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25A 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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2Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, AquinasInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 23 (2): 119-121. 1988.
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8Truth and HistoricityProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 43 (n/a): 44-55. 1969.
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9Exercises 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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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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14Review of Muhammad Ali khAlidi (ed. And trans.), Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (1). 2006.
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29Barry Miller: A most unlikely God and from existence to God (review)Faith and Philosophy 18 (1): 123-127. 2001.
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35Aquinas: 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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1John von Heyking, Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 24 (1): 70-72. 2004.
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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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11Faith, Culture, and ReasonProceedings 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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1Divine Practical Knowing: How an Eternal God Acts in TimeIn B. Hebblethwaite & E. Henderson (eds.), Divine Action, T Clark. pp. 93--102. 1990.
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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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