Charles Kilby Bellinger
TCU Box 298400
Fort Worth, TX 76129
(817) 257-7668
c.bellinger@tcu.edu

Education:

M. A.

Rhetoric and Composition

Texas Christian University

2013

M. S. L. S.

Library Science

University of Illinois

1998

Ph. D.

Theology, Ethics, and Culture

University of Virginia

1997

M. A. 

Religious Ethics

University of Virginia

1992

M. A.

Theology

Pacific School of Religion

1987

B. S. 

General Studies

Portland State University

1980-1985

The Oregon Extension

1983

George Fox College

1982-83

Library Experience:

Theological Librarian, Brite Divinity School, 2001-

Interim Theological Librarian, Brite Divinity School, 2000-2001

Public Services Librarian, Regent Carey Library, 1998-2000

Teaching Experience:

Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics, Brite Divinity School, 2006-

Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics, Brite Divinity School, 2001-2006

Publications:

Books:

Jesus v. Abortion: They Know Not What They Do. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2016.

Charles K. Bellinger, ed. The Abortion Debate: TCU Voices. Fort Worth: Churchyard Books, 2012.

The Joker Is Satan, and So Are We: And Other Essays on Violence and Christian Faith. Fort Worth: Churchyard Books, 2010.

The Trinitarian Self: The Key to the Puzzle of Violence. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2008.

The Genealogy of Violence: Reflections on Creation, Freedom, and Evil. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Blurbs and reviews: http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/genealogy_reviews.htm


Articles and Essays:

“The Use of Historical Analogies in the Abortion Debate.” Catholic Social Science Review 22 (2017): 281-290.

“Religious Arguments and the Abortion Debate.” Human Life Review 43, no. 2 (Spring, 2017): 51-58.

“Abortion” in The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty, edited by Robert Rycroft, I: 337-339. Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2017.

“The Trojan Cavalry.” Life and Learning XXIII: Proceedings of the University Faculty for Life Conference, edited by Joseph Koterski. Washington, DC: University Faculty for Life, 2015.
http://www.uffl.org/pdfs/vol23/UFL_2013_Bellinger.pdf

“René Girard and the History of Rights Language,” Life and Learning XXII: Proceedings of the University Faculty for Life Conference, edited by Joseph Koterski. Washington, DC: University Faculty for Life, (forthcoming).

“We Are All Gods.” Life and Learning XXI: Proceedings of the University Faculty for Life Conference, edited by Joseph Koterski. Washington, DC: University Faculty for Life, 2015.
http://www.uffl.org/pdfs/vol21/UFL_2011_Bellinger.pdf

“The Joker Is Satan, and So Are We: Girard and the Dark Knight.”** Journal of Religion and Film 13/1 (April 2009). http://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol13.no1/JokerSatan.htm

“Understanding Violence: The New Copernican Revolution.”** In The Just War and Jihad: Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, edited by R. Joseph Hoffmann, 63-76. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2006.

“Religion and Violence: A Bibliography.” In The Just War and Jihad: Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, edited by R. Joseph Hoffmann, 285-299. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2006.

“Religion and Violence: A Bibliography.” The Hedgehog Review 6/1 (Spring 2004): 111-119.
Most recent version: http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/resources/article2.aspx?id=10516

“Distance Learning and Theological Education.” Summary of Proceedings: American Theological Library Association, edited by Jonathan West, 150-153. Chicago: American Theological Library Association, 2003.

“Six Principles of Christian Catechesis after Rwanda.” Religion Online (2002). Available from
http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1852

“The Creation of the Wabash Center Internet Guide.” Journal of Religious and Theological Information 3/3-4 (2001): 87-96. Published simultaneously in Theological Librarians and the Internet: Implications for Practice, edited by Mark Stover, 87-96. New York: Haworth Press, 2001.
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/essays/jrti-article.htm

“An Online Guide to Internet Resources for the Study of Religion.” Religious Studies News 14/3 (Sept. 1999): 13.

“‘The Crowd is Untruth’: A Comparison of Kierkegaard and Girard.”** Contagion: A Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 3 (1996): 103-119.

“Kierkegaard’s Either/Or and the Parable of the Prodigal Son: Or, Three Rival Versions of Three Rival Versions.”** International Kierkegaard Commentary: Either/Or, Part II, edited by Robert L. Perkins, 59-82. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1995.
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/essays/ikceo.htm

“Toward a Kierkegaardian Understanding of Hitler, Stalin, and the Cold War.”** Foundations of Kierkegaard’s Vision of Community: Religion, Ethics, and Politics in Kierkegaard, edited by George B. Connell and C. Stephen Evans, 218-230. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1992.
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/essays/stolaf.htm

“Questions on Abortion and the Struggle Against Tyranny.”** The Crucible 3 (1992): 3-8.
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/essays/crucart1.htm

“Ernest Becker and Soren Kierkegaard on Political Violence.” Church Divinity, 1987, edited by John H. Morgan, 20-40. Bristol, IN: Wyndham Hall Press, 1987.

** = published in The Joker Is Satan.

Book Reviews:

The Trial of Kermit Gosnell, by Cheryl Sullenger. The Human Life Review 43, no. 4 (Fall 2017): 62-65.

Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, 4th ed., by Mark Juergensmeyer. Reading Religion (2017).
http://readingreligion.org/books/terror-mind-god-4th-ed

Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith, by Francis J. Beckwith. Reading Religion (2017).
http://readingreligion.org/books/taking-rites-seriously

The Rise and Fall of the Christian Myth: Restoring Our Democratic Ideals, by Burton L. Mack. Reading Religion (2017).
http://readingreligion.org/books/rise-and-fall-christian-myth

An Introduction to Catholic Ethics Since Vatican II, by Andrew Kim. Reading Religion (2017).

http://readingreligion.org/books/introduction-catholic-ethics-vatican-ii

Confronting Religious Violence: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination, by Catherine Miles Wallace. Reading Religion (2017).
http://readingreligion.org/books/confronting-religious-violence

The Bible in Political Debate: What Does It Really Say?, edited by Frances Flannery and Rodney A. Werline. Reading Religion (2017).
http://readingreligion.org/books/bible-political-debate

René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology, by Grant Kaplan. Reading Religion (2017).
http://readingreligion.org/books/ren%C3%A9-girard-unlikely-apologist

Prophecy without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square, by Cathleen Kaveny. Reading Religion (2016).
http://readingreligion.org/books/prophecy-without-contempt

Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade, by Daniel K. Williams. Reading Religion (2016).
http://readingreligion.org/books/defenders-unborn

The Task of Hope in Kierkegaard, by Mark Bernier. Reading Religion (2016). http://readingreligion.org/books/task-hope-kierkegaard

Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movement, by Sue Ellen Browder. Catholic Social Science Review  21 (2016): 154-56.

Review of For Love of the Father: A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism, by Ruth Stein. COV&R Bulletin 38 (May 2011):18-19.

Review of The Genesis of Desire, by Jean-Michel Oughourlian. Direction 39/2 (Fall 2010): 302-03.

Review of In the Ruins of the Church: Sustaining Faith in an Age of Diminished Christianity, by R.R. Reno. Modern Theology 21/1 (2005): 180-83.
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/essays/Reno_Ruins_Review.htm

Review of Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida, by Hent de Vries. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 72/1 (2004): 247-49.
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/essays/devries-review.htm

Review of Evil and Christian Ethics, by Gordon Graham. Christian Scholars Review 32/1 (2002): 139-41.
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/essays/graham-review.htm

Review of Hitler and the Germans, by Eric Voegelin. Association of Contemporary Church Historians Newsletter 6/2 (Feb. 2000).
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/essays/3b.htm

Review of Encounters with Kierkegaard: A Life as Seen by His Contemporaries, edited by Bruce H. Kirmmse. The Virginia Quarterly Review 73/1 (1997): 18.

Review of Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony, by Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon. The Crucible 1 (1990): 33-34.



Conference Presentations and Addresses:

“The Self-Anschluss of Western Culture,” Society of Catholic Social Scientists conference, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Oct. 2017.

“Response to Three Papers,” American Academy of Religion (Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group), Nov. 2016.

“The Use of Historical Analogies in the Abortion Debate,” Society of Catholic Social Scientists conference, Aquinas College, Oct. 2016.

“’They know not what they do’: Violence as an Unconscious Phenomenon,” Colloquium on Violence and Religion conference, Saint Louis University, July 2015.

“Historical Reenactments: A Key Pro-life Argument,” University Faculty for Life conference, University of St. Thomas (Minn.), May 2015.

“Jesus v. Abortion,” University Faculty for Life conference, Fordham University, New York City, June 6, 2014.

“Kierkegaard’s Critique of Individualism,” Kierkegaard: A Christian Thinker for Our Time? Conference at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, Nov. 1, 2013.

“The Trojan Cavalry: Using Ideas and Thinkers Respected in the Academic World as Pro-Life Resources,” University Faculty for Life conference, University of San Francisco, June 1, 2013.

“René Girard and the History of Rights Language,” University Faculty for Life conference, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, June 2, 2012

“We Are All Gods,” University Faculty for Life conference, University of Notre Dame, June 11, 2011.

“Abortion and the Drama of Human Motivations: With Reference to Kenneth Burke and René Girard,” Colloquium on Violence and Religion Conference, South Bend, Indiana, July 2, 2010.

“The Rhetoric of the Abortion Debate as Anthropological Prism,” College Theology Society Conference, Portland, Oregon, June 4, 2010.

“Hiding in Plain Sight: The Great Commandment as the Key to the Puzzle of Human Nature,” Society for Christian Psychology Conference, Chicago, Sept. 20, 2008.

“Rene Girard and the Death Penalty,”** SBL convened gathering, Brite Divinity School, Feb. 23, 2008

“Wabash Center Internet Guide: Past and Future,” ATLA Conference, Chicago, June 24, 2006.

“Putting Girard in His Place (Within Trinitarian Theology),” Colloquium on Violence and Religion Conference, Ottawa, Canada, June 2, 2006.

Community Conversation speaker, Brite Divinity School, March 31, 2005. Topic: “Religion and Violence.”

Invited speaker for the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. “Understanding Violence: The New Copernican Revolution,” Nov. 6, 2004.

“Why Moral Evil Is an Argument for the Existence of God,”** Colloquium on Violence and Religion Conference, Abiquiu, New Mexico, June 3, 2004.
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/essays/COVR2004Bellinger.htm

“Reflections on Method in Theological Ethics, with Reference to Kierkegaard, Barth, Voegelin, and Girard,” Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Irving, Texas, March 6, 2004.

“Reflections on Distance Learning and Theological Pedagogy,” Southwest Area Theological Library Association, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 14, 2003.

“Theories on the Psychology of Violence,” Association of Muslim Social Scientists Regional Conference, Arlington, Texas, Aug. 23, 2003.
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/essays/muslim-conf.htm

“Distance Learning and Theological Education,” ATLA Conference, Portland, Oregon, June 27, 2003.

Invited keynote speaker for a conference entitled “A Spiritual Response to Violence,” Houston Baptist University, Jan. 29-30, 2003. My talks were entitled: “The Bible’s Jihad Against Violence”** and “Understanding Violence: The New Copernican Revolution.”**
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/essays/houston-chapel.htm and http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/essays/houston_copernicus.htm

“Yoder’s Christ and Girard’s Culture: With Reference to Kierkegaard’s Transformation of the Self,”** Believers Church Conference, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, March 8, 2002.
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/essays/yoder.htm

“Kierkegaard: Copernicus of the Spirit,” Inaugural address at Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 25, 2001.
http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/essays/sk-copernicus.htm

“Introduction to the Wabash Center Internet Guide,” ATLA Conference, Chicago, Illinois, June 13, 1999.

“The Genealogy of Violence,” Kierkegaard Conference, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, June 8, 1997.

“‘Doublemindedness’ in Kierkegaard’s Purity of Heart and René Girard’s Psychology of Mimetic Desire,” National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 20,1995.

“Kierkegaard and Girard: Comparison and Contrast,” Colloquium on Violence and Religion Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, June 1, 1995.

“Kierkegaard, Girard, and the Problem of Moral Evil,” Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Gainesville, Florida, March 11, 1995.

Works of Love and the Work of Creation,” Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 18, 1990.

“The Cross and the Possibility of World Peace: Kierkegaardian Reflections,” Kierkegaard Conference, University of San Diego, February 11, 1989.

“Toward a Kierkegaardian Understanding of Political Violence,” Kierkegaard Conference, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, June 8, 1988.

** = published in The Joker Is Satan.

Languages studied: Danish, French, German, Greek, Latin, Spanish

Professional Societies:

American Academy of Religion
American Theological Library Association
Colloquium on Violence and Religion
Society of Catholic Social Scientists
Soren Kierkegaard Society
University Faculty for Life


Charles Bellinger’s Homepage: http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/cbhome.htm

TCU Library Web Site: http://www.lib.tcu.edu/

Brite Divinity School Web Site: http://www.brite.tcu.edu/