Theology Department Faculty
Brian Robinette
Professor; 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.聽
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� 50th Anniversary of Method in Theology (in press).
鈥溾�楬e is Risen, He is Not Here鈥�: The Phenomenon of the Resurrection.鈥� In 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 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 The T&T Clark Companion to Political Theology. Ed. Rub茅n Rosario Rodr铆guez. London: Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2020, 161-75.
鈥�Amoris Laetitia and the Nones.鈥� In 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 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� 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� Theological Studies 77.2 (2016): 474-78.
鈥淟a puissance d鈥檜n d茅pouillement sans limites repenser : repenser la creatio ex nihilo avec Stanislas Breton.鈥� Trans. Claire Vajou, 罢谤补苍蝉惫别谤蝉补濒颈迟茅蝉, Octobre-D茅cembre, no. 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 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: Creatio Ex Nihilo, the Resurrection, and Divine Gratuity.鈥� Theological Studies 72 (2011): 525-57.