William Cavanaugh
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William T. Cavanaugh
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Associate Professor of Theology |
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Academic History Expertise Awards & Honors Selected Publications Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ, in the series "Challenges in Contemporary Theology" (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998) The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology, co-editor with Peter Scott (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003) “The Liturgies of Church and State,” Liturgy 20, no. 1 (2005): 25-30 “Killing in the Name of God,” New Blackfriars 85, no. 999 (September 2004): 510-26 “Terrorist Enemies and Just War Theory,” Christian Reflection, Peace and War issue (July 2004): 27-35 “Killing for the Telephone Company: Why the Nation-State is Not the Keeper of the Common Good,” Modern Theology 20, no. 2 (April 2004): 243-74 “Sins of Omission: What ‘Religion and Violence’ Arguments Ignore,” The Hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture 6, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 34-50 “The Violence of ‘Religion’: Examining a Prevalent Myth,” Kellogg Institute for International Studies Working Papers, no. 310 (March 2004) “The Body of Christ: The Eucharist and Politics," Word and World 22, no. 2 (Spring 2002): 170-7 "Sacrifice and the Social Imagination in Early Modern Europe," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31, no. 3 (Fall 2001): 585-605 "Balthasar, Globalization, and the Problem of the One and the Many," Communio 28, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 324-47 "Is Public Theology Really Public?: Some Problems with Civil Society," The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics 21 (2001): 105-23 "Dying for the Eucharist or Being Killed by It?: Romero's Challenge to First-World Christians," Theology Today 58, no. 2 (July 2001): 177-89 "A Joint Declaration?: Justification as Theosis in Aquinas and Luther," Heythrop Journal 41, no. 3 (July 2000): 265-80 "Coercion in Augustine and Disney," New Blackfriars 80, no. 940 (June 1999): 283-90 "Absolute Moral Norms and Human Suffering: An Apocalyptic Reading of Endo's Silence," Logos 2, no. 3 (Summer 1999): 96-116 "The World in a Wafer: A Geography of the Eucharist as Resistance to Globalization," Modern Theology 15, no. 2 (April 1999): 181-96 "`A Fire Strong Enough to Consume the House:' The Wars of Religion and the Rise of the State," Modern Theology 11, no. 4 (October 1995): 397-420 "The Ecclesiologies of Medellín and the Lessons of the Base Communities," Cross Currents 44, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 67-84 Selected Presentations 23rd Annual Dom Helder Camara Lecture, Sydney, Australia, May 2006 “John Paul II and Leonardo Boff Read the Sermon on the Mount,” Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, November 3, 2005 “Eucharist and Politics,” Loyola University, Baltimore, October 10, 2005 “Messianic Time: A Theological Critique of American Exceptionalism,” University of St. Thomas Law School, Minneapolis, Sept. 30, 2005 “Re-Examining Our Place: The Ecclesially Based University and a More Robust Understanding of Academic Freedom,” Bluffton University, Bluffton, OH, August 24, 2005 “The Social Meaning of the Eucharist,” plenary address, The Eucharist: A Gift for Mission conference, University of Notre Dame, June 20, 2005 “The Empire of the Empty Shrine: American Imperialism and the Church” keynote address, Ekklesia Project Annual Meeting, DePaul University, Chicago, July 18, 2005 “Religion, Violence, and the State,” plenary address, Faith’s Public Role Conference, University of Cambridge, England, April 7, 2005 “Religious Violence and Secular Justice?: Questioning Justifications for the War on Terror,” 9th Annual Religion and the Humanities Conference, Center for the Study of Ethics, Utah Valley State College, Orem, UT, October 21, 2004 “Who Would Jesus Bomb?: Christ’s Peace in a Violent World,” First Annual Clarence and Janet Cunningham Lecture, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, October 10, 2004 “A Matter of Life and Death,” St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, The Ten Commandments Conference, Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology, June 16, 2003 “The Church in a Disney World: Gaudium et Spes and the ‘Free’ Market,” University of Dayton, OH, April 8, 2003 "God is Not Religious," North Park University, Chicago, IL, February 24, 2003 "The Myth of Religious Violence," Iowa State University, Ames, IA, October 28, 2002 "Violence, Religion, and the Nation-State," Duke University Divinity School, Durham, NC, September 24, 2002 "Academic Freedom in an Ecclesially-Based University," The Ecclesially-Based University in a Liberal-Democratic Society conference, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA, March 7, 2002 "Does Religion Cause Violence?: Questioning the Myth of Religious Wars," Kellogg Institute Lecture Series, University of Notre Dame, IN, October 16, 2001 "Globalization and the Concrete Universal," DeSales University, Allentown, PA, Balthasar and the Evangelization of Culture Conference, April 28, 2001 "Ecclesiology and Toleration," Baylor University, Waco, TX, Christianity and Toleration Symposium, April 9, 2001 "Sacrifice and the Rise of the Modern State," Duke University, Dept. of English, Durham, NC, April 12, 2000 "Eucharist and Martyrdom: Romero's Challenge to First-World Christians," Yale University, New Haven, CT, March 24, 2000 "Participation in the Trinity in Aquinas and Luther," Seventh Annual Aquinas/Luther Conference, Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NC, November 8, 1999 "Rethinking Church Responses to Human Rights Abuses," Human Rights Roundtable, University of Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, IN, September 20, 1999 "Torture and the Church in Chile: Politics, Theology, and State Terror," DePaul University, Chicago, IL, Department of Political Science, Feb. 15, 1999 "Damned for the Greater Glory of God?," Loyola College of Maryland, Baltimore, November 9, 1998 "Can a Village be Global?: Eucharist, Catholicity, and Globalization," Catholicism and Catholicity: Eucharistic Communities in Historical and Contemporary Perspective conference, Duke University, Durham, NC, April 17-19, 1998 "Torture as Social Strategy," Center for Victims of Torture, Minneapolis, MN, October 11, 1996 "Torture and its Impact on Theology: The Catholic Church in Pinochet's Chile," Pace University, White Plains, NY, Dept. of Philosophy and Religion, April 30, 1994 Professional Memberships
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