James Alison

Dr. James Alison (born 1959) is a Catholic Priest, theologian and author. He is noted for his work on gay issues and the application of René Girard's anthropological theory in theology.
James Alison studied at Blackfriars, Oxford University, and earned his bachelor's degree and doctorate in Theology from the Jesuit Theology Faculty in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He was a member of the Dominican Order - his master's degree is a Dominican Lectorate - from 1981 to 1995. He has lived and worked in Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile and the United States. Currently he is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
His expressed disagreement with regards to the official (Roman Catholic) Church teaching on homosexuality is itself based on the official Church teaching concerning Nature, Grace and Original Sin (see homosexuality and Roman Catholicism).
==Books==
*Knowing Jesus (1994) ISBN 0-87243-202-5, ISBN 0-281-04641-7 & 0281052220
*Raising Abel, The Recovery of the Eschatological Imagination (1996) ISBN 0-8371-6434-6 (Also published under the title Living in the End Times: The Last Things Re-imagined ISBN 84-254-2097-0)
*The Joy of Being Wrong, Original Sin Through Easter Eyes (1998) ISBN 0-8245-1676-1
*Faith Beyond Resentment, Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001) ISBN 0-232-52411-4, ISBN 0-8245-1922-1
*On Being Liked (2004) ISBN 0-232-52517-X, ISBN 0-8245-2261-3
*Undergoing God: Dispatches from the Scene of a Break-In (2006) ISBN 0-232-52676-1, ISBN 0-8264-1928-3
*"God's Self-Substitution and Sacrificial Inversion", Stricken by God? Nonviolent Identification and the Victory of Christ (ed. by Brad Jersak and Michael Hardin) (2007) ISBN 978-0-9780174-7-7
===External links===
*James Alison. Theology - Full-text articles and talks; book excerpts and reviews; links to other James Alison's texts
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