Bob Dylan, more than anyone, fused the pop cultural and the religious experience into one.
Grant Kaplan
Grant Kaplan is a professor of theological studies at Saint Louis University. His latest book is titled René Girard, Unlikely Apologist.
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Interview: Cesar Chavez’s lawyer on the faith and nonviolence that led to the best labor law in the country
“Nonviolence created the pressure that caused the grape boycott to work,” says Jerry Cohen, who represented the United Farm Workers for nearly a decade and worked closely with Cesar Chavez.
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The Crisis in Catholic Theology
How can the discipline of theology keep its footing in Catholic colleges and universities facing uncertain futures?
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
What 19th-century German anti-Catholicism can teach us about our own church
Despite the long and illustrious history of the Catholic Church in Germany, in the late 19th century Catholics became the great Other to modernizing, secularizing forces.
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Remembering René Girard and the radical legacy of mimetic theory.
Girard did not just apply mimetic theory; he internalized it. He manifested humility, peace and even a simple holiness.
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Renewing the Tradition: The theological project of James Alison
James Alison belongs on any short list of the most important living Catholic theologians. He has met and perhaps exceeded the high expectations that arose from his first book, Knowing Jesus (1993), and his most substantial work of constructive theology, The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through E