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116The Mind and the Heart in the Christian East and WestFaith and Philosophy 26 (5): 576-598. 2009.One of the most intriguing features of Eastern Orthodoxy is its understanding of the mind and the heart. Orthodox authors such as St. Gregory Palamas speak of “drawing the mind into the heart” through prayer. What does this mean, and what does it indicate about the eastern Christian understanding of the human person? This essay attempts to answer such questions through a comparative study of the eastern and western views of the mind and the heart, beginning with their common origin in the Bible …Read more
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144The Concept of the Divine EnergiesPhilosophy and Theology 18 (1): 93-120. 2006.The distinction between the divine essence and energies has long been recognized as a characteristic feature of Eastern Orthodox theology, one sharply at odds with traditional Western understandings of divine simplicity. Yet attempts by Orthodox theologians to explain the distinction have sometimes exaggerated its distinctively Orthodox character by a failure to attend to its historical sources. This paper argues that the distinction was a natural and reasonable consequence of the synthesis betw…Read more
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9The Opuscula Sacra: Boethius and theologyIn John Marenbon (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Boethius, Cambridge University Press. pp. 105--128. 2009.
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2John Haldane, ed., Mind, Metaphysics, and Value in the Thomistic and Analytical Traditions Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 23 (3): 183-185. 2003.
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40Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of ChristendomCambridge University Press. 2004.This book traces the development of conceptions of God and the relationship between God's being and activity from Aristotle, through the pagan Neoplatonists, to thinkers such as Augustine, Boethius and Aquinas and Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor and Gregory Palamas. The result is a comparative history of philosophical thought in the two halves of Christendom, providing a philosophical backdrop to the schism between the Eastern and Western Churches.
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68The Divine Glory and the Divine EnergiesFaith and Philosophy 23 (3): 279-298. 2006.Is the divine glory a creature, or is it God? The awkwardness of the question suggests that there is something wrong with the dichotomy in terms of which it is posed. A similar question can be asked about the divine "energies" (erzergeiai) in the New Testament. Both of these Scriptural themes challenge us to rethink our preconceptions about the nature of God and the relationship between creatures and Creator. In this paper I describe the interpretation of the divine glory and divine energies gi…Read more
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