The Unofficial William T. Cavanaugh Internet Archive

This page is undergoing revision, including the addition of proper bibliographic references. Apologies for any broken links.

This archive only includes articles that are freely available elsewhere on the internet. Essays that have not been made freely available by the copyright holder(s) will not be posted here, not out of any respect for capitalist structures of knowledge production, but out of respect for Bill.

ARTICLES BY CAVANAUGH

Terrorist Enemies and Just War – Baylor University Center for Christian Ethics
When Enough is Enough: Why God’s abundant life won’t fit in a shopping cart, and other mysteries of consumerism – Sojourners
Set the Powers to Tremble: John Dear on nonviolence and the nature of God – Sojourners
Dying for the eucharist or being killed by it? Romero’s challenge to first-world Christians – Theology Today, Jul 2001 (PDF)
Consumption, the Market, and the Eucharist – The Other Journal
Taking Exception: When Torture Becomes Thinkable – The Christian Century
At Odds With The Pope: Legitimate Authority and Just Wars – Commonweal, May 2003
“A Fire Strong Enough To Consume The House”: The Wars of Religion & The Rise of the State – Modern Theology, Oct 1995 (PDF)
The Unfreedom of the Free Market – (PDF) from Wealth, Poverty & Human Destiny (eds Doug Bandow & David L. Schindler), 2003
The Ecclesiologies of Medellin and the Lessons of the Base Communities – Cross Currents 44:1 (Spring 1994)
The World in a Wafer: A Geography of the Eucharist as Resistance to Globalization – Modern Theology 15, no. 2 (April 1999)
Killing for the Telephone Company: Why the Nation-State is Not the Keeper of the Common Good – Modern Theology (April 2004)
Faith Fires Back: A Conversation With Stanley Hauerwas – Duke Magazine
Can’t we just argue? Ideas of Stanley Hauerwas – Christian Century, August 1, 2001
Stan the Man: A Thoroughly Biased Account of a Completely UnObjective Person (Excerpts) – The Hauerwas Reader
Pledging Allegiance: A Theological Reflection on the Kobasa Case – Catholic Peace Fellowship
Threat of Torture Plays with More Minds than You Might Have Imagined – Vital Theology
Telling the Truth about Ourselves: Torture and Eucharist in the U.S. Popular Imagination – The Other Journal, May 4, 2009
Messianic Nation: A Christian Theological Critique of American Exceptionalism (PDF)
The Liturgies of Church an State (PDF)
Sins of Omission: What ‘Religion and Violence’ Arguments Ignore (PDF)
Eucharistic Sacrifice and the Social Imagination in Early Modern Europe (PDF)

INTERVIEWS WITH CAVANAUGH

The Other Journal
Liturgy as Politics – interview with Christian Century
Cardinal Pell and the Theology of the Nation State – interview with Encounter radio program
5 Questions with William Cavanaugh – U.S. Catholic
Is Torture Losing Its Shock Value? – U.S. Catholic

REVIEWS OF AND ARTICLES ABOUT CAVANAUGH

A New Orthodoxy? – Religion Online
Review of Torture and Eucharist – Cry For Zimbabwe
Review of Torture and Eucharist – First Things
Review of Torture and Eucharist (Walter Brueggemann) - Theology Today
Review of Torture and Eucharist – Anglican Theological Review
Review of Theopolitical Imagination – Theology Today
Review of Torture and Eucharist and Theopolitical Imagination – Encounter
Review of Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology – Christian Century
Review of The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology – Theology Today
Review of Being Consumed – U.S. Catholic

REVIEWS BY CAVANAUGH

A Theology of Engagement by Ian S. Markham Maiden
The God of Silence: Shukaso Endo’s Reading of the Passion (review of Japanese novel Silence) – Commonweal, March 1998
The (Magic) Kingdom of God by Michael Budde – Cross Currents, Spring 1999

MISC. WRITINGS (INTERVIEWS, DRAFTS, LECTURES, ETC.)

Violence, Religion and the State – draft only (do not cite)
The Empire of the Empty Shrine – keynote address at Ekklesia Project Summer Gathering, July 2005 (mp3)
The Violence of ‘Religion’: Examining a Prevalent Myth – working paper
100 ethicists oppose attack on Iraq – National Catholic Reporter
Does Religion Cause Violence? – lecture at the University of Western Australia and the University of Melbourne (audio)
Lecture on the Sermon on the Mount (mp3)
Lecture on Torture and Eucharist
The Social Meaning of the Eucharist – Notre Dame Liturgy Conference
On Religion, the State, and Violence – video at JesusRadicals.com

BOOKS

Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998)
Theopolitical Imagination: Discovering the Liturgy as a Political Act in an Age of Global Consumerism (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2002)
The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology, co-editor with Peter Scott (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003)
Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008)
The Myth of Religious Violence (forthcoming, August 2009)

OTHER CAVANAUGH RESOURCES

Cavanaugh at JesusRadicals.com

Archive maintained by Michael J. Iafrate.
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