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7The Invisible Threshold: Two Plays by Gabriel Marcel (edited book)St. Augustine's Press. 2019.The plays in this new volume were written early in Marcel’s career, and were published together under the title Le Seuil invisible (The Invisible Threshold) in 1913. The first play, Grace, explores the theme of religious conversion. The drama depicts a crisis between characters of genuine depth and sincerity, who are struggling with different interpretations of shared experiences. Similar themes are addressed but developed differently in the second play, The Sandcastle. This drama explores the c…Read more
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7Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 40 (4): 507-509. 2000.
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7Reflections on the Crisis Facing Modern DemocraciesPhilosophia: International Journal of Philosophy (Philippine e-journal) 24 (2). 2023.
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7Advice for Scientists on the Subject of EthicsEthics and Medics 43 (3): 1-2. 2018.Advances in technology have not only given rise to many important questions in bioethics but have also made the whole subject something of an ethical minefield. Bioethics now involves practices that give rise to ethical dilemmas in such diverse fields as medicine, biology, and even physics and chemistry. The success and future potential of scientific research in bioethics has contributed to the growing perception that science has a kind of hegemony over modern life, and this brings with it a tem…Read more
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6Religion: Key Concepts in PhilosophyContinuum Books. 2007.An introduction to the philosophy of religion for undergraduates
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6A Gabriel Marcel Reader (edited book)St. Augustine's Press. 2011.French existentialist philosopher Gabriel Marcel is one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. The central themes of his philosophy, which are developed with a blend of realism, concreteness, and common sense, continue to be relevant for the plight of humanity in the twentieth-first century. All of Marcel’s important ideas are introduced here, ranging from his unique conception of philosophy; to his original approach to epistemology and the nature of knowledge; to his view o…Read more
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6The Flight From God (edited book)St. Augustine's Press. 2014."Max Picard was a Swiss-German writer, who converted to Catholicism from Judaism. A doctor and psychologist, Picard worked in Berlin but retired in the 1920s to Switzerland. He is often regarded as a "wisdom thinker," and his rich and penetrating writings continue to speak to us in the twenty-first century. The Flight from God is an incisive, profound description of many of the problems facing modern culture, and its analysis resonates with us more today than when first published in 1934. Picard…Read more
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6D. Z. Phillips on Christian Belief, Immortality, and ResurrectionPhilosophia Christi 16 (1): 57-80. 2014.This paper is a critical reflection and response to the religious fideism of D. Z. Phillips, and especially to recent attempts to defend this fideism. Over the course of his career, Phillips argued for a number of interesting but quite dramatic theses about religious belief, including the claim that what is sometimes called the propositional nature of religious belief is frequently misunderstood by philosophers, and that this misunderstanding involves a distortion of what religious believers are…Read more
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5The Emissary, Act ThreeJournal of Continental Philosophy 1 (2): 318-344. 2020.Act Three of Gabriel Marcel’s play, The Emissary, is presented here in English for the first time. The introductory essay introduces Marcel and several of his best known themes, especially the distinctions between problem and mystery, and primary and secondary reflection. Focusing on the relationship between experience and conceptual knowledge, it discusses Marcel’s attempt to argue philosophically for a return to ordinary experience. The role of drama and art in the recovery of the realm of mys…Read more
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5An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion (review)Philosophia Christi 4 (2): 553-557. 2002.
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5Philosophical thinking and the religious context: essays in honor of Santiago Sia (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2013.
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4Faith and the Life of the Intellect (edited book)Catholic University of America Press. 2003.Many of the contributions offer personal reflections on those events and experiences that helped shape their response to the general issue of faith seeking understanding."--BOOK JACKET.
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4Reason, Revelation, and Devotion: Inference and Argument in Religion (review)Review of Metaphysics 72 (1). 2018.
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3Józef Bremer, Damian Leszczyński, Stanisław Łucarz, Jolanta Koszteyn, ed. Piotr Lenartowicz (review)Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 26 (1): 169-171. 2021.Part of a series of books devoted to Polish Christian Philosophy in the twentieth century, this latest study introduces the life and work of Piotr Lenartowicz. Lenartowicz, a member of the Jesuit order, held several professional positions, but spent most of his career at the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow. Approaching philosophy from an Aristotelian- Thomistic perspective, his interests ranged over the philosophy of animate nature, the theory of evolution, topics in the philosophy of sci…Read more
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2Gabriel Marcel and the Problem of KnowledgeJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 7 (1-2): 148-163. 1995.none.
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2Santiago Sia. Society in its Challenges: Philosophical Considerations of Living in Society (review)Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy (Philippine e-journal) 19 (1): 118-122. 2018.
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1Reason, Revelation, and Devotion: Inference and Argument in Religion by William J. Wainwright (review)Review of Metaphysics 72 (1): 159-161. 2018.
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1Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae: Critical Essays (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 48 (3): 403-406. 2008.
Brendan Sweetman
Rockhurst University
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Rockhurst UniversityProfessor
Areas of Specialization
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Philosophy of Religion |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Normative Ethics |
Continental Philosophy |
History of Western Philosophy |
Business Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Biology |
General Philosophy of Science |