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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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52Aquinas's moral theory: essays in honor of Norman KretzmannCornell University Press. 1998.This volume explores the ethical dimensions of a wide selection of philosophical and theological topics in Aquinas's texts.
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586The Doctrine of the Atonement: Response to Michael Rea, Trent Dougherty, and Brandon WarmkeEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 11 (1): 165-186. 2019.--
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33Aquinas’s Virtue Ethics and its Metaphysical FoundationIn Matthias Lutz-Bachmann & Jan Szaif (eds.), Was Ist Das Für den Menschen Gute? / What is Good for a Human Being?: Menschliche Natur Und Güterlehre / Human Nature and Values, Walter De Gruyter. 2004.
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11Hidden 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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21Faith 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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63The Openness of God: Eternity and Free WillIn Mirosław Szatkowski (ed.), Ontology of Theistic Beliefs: Meta-Ontological Perspectives, De Gruyter. pp. 137-154. 2018.
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23AtonementOxford University Press. 2018.This work argues that Christ's atonement disarms human resistance to God's love and so brings about acceptance of divine forgiveness.
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2400Wandering in Darkness: Further ReflectionsEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4 (3): 197--219. 2012.
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2345Atonement and the Cry of Dereliction from the CrossEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4 (1): 1. 2012.Any interpretation of the doctrine of the atonement has to take account of relevant biblical texts. Among these texts, one that has been the most difficult to interpret is that describing the cry of dereliction from the cross. According to the Gospels of Mathew and Mark, on the cross Jesus cries, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?‘ In this paper, I give a philosophical analysis of the options for understanding the cry of dereliction, interpreted within the constraints of orthodox Christi…Read more
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267Personal relations and moral residueHistory of the Human Sciences 17 (2-3): 33-56. 2004.To what extent can one be saddled with responsibility or guilt as a result of actions committed not by oneself but by others with whom one has a familial or national connection or some other communal association? The issue of communal guilt has been extensively discussed, and there has been no shortage of writers willing to apply the notion of communal responsibility and guilt to Germany after the Holocaust. But the whole notion of communal guilt is deeply puzzling. How can evil actions cast a s…Read more
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39The Reality of Time and the Existence of God: The Project of Proving God's ExistencePhilosophical Review 100 (4): 657. 1991.
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1The Story of the Stone: Wisdom and FollyIn Melville Y. Stewart & Chih-kʻang Chang (eds.), The Symposium of Chinese-American Philosophy and Religious Studies, International Scholars Publications. pp. 1--163. 1998.
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Topics: their development and absorption into consequencesIn Norman Kretzmann, Anthony Kenny & Jan Pinborg (eds.), Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 273--299. 1982.
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28The Philosophical Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas (review)Review of Metaphysics 47 (1): 141-143. 1993.This book is the second volume of a two-part study, The Metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas in a Historical Perspective. In the first part, the author concentrated on Aquinas's understanding of "common being"; in this part he considers Aquinas's account of the existence and nature of God. Elders largely follows the order of the first questions of Aquinas's Summa theologiae. He begins by examining Aquinas's views about the demonstrability of God's existence and then devotes considerable attention t…Read more
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1The principle of alternative possibilitiesIn Charles Harry Manekin & Menachem Marc Kellner (eds.), Freedom and Moral Responsibility: General and Jewish Perspectives, University Press of Maryland. 1997.
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11The Problem of Evil and the Desires of the HeartIn Jonathan L. Kvanvig (ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 196. 2010.
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1038The Problem of EvilFaith and Philosophy 2 (4): 392-423. 1985.This paper considers briefly the approach to the problem of evil by Alvin Plantinga, Richard Swinburne, and John Hick and argues that none of these approaches is entirely satisfactory. The paper then develops a different strategy for dealing with the problem of evil by expounding and taking seriously three Christian claims relevant to the problem: Adam fell; natural evil entered the world as a result of Adam's fall; and after death human beings go either to heaven or hell. Properly interpreted, …Read more
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227 The Problem of EvilIn Eleonore Stump & Michael J. Murray (eds.), Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 6--4. 1999.
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81The Non-Aristotelian Character of Aquinas’s EthicsFaith and Philosophy 28 (1): 29-43. 2011.Scholars discussing Aquinas’s ethics typically understand it as largely Aristotelian, though with some differences accounted for by the differences in worldview between Aristotle and Aquinas. In this paper, I argue against this view. I show that although Aquinas recognizes the Aristotelian virtues, he thinks they are not real virtues. Instead, for Aquinas, the passions—or the suitably formulated intellectual and volitional analogues to the passions—are not only the foundation of any real ethica…Read more
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225The Non-Aristotelian Character of Aquinas’s EthicsFaith and Philosophy 28 (1): 29-43. 2011.Scholars discussing Aquinas’s ethics typically understand it as largely Aristotelian, though with some differences accounted for by the differences in worldview between Aristotle and Aquinas. In this paper, I argue against this view. I show that although Aquinas recognizes the Aristotelian virtues, he thinks they are not real virtues. Instead, for Aquinas, the passions—or the suitably formulated intellectual and volitional analogues to the passions—are not only the foundation of any real ethica…Read more
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125The Nature of a Simple GodProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 87 33-42. 2013.
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36The mechanisms of cognition: Ockham on mediating speciesIn Paul Vincent Spade (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ockham, Cambridge University Press. pp. 168--203. 1999.
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