Theology Department Faculty

Brian Robinette

Professor

Selected Publications

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.

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