Brian D. Robinette is Associate Professor of Theology at Boston College. He researches and teaches in the areas of systematic, philosophical, and spiritual theology, with special interests in eschatology, anthropology, secularity, and contemplative theory/practice. He is the author of Grammars of Resurrection: A Christian Theology of Presence and Absence (Crossroad, 2009) and is currently working on a theology of creation, tentatively entitled, The Difference Nothing Makes: Creation, Christ, Contemplation.