Jack McLean
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Jack McLean is a Bahá'í author and poet. In 2013 he was granted an award for distinguished scholarship by the Association for Bahá'í Studies for his book A Celestial Burning.
Publications[edit]
Books[edit]
- 1994 - Dimensions in Spirituality
- 1997 - Revisioning the Sacred, as editor
- 1999 - Under the Divine Lote Tree
- 2012 - A Celestial Burning: A Selective Study of the Writings of Shoghi Effendi
- 2016 - A Love That Could Not Wait: The Remarkable Story of Knights of Bahá’u’lláh Catherine and Clifford Huxtable
Poetry[edit]
- 1990 - Whispers of Angels: Poems
- 1996 - The Crucible: Poems
- 1999 - Poems from a Misty Island
- 2002 - Gathering Traces: Selected Poems 1975-2002
Essays[edit]
- 1980 - The Deification of Jesus, published in World Order, 1980 Spring/Summer issue, pp 23-45.
- 1990 - To Russia with Love: Journal of a Member of the Quddus Team
- 1992 - Prolegomena to a Bahá'í Theology, published in Journal of Bahá'í Studies, 5:1, pp 25-67.
- 1993 - Putative Distinctions Between Apologetics and Scholarship: A Commentary
- 1993 - Salvation
- 1995 - Dimensions in Spirituality: Presentation at 19th Annual ABS Conference, summary of the book of the same title.
- 1995 - Propositions on a More Comprehensive Theology
- 1995 - The Reconvergence of Theology and Spirituality
- 1995 - Why We Need Bahá'í Theology
- 1996 - Theological Ethics in a Bahá'í Perspective
- 1997 - The Possibilities of Existential Theism for Bahá'í Theology, published in Revisioning the Sacred.
- 1998 - The Faith State: Vital to Theist, Agnostic and Atheist, published in Gulf Islands Driftwood.
- 2000 - Characterization in the Writings of Shoghi Effendi
- 2000 - Correlating Mystical Experience to the Knowledge of God
- 2000 - Foreword to Making the Crooked Straight: A Contribution to Bahá’í Apologetics by Udo Schaefer, Nicola Towfigh, and Ulrich Gollmer.
- 2000 - Method in Religious Studies: Theistic and Agnostic
- 2001 - Literary Criticism, Theology and Deconstructionism
- 2001 - The Mystic's Flight: The Parable of Majnún and Laylí
- 2001 - The Refutation of Francesco Ficicchia and the Dangers of Silence
- 2001 - Who is Writing the Future? Reflections on the Twentieth Century: Thoughts on the Statement Prepared by the Bahá'í International Community's Office of Public Information
- 2002 - Message of the Universal House of Justice to the World's Religious Leaders: Panel Discussion Comments
- 2003 - Did Prophecy Fail? The Lesser Peace and the Year 2000
- 2003 - The Spiritual Self in Bahá'í Studies
- 2005 - Dissidents and the Bahá'í Faith
- 2005 - The Military Metaphor in Bahá'í Sacred Literature
- 2005 - Shoghi Effendi's View of Providential History in Light of the Judaeo-Christian Tradition, published in Bahá'í Studies Review, 13.
- 2006 - The Heroic in the Historical Writings of Shoghi Effendi and Nabil
- 2006 - The Baha'is as a Mystic Community, by Moojan Momen: Response, published in World Order, 38:1.
- 2007 - Abdu'l-Baha in Montreal
- 2007 - Erich Fromm and the Bahá'í Faith
- 2007 - Promises to Keep: Thoughts on an Emerging Bahá'í Theology
- 2007 - The Heart is a Little Bird that Longs to Soar: Impressions of Pilgrimage in Haifa, Bahji and Akká in the Days of the Universal House of Justice
- 2007 - My Interview with Laura Dreyfus-Barney
- 2007 - What a Young Man Learned from Laura Rumney Davis about Shoghi Effendi
- 2007 - What Stanwood Cobb Told Me about 'Abdu'l-Bahá
- 2007 - The Relativity of Religious Truth: Relating to the Absolute
- 2007 - Shoghi Effendi and Social Justice
- 2008 - Divine Simplicity: Remembering the last Hand of the Cause of God, 'Ali-Muhammad Varqa
- 2008 - Shoghi Effendi's The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh: A Theology of the Word, published in Lights of Irfan, Vol. 9, pp 239-280.
- 2009 - Babi Heroism and the Recovery of the Heroic
- 2011 - Ian Semple (1963-2005): A Personal Appreciation
- 2012 - Teaching the Faith, Magic Moments, Meeting Great Souls
- 2012 - Bahá'í Life and Existentialism
- 2013 - John the Baptist and Baha'i Prophetic Categories: An Atypical Paradigm
Reviews[edit]
- 1988 - Review of The Bábí and Bahá'í Religions: From Messianic Shi'ism to World Religion by Peter Smith
- 1989 - Review of The Purpose of Poetry by Shirin Sabri, published in Journal of Bahá'í Studies, 2:1, pp 77-82.
- 1990 - Review of A Study of Baha'u'llah's Tablet to the Christians by Michael Sours, published in Journal of Bahá'í Studies, 2:3, pp 87-89.
- 1998 - Review of Life after Death: A Study of the Afterlife in Religions, by Farnaz Ma'sumian, published in Journal of Bahá'í Studies, 8:2, pp 79-85.
- 2005 - Review of Living the Twelve Steps by James Duncan, published in Peace and Environment News.
- 2009 - Review of Gate of the Heart by Nader Saiedi.
- 2011 - Review of World Awakening: A.A. and Higher Power Mutual Aid
