Texts – Page 3 – James Alison

Oracles, prophets, and dwellers in silence: hints of the “pati divina” in the theology that is being birthed

This paper, which was originally presented at the First International Congress of Theology Students, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá Colombia, now... Read More...

Failure and perfection

A contribution to the volume entitled “Perfection” from the “Oneing” series, published by the Center for Action and Contemplation, and headlined by Richard Roh... Read More...

The place of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Catholics in the church family was the controversial issue the synod chose to avoid. Does the minimal reference to them in the final document confirm deadlocked thinking, or offer hopeful grounds for change?... Read More...

Taking Cinderella to the ball: how a mimetic anthropology restores the theological virtue of hope

Many of us live with a characterisation of each of the three theological virtues, Faith, Hope and Charity that is run from within by at least a strong residue of a modern, individualistic, picture of the self. The result is that... a caricature of what those virtues are.... Read More...

Biography and interview on the LGBT Religious Archives Network website

James' biography and interview (audio and text) on the LGBT Religious Archives Network website (2014) ... Read More...

Traversing hostility: the sine qua non of any Christian talk about Atonement

Presentation for the Colloquium ‘For Us and for Our Salvation: René Girard and the Doctrine of Atonement’, held at Heythrop College, London (7-8 November ... Read More...

Towards global inclusion of LGBT people within Catholic communities: a new theological approach

Presentation for “The ways of Love”, an International Conference towards pastoral care with homosexual and trans people (Rome, Italy, October 3, 2014). Also av... Read More...

Renewing the Tradition

James’ profile by Grant Kaplan, an associate professor of systematic theology at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Mo., published by the America magazine. ... Read More...

Abraham, depicted in this 5th-century mosaic in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore

Monotheism and idolatry: preface to a conversation

Presentation for the Colloquium on Mimetic Theory and Islam (Heythrop College, University of London, 5-7 November 2013) Introduction Some privilege... Read More...

We didn’t invent sacrifice, sacrifice invented us: unpacking Girard’s insight

A contribution to the International Theological Journal “Concilium” 2013(4) on the Ambivalence of Sacrifice. Also available in Italian. 1. The insigh... Read More...