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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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5Rewriting the Narrative of Scripture: 12th-Century Debates over Reason and Theological FormJournal of Nietzsche Studies 3 1-34. 1993.
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22Anselm of Canterbury and the Desire for the WordThe Catholic University of America Press. 2012.Eileen C. Sweeney. gap between what faith believes and what reason understands, is also expressed in the attempt to think “that than which none greater can be thought.” For to think it is to reach God via a single, long extension of the mind ...
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38From Determined Motion to Undetermined Will and Nature to Supernature in AquinasPhilosophical Topics 20 (2): 189-214. 1992.This essay will focus on analogies drawn from Aristotle’s account of natural motion and change which Thomas Aquinas uses to construct responses and explanations of free choice and its characteristic act, i.e. creation for God, and acts of virtue for human beings. Though these analogies to natural change recur throughout the Thomistic corpus, my analysis will focus on their use in the Summa Theologiae, where they consistently bear the weight of Aquinas’s account of the divine and human will and t…Read more
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Three Notions of Analysis (Resolutio) and the Structure of Reasoning in AquinasThe Thomist 58 (2): 197-243. 1994.
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22Logic, Theology and Poetry in Boethius, Abelard and Alan of LillePalgrave/MacMillan. 2006.This interdisciplinary study offers an interpretation of the major logical, philosophical/theological and poetic writings of Boethius, Abelard and Alan of Lille. The author examines their theories of language and the ways in which they explore how words illuminate things, how the mind comprehends God and how the individual reaches beatitude.
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28Review of Thomas Aquinas, The Treatise on Human Nature: Summa Theologiae 1a 75-89 (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (4). 2003.
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24Abelard and the JewsIn Babette S. Hellemans & E. J. Brill (eds.), Rethinking Abelard: A Collection of Critical Essays, . pp. 37-50. 2014.
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115From Determined Motion to Undetermined Will and Nature to Supernature in AquinasPhilosophical Topics 20 (2): 189-214. 1992.
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Thomas Aquinas and the Difficulties of Reading the Natural Law Written on Our HeartsIn Jonathan J. Jacobs (ed.), Reason, Religion and the Natural Law, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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McGrade, Stephen, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2003, in Philosophical Books, 46 (Apr 2005): 141-2. (review)Philosophical Books 46 (2): 141-142. 2005.
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Anselm und der Dialog. Distanz und VersoehnungIn Gunter Narr Verlag (ed.), Gespraeche lesen. Philosophische Dialoge im Mittelalter, . pp. 101-124. 1999.
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36Seeing 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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42Anselm on Human Finitude: A Dialogue with ExistentialismSaint Anselm Journal 10 (1). 2014.The paper discusses Anselm's account of human finitude and freedom through his discussion of what it means to receive what we have from God in De casu diaboli. The essay argues that Anselm is considering the same issue as Jean Paul Sartre in his account of receiving a gift as incompatible with freedom. De casu diaboli takes up this same question, asking about how the finite will can be free, which requires that it have something per se, when there is nothing, as St. Paul asserted in Romans, that…Read more
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The Problem of Philosophy and Theology in Anselm of CanterburyIn Kent Emery & Russell Freidman (eds.), Medieval Philosophy and Theology in the Long Middle Ages. A Tribute to Stephen F. Brown, Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters. pp. 487-514. 2011.
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