Academic History

B.A., with Highest Honors, Theology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1984
M.A., Theology and Religious Studies, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 1987
Ph.D., Religion, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina,1996

 
Expertise

Political Theology
Social Ethics
Ecclesiology


Awards and Honors

University Scholars Grant, University of St. Thomas, 2005-07
Visiting Fellowship, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, Fall 2001
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1994-95
Julian Price Graduate Fellowship, Duke University Graduate School, 1990-94
St. Edmund's College Prize, Cambridge University, 1987
Phi Beta Kappa, University of Notre Dame, 1984


Selected Publications

Theopolitical Imagination:  Discovering the Liturgy as a Political Act in an Age of Global Consumerism (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2002)
       French-language edition: Eucharistie et Mondialisation: La liturgie comme acte politique (Geneva: Editions Ad Solem, 2001)
       Spanish-language edition: Imaginaci?n Theopolitica (Granada: Nuevo Inicio, forthcoming 2006)

Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ, in the series "Challenges in Contemporary Theology" (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998)
       French-language edition: La Torture et L'Eucharistie (Geneva: Editions Ad Solem, forthcoming)
       Spanish-language edition: La Tortura y la Eucaristia (Granada: Nuevo Inicio, forthcoming)

The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology, with Peter Scott (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003)

"Making Enemies: The Imagination of Torture in Chile and the U.S.," Theology Today 63, no. 3 (October 2006): 307-23
 
 "The Empire of the Empty Shrine: American Imperialism and the Church," Cultural Encounters 2, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 7-19
 
 "From One City to Two: Christian Reimagining of Political Space," Journal of Political Theology, forthcoming
 
"Messianic Nation: A Christian Theological Critique of American Exceptionalism," University of St. Thomas Law Journal 3, no. 2 (Fall 2005): 261-80
 
"Consumption, the Market, and the Eucharist," Concilium 41, no. 2 (June 2005): 88-95 [German version: "Konsum, Markt, und Eucharistie," Concilium 41, no. 2 (Juni 2005):192-9]
 
"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.  French translation available at www.catho-theo.net.
 
"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 Medell?n and the Lessons of the Base Communities," Cross Currents 44, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 67-84
 
 "Colonialism and the Myth of Religious Violence" in Religion and the Secular: Historical and Colonial Formations, ed. Timothy Fitzgerald (London: Equinox Publishers, forthcoming)
 
"Law, Eros, and Kingdom: John Paul II and Leonardo Boff Read the Sermon on the Mount," in Reading the Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries, eds. Jeffrey P. Greenman and Timothy Larsen (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, forthcoming)
 
"Consumer Culture" in Gathered for the Journey, ed. David McCarthy and Therese Lysaught (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishers, forthcoming)
 
"Pilgrim People" in Gathered for the Journey, ed. David McCarthy and Therese Lysaught (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishers, forthcoming)
 
 "To Whom Should We Go? Legitimate Authority and Just Wars" in D. L. O'Huallachain and J. Forrest Sharpe, ed., Neo-Conned! Just War Principles: A Condemnation of War in Iraq (Vienna, VA: IHS Press, 2005), 269-89
 
"Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation" in The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, ed. Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004), 196-208
 
"God is Not Religious" in God is Not?: Religious, Nice, "One of Us," An American, A Capitalist, ed. D. Brent Laytham (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2004), 97-115
 
"Sailing Under True Colors: Academic Freedom and the Ecclesially Based University" in Conflicting Allegiances: The Church-Based University in a Liberal Democratic Society, ed. Michael L. Budde and John Wright (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2004), 31-52
 
"The Unfreedom of the Free Market" in Wealth, Poverty, and Human Destiny, ed. Doug Bandow and David L. Schindler (Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2003), 103-28
 
"Church" in The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology, ed. William T. Cavanaugh and Peter Scott (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003), 393-406
 
"Dorothy Day and the Mystical Body of Christ in the Second World War" in Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement: Centenary Essays, ed. William Thorn, Phillip Runkel, Susan Mountin (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2001), 457-64
 
"Stan the Man: A Thoroughly Biased Account of a Completely Unobjective Person" in The Hauerwas Reader, ed. John Berkman and Michael Cartwright (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001), 17-32
 
"The City: Beyond Secular Parodies" in Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology, ed. John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock, and Graham Ward (London: Routledge, 1998), 182-200


Professional Memberships:

American Academy of Religion
Society of Christian Ethics
Catholic Theological Society of America