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## Peter Casarella
Peter Casarella is an associate professor of systematic theology, world religions, and world Church in the department of theology at the University of Notre Dame.
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## [The World in the Text: Reading the Bible with the Church of Africa](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/2016/04/11/the-world-in-the-text-reading-the-bible-with-the-church-of-africa)
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Are Africans, as Desmond Tutu once opined, “much more on the wavelength of the Bible than the Occidental ever was”?[\[1\]](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/author/peter-casarella#_edn1) Should one listen to African exegetes more closely since, as Philip Jenkins has argued, their experience of inhabiting the world of the Bible represents the vanguard of a growing shift of Christianity towards the global South?[\[2\]](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/author/peter-casarella#_edn2) These are questions worth pondering. I think there ...
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## [Juan Diego and Latino Lay Spirituality: The Sacred Broomstick](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/2016/02/18/juandiego)
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In light of the recent trip of Pope Francis to Mexico and his visit to the Basilica of Guadalupe, the person of St. Juan Diego provokes an invitation to consider his virtues and those of other Latinos who have imitated his “practical Christianity.”[\[2\]](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/author/peter-casarella#_ftn2) We know from the *Nican Mopohua* that the intensity of his conversion to the message of Our Lady of Guadalupe was matched only by his ardent desire to...
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