Includes bibliographical references.

Manifestations of Violence Viewed Through a Theological Lens -- God among the Ruins: Companion and Co-Sufferer / M. Shawn Copeland -- A Response to M. Shawn Copeland and an Invitation to Discernment and Open Dialogue / James Logan -- LGBT Bullying at the Crossroads of Christian Theology: Girard, Surrogate Victimage, and Sexual Scapegoating / Elisabeth T. Vasko -- Secular and Sacred Theoretical Considerations -- Violence Religious and Secular: Questioning the Categories / William T. Cavanaugh -- The Grammar of the Kingdom in a World of Violence: The (Im)possible Poetics of John D. Caputo / Daniel P. Horan - - Scapegoating the Secular: The Irony of Mimetic Violence in the Social Theology of John Milbank / Scott MacDougall -- Georges Rouault: Encountering God's Beauty through the Face of the Other / Gael Mooney -- Transformation of Violence -- Virtue, Vulnerability, and Social Transformation / Kevin J. Ahern -- Deceit, Desire, and the Desert: René Girard's Mimetic Theory in Conversation with Early Christian Monastic Practice / Brian D. Robinette -- The Embrace of Radical Poverty: Clare of Assisi's Unconventional Response to a World of Violence / John V. Kruse -- Motherhood, Violence, and Peacebuilding: A Practical-Theological Lesson from Liberia / Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo -- Just Peacemaking Theory and the Promotion of Dignified Subsistence / Daniel P. Scheid -- The Vocation of the Theologian in the Transformation of Violence -- Bridging Jesus' Missions to the Poor and the Wicked: Contributions from Attention to Culture / Todd David Whitmore -- Transformative Contemplation: Teaching Prayer in the Shadow of the "Violent Sacred" / William A.Clark -- Treating Nature Nonviolently: Developing Catholic Social Teaching on the Environment through Nonviolence / J. Milburn Thompson.