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    John Duns Scotus
    The Monist 49 (4): 639-658. 1965.
  •  8
    Substance
    Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 21 137-160. 1972.
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    Faith, Culture, and Reason
    Proceedings 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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  •  9
    David Braine’s Project
    Faith 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
  •  6
    Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 44 (4): 602-603. 2004.
  •  30
    A Philosophical Foray into Difference and Dialogue
    American 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
  •  2
    Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 23 (2): 119-121. 1988.
  •  13
    God’s Eternity
    Faith and Philosophy 1 (4): 389-406. 1984.
  •  5
    Response to Davies, Ahmed, and Valkenberg
    Modern Theology 30 (1): 153-158. 2014.
  •  3
    Exercises in religious understanding
    University 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
  •  8
    Radical Orthodoxy
    Philosophy 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.
  •  22
    Creator/Creatures Relation
    Faith 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
  •  12
    Mullā Ṣadrā’s Ontology Revisited
    Journal of Islamic Philosophy 6 45-66. 2010.
  •  28
    Barry Miller: A most unlikely God and from existence to God (review)
    Faith and Philosophy 18 (1): 123-127. 2001.
  •  20
    Three Thomist Studies (review)
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 77 (3): 459-460. 2003.
  •  27
    Aquinas: God and action
    University 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
  •  11
    Spirit, Saints and Immortality (review)
    Faith and Philosophy 4 (3): 343-344. 1987.
  • Al-ghazali, Aquinas, and created freedom
    In Jeremiah Hackett, William E. Murnion & Carl N. Still (eds.), Being and Thought in Aquinas, Global Academic. 2004.
  •  10
    Faith, Culture, and Reason
    Proceedings 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
  •  30
    Radical Orthodoxy
    Philosophy 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.
  •  1
    Divine Practical Knowing: How an Eternal God Acts in Time
    In B. Hebblethwaite & E. Henderson (eds.), Divine Action, T Clark. pp. 93--102. 1990.