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39Creatio Ex Nihilo RecoveredModern Theology 29 (2): 5-21. 2013.Creatio ex nihilo sounds like a philosophical teaching, but philosophy has been utterly unprepared to offer proper expression for an origination which presupposes nothing at all! Yet each of the Abrahamic faiths insists on such an origination, so it proved serendipitous when sufficient contact opened between these diverse religious traditions to allow thinkers to assist one another in what proved to be a shared task—and indeed gain assistance from others as well, as Sara Grant elucidates the sui…Read more
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44Participation and Substantiality in Thomas AquinasInternational Philosophical Quarterly 37 (1): 101-104. 1997.This book offers a philosophical analysis of the main themes and problems of Aquinas' metaphysics of creation, centred on the concept of participation, the systematical meaning of which is examined in a critical discussion of the prevailing views of contemporary Thomas scholars.
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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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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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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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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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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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John von Heyking, Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World (review)Philosophy in Review 24 70-72. 2004.
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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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17Evil and Suffering in Jewish Philosophy (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 37 (3): 360-362. 1997.
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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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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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Social and Political Philosophy |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
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African/Africana Philosophy |
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