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12Analogical Identities: The Creation of the Christian Self—Beyond Spirituality and Mysticism in the Patristic Era (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 95 (4): 752-755. 2021.
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11The Many Phenomenological Reductions and Catholic Metaphysical Anti-ReductionismAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 95 (3): 367-388. 2021.While all phenomenologists aim to grasp the “things themselves,” they disagree about the best method for doing this and about what the “things themselves” are. Many metaphysicians, especially Catholic realists, reject phenomenology altogether. I show that many phenomenological methods are useful for reaching the goals of both phenomenology and realist metaphysics. First, I present a history of phenomenological methods, including those used by Scheler, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Marion, K…Read more
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10The Flexibility of Thomistic Metaphysical Principles: Byzantine Thomists, Personalist Thomists, and Jacques MaritainStudia Gilsoniana 11 (3): 445-470. 2022.Thomistic metaphysics has been challenged on the grounds that its principles are inconsistent with our experiences of divine action and of our own subjectivity. Challenges of this sort have been raised by Eastern Christian thinkers in the school of Gregory Palamas and by contemporary Personalists; they propose alternative metaphysics to explain these experiences. Against these objections and against those Thomists who hold that Thomas Aquinas’ claims exclude Byzantine and Personalist metaphysics…Read more
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10Grace, Natura Pura, and the Metaphysics of StatusProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 91 127-143. 2017.Christian Personalists have objected to Thomism’s claim that humans could have existed in a state of pure nature, on the grounds that this claim entails that historical states like grace do not give fundamental meaning to us, that these states are merely accidental, and that it led to modern secularism. I show that Thomism can affirm its traditional claims regarding grace and pure nature, while denying the first two implications, by developing the Thomistic metaphysics of status. In Thomism righ…Read more
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7Beauty and Being in von Hildebrand and the Aristotelian TraditionReview of Metaphysics 73 (2): 311-334. 2019.
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7Percepción sensible y el florecimiento de la persona humana en von Hildebrand y las tradiciones aristotélicasTópicos: Revista de Filosofía 56 95-117. 2018.Phenomenologist Dietrich von Hildebrand argues that many properties of the material world only exist in relation to persons, that sense perception is not merely a bodily act, but a properly spiritual, personal act, and that our highest act is not purely intellectual but involves bodily sense perception. By his own assertion, his philosophy must be understood in the context of the Catholic philosophical tradition; here, I consider his account of the material world and of sense perception in compa…Read more
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6Jacek Woroniecki. The Polish Christian Philosophy in the 20th Century (review)Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 25 (2): 341-347. 2020.
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5Being Reconfigured. By Ian Leask, Pp. xv, 129, Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, $52.99 (review)Heythrop Journal 59 (3): 616-618. 2018.
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2Heidegger in America. By Martin Woessner. Pp. xiv, 294, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011, £55.00/$90.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 55 (4): 732-734. 2014.
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The human person in the Consolation of philosophyIn Michael Wiitala (ed.), Boethius' _Consolation of Philosophy_: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2024.
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