Christopher McMahon, PhD
Books Authored
Understanding Jesus: Christology from Emmaus to Today (Substantially Revised Edition of Jesus Our Salvation). Winona, MN: Anselm Academic, 2013.
Reading the Gospels: Biblical Interpretation in the Catholic Tradition. Winona, MN: Anselm Academic, 2012. (Reviews: The Bible Today 51/6 [November 2013]: 399; Review of Biblical Literature [2014])
Called Together: An Introduction to Ecclesiology. Winona, MN: Anselm Academic, 2010.
Jesus Our Salvation: An Introduction to Christology. Winona, MN: Anselm Academic, 2007. (Reviews: Horizons 35/2 [Fall 2008]: 391-392; Catholic Library World 78/3 [Spring 2008]: 216)
Articles and Essays in Academic Books and Journals
“A View from the Dunghill: Learning Forbearance in a Synodal Church,” Journal of Moral Theology 13/1 (2024): 23-38.
“Sandra Schneiders, Critical Exegesis, and the Theological Interpretation of Scripture,” Horizons 48/1 (June 2021): 1-33.
“Beyond Hubris: Toward a More Performative Approach to Roman Catholic Ecclesiology,” in ‘Ecclesia semper reformanda’: Renewal and Reform beyond Politics, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 306, ed. P. De Mey and W. François (Leuven: Peeters, 2020), 323-336.
“Psyche, Soul, and Salvation: Theology and the Science of the Human,” Journal of Moral Theology Vol. 9/1 (2020): 203-221.
“Christology, the Poor, and Surpassing Righteousness: Reading Matthew 25,31-46 with 26,6-13,” Revue Biblique 123/4 (2016): 554-566.
“The Paternalism of Meier’s Criteria: The ‘Prophetic’ Case against the Parable of the Good Samaritan,” Australian Biblical Review 64 (2016): 54-68.
“Soteriology, Eucharist, and the Madness of Forgiveness,” Journal of Moral Theology 5/2 (2016): 44-65.
“Cruciform Salvation and Emergent Probability: The Liturgical Significance of Lonergan’s Precept,” in Approaching the Threshold of Mystery: Liturgical Worlds and Theological Spaces, Theologie der Liturgie Band 10, ed., J. Geldhof, D. Minch, & T. Maine (Regensburg: Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 2015), 198-212.
“Service-Learning and the Core Curriculum: Two Models for Doing Theology as Service Learning in the Core,” Journal of Catholic Higher Education 32/2 (2014): 149-166.
“Beyond the Historical Jesus: Embracing Christology in Scripture, Doctrine, Ethics,” Journal of Moral Theology 2/1 (2013): 132-150.
“Narrating Salvation: Historical Jesus Research and Soteriology,” in Finding Salvation in Christ, ed. Christopher Denny and Christopher McMahon (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2011): 107-127.
“Consuming Jesus: Saving Soteriology in a Market-Driven Culture,” Downside Review 128 (2010): 269-283.
“Theology and the Redemptive Mission of the Church: A Catholic Response to Milbank’s Challenge,” The Heythrop Journal 51 (2010): 781-794.
“Imaginative Futures: Apocalyptic and Science-Fiction Theory,” Dialog 47/3 (2008): 271-277.
“Image and Narrative: Reflections on the St. John’s Bible,” American Benedictine Review 58 (2007): 29-39.
“Fecundity and Almodóvar? Sexual Ethics and the Specter of Catholicism,” The Journal of Religion and Film 10/2 (2006) [http://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol10no1/vol10no2.htm].
“Stories, Hypotheses, and Jesus: N.T. Wright, John Meier, and Historical Jesus Research,” New Blackfriars 86 (2005): 537-545.
“The Historical Jesus and Frankenstein’s Monster: The Historical Jesus According to John P. Meier,” New Blackfriars 83 (2002): 505-513.
“Philippians 2:6-11 and De Incarnatione Verbi: Their Structure and Content,” Patristic and Byzantine Review 16/17 (1998/1999): 69-89.
Encyclopedia Articles and Essays for a General Audience (Invited Articles and Essays)
“Pacifism, in Film,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, vol. 22 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024).
“Papacy, in Film,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, vol. 22 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024).
“Money, in Film,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, vol. 19 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021), 767-768.
“Liberation Theology, in Film,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, vol. 16 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018), 462-463.
“Lazy, Idle, in Film,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, vol. 15 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017), 1110-1111.
“Fornication, in Film” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, vol. 9 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014), 499-500.
“‘Righteousness’ in Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1–7:29),” The Bible Today 51 (2013): 355-361.
“Who’s Afraid of the Gospel? An Overview of Mark,” The Bible Today 49 (2011): 341-346.
“Suffering in Christianity,” in The Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2007), 614-616.
Articles on the Gospels and Acts in Saint Mary's Press College Study Bible (St. Mary’s Press, 2006).
Articles on “Andrew,” “Bartholomew,” “Matthias,” and “Thomas,” in The New Catholic Encyclopedia, Second Edition (Washington, DC: CUA / Gale, 2002).
“Paul, Conversion, and Catechesis,” The Living Light 37/4 (2001): 56-64.
