Theology Department Faculty
Brian Robinette
Joseph Professor in Catholic Spirituality
Brian Robinette
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall 333N
Telephone: 617-552-3893
Email: brian.robinette@bc.edu
Education
- A.B., Belmont University
- M.A., Saint John's University
- Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Courses
- God & Creation
- Theology & the Mystical Turn
- Theology in a Secular Age
- Spiritual Exercises: Engagement, Empathy, Ethics
- Love & the Human Condition
Research Interests
- Phenomenology
- Hermeneutics
- Mimetic Theory
- Mystical Theology
- Contemplative Practice
- Trinitarian Theology
- Theologies of Creation
Office Hours
Tu W Th 3-4 p.m., or by appointment
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.” 50th Anniversary of Method in Theology (in press).
“‘He is Risen, He is Not Here’: The Phenomenon of the Resurrection.” In Handbook on Phenomenology and Theology. Ed. Joseph Rivera & Joseph O’Leary. London: Routledge, 2023, 88-97.
“Aesthetic and Spiritual Exercises, In and Beyond the Classroom.” Co-authored with Daniel M. Callahan. In 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 The T&T Clark Companion to Political Theology. Ed. Rubén Rosario Rodríguez. London: Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2020, 161-75.
“Amoris Laetitia and the Nones.” In 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 The 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 Studies 77.2 (2016): 474-78.
“La puissance d’un dépouillement sans limites repenser : repenser la creatio ex nihilo avec Stanislas Breton.” Trans. Claire Vajou, Transversalités, Octobre-Décembre, no. 135 (2015): 43-53.
“Deceit, Desire, and the Desert: René Girard’s Mimetic Theory in Conversation with Early Christian Monastic Practice.” In Violence, 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 Studies 72 (2011): 525-57.