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24Religious Life and UnderstandingReview of Metaphysics 22 (4). 1969.In a further bit of irony, disaffection with higher education has shifted that peculiar mode of understanding that we call religious into a rather privileged position. To be sure, many of those people who call themselves religious would not engage in this sort of understanding, but that need not detain us here. The central point of these reflections will be an attempt to display a mode of understanding which one might properly call religious. I shall undertake this from a frankly philosophical p…Read more
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71Self-Deception and Autobiography: Theological and Ethical Reflections on Speer's "Inside the Third Reich"Journal of Religious Ethics 2 (1). 1974.Albert Speer's life offers a paradigm of self-deception, and his autobiography serves to illustrate Fingarette's account of self-deception as a persistent failure to spell out our engagements in the world. Using both Speer and Fingarette, we show how self-deception becomes our lot as the stories we adopt to shape our lives cover up what is destructive in our activity. Had Speer not settled for the neutral label of "architect," he might have found a story substantive enough to allow him to recogn…Read more
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20Aristotelian Aporetic Ontology in Islamic and Christian Writers (review)New Scholasticism 60 (2): 243-245. 1986.
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19The Principle of Analogy in Protestant and Catholic Theology (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 4 (4): 624-626. 1964.
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34Review of abu Hamid al-ghazali, On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (2). 2004.
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Aquinas and Jewish and Islamic authorsIn Brian Davies & Eleonore Stump (eds.), The Oxford handbook of Aquinas, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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7Explorations in Metaphysics: Being-God-Person (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 35 (3): 343-346. 1995.
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23Christian Revelation and the Completion of the Aristotelian Revolution (review)Review of Metaphysics 43 (1): 172-173. 1989.This work offers a bold and illuminating exercise in philosophy as narrative, and in doing so presents itself quite consciously as an alternative mode of explanation to the "rationalist paradigm" which dominated Greek philosophy. Yet while acknowledging the inspiration of Hegel, the work hews far more closely than the author of Phänomenologie des Geistes to the actual dialectic of explanation as it worked itself out from Aristotle through Plotinus to Aquinas--to mention only the most prominent m…Read more
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15Radical OrthodoxyPhilosophy and Theology 16 (1): 73-76. 2004.The author presents a brief appreciation of the merits of the Radical Orthodoxy movement. That appreciation centers on four themes: (1) theology as sacra doctrina, (2) countering secular reason in its latest avatar of “post-modernism,” (3) Radical Orthodoxy’s offering a theology of culture, and (4) the Thomism of Radical Orthodoxy. The author concludes with some remarks concerning the reception of Radical Orthodoxy in the United States.
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13Beyond a Theory of AnalogyProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 46 (n/a): 114-122. 1972.
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16Analogy, Creation, and Theological LanguageProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 74 35-52. 2000.
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20An asterisk denotes a publication by a member of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. The Editors welcome suggestions for reviews. Altman, Matthew C. A Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Boulder: Westview Press, 2008. Pp. xviii+ 232. Paper $30.00, ISBN: 978-0-8133-4383-6 (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 82 (2). 2008.
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29Faith, Culture, and ReasonProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 77 1-11. 2003.This paper examines how the faith/reason discussion can be expanded by means of culture and analogous language. The author argues that rationaldialogue can occur between different faith traditions, and without having to raise reason to the ideal of enlightenment objectivity or having to jettison reasonthrough some form of relativism. He argues that cultural shifts effect alterations in our very “criteria of rationality” so that our efforts to grasp others’ practices inmatters that challenge our …Read more
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9David Braine’s ProjectFaith and Philosophy 13 (2): 163-178. 1996.The author of The Reality of Time and the Existence of God turns his critical conceptual acumen to finding an intellectually viable path between the current polarities of dualism and materialism. By considering human beings as language-using animals he can critically appraise “representational” views of concept formation, as well as show how current “research programs” which presuppose a “materialist” basis stem from an unwitting adoption of a dualist picture of mind and body. His alternative is…Read more
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35Radical OrthodoxyPhilosophy and Theology 16 (1): 73-76. 2004.The author presents a brief appreciation of the merits of the Radical Orthodoxy movement. That appreciation centers on four themes: (1) theology as sacra doctrina, (2) countering secular reason in its latest avatar of “post-modernism,” (3) Radical Orthodoxy’s offering a theology of culture, and (4) the Thomism of Radical Orthodoxy. The author concludes with some remarks concerning the reception of Radical Orthodoxy in the United States.
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6Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 44 (4): 602-603. 2004.
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31Philosophy and Religion: Attention to Language and the Role of Reason (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 38 (1/3). 1995.
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25A Philosophical Foray into Difference and DialogueAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 76 (1): 181-194. 2002.It would be difficult to find two more paradigmatic interlocutors of Christian theology and Jewish thought than Thomas Aquinas and Moses Maimonides. Yet we are privileged to have in our midst a contemporary philosopher who can be said to have mastered the thought of both and can present them in dialogue. This essay offers a glimpse into Avital Wohlman’s reading of the rich exchange (or lack of exchange) between these two medieval thinkers, assessing the implications of her presentation of their …Read more
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2Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, AquinasInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 23 (2): 119-121. 1988.
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