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77Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) and Mulla Sadra Shirazi (980/1572–1050/1640) and the Primacy of esse/wuj$ucirc;d in Philosophical Theology (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 8 (2): 207-219. 1999.As an exercise in comparative philosophical theology, our approach is more concerned with conceptual strategies than with historical although the animadversions of those versed in the history of each period will assist in reading the texts of each thinker. We need historians to make us aware of the questions to which thinkers of other ages and cultures were directing their energies, as well as the forms of thought available to them in making their response; but we philosophers hope to be able to…Read more
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22The Analogy of Being: Invention of the Antichrist or the Wisdom of God? – Edited by Thomas Joseph White, O.PModern Theology 28 (3): 574-578. 2012.
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Freedom and Creation in Three TraditionsInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 37 (3): 181-183. 1995.
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24Review of rémi Brague, The Legend of the Middle Ages: Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (6). 2009.
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11Creator/Creatures RelationFaith and Philosophy 25 (2): 177-189. 2008.Can philosophical inquiry into divinity be authentic to its subject, God, without adapting its categories to the challenges of its scriptural inspiration, be that biblical or Quranic? This essay argues that it cannot, and that the adaptation, while it can be articulated in semantic terms, must rather amount to a transformation of standard philosophical strategies. Indeed, without such a radical transformation, “philosophy of religion” will inevitably mislead us into speaking of a “god” rather th…Read more
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Book review of By the renewing of your minds (by ET Charry, 1997. New York (review)Modern Theology 15 (1): 92-94. 1999.
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John von Heyking, Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World (review)Philosophy in Review 24 70-72. 2004.
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43The Unknowability of God in Al-Ghazali: DAVID B. BURRELLReligious Studies 23 (2): 171-182. 1987.The main lines of this exploration are quite simply drawn. That the God whom Jews, Christians, and Muslims worship outstrips our capacities for characterization, and hence must be unknowable, will be presumed as uncontested. The reason that God is unknowable stems from our shared confession that ‘the Holy One, blessed be He’, and ‘the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth’, and certainly ‘Allah, the merciful One’ is one ; and just why God's oneness entails God's being unknowable deserves …Read more
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18An introduction to theology and social theory: Beyond secular reason1Modern Theology 8 (4): 319-329. 1992.
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32Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) and Mulla Sadra Shirazi (980/1572–1050/1640) and the Primacy of esse/wuj$ucirc;d in Philosophical Theology (review)Medieval Philosophy & Theology 8 (2): 207-219. 1999.As an exercise in comparative philosophical theology, our approach is more concerned with conceptual strategies than with historical “influences,” although the animadversions of those versed in the history of each period will assist in reading the texts of each thinker. We need historians to make us aware of the questions to which thinkers of other ages and cultures were directing their energies, as well as the forms of thought available to them in making their response; but we philosophers hope…Read more
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Aquinas and Islamic and Jewish thinkersIn Norman Kretzmann & Eleonore Stump (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas, Cambridge University Press. pp. 60--84. 1993.
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35Response to Cross and HaskerFaith and Philosophy 25 (2): 205-212. 2008.It is not often that one is graced with a mini-symposium upon reception of an article for publication, and for this I am grateful to Bill Hasker, who had to wait until after his editorship to respond to my provocative piece, and equally grateful to Richard Cross, whom Bill solicited for an assist. Since my piece called for a “radical transformation of standard philosophical strategies,” and Bill addressed that perspectival issue from the outset, while Richard focused on some axial semantic and e…Read more
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17Evil and Suffering in Jewish Philosophy (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 37 (3): 360-362. 1997.
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26Creation, metaphysics, and ethicsFaith and Philosophy 18 (2): 204-221. 2001.This essay explores the ways in which specific attention (or lack thereof) to creation can affect the manner in which we execute metaphysics or ethics. It argues that failing to attend to an adequate expression of “the distinction” of creator from creatures can unwittingly lead to a misrepresentation of divinity in philosophical argument. It also offers a suggestion for understanding “post-modern” from the more ample perspective of Creek and medieval forms of thought
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24La Trinité créatrice: Trinité et création dans les commentaires aux “Sentences” de Thomas d'Aquin et de ses précurseurs Albert le Grand et Bonaventure (review)Speculum 72 (4): 1167-1168. 1997.
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43Analogy, Creation, and Theological LanguageProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 74 35-52. 2000.
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14Faith and Freedom: An Interfaith PerspectiveWiley-Blackwell. 2004.In this book, David Burrell, one of the foremost philosophical theologians in the English-speaking world, presents the best of his work on creation and human freedom. A collection of writings by one of the foremost philosophers of religion in the English-speaking world. Brings together in one volume the best of David Burrell’s work on creation and human freedom from the last twenty years. Dismantles the ‘libertarian’ approach to freedom underlying Western political and economic systems. Engages …Read more
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24Review of Sarah Stroumsa, Maimonides in His World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (1). 2010.
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Religion |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
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Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
African/Africana Philosophy |
Asian Philosophy |