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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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8Truth and HistoricityProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 43 (n/a): 44-55. 1969.
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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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14Review of Muhammad Ali khAlidi (ed. And trans.), Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (1). 2006.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Religion |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
African/Africana Philosophy |
Asian Philosophy |