Associate Professor
Stokes Hall 333N
Telephone: 617-552-3893
Email: brian.robinette@bc.edu
Theology in a Secular Age
Doctrine of God
Christology
Theology and Science
Spiritual Exercises: Engagement, Empathy, Ethics
Thomas Merton: Monk, Mystic, Prophet
Phenomenology; Hermeneutics; Mimetic Theory; Mystical Theology; Contemplative Practice; Trinitarian Theology; Theologies of Creation
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
"Reading the Phenomenon of the Resurrection." Japan Mission Journal 75.1 (2021): 35-46.
"Flipping the Classroom Inside-Out: A Systematic Theologian Discovers Contemplative Pedagogy." Horizons 36.1 (2019): 121-27.
"Theology After the Death of God." In The T&T Clark Companion to Political Theology. Ed. Rubén Rosario Rodriguez. London: Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2020, 161-75.
“Amoris Laetitia and the Nones,” Amoris Laetitia: A New Momentum for Moral Formation and Pastoral Practice. Ed. James Keenan, S.J. (Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2018).
“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, n˚ 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.
“Heraclitean Nature and the Comfort of the Resurrection: Theology in an Open Space.” Logos 14:4 (2011): 13-38.