Theology Department Faculty

Brian Robinette

Professor

Selected Publications

Books

The Difference Nothing Makes: Creation, Christ, Contemplation. University of Notre Dame Press, 2023.泭

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.泭50th泭Anniversary of Method in Theology泭(in press).

He is Risen, He is Not Here: The Phenomenon of the Resurrection. In泭Handbook 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. In泭Curriculum 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. In泭The T&T Clark Companion to Political Theology. Ed. Rub矇n Rosario Rodr穩guez. London: Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2020, 161-75.

Amoris Laetitia泭and the Nones. In泭Amoris 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. In泭The Practice of the Presence of God: Theology as Way of Life. Ed. Martin Laird and Sheelah Trefl矇 Hidden. London: Routledge, 2017, 17-28.

Contemplative Practice and the Therapy of Mimetic Desire.泭Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture, 24 (2017): 73-100.

Does Darwin Have a Future? Pain, Suffering, and Death at Eastertide.泭Theological Studies泭77.2 (2016): 474-78.

La puissance dun d矇pouillement sans limites repenser : repenser la泭creatio ex nihilo泭avec Stanislas Breton. Trans. Claire Vajou,泭啦娶硃紳莽措梗娶莽硃梭勳喧矇莽, Octobre-D矇cembre, n 135 (2015): 43-53.

Deceit, Desire, and the Desert: Ren矇 Girards Mimetic Theory in Conversation with Early Christian Monastic Practice. In泭Violence, Transformation, and the Sacred. Ed., Margaret R. Pfeil & Tobias L. Winright. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books (2012): 130-143.

The Difference Nothing Makes:泭Creatio Ex Nihilo, the Resurrection, and Divine Gratuity.泭Theological Studies泭72 (2011): 525-57.