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School

  • School of Theology and Religious Studies
  • Expertise

  • St. Augustine
  • Augustinian Theology
  • Theology and Politics
  • Church and State
  • Papacy and Politics
  • New Evangelization
  • Religious Liberty and Conscience
  • Secularism and the Catholic Church
  • Christian Unity and Political Division
  • Related experience

    Served as aide to the Chaplain, United States Senate (1997-1998).

    In the Media

    Publications

    • Christianity and Politics: A Brief Guide to the History

      Christianity and Politics: A Brief Guide to the History

      In this brief guide to the history of Christianity and politics, Pecknold shows how early Christianity reshaped the Western political imagination with its new theological claims about eschatological time, participation, and communion with God and neighbor.

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    • Liturgy, Time, and the Politics of Redemption

      Liturgy, Time, and the Politics of Redemption

      "Liturgy, Time, and the Politics of Redemption" advances a timely conversation about the place of "religious reasoning" in public discourse by attending to the way the scriptures are liturgically performed in Jewish and Christian communities.

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    • Transforming Postliberal Theology: George Lindbeck, Pragmatism and Scripture

      Transforming Postliberal Theology: George Lindbeck, Pragmatism and Scripture

      Pecknold argues that postliberalism represents "a new pragmatism" that rediscovers its theological and semiotic roots in Scripture.

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