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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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18Relihan, Joel C. The Prisoner’s Philosophy: Life and Death in Boethius’s Consolation, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, in Religious Studies Review 36 (3) (2010): 234.Religious Studies Review 36 (3): 234. 2010.
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1Metaphysics and its Distinction from Sacred Doctrine in AquinasIn Reijo Työrinoja, Anja Inkeri Lehtinen & Dagfinn Føllesdal (eds.), Knowledge and Medieval Philosophy, Annals of the Finnish Society For Missiology and Ecumenics. pp. 162-170. 1990.
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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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35Abelard’s Progress: From Logic to Ethics. Review of John Marenbon, The Philosophy of Peter Abelard (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 40 (3): 367-376. 2000.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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52Thomas Aquinas’ Double Metaphysics of Simplicity and InfinityInternational Philosophical Quarterly 33 (3): 297-317. 1993.
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