Theology Department Faculty

Brian Robinette

Associate Professor

Selected Publications

Books

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

Grammars of Resurrection: A Christian Theology of Presence and Absence. New York: Crossroad/Herder, 2009.

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

鈥淭owards a Contemplative Theology: In Dialogue with Bernard Lonergan.鈥澨50th听Anniversary of Method in Theology听(in press).

鈥溾楬e is Risen, He is Not Here鈥: The Phenomenon of the Resurrection.鈥 In听Handbook on Phenomenology and Theology. Ed. Joseph Rivera & Joseph O鈥橪eary. London: Routledge, 2023, 88-97.

鈥淎esthetic and Spiritual Exercises, In and Beyond the Classroom.鈥 Co-authored with Daniel M. Callahan. In听Curriculum by Design: Innovation and the Liberal Arts Core. Ed. Mary Crane. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2023, 123-31.

鈥淭heology After the Death of God.鈥 In听The T&T Clark Companion to Political Theology. Ed. Rub茅n Rosario Rodr铆guez. London: Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2020, 161-75.

Amoris Laetitia听and the Nones.鈥 In听Amoris Laetitia:A New Momentum for Moral Formation and Pastoral Practice. Ed. James Keenan. Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2018, 86-94.

鈥淯ndergoing Something from Nothing: The Doctrine of Creation as Contemplative Insight.鈥 In听The Practice of the Presence of God: Theology as Way of Life. Ed. Martin Laird and Sheelah Trefl茅 Hidden. London: Routledge, 2017, 17-28.

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

鈥淒oes Darwin Have a Future? Pain, Suffering, and Death at Eastertide.鈥澨Theological Studies听77.2 (2016): 474-78.

鈥淟a puissance d鈥檜n d茅pouillement sans limites repenser : repenser la听creatio ex nihilo听avec Stanislas Breton.鈥 Trans. Claire Vajou,听罢谤补苍蝉惫别谤蝉补濒颈迟茅蝉, Octobre-D茅cembre, n藲 135 (2015): 43-53.

鈥淒eceit, Desire, and the Desert: Ren茅 Girard鈥檚 Mimetic Theory in Conversation with Early Christian Monastic Practice.鈥 In听Violence, Transformation, and the Sacred. Ed., Margaret R. Pfeil & Tobias L. Winright. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books (2012): 130-143.

鈥淭he Difference Nothing Makes:听Creatio Ex Nihilo, the Resurrection, and Divine Gratuity.鈥澨Theological Studies听72 (2011): 525-57.