• Moral Action, God, and History in the Thought of Immanuel Kant. American Academy of Religion Dissertation Series 5. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1975. ISBN 9780891300038.
• Religion and the Human Image. Editor and co-author with Mark C. Taylor and James Kirk. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1976. ISBN 9780137734245.
• The Bursting of New Wineskins: Religion and Culture at the End of Affluence. Pittsburgh, PA: Pickwick Press, 1978. ISBN 9780915138340.
• The Alchemy of the Word: Language and the End of Theology. AAR Studies in Religion 20. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1979. ISBN 9780891303190.
• The Interruption of Eternity: Modern Gnosticism and the Origins of the New Religious Consciousness. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1980. ISBN 9780882293745.
• Theological Thinking: An Inquiry. AAR Studies in Religion 53. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988. ISBN 9781555401870.
• Painted Black: From Drug Killings to Heavy Metal Music: The Alarming True Story of How Satanism Is Terrorizing Our Communities. San Francisco: Harper, 1990. ISBN 9780062507044. Paperback edition, Harper Collins, 1992. ISBN 9780061040801.
• Fire and Roses: Postmodernity and the Thought of the Body. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. ISBN 9780585062730.
• The Engendering God. Male and Female Faces of God. Co-authored with Susan D. Raschke. Louisville, KY: John Knox/Westminster, 1996. ISBN 9780664255022.
• The End of Theology. Denver CO: The Davies Group Publishers, 2000. ISBN 9781888570533. (Republication of The Alchemy of the Word with new introduction)
• The Digital Revolution and the Coming of the Postmodern University. London / New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2002. ISBN 9780203451243.
• The Next Reformation: Why Evangelicals Must Embrace Postmodernity. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2004. ISBN 9780801027512.
• The Republic of Faith: The Search for Agreement Amid Diversity in American Religion. Religion in American Culture. Aurora, CO: Davies Group, 2005. ISBN 9781888570717.
• GloboChrist: The Great Commission Takes a Postmodern Turn. The Church and Postmodern Culture. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008. ISBN 9780801032615.
• Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory: Toward a Semiotics of the Event. Studies in Religion and Culture. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2012. ISBN 9780813933085.
• Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. ISBN 9780231539623.
• Critical Theology: Introducing an Agenda for an Age of Global Crisis. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016. ISBN 9780830851294.
• Postmodern Theology: A Biopic. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2017. ISBN 1498203892.
• Neoliberalism and Political Theology: From Kant to Identity Politics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. ISBN 1474454550.