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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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68Self-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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18The 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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28Barry Miller: A most unlikely God and from existence to God (review)Faith and Philosophy 18 (1): 123-127. 2001.
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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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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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34Radical 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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36Creatio 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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31Philosophy and Religion: Attention to Language and the Role of Reason (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 38 (1/3). 1995.
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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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10Creator/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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