Lucas Briola, PhD
Books
Ora et Labora in Our Common Home: A Benedictine Invitation to Care for Creation (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, under contract.)
The Eucharistic Vision of Laudato Si': Praise, Conversion, and Integral Ecology (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2023).
Reviewed in Theological Studies [vol. 85, no. 1 (March 2024): 203-204]; and Conversatio [vol. 3 (2023): 123-125].
Everything Is Interconnected: Towards a Globalization with a Human Face and an Integral Ecology, co-edited with Joseph Ogbonnaya (Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2019).
Reviewed in Journal of Moral Theology [vol. 10, no. 1 (January 2021): 243-244]; Conversatio [vol. 1 (2021): 100-104]; and Theological Studies [vol. 81, no. 3 (September 2020): 768-769].
Academic Articles And Essays
“Laudato Si’: A Benedictine Encyclical?,” American Benedictine Review 75, no. 2 (June 2024): 120-33.
“Real Presence Amid the Shallows: Eucharist and Friendship in a Digital Age,” Horizons 50, no. 2 (December 2023): 293-324.
“Why Can’t We Be Friends? The Synod on Synodality and the Eucharistic Revival,” Religions 14, no. 7, Special Issue on Church, Ecumenism and Liturgy: Unfolding Synodality, eds. Timothy Gabrielli and Derek Hatch (2023): 865 (1-16).
“Fruit of the Earth and Work of Human Hands: Connecting the Eucharist and Regenerative Agriculture,” Irish Theological Quarterly 87, no. 4 (Dec. 2022): 297-314.
“Dramatic Artistry in Our Common Home: Robert Doran and the Doxological Anthropology of Laudato Si’,” in Intellect, Affect, and God: The Trinity, History, and the Life of Grace, eds. Joseph Ogbonnaya and Gerard Whelan (Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2021), 3-18.
“Liturgy as a Practical Cosmology: Jenkins and Lonergan in Conversation,” New Blackfriars 102, no. 1100 (July 2021): 534-549.
“Praise Rather Than Solving Problems: Understanding the Doxological Turn of Laudato Si’ Through Lonergan,” Theological Studies 81, no. 3 (September 2020): 693-716.
*** 2021 Award for Best Journal Article, College Theology Society
“Responding to the One Cry of Earth and Poor: An Integral Ecology, the Scale of Values, and Eucharistic Healing,” in Everything Is Interconnected: Towards a Globalization with a Human Face and an Integral Ecology, eds. Joseph Ogbonnaya and Lucas Briola (Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2019), 119-135.
“Introduction,” co-authored with Joseph Ogbonnaya, in Everything Is Interconnected: Towards a Globalization with a Human Face and an Integral Ecology, eds. Joseph Ogbonnaya and Lucas Briola (Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2019), xi-xxi.
“The Integral Ecology of Laudato Si’ and a Seamless Garment: The Sartorial Usefulness of Lonergan and Doran’s Turn to Culture,” The Lonergan Review 9 (2018): 31-48.
“Sustainable Communities and Eucharistic Communities: Laudato si’, Northern Appalachia, and Redemptive Recovery,” Journal of Moral Theology 6, Special Issue 1 (March 2017): 22-33.
“Aggiornamento and Dialogue: Some Ambiguity from Gaudium et Spes,” Lumen et Vita 6, no. 2 (2016): [http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/lumenetvita/article/view/9322/8351].
“A Case Study in Scholasticism: Peter Lombard and Peter Abelard on Penance,” Journal of Moral Theology 5, no. 1 (Jan. 2016): 65-85.
“What Does it Mean to Call Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae a ‘Spiritual Exercise’?”, Downside Review 133, no. 469 (July 2015): 252-272.
“‘Hopeful Gradualness’ and Ecclesial Mission,” Lumen et Vita 5 (2015): [http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/lumenetvita/article/view/8694/7815].
Popular Publications
“Spiritual Worldliness: A Key Forgotten Bergoglioism,” Church Life Journal, March 22, 2024 [https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/spiritual-worldliness-a-forgotten-bergoglioism/].
“The Battle Over Vatican II: Navigating Modernity, Synodality, and the Liturgy Wars” [Orig. Titled “Receiving Vatican II in Laudato Si’”], Church Life Journal, May 1, 2023 [https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the-battle-over-vatican-ii-navigating-synodality-and-the-liturgical-debates/]. Reprinted in Swedish as “Laudato si’, Vaticanum II och moderniteten” in Signum 7 (2023): 25-30.
“Q&A with Lucas Briola,” with Olivia Schmitz, The Catholic University of America Press Blog, February 8, 2023 [https://www.cuapress.org/2023/02/08/qa-with-lucas-briola/].
“Agriculture, Culture, and Cult: The Eucharistic Nature of Laudato Si’,” Catholic Rural Life 64, no. 2 (Spring 2022): 16-17.
“A New Society within the Shell of the Old: Reflections on Small Is Beautiful and an Integral Ecology,” Conversatio 1 (2021): 57-61.
“The Cry of the Earth in Pan-Amazonia,” Church Life Journal, May 22, 2019 [https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the-cry-of-the-earth-in-pan-amazonia/]. Reprinted in Catechetical Leader 31, no. 1 (Feb 2020): 6-9.
“The Opioid Crisis Cannot Kill Our Christian Hope,” America: The Jesuit Review of Faith and Culture 218, no. 1 (January 8, 2018): 10 [also available at: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/12/19/whats-catholic-response-opioid-epidemic-hope-action].
“Into the Light: Pastoral Responses to the Opioid Crisis…A Report and a Challenge,” Catholic Moral Theology, October 30, 2017 [https://catholicmoraltheology.com/into-the-light-pastoral-responses-to-the-opioid-crisisa-report-and-a-challenge/].
“Laudato Sí, Personal Conversion, and Missionary Joy,” Church Life Journal, October 13, 2016, [http://churchlife.nd.edu/2016/10/13/laudato-si-personal-conversion-and-missionary-joy/].
“Grace in Finitude: Running the Boston Marathon with Karl Rahner,” Daily Theology, April 30, 2015, [http://dailytheology.org/2015/04/30/grace-in-finitude-running-the-boston-marathon-with-karl-rahner/].
