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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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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.
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21David 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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Narratives Competing for Our SoulsIn James P. Sterba (ed.), Terrorism and International Justice, Oxford University Press. pp. 88--100. 2003.
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10Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy: Mulla Sadra on Existence, Intellect, and Intuition – By Ibrahim KalinModern Theology 26 (4): 669-672. 2010.
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20Talking with Christians: Musings of a Jewish Theologian – David NovakModern Theology 22 (4): 705-709. 2006.
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Aquinas and Jewish and Islamic authorsIn Brian Davies & Eleonore Stump (eds.), The Oxford handbook of Aquinas, Oxford University Press. 2011.
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Religion |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
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African/Africana Philosophy |
Asian Philosophy |