BA, Notre Dame (1984), MA, Cambridge (1987), PhD, Duke (1996)
Professor of Theology, University of St. Thomas (1995-2010)
Senior Research Professor at the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology and Professor of Catholic studies at DePaul University, Chicago (2010-)
Co-Editor, Modern Theology
Major Works
"`A Fire Strong Enough to Consume the House:' The Wars of Religion and the Rise of the State," Modern Theology 11.4 (October 1995): 397-420
Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ (Blackwell, 1998)
"The City: Beyond Secular Parodies" in Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology, eds. John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock, and Graham Ward (Routledge, 1998), 182-200
"The World in a Wafer: A Geography of the Eucharist as Resistance to Globalization," Modern Theology 15.2 (April 1999): 181-96
"Stan the Man: A Thoroughly Biased Account of a Completely Unobjective Person" in The Hauerwas Reader, eds. John Berkman and Michael Cartwright (Duke University Press, 2001), 17-32
Theopolitical Imagination: Discovering the Liturgy as a Political Act in an Age of Global Consumerism (T. & T. Clark, 2002)
(ed.) with Peter Scott, The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology (Blackwell, 2003)
"Killing for the Telephone Company: Why the Nation-State is Not the Keeper of the Common Good," Modern Theology 20.2 (April 2004): 243-74
"Killing in the Name of God," New Blackfriars 85, n.999 (September 2004): 510-26
"Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation" in The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, eds. Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells (Blackwell, 2004, 2011), 196-208
'The Empire of the Empty Shrine: American Imperialism and the Church', Cultural Encounters 2:2 (Summer 2006): 7-19
Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire (Eerdmans, 2008)
'Torture and Eucharist: A Regretful Update' in George Hunsinger (ed.), Torture is a Moral Issue: Christians, Jews, Muslims and people of Conscience Speak Out (Eerdmans, 2008)
The Myth of Religious Violence: secular ideology and the roots of modern conflict (Oxford, August 2009)
Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church (Eerdmans, 2011)
'Destroying the Church to Save It: Intra-Christian Persecution and the Modern State' in Michael Budde (ed.), Witness of the Body: The Past, Present, and Future of Christian Martyrdom (Eerdmans, 2011)
'Eurcharistic Identity in Modernity' in Between the State and the Eucharist: Free Church Theology in Conversation with William T. Cavanaugh (Pickwick, 2014)
Field Hospital: The Church's Engagement with the a Wounded World (Eerdmans, 2016)
(ed.), Fragile World: Ecology and the Church (Cascade, 2018)
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