Why Is William T. Cavanaugh Influential?
According to Wikipedia , William T. Cavanaugh is an American Roman Catholic theologian, known for his work in political theology and Christian ethics.
Biography
Cavanaugh received his Bachelor of Arts degree in theology from the University of Notre Dame in 1984, and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Cambridge in 1987. He later attended Duke University, where he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in religion in 1996. His areas of specialization are in political theology, economic ethics, and ecclesiology.
William T. Cavanaugh's Published Works
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Published Papers
The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict (2009)
The Myth of Religious Violence (2011)
“A FIRE STRONG ENOUGH TO CONSUME THE HOUSE:” THE WARS OF RELIGION AND THE RISE OF THE STATE (1995)
Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, by Saba Mahmood (2016)
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Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ (1998)
The Blackwell companion to political theology (2003)
Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire (2008)
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Theopolitical Imagination: Discovering the Liturgy as a Political Act in an Age of Global Consumerism (2005)
Killing for the Telephone Company: Why the Nation‐State is Not the Keeper of the Common Good (2004)
Does Religion Cause Violence (2007)
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The Anatomy of the Myth (2009)
The World in a Wafer: A Geography of the Eucharist as Resistance to Globalization (1999)
"The City: Beyond Secular Parodies" (1998)
From One City to Two: Christian Reimagining of Political Space (2006)
Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church (2011)
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Eucharistic Sacrifice and the Social Imagination in Early Modern Europe (2001)
The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology: Scott/The Blackwell (2007)
Migrant, Tourist, Pilgrim, Monk: Mobility and Identity in a Global Age (2008)
The Invention of Religion (2009)
"Sins of Omission: What 'Religion and Violence' Arguments Ignore" (2004)
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“Religious Violence as Modern Myth” (2014)
Return of the Golden Calf: Economy, Idolatry, and Secularization since Gaudium et spes (2015)
The Invention of Fanaticism (2011)
Making Enemies: The Imagination of Torture in Chile and the United States (2006)
God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics (2012)
Theopolitical Imagination: Christian Practices of Space and Time (2002)
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"The Violence of 'Religion': Examining a Prevalent Myth" (2004)
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Behind the common question lies a morass of unclear thinking. (2007)
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Dying for the Eucharist or Being Killed by it? (2001)
Stan the Man: A Thoroughly Biased Account of a Completely Unobjective Person (2001)
The Liturgies of Church and State (2005)
Colonialism and the Myth of Religious Violence (2007)
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Church, World, and the Christian Life by Nicholas Healy (2003)
Field Hospital: The Church's Engagement with a Wounded World (2016)
Architectural Acoustics: Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition (2010)
The Ambivalence of the Sacred by Scott Appleby (2003)
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“The Invention of the Religious-Secular Distinction,” (2014)
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“Killing in the Name of God”1 (2004)
The Christian Practice of Everyday Life Series (2001)
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A Joint Declaration?: Justification as Theosis in Aquinas and Luther (2000)
The War on Terror: Secular or Sacred? (2011)
The Future of Political Theology (2014)
The Church in the Streets: Eucharist and Politics (2014)
"Sailing Under True Colors: Academic Freedom and the Ecclesially Based University" (2004)
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The Ecclesiologies of Medellin and the Lessons of the Base Communities (1994)
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"Balthasar, Globalization, and the Problem of the One and the Many" (2001)
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A Royal Priesthood?: The Use of the Bible Ethically and Politically, ed. Craig Bartholomew, et al. (2006)
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"At Odds With the Pope: Legitimate Authority and Just Wars" (2003)
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"Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation" (2011)
If You Render Unto God What Is God's, What Is Left for Caesar? (2009)
Clash Course: Review of George Weigel’s Faith, Reason, and the War against Jihadism (2008)
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The Invention of Fanaticism (2012)
“Westphalia and Back: Complexifying the Church-World Duality in Catholic Thought,” (2013)
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"Separation and Wholeness: Notes on the Unsettling Political Presence of the Body of Christ" (2009)
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Fragile World: Ecology and the Church (2018)
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"Messianic Nation: A Christian Theological Critique of American Exceptionalism" (2005)
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The Work of the People as Public Work: The Social Significance of the Liturgy (2008)
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“Out to Lunch: A Response to Stephen Webb’s ‘Against the Gourmands,’” (2011)
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"The Empire of the Empty Shrine: American Imperialism and the Church" (2006)
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Religion, Violence, Nonsense, and Power (2016)
Actually, You Can’t Be Anything You Want (And It’s a Good Thing, Too (2016)
“Are Corporations People?: The Corporate Form and the Body of Christ,” (2014)
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Dorothy Day and the Mystical Body of Christ in the Second World War (2001)
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"The God of Silence: Shusaku Endo's Reading of the Passion" (1998)
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Is Public Theology Really Public? Some Problems with Civil Society (2001)
Evolution and the Fall (2017)
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The Unfreedom of the Free Market (2003)
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Coercion in Augustine and Disney (1999)
The Mystical and the Real: Putting Theology Back Into Political Theology (2016)
"A Politics of Vulnerability: Hauerwas and Democracy" (2010)
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Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ (2000)
Am I Impossible? (2012)
Is Public Theology Really Public (2001)
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The Modest Claim of An Immodest Book (2013)
PEELING AWAY THE CELLOPHANE: POLITICAL THEOLOGY AND THE EXCEPTIONAL GOD (2021)
The Blurred Line Between Law and Violence (2015)
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Girard and the Myth of Religious Violence (2017)
Political Theology as Threat (2015)
Absolute Moral Norms and Human Suffering: An Apocalyptic Reading of Endo's Silence (1999)
Spaces of Recognition: A Reply to My Interlocutors (2011)
A Nation with the Church’s Soul (2013)
United States Military Chaplaincy Program: Another Seam in the Fabric of Our Society (1983)
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Are we Free not to be a Religion? The Ambivalence of Religious Freedom (2014)
Enchantment, Idolatry, and Sacrament: Looking for Grace in the Secular (2017)
The Creation Myth of the Wars of Religion (2009)
HOW TO DO PENANCE FOR THE INQUISITION (2007)
What Constantine Has to Teach Us (2013)
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Violence Religious and Secular: Questioning the Categories (2012)
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Interview with Catholic Phoenix (2014)
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Billionaires Are Not Populists: Donald Trump’s Trickle-Down Cabinet (2016)
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The Fall of the Fall in Early Modern Political Theory (2017)
Catholic thinker counsels political ‘homelessness’ in America (2018)
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Please Don’t Go Out and Change the World: (2020)
History as a Penitential Practice (2015)
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The (Magic) Kingdom of God by Michael Budde (1999)
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Reply to Stephen H. Webb (2006)
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The World Does Not Need Me: On Politics and Humility (2016)
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“On Being Thankful: A Rejoinder to Brad Littlejohn’s Rejoinder” (2013)
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Book Review: Common Objects of Love: Moral Reflection and the Shaping of Community; Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics, Past and Present (2006)
Interview on theology and economics (2009)
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Christopher Hitchens and the Myth of Religious Violence (2010)
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Is it Good to Be Persecuted (2019)
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Ecclesial Ethics and the Gospel
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: Sacramental Politics and the Love of the World (2020)
Science and Theology: Questioning the ‘Two-State Solution (2014)
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"Consumption, the Market, and the Eucharist" (2005)
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Index of Biblical References (1991)
Seeing Beyond Nature to Creation (2015)
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Interview on The Myth of Religious Violence (2015)
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Three Theorists on Religious Violence in an Islamic Context: Karen Armstrong, Mark Juergensmeyer, and William T. Cavanaugh (2019)
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"Is Torture Losing its Shock Value?: The Editors Interview William Cavanaugh" (2008)
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“The Sinfulness and Visibility of the Church: A Christological Exploration” (2013)
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The Weaponization of Reason (2016)
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"The Nation State Project, Schizophrenic Globalization, and the Eucharist: An Interview with William T. Cavanaugh" (2007)
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"Interview: Theology and Economy" (2008)
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Book Review: A Democratic Catholic Church: The Reconstruction of Roman Catholicism (1995)
Introduction: Beyond Galileo to Chalcedon (2017)
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Interview, "Politics and God," Encounter program (2009)
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Has Free Speech Had its Day (2016)
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Religion, Violence, and Nationalism (2017)
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Secularization, Violence, and Idolatry (2014)
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The Past As Pilgrimage: Narrative Tradition and the Renewal of Catholic History by Christopher Shannon and Christopher O. Blum (review) (2015)
What Do I Want? Theological Anthropology and Consumerism (2014)
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"When Enough is Enough: Why God's abundant life won't fit in a shopping cart, and other mysteries of consumerism" (2005)
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A GodSpy Interview with William T. Cavanaugh (2007)
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Threat of Torture Plays with More Minds than You Might Have Imagined (2006)
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Just War and the Iraq War (2007)
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Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept (2013)
Han tar död på myten att religion skapar krig (2012)
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WILLIAM CAVANAUGH, STANDARDS SOCIETY PRESIDENT, DIES (1985)
"Remembering Rightly: A Response to Karen Bergesch and Daniel A. Bruno" (2010)
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The splendid idolatry of nationalism (2021)
“Good Corp, Bad Corp,” (2014)
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Mark Clavier, On Consumer Culture, Identity, the Church, and the Rhetorics of Delight (2020)
Torture and eucharist in pinochet's Chile (1996)
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Rejecting the Religion of Secularism (2012)
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Database analysis of ethnicity, sex, and insurance status of patients with Parkinson's disease (2015)
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"Breaking Bread, Making Peace" (2010)
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The engineering graduate and the problem of military service (1957)
A Theology of Engagement By Ian S. Markham: Maiden, MA, Blackwell, 2003. 250 pp. $29.95 (2005)
“The ‘Wars of Religion’ and Other Fairy Tales,” (2012)
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Interview on Sunday Nights with John Cleary (2016)
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"Taking Exception: When Torture Becomes Thinkable" (2005)
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T he W ar on T error : Secular or S acred ? (2011)
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Toward a Catholic Theology of Nationality (2012)
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“Consumer culture – the air we breathe” (2013)
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Is Religious Violence a Scrap in Backyard Compared to Secular Violence (2016)
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Orthodoxy and Heresy in Departments of Economics (2012)
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Learning to Fail: Lay Formation and the Holy Cross Associates (2016)
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Book Review: Healing a Broken World: Globalization and God (2004)
Book Review: Luke Bretherton, Christianity and Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful Witness (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). xv + 251 pp. £19.99/$39.95 (pb), ISBN 978-1-405-19969-8 (2011)
A Democratic Catholic Church, ed. Eugene Bianchi and Rosemary Ruether (1995)
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Eucharistic Identity in Modernity (2014)
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"Set the Powers to Tremble: John Dear on nonviolence and the nature of God" (1996)
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"Destroying the Church to Save It: Intra-Christian Persecution and the Modern State" (2011)
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16. Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation (2011)
Something Rotten in the State of Denmark: Katongole on Africa’s Gifts for the West (2017)
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“Just Trust the President?: Whose Job is Moral Reasoning?" (2007)
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Bonds of Imperfection by Oliver O’Donovan and Joan Lockwood O’Donovan and Common Objects of Love by Oliver O’Donovan (2006)
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“A Response to Ephraim Radner’s A Brutal Unity,” (2014)
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The Utopianism of the Obvious (2019)
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Politics as Entertainment: The Not-So-Surprising Rise of Donald Trump (2016)
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Interview on consumerism (2009)
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Development and Theology series (2016)
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“The Body of Service: The Social Dimension of the Eucharist and the Diaconate,” (2011)
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Television Interview about "Being consumed" in Bel Ahdan Arab-American Talk Show (2009)
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The Uses of the Myth (2009)
Symposium on William Cavanaugh's The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict * (2011)
Debate: Religion and Violence (2011)
“Liturgy as Politics: An Interview with William Cavanaugh” (2005)
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Creation’s Final Law: Evolutionary Violence and the Fall (2016)
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54. Religion and Violence (2017)
"The Body of Christ: The Eucharist and Politics" (2002)
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"Cardinal Pell and the Theology of the Nation State", Interview on Encounter (2005)
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Cities of God by Graham Ward (2002)
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Field Hospital: The Church's Engagement in Markets, Politics, and Conflict (2016)
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THE POLITICAL NATURE OF THE CHURCH ACCORDING TO STANLEY MARTIN HAUERWAS, WILLIAM T. CAVANAUGH AND WALTER BRUEGGEMANN (2021)
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MODERN THEOLOGY AT TWENTY‐FIVE: AN ACHIEVEMENT, A RETROSPECTIVE, AND A RENEWED VISION (2010)
Interview: "Can Theology Make a Difference in Achieving Racial Reconciliation?" (2004)
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Victims, Not Heroes (2015)
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Index of Names and Subjects (1980)
Puncturing Progressive Myths (2013)
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Not Peace but a Sword (2012)
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Only Christianity Can Save Economics (2011)
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Telling God's Story by Gerard Loughlin (1999)
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Ratzinger’s Faith: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI, by Tracey Rowland (2010)
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A US District Court rejects an antitrust claim for lack of standing (Spinelli / NFL) (2015)
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Love as a Habit: A Response to Vincent Lloyd (2019)
Craig Bartholomew, Jonathan Chaplin, Robert Song and Al Wolters, eds, A Royal Priesthood? The Use of the Bible Ethically and Politically (Carlisle: Paternoster Press; Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2002), pp. xxiv + 445. £24.99 (2006)
Walking Humbly : The Church, Participation and Development (2015)
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"Pledging Allegiance: A Theological Reflection on the Kobasa Case" (2006)
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“To Whom Should We Go? Legitimate Authority and Just Wars” (2005)
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A History of Violence, by Robert Muchembled (2012)
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Forbrukerkulturen – lufta vi puster inn (Consumer culture - the air we breathe) (2013)
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"Making Enemies: The Imagination of Torture in Chile and the U.S." (2006)
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Interview: "Torture Report Leaves Unfinished Business" (2004)
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Dorian Llywelyn, SJ, Toward a Catholic Theology of Nationality (2012)
"Telling the Truth About Ourselves: Torture and Eucharist in the U.S. Imagination" (2009)
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The Plight of Western Religion: The Eclipse of the Other‐Worldly by PaulGifford (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), xiii + 173 pp. (2021)
Editorial Introduction: Eucharist and Society (2014)
Exploring Gender-Associated Socioeconomic Differences in Parkinson’s Disease (P1.027) (2015)
Christianity & Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful Witness, by Luke Bretherton (2011)
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Ratzinger's Faith: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI: Tracey Rowland: New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 214 pp. $24.95 (2010)
“A Response to Radner’s A Brutal Unity,” (2014)
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Confronting Religious Violence: A Counternarrative, edited by Richard A. Burridge and Jonathan Sacks, (2018) (2020)
Toward a Catholic Theology of Nationality, by Dorian Llywelyn (2012)
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"Building on Sand: The Economy and the Common Good" (2009)
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Migrations of the Holy: Theologies of State and Church (2011)
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The Church as Field Hospital: Ecclesiology and Peace Building (2019)
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Religious Violence as Folklore (2011)
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Studies in World Catholicism series (2016)
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Violence and Theology? Just War and Pacifism? William Cavanaugh Interview (2016)
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Sacrifice and the Social Imagination in Early Modern Europe (2001)
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What is Religion (2013)
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Five Questions with William Cavanaugh (2016)
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Does God Need the Church? by Gerhard Lohfink (2001)
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The demand for and supply of engineers and scientists (1958)
Making America Feel Better (2015)
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Pope John Paul II and Leonardo Boff (2007)
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