Professor
Stokes Hall 333N
Telephone: 617-552-3893
Email: brian.robinette@bc.edu
Tu W Th 3-4 p.m., or by appointment
Books
The Difference Nothing Makes: Creation, Christ, Contemplation. University of Notre Dame Press, 2023.
Grammars of Resurrection: A Christian Theology of Presence and Absence. New York: Crossroad/Herder, 2009.
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
Towards a Contemplative Theology: In Dialogue with Bernard Lonergan.50thAnniversary of Method in Theology(in press).
He is Risen, He is Not Here: The Phenomenon of the Resurrection. InHandbook on Phenomenology and Theology. Ed. Joseph Rivera & Joseph OLeary. London: Routledge, 2023, 88-97.
Aesthetic and Spiritual Exercises, In and Beyond the Classroom. Co-authored with Daniel M. Callahan. InCurriculum by Design: Innovation and the Liberal Arts Core. Ed. Mary Crane. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2023, 123-31.
Theology After the Death of God. InThe T&T Clark Companion to Political Theology. Ed. Rubén Rosario Rodríguez. London: Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2020, 161-75.
Amoris Laetitiaand the Nones. InAmoris Laetitia:A New Momentum for Moral Formation and Pastoral Practice. Ed. James Keenan. Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2018, 86-94.
Undergoing Something from Nothing: The Doctrine of Creation as Contemplative Insight. InThe Practice of the Presence of God: Theology as Way of Life. Ed. Martin Laird and Sheelah Treflé Hidden. London: Routledge, 2017, 17-28.
Contemplative Practice and the Therapy of Mimetic Desire.Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture, 24 (2017): 73-100.
Does Darwin Have a Future? Pain, Suffering, and Death at Eastertide.Theological Studies77.2 (2016): 474-78.
La puissance dun dépouillement sans limites repenser : repenser lacreatio ex nihiloavec Stanislas Breton. Trans. Claire Vajou,հԲé, Octobre-Décembre, n˚ 135 (2015): 43-53.
Deceit, Desire, and the Desert: René Girard Mimetic Theory in Conversation with Early Christian Monastic Practice. InViolence, Transformation, and the Sacred. Ed., Margaret R. Pfeil & Tobias L. Winright. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books (2012): 130-143.
The Difference Nothing Makes:Creatio Ex Nihilo, the Resurrection, and Divine Gratuity.Theological Studies72 (2011): 525-57.