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43Simplicity Made PlainerFaith and Philosophy 4 (2): 198-201. 1987.The authors try to show that many of the differences between Ross and themselves are only apparent, masking considerable agreement. Among the real disagreements, at least one is over the interpretation of Aquinas’s account of divine simplicity, but the mostcentral disagreement consists in the authors’ claim that their concern was not with a distinction between the way God is and the way he might have been (as Ross suggests) but with the difference between the way God is necessarily and the way h…Read more
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43Aquinas's Account of Freedom: Intellect and WillIn Brian Davies (ed.), The Monist, Oup Usa. pp. 576-597. 2002.
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43St. Thomas Aquinas on the Existence of God (review)International Studies in Philosophy 14 (2): 114-115. 1982.
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42Theology and the Knowledge of PersonsRoczniki Filozoficzne 69 (3): 9-27. 2021.The aim of the paper is to discern between philosophy and theology. A philosopher is looking after impersonal wisdom, a theologian searches for a personal God. This differentiation is fundamental because knowledge of persons differs from knowledge that. The author shows how taking into account the fact that theology is based on the second-person knowledge changes the way one should approach the hiddenness argument.
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39Hidden Divinity and Religious Belief: New Perspectives (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2015.This collection of new essays written by an international team of scholars is a groundbreaking examination of the problem of divine hiddenness, one of the most dynamic areas in current philosophy of religion. Together, the essays constitute a wide-ranging dialogue on the problem. They balance atheistic and theistic standpoints, and they bring to bear not only on the standard philosophical perspectives but also on insights from Jewish, Muslim, and Eastern Orthodox traditions. The apophatic and th…Read more
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38Walter Burley and the Obligationes attributed to William of SherwoodHistory and Philosophy of Logic 4 (1-2): 9-26. 1983.The history of the mediaeval obligationes-literature has only recently begun to be studied. Two important treatises in this literature, one by Walter Burley and the other attributed to William of Sherwood, have been edited by Romuald Green in a forthcoming book. But there is considerable doubt concerning the authenticity of the text attributed to Sherwood. The correct attribution and dating of this treatise is crucial for our understanding of the history of this literature. In this paper, we arg…Read more
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37The Reality of Time and the Existence of God: The Project of Proving God's ExistencePhilosophical Review 100 (4): 657. 1991.
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35The mechanisms of cognition: Ockham on mediating speciesIn P. V. Spade (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ockham, Cambridge University Press. pp. 168--203. 1999.
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34Francis and DominicProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 74 1-25. 2000.
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32The Image of God: The Problem of Evil and the Problem of MourningOxford University Press. 2022.The problem of evil has generated varying attempts at theodicy. To show that suffering is defeated for a sufferer, a theodicy argues that there is an outweighing benefit which could not have been gotten without the suffering. Typically, this condition has the tacit presupposition given that this is a post-Fall world. Consequently, there is a sense in which human suffering would not be shown to be defeated even if there were a successful theodicy because a theodicy typically implies that the bene…Read more
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32Aquinas’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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329. Intellect, Will, and the Principle of Alternate PossibilitiesIn John Martin Fischer & Mark Ravizza (eds.), Perspectives on Moral Responsibility, Cornell University Press. pp. 237-262. 1993.
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31The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2022.This new Companion to Aquinas features entirely new chapters written by internationally recognized experts in the field. It shows the power of Aquinas's philosophical thought and transmits the worldview which he inherited, developed, altered, and argued for, while at the same time revealing to contemporary philosophers the strong connections which there are between Aquinas's interests and views and their own. Its five sections cover the life and works of Aquinas; his metaphysics, including his u…Read more
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29Being and GoodnessIn Thomas V. Morris (ed.), Divine and Human Action: Essays in the Metaphysics of Theism, Cornell University Press. pp. 281-312. 1988.
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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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28God, Knowledge, and Mystery: Essays in Philosophical TheologyPhilosophical Review 106 (3): 464. 1997.There are nine essays, divided into three parts. The first part contains four essays, one on ontological arguments, one on chance and providence, and two on the problem of evil. The second part contains three essays, one on Genesis and evolution, one on historical biblical studies, and one on religious pluralism. The two essays in the last part are on trinity and incarnation.
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28Humility, Courage, Magnanimity: a Thomistic AccountScientia et Fides 10 (2): 23-29. 2022.In these brief remarks, I sketch Aquinas’s account of humility, courage, and magnanimity. The nature of humility for Aquinas emerges nicely from his account of pride, and it also illuminates Aquinas’s view of magnanimity. For Aquinas, pride is the worst of the vices, and it comes in four kinds. The opposite of all these kinds of pride in a person is his disposition to accept that the excellences he has are all gifts from a good God and are all meant to be given back by being shared with others. …Read more
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26Dialectic and its Place in the Development of Medieval LogicPhilosophical Review 101 (2): 377. 1992.
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26Dialectic in the eleventh and twelfth centuries: garlandus compotistaHistory and Philosophy of Logic 1 (1-2): 1-18. 1980.Dialectic is a standard and important part of the logica vetus (or old logic) in medieval philosophy. It has its ultimate origins in Aristotle's Topics,its fundamental source in Boethius's De topicis differentiis,and its flowering in its absorption into fourteenth-century theories of consequences or conditional inferences. The chapter on Topics in Garlandus Compotista's logic book is the oldest scholastic work on dialectic still extant. In this paper I show the differences between Boethius's The…Read more
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21AtonementOxford 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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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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