Richard McBrien

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Richard Peter McBrien (born 1936) is the Crowley-O'Brien professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is a priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford. He is the author of several books and articles discussing Catholicism. His stated scholarly interests are ecclesiology, the relationship between religion and politics, and the theological, doctrinal and spiritual facets of the Catholic church. He has written a syndicated theological column for the Catholic press. He also served as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America from 1974-1975. He was the awarded the John Courtney Murray Award for outstanding and distinguished accomplishments in theology.

He has been a controversial figure in the American Church, and is often considered to be a dissenter from Church teachings. His two volume work, Catholicism, has been a source of this controversy. In Catholicism, however, defenders argue that McBrien does not actually dissent from church teaching, but rather presents both Church teaching and dissenting opinions in order to teach students doctrine, the ideas of those who criticize some Church doctrines, and the reasons why the Church maintains a certain theological position.

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  • The Pocket Guide to the Popes (HarperSanFrancisco, 2006, ISBN 0-06-113773-1)
  • The Pocket Guide to the Saints (HarperSanFrancisco, 2006, ISBN 0-06-113774-X)
  • Lives of the Saints: From Mary and St. Francis of Assisi to John XXIII and Mother Teresa (HarperSanFrancisco, 2006, ISBN 0-06-123283-1)
  • 101 Questions & Answers on the Church (Paulist Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8091-4250-3)
  • Lives of the Popes: The Pontiffs from Saint Peter to John Paul II (HarperSanFrancisco, 2000 (revised in 2006), ISBN 0-06-065304-3)
  • Responses to 101 Questions on the Church (Paulist Press, 1996, ISBN 0-8091-3638-4)
  • The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism (HarperSanFrancisco, 1995, ISBN 0-06-065338-8)
  • Inside Catholicism (Signs of the Sacred) (HarperCollins, 1995, ISBN 0-00-649052-2)
  • How To Give Up Sex (co-authored with Roger Planer and John Riley: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989, ISBN 0-450-49473-X)
  • Ministry: A Theological, Pastoral Handbook (HarperSanFrancisco, 1988, ISBN 0-06-065324-8)
  • Caesar's Coin: Religion and Politics in America (MacMillan, 1987, ISBN 0-02-919720-1)
  • In Search of God (Dimension Books, 1977, ISBN 0-87193-082-X)
  • The Remaking of the Church: An Agenda for Reform (Harper & Row, 1973, ISBN 0-06-065327-2)
  • For the Inquiring Catholic: Questions and Answers for the 1970's (Dimension Books, 1973)
  • Who is a Catholic? (Dimension Books, 1971)
  • Church: The Continuing Quest (Paulist Press, 1970, ISBN 0-8091-1525-5)
  • The Church in the Thought of Bishop John Robinson (Westminster Press 1966, SCM Press 1966)


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