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43The Unknowability of God in Al-Ghazali: DAVID B. BURRELLReligious Studies 23 (2): 171-182. 1987.The main lines of this exploration are quite simply drawn. That the God whom Jews, Christians, and Muslims worship outstrips our capacities for characterization, and hence must be unknowable, will be presumed as uncontested. The reason that God is unknowable stems from our shared confession that ‘the Holy One, blessed be He’, and ‘the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth’, and certainly ‘Allah, the merciful One’ is one ; and just why God's oneness entails God's being unknowable deserves …Read more
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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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32Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) and Mulla Sadra Shirazi (980/1572–1050/1640) and the Primacy of esse/wuj$ucirc;d in Philosophical Theology (review)Medieval Philosophy & Theology 8 (2): 207-219. 1999.As an exercise in comparative philosophical theology, our approach is more concerned with conceptual strategies than with historical “influences,” 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…Read more
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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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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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20Talking with Christians: Musings of a Jewish Theologian – David NovakModern Theology 22 (4): 705-709. 2006.
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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.
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 |