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19Atonement according to AquinasIn Philosophy and the Christian Faith, Univ Notre Dame Pr. 1988.THE DOCTRINE OF THE ATONEMENT IS THE CENTRAL DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIANITY, BUT IT HAS NOT RECEIVED MUCH ATTENTION IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, IN PART BECAUSE IT TENDS TO BE KNOWN ONLY IN AN UNREFLECTIVE VERSION FULL OF PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL PROBLEMS. I PRESENT AN ALTERNATIVE VERSION OF THE DOCTRINE, TAKEN FROM AQUINAS, ARGUE THAT IT IS A COGENT AND CONSISTENT ACCOUNT, AND SHOW THAT IT DOES NOT SUFFER FROM THE PROBLEMS OF THE UNREFLECTIVE VERSION
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19Science, Reason, and ReligionProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 85 15-17. 2011.
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19Faith and GoodnessRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 25 167-191. 1989.Recent work on the subject of faith has tended to focus on the epistemology of religious belief, considering such issues as whether beliefs held in faith are rational and how they may be justified. Richard Swinburne, for example, has developed an intricate explanation of the relationship between the propositions of faith and the evidence for them. Alvin Plantinga, on the other hand, has maintained that belief in God may be properly basic, that is, that a belief that God exists can be part of the…Read more
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18The Cambridge Companion to Augustine (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2001.It is hard to overestimate the importance of the work of Augustine of Hippo, both in his own period and in the subsequent history of Western philosophy. Until the thirteenth century, when he may have had a competitor in Thomas Aquinas, he was the most important philosopher of the medieval period. Many of his views, including his theory of the just war, his account of time and eternity, his understanding of the will, his attempted resolution of the problem of evil, and his approach to the relatio…Read more
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17Introduction of the Aquinas MedalistProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 85 15-17. 2011.
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17Sanctification, Hardening of the Heart, and Frankfurt's Concept of Free WillIn John Martin Fischer & Mark Ravizza (eds.), Perspectives on Moral Responsibility, Cornell University Press. pp. 211-234. 1993.
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16Hamartia: The Concept of Error in the Western Tradition. Essays in Honor of John M. Crossett (edited book)Edwin Mellen Press. 1983.This is a collection of 13 essays which focus on a theme to which Crossett dedicated much of his highly interdisciplinary research. Six essays concern Hamartia in Greek works by Herodotus, Plato, Euripides, and others; two deal with the concept of error in the Christian theology of Boethius and Aquinas; and five examine Hamartia in 14th-19th-century English works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Coleridge, and George Eliot.
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14Aquinas’s Account of FreedomThe Monist 80 (4): 576-597. 1997.It is difficult to develop a comprehensive and satisfactory account of Aquinas’s views of the nature of human freedom.
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14The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Disintegration of Scholasticism, 1100–1600 (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1982.This 1982 book is a history of the great age of scholastism from Abelard to the rejection of Aristotelianism in the Renaissance, combining the highest standards of medieval scholarship with a respect for the interests and insights of contemporary philosophers, particularly those working in the analytic tradition. The volume follows on chronologically from The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy, though it does not continue the histories of Greek and Islamic philosophy …Read more
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14Providence and the problem of evilIn Brian Davies & Eleonore Stump (eds.), The Oxford handbook of Aquinas, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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13The Cambridge Companion to Augustine (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2001.It has been over a decade since the first edition of The Cambridge Companion to Augustine was published. In that time, reflection on Augustine's life and labors has continued to bear much fruit: significant new studies into major aspects of his thinking have appeared, as well as studies of his life and times and new translations of his work. This new edition of the Companion, which replaces the earlier volume, has eleven new chapters, revised versions of others, and a comprehensive updated bibli…Read more
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11The Problem of Evil and the Desires of the HeartIn Jonathan Kvanvig (ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion: Volume 1, Oxford University Press. pp. 196. 2008.
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11Francis and DominicProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 74 1-25. 2000.
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1010 Biblical commentary and philosophyIn Norman Kretzmann & Eleonore Stump (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas, Cambridge University Press. pp. 252. 1993.
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10Hidden Divinity and Religious Belief (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2015.This collection of new essays is a groundbreaking examination of divine hiddenness from the perspectives of different faiths.
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10A Dialogue of a Philosopher With a Jew, and a Christian (review)Philosophical Review 91 (2): 272-275. 1982.
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10Reasoned Faith: Essays in Philosophical Theology in Honor of Norman KretzmannPhilosophical Review 103 (4): 743. 1994.
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10Modes of KnowingFaith and Philosophy 26 (5): 553-565. 2009.The rapid, perplexing increase in the incidence of autism has led to a correlative increase in research on it and on normally developing children as well. In this paper I consider some of this research, not only for what it shows us about human cognitive capacities but also for its suggestive implications regarding the ability of science to teach us about the world.
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9St. Thomas Aquinas on the Existence of God (review)International Studies in Philosophy 14 (2): 114-115. 1982.
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