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23Rewriting the Narrative of Scripture: 12th-Century Debates over Reason and Theological FormJournal of Nietzsche Studies 3 1-34. 1993.While the history of Western philosophy as a whole can be seen as the appropriation by philosophers of the discourse of truth from the poets and makers of myth, of the replacement of the narrative form by the 'properly philosophical' form of argument, it is an appropriation that also takes place within medieval thought, particularly in the construction of theology as a legitimate academic discipline. Whether that appropriation constitutes progress or loss was as much debated in the Middle Ages a…Read more
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Anselm in Dialogue with the OtherPlurality of Philosophies in the Middle Ages, Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress, Palermo, 16 – 22 September 2007 (1): 159-168. 2012.
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46Aquinas & Sartre: On freedom, personal identity, and the possibility of happiness (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (1): 130-131. 2011.This well-written volume consists of paired chapters on human being, understanding, freedom, and happiness on Aquinas and Sartre. Stephen Wang's project is to use Sartre to reveal the more "radical" aspects of Aquinas's thought and to use Aquinas to "unlock the meaning" of Sartre's more radical claims . There is a great deal that is fresh and illuminating in this rapprochement between two thinkers most would not join together. Because the aim is to bring the thinkers into conversation, Wang avoi…Read more
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4The Anticlaudianus and the 'Proper' Language of TheologyEssays in Medieval Studies 4 45-55. 1987.
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New Standards for Certainty: The Reception of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics in the late 12th and early 13th centuriesIn Dallas G. Denery Ii, Kantik Ghosh & Nicolette Zeeman (eds.), Uncertain Knowledge: Scepticism, Relativism, and Doubt in the Middle Ages, Brepols Publishers. pp. 37-62. 2014.
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47Hugh of St. Victor: The Augustinian Tradition of Sacred and Secular Reading RevisedIn Edward D. English (ed.), Reading and Wisdom: The De Doctrina Christiana of Augustine in the Middle Ages, University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 61-83. 1995.
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11Seeing DoubleAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 83 (3): 389-420. 2009.This essay focuses on three interpretations of Aquinas influenced by Continental philosophy, those of John Caputo, Jean-Luc Marion, and John Milbank/Catherine Pickstock. The essay considers the well-worn question, whether Aquinas is an onto-theologian in Heidegger’s sense, but looks more broadly at the point of contact common to these interpretations: Aquinas’s relationship to modernity.As Continental thought has put into question the nature of philosophy through a critical look at modern philos…Read more
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Alan of LilleIn Karla Pollmann & Willemien Otten (eds.), Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, Oxford University Press. pp. 12-14. 2013.
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58Reasoning about Nature in Virtue, Action and Law: The Path from Principles to PracticeDiametros 38 175-190. 2013.This paper argues that the role of nature in Aquinas’s account of virtue, action and law does not require the kind of adherence to Aristotle’s ‘metaphysical biology’ that is refuted by Darwin because of the way Aquinas transforms nature as applied to a rational being and as an analogy to elucidate virtue, habit and law. Aquinas’s grounding of ethics and law in the notion of nature is also not a kind of intuitionism designed to answer all moral questions and stop all ethical debates but a model w…Read more
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12Abelard's Historia Calamitatum and Letters: Self as Search and StrugglePoetics Today 28 (2): 303-336. 2007.In this essay, I offer an interpretation of Abelard's Historia Calamitatum and letters exchanged with Heloise, arguing that both are informed by the attempt to look below the surfaces of language, self, and action to a reality beneath and to achieve authenticity, by which I mean coherence between surface and depth. This reading shows an emerging sense of self and self-knowledge based on the relationship between external act and internal intention. While using traditional medieval narrative forms…Read more
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2Supposition, Signification, and Universals: Metaphysical and Linguistic Complexity in AquinasFreiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie Und Theologie 42 (3): 267-290. 1995.Etude de la théorie de la supposition développée par Saint Thomas d'Aquin dans le cadre de ses réflexions sur les universaux. Distinguant les différents types de supposition et leur relation avec la signification, l'A. montre que la théorie thomiste de la supposition illustre la position théologique et métaphysique de Saint Thomas concernant l'unité du divin
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86Matter, E. Ann and Lesley Smith, eds., From Knowledge to Beatitude: St. Victor, Twelfth-Century Scholars, and Beyond. Essays in Honor of Grover A. Zinn, Jr. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013, in H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 79, pp. 1-4 (review)H-France Review 14 (79): 1-4. 2014.
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11Rewriting the Narrative of Scripture: 12th-Century Debates over Reason and Theological FormMedieval Philosophy & Theology 3 1-34. 1993.
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Anselmian Meditation: Imagination, Aporia and ArgumentSaint Anselm Journal 9 (1): 1-14. 2013.The claim of this paper is that there is a common form of reflection in Anselm’s prayers and the Proslogion and Monologion. The practice of meditation, of rumination and introspection, is the crucial link between these works, mostly thought of as philosophy or speculative theology, and as opposed to Anselm’s monastic practices of meditative prayer and thoughtful examination of self and scripture. The philosophical meditations are, like the prayers, the product of an imaginative project, in this …Read more
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21Boethius's In Ciceronis Topica (review)Review of Metaphysics 45 (1): 152-153. 1991.This companion volume to Stump's earlier translation of Boethius's De topicis differentiis contains Stump's translation of Boethius's lengthy commentary on Cicero's Topica, extensive explanatory notes, and a short, basic explanation of ancient and medieval notions of the categories and predicables. Much of this volume depends on the earlier one; most of the introduction on Boethius is repeated from the earlier work, and many of the explanatory notes refer the reader to the earlier volume. Though…Read more
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1The Asymmetry between Language and Being: The Case of AnselmIn Jon Burmeister & Mark Sentesy (eds.), On language: analytic, continental and historical contributions, Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 157-177. 2007.
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Ordering Differences: Aquinas vs. the ModernsAquinas Center of Theology, Occasional Papers on the Catholic Intellectual Life, 4 5-24. 2001.
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55Thomas Aquinas’ Double Metaphysics of Simplicity and InfinityInternational Philosophical Quarterly 33 (3): 297-317. 1993.
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1Aquinas on the Seven Deadly Sins: Tradition and InnovationIn Richard G. Newhauser Susan J. Ridyard (ed.), Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture: The Tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins, York Medieval Press/boydell and Brewer. 2012.
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20Roger Bacon and Albert the Great on Aristotle’s Notion of ScienceQuaestio 15 447-456. 2015.The paper examines the different uses of and responses to Aristotle’s account of science in the first wave of interpretation of Aristotle’s theory of science and works in natural science and metaphysics in the early 13th century in Roger Bacon and Albert the Great. The author argues that Bacon reduces all the disciplines to mathematics as the most scientific discipline, even as he argues that experimentum is at the center of scientific evidence and conclusions. Albert the Great, by contrast, giv…Read more
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Anselm and the Phenomenology of the Gift in Marcel, Sartre and MarionIn Giles E. M. Gaspar Ian Logan (ed.), Saint Anselm of Canterbury and His Legacy, University of Toronto Press. pp. 385-404. 2012.
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25Abelard in Four Dimensions: A Twelfth-Century Philosopher in His Context and Ours by John Marenbon (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 53 (3): 547-548. 2015.
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Speculative Theology and the Transformation of Separation and LongingIn Chris Schlauch & William Meissner (eds.), Psyche and Spirit -Dialectics of Transformation, University of America Press. pp. 199-224. 2003.
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19Miner, Robert. Thomas Aquinas on the Passions: A Study of Summa Theologiae Ia2ae 22-48. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009, in The Journal of Religion 91 (2) (2011): 277-78. (review)Journal of Religion 91 (2): 277-278. 2011.
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