Overview
Peter Casarella has been a Professor at Duke Divinity School since 2020. Before Duke, he taught at Notre Dame and was the founding director of DePaul’s Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology. He has published a monograph, Word as Bread: Language and Theology in Nicholas of Cusa, and co-edited the following collections: Cuerpo de Cristo: The Hispanic Presence in the U.S. Catholic Church, Finding Beauty in the Other: Theological Reflections Across Religious Traditions, The Whole is Greater than its Parts: Ecumenism and Inter-religious Encounters in the Age of Pope Francis, and Pope Francis and The Search for God in América: The Significance of His Early Visits to the Americas. His current project is a multi-volume work: The God of the People: A Latinx Theology and The Spirit of the People: A Latinx Ecumenical Theology.
Recent Publications
Naming God: Addressing the Divine in Philosophy, Theology, and Scripture by JanetSoskice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), ix + 256 pp.
Journal Article Modern Theology · January 2025 Full text Open Access CiteThinking the Unknowable The Essential Louis Dupré
Book · November 15, 2024 The Essential Louis Dupré Louis Dupré Peter J. Casarella. PREFACE. Peter J. Casarella A few years ago, I visited Louis ... reader of Dupré today will be viewing his achievement from a different vantage than the one that I had at Yale ... ... CiteSoldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth Century French Politics by Sarah Shortall (review)
Journal Article The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review · July 2024 Full text CiteRecent Grants
Sabbatical Grant- P Casarella The Spirit of the People: A Latinx, Ecumenical Pneumatology
Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Louisville Institute · 2022 - 2023View All Grants