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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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70Self-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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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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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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6Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 44 (4): 602-603. 2004.
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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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18Talking with Christians: Musings of a Jewish Theologian – David NovakModern Theology 22 (4): 705-709. 2006.
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40A 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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7Exercises in religious understandingUniversity of Notre Dame Press. 1974.The dual purpose of this book is to point out the ways whereby reflective religious thinkers work and to suggest how these skills can be acquired. It is a manual of apprenticeship in acquiring religious understanding. The thought of Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Kierkegaard, and Jung on selected religious topics is developed expressly to show how each handled these issues and thus to provide living exemplars for religious understanding. The issues have an inherent unity in their dealing with man's…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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26Creator/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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28Barry Miller: A most unlikely God and from existence to God (review)Faith and Philosophy 18 (1): 123-127. 2001.
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1John von Heyking, Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 24 (1): 70-72. 2004.
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32Aquinas: God and actionUniversity of Notre Dame Press. 1979.First published 30 years ago and long out of print, _Aquinas: God and Action_ appears here for the first time in paperback. This classic volume by eminent philosopher and theologian David Burrell argues that Aquinas’s is not the god of Greek metaphysics, but a god of both being and activity. Aquinas’s plan in the _Summa Theologiae_, according to Burrell, is to instruct humans how to find eternal happiness through acts of knowing and loving. Featuring a new foreword by the author, this edition wi…Read more
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Al-ghazali, Aquinas, and created freedomIn Jeremiah Hackett, William E. Murnion & Carl N. Still (eds.), Being and Thought in Aquinas, Global Academic. 2004.
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