Regina Heyder and Maria Flachsbart, Münster 2017.
• Kirchliche Erwachsenenbildung, Lehrbrief Pastoraltheologischer Kurs, published by Theologie im Fernkurs, Würzburg (to be published in 2020). (completely revised new edition)
• Kirchliche Erwachsenenbildung, together with Almut Rumstadt, Lehrbrief Pastoraltheologischer Kurs Ergänzungsprogramm, PK-LB E 5, published by Theologie im Fernkurs, Würzburg 2015.
• Avant-garde in the crisis. A pastoral theological localisation of women's orders after the Second Vatican Council, Freiburg i.Br. 2011.
• Devil. The power of evil, Kevelaer 2010.
• Women's monasteries - monastic women. Life in religious communities today, Ostfildern 2008.

• No farewell to the devil. An investigation into the contemporary discourse on the devil among the people of God, Münster 2004.

• Editor (since 01.01.2021, together with Prof. Dr Bernhard Spielberg) and publisher (since 01.01.2017) of the journal "Lebendige Seelsorge" - Echter Verlag, lfd. lebendige-seelsorge.de
• Responsible magazine topics: Spiritual abuse (3/2022) - link to editorial, Leaving the church (5/2018), Islam (4/2019), Catholic Women - An international women's magazine (3/2020), Reading the Bible (2/2021), (Young) ecumenism (4/2022), Abuse (3/2023), Blessing (5/2024)
• Editorials for the respective issues: 5/2018, 4/2019, 3/2020, 2/2021, 4/2022, 3/2023
• Religions. Special issue "Sexual and Spiritual Violence against Men and Women in the Catholic Church" (January 2022) DOWNLOAD as PDF
• Co-editor of the series "Studien zur Theologie und Praxis der Seelsorge" - Echter Verlag (since 01.01.2022)
• Member of the Advisory Board "Religion - History - Society" LIT-Verlag (since 01.07.2021)

2025

• Why theology cannot dispense with the topic of abuse. A typology of vulnerable theologies in the context of church abuse patterns. In: ZPTh 45(2/2025) 33-50. DOI:10.17879/zpth-2025-9307. to the article
• Discourse history of theological gender research in pastoral theology, in: Könemann, Judith / Heimbach-Steins, Marianne (eds.): Handbuch Theologische Geschlechterforschung (forthcoming)
• Dogmatics in the face of sexual and spiritual abuse, in: Eckholt, Margit et. al. (eds.): Dogmatik didaktisch. A handbook for religious educators (forthcoming)
• "Texts of terror". Sexueller Missbrauch in der Kirche unter Verwendung von biblischen Texten - Über die Rolle der neutestamentlichen Bibelwissenschaft in der Missbrauchsforschung, in: Grünstäudl, Wolfgang/König, Judith (eds.): Toxische Bibelhermeneutiken (forthcoming).
• Anatomy of abuse against women religious. Why Barbara Haslbeck's study is so important. Foreword. In: Haslbeck, Barbara, Sexueller Missbrauch an Ordensfrauen im deutschsprachigen Raum Ein unterschätztes Phänomen und seine systemischen Bedingungen, Freiburg i. Br. 2025, 18-22.

• with Magdalena Hürten, Tracy McEwan and Kathleen McPhillips:
  The Politics of Vulnerability Concerning Sexual and Spiritual Abuse in the Catholic Church. In: Religions 2025, 16(2), 137; DOI: 10.3390/rel16020137

2024

• with Magdalena Hürten:
  Forschung im Fokus: Sexueller Missbrauch an erwachsenen Frauen in der katholischen Kirche, in: Kron, Thomas/Rohrkamp, René/Lehmann, Hendrik (eds.) Kirche und Gewalt Ursachen - Dimensionen - Folgen, Freiburg 2024, 48-66.
• The Intersection of Gender-Based Violence and Vulnerance in Pastoral Care, in: Religions 2024, 15(7), 776; DOI: 10.3390/rel15070776 https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/7/776
• The scientific examination of victims' reports of spiritual abuse in the Catholic Church (together with Barbara Haslbeck), in: Leimgruber, Ute/Haslbeck, Barbara (eds.), Spirituellen Missbrauch verstehen. Scientific Essays on Self-Loss and Alienation from God, Ostfildern 2024, 11-20.
• Crime scene pastoral care. The role of counselling and counsellors in the context of spiritual abuse, in: Leimgruber, Ute/Haslbeck, Barbara (eds.), Spirituellen Missbrauch verstehen. Scientific Essays on Self-Loss and Alienation from God, Ostfildern 2024, 51-74.
• On the future of the Catholic. Foreword by the Herbert Haag Foundation, in: Herder Thema Gottes starke Töchter. Frauen und Ämter im Katholizismus weltweit, 2024, 6-8. English: On the Future of Catholicism, in: Herder Thema God's Strong daughters. Women and Ministries in Catholicism Worldwide, 2024, 6-8
• Interpretation of the Priest Study in the Horizon of Gender and Power Analysis, in: Sellmann, Matthias/Katsuba, Nikita (eds.), Wer wird Priester. Results of a study on the socio-demographics and motivation of priest candidates in Germany (commissioned by the DBK), Würzburg 2024, 201-2017.

2023

• "We must sensitise the Church to a culture of recognition and promotion of spiritual self-determination." A conversation with Bishop Heinrich Timmerevers, in: Lebendige Seelsorge 74 (3/2023) 176-180.
• Foreword together with Barbara Haslbeck, Regina Nagel, Philippa Rath, in: Selbstverlust und Gottentfremdung. Spiritual abuse of women in the Catholic Church (ed. by this.), Ostfildern 2023, 13-16.
• Attack on the innermost. Introduction to the reports on spiritual abuse, together with Barbara Haslbeck, in: Selbstverlust und Gottentfremdung. Spiritual abuse of women in the Catholic Church (ed. by this, Regina Nagel, Philippa Rath), Ostfildern 2023, 17-56.

• Listen to the Victims! On the (theological) relevance of telling stories about abuse of adult women in the Catholic Church, in: Concilium. International Journal of Theology. 2023-4. Abuse in the Church, 368-378. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5771/0588-9804-2023-4-368. Spanish: ¡Escuchar a las víctimas! Sobre la relevancia (teológica) de contar los abusos contra mujeres adultas en la Iglesia católica, in: Concilium. Revista Internacional de Teología 402 (Sep 2023), 25-38.

  English: Listen to the Victims! The Theological Relevance of Telling the Story of Abuse of Adult Women in the Catholic Church, in: Concilium 2023/4. Abuses in the Church, Edited by Michelle Becka, Po-Ho Huang and Gianluca Montaldi, 24-35.

• "Auf den Pfaden der Hölle" - Stimmen aus der Literatur, in: Sattler, Dorothea et al. (eds.) Jahrbuch für Biblical Theology (JBTh), Vol. 36 (2021) Hölle, Göttingen 2021, 279-298. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13109/9783666558719.279
• God really doesn't play dice. Why it is worth looking at Good Omens, in: Lebendige Seelsorge 74 (4/2023), 287-289.
• The decomposition of truth. On dealing with "truth" in relation to the synodal path, in: Werner, Gunda/Wendel, Saskia/Scheiper, Jessica (eds.), Ewig wahr? On the Genesis and Claim of Beliefs, Freiburg i.Br. 2023, 110-124.
• Which memory counts? The invisibility of gender-specific violence in the church, in: Keul, Hildegund (ed.), UnSichtbar. Vulnerability, Vulneranz und Menschenrechte, Würzburg 2023, 103-130. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25972/WUP-978-3-95826-203-4-103.
• "Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo" - Über die Problematik ordnungsgemäßer Dokumentation im Fall von Missbrauch an erwachsenen Frauen, in: Anja Middelbeck-Varwick/Doris Reisinger (eds.), Kirchliche Macht und kindliche Ohnmacht. Contours, Contexts and Sources of Theological Abuse Research, Münster 2023, 179-194.
• Victim or non-victim? On the problematic categorisation of abuse of adults between church and state regulations, in: Isabelle Ley/Georg Essen/Tine Stein (eds.), Semper Reformanda. The relationship between the state and religious communities put to the test, Freiburg i. Br. 2023, 147-162
• "Nobody is free until everybody is free", in: Kirchhof, Paul, Religion und Glaube als Grundlage einer freien Gesellschaft. With contributions by Wolfgang Baum, Corinna Gerngroß, Sebastian Holzbrecher, Yves Kingata, Alfons Knoll, Bernhard Laux, Ute Leimgruber and Alexander Lindl, Freiburg i.Br. 2023, 220-226.
• When women count. Hidden patterns of epistemic power, in: Crosscultural Studies of Religion and Theology CSRT 1 (2023), 1-23. DOI: 10.25598/CSRT/2023-14.
• "Desire, could it be, is also rebellion." Hidden patterns of femininity between religion and sexuality, in: Marc-Aeilko Aris, Christoph Kürzeder, Steffen Mensch, Carmen Roll (eds.), Verdammte Lust! Church, Body, Art. Essays, Munich 2023, 96-203.
• Pastoral care as a gender-specific space of vulnerability and resilience - A problem statement, in: Theology of the Present 66 (1/2023), 15-26.

2022

• Missbrauchsmuster - hidden patterns of abuse, together with Barbara Haslbeck and Magdalena Hürten, 20 December 2022, online: Missbrauchsmuster - hidden patterns of abuse - feinschwarz.net
• "Honesty is both an obstacle and the most important challenge." An interview with Anna-Nicole Heinrich, in: Lebendige Seelsorge 73 (4/2022) 262-267.
• Trans. in: Alkier, Stefan (ed.), Zuversichtsargumente. Biblical perspectives in crises and fears of our time, Munich 2022, 314-337. doi:10.30965/9783657793464_017
• "Es gibt uns und wir schweigen nicht länger" - Ein Beitrag zu Sichtbarkeit, Unischtbarkeit, Hypersichtbarkeit, in: Brinkschröder, Michael/Mönkebüscher, Bernd/Werner, Gunda/Ehebrecht-Zumsande, Jens/Gräwe, Veronika (eds.), Out in Church: For a Church without Fear, Freiburg i.Br. 2022, 120-127
• Die Heiligen des Noch-nicht (together with Michael Lohausen), in: Heidkamp, Monika; Kranemann, Daniela; Prkačin, Elisa; Vilain, Clarissa: Abweichen. From a practice that finds what it did not seek (FS Feiter), Münster 2022, 389-396
• Vulnerance of Pastoral Care. In: Religions 13(3):256, 2022. doi.org/10.3390/rel13030256
• The vulnerability of pastoral care settings with regard to the sexual abuse of adults, in: Dirscherl, Erwin/Weißer, Markus (eds.), Wirksame Zeichen und Werkzeuge des Heils?: Aktuelle Anfragen an die traditionelle Sakramententheologie, Freiburg 2022, 188-204.
• Paternalistic oppressive care, in: Lebendige Seelsorge 73 (1/2022), 45-49.
• Kulturraum Kloster - Über die bleibende Bedeutung von Frauenklöstern, , in: Rose, Ulrike/Görlich, Jutta (eds.), Klosterfrauen Frauenkloster: Eine künstlerische Untersuchung zu Frauenklöstern im Wandel, Berlin 2022, 39-42.

2021

• One year of "Narration as Resistance". A book and its impact, together with Barbara Haslbeck, 8 December 2021, online: https://www.feinschwarz.net/erzaehlen-als-widerstand-2/
• Ressentiment als pastoraltheologische Herausforderung, together with Michael Hölzl, in: Aigner, Maria Elisabeth et al. (eds.), Weiter Gehen. A roadmap into the open, Würzburg 2021, 146-160.
• Controversial appraisal. Abuse of power in the Church using the example of the Archdiocese of Cologne, in: Hack, Tobias et al. (eds.), Machtmissbrauch und Gewalt - religiöse Versuchung und Versagen der Kirche, Würzburg 2021, 73-102.
• Sexual abuse or sexualised violence?, together with Doris Reisinger, 24 September 2021, online: www.feinschwarz.net/sexueller-missbrauch-oder-sexualisierte-gewalt-ein-einspruch/
• Fides (non) quaerens intellectum: Faith that (does not) seek insight? The Synodal Forum "Women in Ministries and Offices in the Church", in: Anuth, Bernhard/Bier, Georg/Kreutzer, Karsten, Der Synodale Weg - eine Zwischenbilanz, Freiburg i. Br. 2021, 195-209.
• Women raise their voices in global solidarity. Introduction, in: This (ed.), Catholic Women. Women from around the world for a more just Church (ed.) Würzburg 2021, 9-19.
• Foreword. Together with Michael Lohausen, Jörg Seip, Bernhard Spielberg, in: This (ed.), Die Leere halten. Sketches for a theology that lets go, Würzburg 2021, 9-10.
• Caring nurses and devoted mothers. Problematic implications of the ideal of women in Pope Francis, in: Leimgruber, Ute/Lohausen, Michael/Seip, Jörg/Spielberg, Bernhard (eds.), Die Leere halten. Sketches for a theology that lets go, Würzburg 2021, 171-178.
• Paradise Lost #Gender shift, 5 July 2021, online: Paradise Lost #Gender shift - feinschwarz.net
• "There is this range in the Bible. Isn't that incredibly exciting?" A conversation with Ansgar Wiedenhaus SJ, in: Lebendige Seelsorge 72 (2/2021) 99-103.
• GOD.POWER.PUBLIC - or: Spiders in a jar. Introduction, together with Gunda Werner in: GOTT.MACHT.ÖFFENTLICH. Women in the field of tension between church and public. Ed. together with Gunda Werner. Ostfildern 2021, 19-37.
• Women as victims of abuse in the Catholic Church? How abuse is tabooed and legitimised, in: Reisinger, Doris (ed.): Gefährliche Theologien. When theological approaches legitimise abuse of power, Regensburg 2021, 145-162.
• Discipleship is education is shaping the world. Women's orders as a paradigmatic place of a risky reception of the Bible, in: Ralf Koerrenz / Tobias Nicklas (eds.): Bildung. Yearbook for Biblical Theology 35, Münster 2021, 169-190.

2020

• Church is not a safe space, in: #frauenbundblog, 23.11.2020, online: bewegen-kdfb.de/kirche-ist-kein-sicherer-raum/
• Storytelling is resistance. An introduction, in: Haslbeck, Barbara; Heyder, Regina; Leimgruber, Ute; Sandherr-Klemp, Dorothee (eds.): Narration as resistance. Reports on spiritual and sexual abuse of adult women in the Catholic Church, Münster 2020, 13-24.
• Adult women are victims of sexual and spiritual abuse in the church. What can be learnt from the reports of those affected, in: Haslbeck, Barbara; Heyder, Regina; Leimgruber, Ute; Sandherr-Klemp, Dorothee (eds.): Erzählen als Widerstand. Reports on spiritual and sexual abuse of adult women in the Catholic Church, Münster 2020, 187-220.
• "Women always say no...": Argumente für eine höhere Repräsentanz von Frauen in der Wissenschaft, together with Aurica Jax, Jessica Scheiper, Gunda Werner, Agnes Wuckelt, 04.11.2020, online: www.feinschwarz.net/frauen-sagen-ja-immer-ab/
• Hidden Patterns - Reflections on a power-sensitive pastoral theology. In: ET-Studies, Journal of the European Society for Catholic theology (2/2020), 207-224. doi: 10.2143/ETS.11.2.3288574
• "Our chance ... to become human" (Judith Butler). Impulses from reading Judith Butler for the pastoral-theological discourse on people and power, in: Bernhard Grümme/Gunda Werner (eds.): Productive Irritation? Reception and challenge of Judith Butler's fundamental philosophical issues in theology; Bielefeld 2020, 43-62. doi.org/10.14361/9783839447420-003
• On the necessity of theological feminism, in: εὐangel, magazine for missionary pastoral care 2/2020. full text
• Hostility towards Gender in Catholic and Political Right-Wing Movements. In: Religions 2020, 11(6), 301.doi.org/10.3390/rel11060301
• "Only a gender-equitable church corresponds to the Gospel". An interview with Aurica Jax and Claudia Kunz, in: Lebendige Seelsorge 71 (3/2020), 184-188.
• Form bonds! Ottmar Fuchs on his 75th birthday, in: Bechmann, Ulrike/Böhm, Manfred (eds.): Fuchs, du hast die Gans gestohlen, gib sie nie mehr her. What connects the draughtsman Ottmar with the theologian Fuchs, Würzburg 2020, 121-139.
• When women refuse to be nice - Intervention against some misogynistic regulars' table wisdom, 09.03.2020, online: www.feinschwarz.net/wenn-frauen-verweigern-nett-zu-sein-intervention-gegen-misogyne-stammtischweisheiten/
  Detailed version as pdf: www.uni-regensburg.de/theologie/pastoraltheologie/medien/weltfrauentag_glosse.pdf
• Against the spirit of little faith. Pentecost 2020. in: Johannisthaler Wegbegleiter. 30. May 2020. to the full text
• Now it's serious. In: Johannisthaler Wegbegleiter. March 2020. to the full text
• Theology for all, theological education in the context of faith communication and "lay apostolate", in: Franz, Thomas (ed.): Theologie für alle, Würzburg 2020, 19-44.
• "Money and a room of one's own" (Virginia Woolf). On the meaning of leisure, in: Lebendige Seelsorge 71 (1/2020), 37-40.
• Essences of future Christianity, contribution to the 100th anniversary of Rothenfels Castle, 2020.
  

2019

• "Criticism of religion is part of the legacy of the Enlightenment". An interview with Susanne Schröter, in: Lebendige Seelsorge 70 (4/2019), 265-270.
• "Policy matters". The political in church action and the thinking of Cornel West, in: ZPTH 39 (2019/1), 39-50. Advertisement of "Policy matters" (uni-muenster.de)
• The malum as mystery. A theological reflection on the mystery of evil, in: Riess, Richard (ed.): Dem Entsetzen täglich in die Fratze sehen. On the dark side of man, Darmstadt 2019, 257-264.
• Theological learning in practice. Internship as part of the professionalisation process of theologians/religious educators, in: Feeser-Lichterfeld, Ulrich (ed.): Studium trifft Beruf. Praxisphasen und Praxisbezüge aus Sicht einer angewandten Theologie, Ostfildern 2018, 203-211.
  

2018

• From Buenos Aires to Burgweinting - "for the building of a new world" (EG 269). A pastoral theological contribution to the 50th anniversary of the Mission Circle at Regensburg Seminary, in: Festschrift zum 50-jährigen Bestehen des Regensburger Missionszirkels, Regensburg (o.V.) 2018.
• "A step out of the spell of one's own churchliness" - How cultural Christianity can enrich the churches. An interview with Johann Hinrich Claussen, in: Lebendige Seelsorge 69 (5/2018), 336-340.
• Mary's dress and climate change. A critical look at the church's online presence, in: www.feinschwarz.net/marienkleid-und-klimawandel/, Sept. 2018.
• Church is not the "message". On church marketing strategies and youth pastoral care, in: Gärtner, Eva-Maria et al. (eds.): "...so that your joy may be complete!" theological impulses for the synod "Young people, faith and vocational discernment" 2018, Würzburg 2018, 183-202.
  

2017

• Confessional identity and ecumenical commitment in contemporary witness reports, together with Regina Heyder, in: Leimgruber, Ute; Heyder, Regina; Flachsbart, Maria (eds.): Ökumene, die das Leben schreibt. Confessional identity and ecumenical commitment in contemporary witness accounts, Münster 2017, 188-237.
• Living with the Legacy of the Reformation: Confessional Identities and Ecumenism in Testimonies of German-speaking Women, together with Regina Heyder, in: Asian Horizons 11 (2017), 655-667.
  

2016

• More than symptom treatment. What proclamation really needs, in: Lebendige Seelsorge 67 (5/2016), 307-311.
• The Trumpisation of preaching, response to Erik Flügge, in: Lebendige Seelsorge 67 (5/2016), 314-315.
  

2015

• Our hope. A confession of faith in these times, in: Würzburg Synod. Springtime for the Church, Werkbrief für die Landjugend, published by KLJB Munich 2015, 54-55.
  

2014

• Transforming space, in: Gärtner, Stefan; Kläden, Tobias; Spielberg, Bernhard (eds.): Praktische Theologie in der Spätmoderne, Würzburg, 2014, pp. 119-124.
• Reinhard Feiter. Portrait, together with Michael Lohausen, in: Gärtner, Stefan; Kläden, Tobias; Spielberg, Bernhard (eds.): Praktische Theologie in der Spätmoderne, Würzburg, 2014, 253-266.
• Seducer, prince of hell and "poor devils" - demons in popular belief, in: Theuer, Gabriele (ed.): Engel und Dämonen (Kath. Bibelwerk: FrauenBibelArbeit Bd. 32), Stuttgart 2014, 12-17.
  

2013

• Pastoraltheologische Perspektiven, in: Riegel, Ulrich: Religion in Deutschland, Aufbaukurs Lehrbrief 15, ed. v. Theologie im Fernkurs, Würzburg 2013.
• Consistency and innovation, in: Lebendige Seelsorge 64 (Thematic issue on religious orders, 2/2013), 74-80.
• Future of the Church - Action of Religious Orders. Reply to Ulrich Engel OP, in: Lebendige Seelsorge 64 (2/2013), 85-87.
• "Come hell or high water...?!" The Catholic doctrine of exorcism from a liturgical and psychological perspective, in: Schwöbel, Christoph (ed.): Gott - Götter - Götzen. XIV European Congress of Theology (11-15 September 2011 in Zurich), Leipzig 2013, 850-865.
  

2012

• No life in a snail shell! On the risk and duty of being church in the world, in: Im Blickpunkt, 2/2012, 1-3.
• Satan - the shadow of God? The question of responsibility for evil, in: Welt und Umwelt der Bibel 64 (2/2012), pp. 10-13.
• A centuries-old ritual. Art. Exorcism, in: World and Environment of the Bible 64 (2/2012), 45.
  

2011

• "They got rid of the evil one..." - The devil in society, art and popular belief, in: SaThZ 1/2011, 64-83.
• How much human dignity costs and why the church should stand up for the welfare state. A political essay by two practical theologians, together with Manfred Böhm, in: Pock, Johann; Bechmann, Ulrike; Krockauer, Rainer; Lienkamp, Christoph (eds.): Pastoral und Geld : theologische, gesellschaftliche und kirchliche Herausforderungen (Werkstatt Theologie 16), Münster 2011, 231-244.
• Connected and free. Suggestion for a May devotion to the tradition of the "Maria Knotenlöserin", in: Die Mitarbeiterin 3/2011, 14-17.
  

2010

• Between popular tune, travelling song and religious manifestation. A musical gloss on the Frankenlied, in: Bechmann, Ulrike; Böhm, Manfred, Kügler, Joachim (eds.): Wohlauf, die Luft geht frisch und rein. Deological dragdade on the Song of the Franks, Würzburg 2010, 113-117.
• The death of monasteries: How the crisis can become an opportunity, in: Die Mitarbeiterin 1/2010, 4-7.
• No farewell to the devil. Dealing with the power of evil, in: Freunde der Theologischen Kurse Wien, Manuskripte 8 (2010), 2-27.
• Studying theology with passion - observations from Fulda on seminarians and their relationship to theological studies, in: Studia Pastoralne 6/2010, 134-142.
• "Nicht Fisch, nicht Fleisch" - Ordensfrauen zwischen Laien und Klerus, in: Bucher, Rainer; Pock, Johann (eds.): Klerus und Pastoral, (Werkstatt Theologie ; 14), Münster 2010, 287-300.
  

2009

• The child: a career boost or a drag?! A plea for a sustainable church commitment to strengthening families, in: Aigner, Maria Elisabeth; Pock, Johann (eds.): Geschlecht quer gedacht : Widerstandspotentiale und Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten in kirchlicher Praxis (Werkstatt Theologie ; 13), Münster 2009, 173-185.
  

2008

• Unusual insights - Report on the travelling exhibition "Frauenklöster - Klosterfrauen", in: Jahrbuch für mitteldeutsche Kirchen- und Ordensgeschichte 4 (2008), 317-330.
• On the credibility of a way of life. Experiences and insights from the project "Frauenklöster - Klosterfrauen", in: Diakonia 39 (5/2008), 347-353.
  

2007

• Women's monasteries - monastic women. Life in religious communities today, in: PThI 27 (2/2007), 141-153.
• Women's monasteries - monastic women. Life in religious communities today, in: cusaner correspondenz cc 2/2007, 12-13.
  

2006

• Religious women in late modernity - The situation of women's orders today, in: Wort und Antwort 47 (3/2006), 98-104.
• Women's orders in crisis. Part II: Background to the crisis, in: Ordenskorrespondenz (OK) 47 (4/2006), 416-422.
• The enemy. To hell with talk of the devil? The reality of evil and the Church's attempt to put the unspeakable into words, in: Die Mitarbeiterin 2/2006, 4-7.
• Evil and man between compulsion and freedom. A pastoral theological reflection on evil and moral theology, online publication at www.thf-fulda.de, 2006.
• Father of lies. The devil in the Catechism of the Church, in: Die Mitarbeiterin 2/2006, 8.
  

2005

• Women's orders in crisis. Part I: The extent of the crisis, in: Ordenskorrespondenz (OK) 46 (3/2005), 334-343.
• The People of God and Liberation from Evil. Pastoral theological notes on a controversial faith tradition, in: Niemann, Ulrich; Wagner, Marion (eds.): Exorcism or therapy? Approaches to liberation from evil, Münster 2005, 49-72.
  

before 2005

• "The woman is bad by nature". The witch trap: On women, the devil and the role of the church, in: Die Mitarbeiterin 3/2001, 4-5; 26-27.
• "Seduced by the corporeal". Event model on the witch craze, in: Die Mitarbeiterin 4/2001, 14-17.
• "Children - kitchen - church ...?" Realities of women's lives. Photo exhibition with literature documentation; in: Jensen, Anne; Liebmann, Maximilian (eds.): Was verändert feministische Theologie?, Münster 2000, 189-200.
• Apocalypticism and the End of the World - Christian-Jewish Roots of a Phenomenon, in: Kaindl, Heimo; Ruhri, Alfons (eds.): Weltuntergänge. Fears and hopes at the turn of the millennium, Graz 2000, 11-32.
• Impulses and questions. Final plenum, in: Körner, Bernhard et al. (eds.): Bischofsbestellung - Mitwirkung der Ortskirche?, Graz 1999, 115-123.
• Lessing and the war, in: Ökumenisches Forum 21 (1998), 289-292.

• Self-determined and yet not safe. 23.04.2026. Review of the film LUISA, 2025, director: Julia Roesler; screenplay: Julia Roesler & Silke Merzhäuser; camera: Frank Amann. https://www.feinschwarz.net/selbstbestimmt-und-doch-nicht-sicher/
• Katharina Karl/ Harald Weber (eds.): Missbrauch und Beichte: Erfahrungen und Perspektiven aus Praxis und Wissenschaft, Würzburg 2021, in: © theologie.geschichte 17 (2022), DOI: https: //doi.org/10.48603/tg-2022-rez-7
• Olzynski, David Johannes: Der Teufel als Herausforderung für Theologie und Literatur der frühen Neuzeit, Münster 2021, in: TheolRev 118/2022 July, DOI: https: //doi.org/10.17879/thrv-2022-4278
• Langenhorst, Georg: "In which word will our homesickness dwell?" Religious motifs in recent literature. Freiburg i.Br. 2020, in: TheolRev 117/2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.17879/thrv-2021-3313
• Schmidt-Thomé, Adelheid: Ellen Ammann. A Catholic women's movement. Pustet, 2020, in: Committed. The Christian woman. Members' magazine of the Catholic German Women's Association KDFB, online: www.engagiert.de/startseite/aktuelles-detailseite/article/ellen-ammann-frauenbewegte-katholikin
• Kern, Karl: Listening to Jesus. The Christian of the future according to Luke, Straubing 2018, in: Lebendige Seelsorge 70 (4/2019), 304-305.
• Beck, Wolfgang: The Catholic Church and the media. Insight into a tense relationship, Würzburg 2018, in: Lebendige Seelsorge 69 (5/2018), 382-383.
• Ganz, Katharina: "...but since I, as a woman, have no voice in the Catholic Church and am therefore as much as dead..." Creativity from vulnerability using the example of the order's founder Antonia Werr (1813-1868), Würzburg 2016, in: Ordenskorrespondenz 1/2017, 126-128.
• Senn, Felix: Believing responsibly, Zurich 2016, in: Fernblick 1/2016.
• Höring, Patrik C.; Lutz, Bernd (eds.): Becoming a Christian in a multi-religious society. Initiation - Catechumenate - Parish, Ostfildern 2014, in: Theologische Revue, 3/2016.
• Higgins, Michael W.: Thomas Merton. Der geerdete Visionär, Stuttgart (Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk) 2015, in: Fernblick 1/2016.
• Dienberg, Thomas; Eggensperger, Thomas; Engel, Ulrich (eds.): Himmelwärts und weltgewandt. Church and religious orders in (post-)secular society, Münster 2014, in: Wissenschaft und Weisheit. Franciscan studies on theology, philosophical issues in theology and history, spring 2016.
• Deckers, Daniel: Pope Francis. Against the Sloth of the Heart. A biography, Munich 2014, in: Im Blickpunkt 1/2015, 9.
• Kuster, Nikolaus: Francis and Clare of Assisi. A double biography, Ostfildern 2011, 9.
• Fuchs, Ottmar: Wer`s glaubt, wird selig...Wer`s nicht glaubt, kommt auch in den Himmel, Würzburg, 2012; in: Im Blickpunkt 1/2013, 7.
• Bucher, Rainer: ... when nothing remains as it was. On the precarious future of the Catholic Church, Würzburg 2012, in: Im Blickpunkt 2/2012, 7.
• Zulehner, Paul M.: How's it going, Father? Results of a kreuzundquer survey: Priests want reforms, in: Die Mitarbeiterin 3/2011, 36.
• Oberlies, Thomas: Hinduism, Frankfurt/M. 2008, in: Die Mitarbeiterin 2/2011, 36 and in: Im Blickpunkt 1/2012, 8.
• Kügler, Joachim: Hands off! Why you shouldn't read the Bible ... and why you should, Würzburg 2008; in: Die Mitarbeiterin 1/2011, 36 and in: Im Blickpunkt 2/2011, 7.
• Baumann, Urs: Christentum, Frankfurt/M. 2008, in: Die Mitarbeiterin 4/2010, 37 and in: Im Blickpunkt 1/2012, 7.
• Müller, Lutz: Ignatius von Loyola begegnen, Augsburg 2004, in: Geist und Leben 81 (6/2008), 474.
• Magirius, Georg: Vom Reichtum des einfachen Lebens. Discovering alternatives in the footsteps of Jesus, Ostfildern 2006, in: Die Mitarbeiterin 2/2007, 36.
• Strohmeyr, Armin: Sophie von LaRoche, Leipzig 2006, in: Die Mitarbeiterin 3/2007, 37.
• Langwald, Marie-Luise; Niehüser, Isolde (eds.): Segen. FrauenGottesDienste. Modelle und Materialien, vol. 19, Ostfildern 2005, in: Die Mitarbeiterin 4/2006, 36.
• numerous reviews in the context of the Archive for Pastoral Work Aids AfPA; cf. www.thf-fulda.de
• Von Westphalen, Gerlinde: Lady Abbess. Benedicta von Spiegel. Political nun in the Nazi era. - Münster: Aschendorff 2022, in: TheolRev 125/2025 Oct, DOI: https:// doi.org/10.17879/thrv-2024-5899.
• Kaszuba Magdalena, The Empty Vessel, Berlin 2018, in: Lebendige Seelsorge 74 (3/2023) 219-220.
• Enxing, Julia, And God saw that it was bad. Why the Christian faith obliges us to preserve creation, Munich 2022, in: Lebendige Seelsorge 74 (2/2023) 137-138.
• Beck, Wolfgang: Without railings. Pastoraltheologische Fundierungen einer risikofreudigen Ekklesiogenese, Ostfildern 2022, in: Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie 145 (2/2023), 290-293, DOI: 10.35070/ztp.v145i2.4102.