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Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Vol. 22: History of Political Ideas-Renaissance and Reformation. Edited by David L. Morse and William M. Thompson (review)The European Legacy 7 (1): 102-103. 2002.
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25ADAMSON Peter and Richard C. Taylor (eds): The Cambridge CompanionBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (2): 415-419. 2005.
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44God as the Good: A Critique of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.’s After GodJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 43 (6): 650-666. 2018.Despite its many strengths, Engelhardt’s After God displays two surprising features: an affinity for voluntaristic ethics and a tendency to oppose Eastern Orthodoxy to philosophy. Neither of these is in keeping with the mainstream of Eastern Orthodox tradition. Here, I offer a modest corrective. I begin with the figure of Socrates as presented in the Apology and Phaedo, highlighting the role that faith plays for Socrates and the reasons why he was widely admired by the early Church. I then descr…Read more
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29Orthodox Mysticism and Asceticism: Philosophy and Theology in St Gregory Palamas’ WorkPhilosophical Quarterly 74 (1): 372-375. 2023.Gregory Palamas (1296–1357) was a prominent Byzantine monk and theologian. He is best known for his writings in defence of the hesychasts, monks of Mount Athos
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6Meaning, Cognition, and the Philosophy of ThoughtJournal of Philosophical Research 23 51-80. 1998.Michael Dummett has claimed that analytic philosophy is distinguished from other schools in its belief that a comprehensive philosophical account of thought can only be attained by developing a philosophical account of language. Dummett himself argues persuasively for the priority-of-Ianguage thesis. This, in effect, metaphilosophical position is of special importance for his more straightforwardly philosophical views, for he holds that philosophical investigations of the concepts of objectivity…Read more
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94What Does it Mean to be Contrary to Nature?Christian Bioethics 29 (1): 58-76. 2023.St. Paul says that same-sex sexual acts are “contrary to nature.” Plainly this is intended as a condemnation, but beyond that its meaning is obscure. In particular, we are given no general account of what it means to be contrary to nature, including what other acts might fit this description. This article attempts to provide such an account. It relies for this purpose on the biblical and classical sources of this idiom as well as its subsequent use within the Greek patristic tradition. It argues…Read more
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76Meaning, Cognition, and the Philosophy of ThoughtJournal of Philosophical Research 23 51-80. 1998.Michael Dummett has claimed that analytic philosophy is distinguished from other schools in its belief that a comprehensive philosophical account of thought can only be attained by developing a philosophical account of language. Dummett himself argues persuasively for the priority-of-Ianguage thesis. This, in effect, metaphilosophical position is of special importance for his more straightforwardly philosophical views, for he holds that philosophical investigations of the concepts of objectivity…Read more
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32ARISTOTLE'S VIEWS ON RELIGION - Segev Aristotle on Religion. Pp. viii + 192, figs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-41525-5 (review)The Classical Review 69 (1): 65-67. 2019.
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48Aristotle and the Theology of the Living Immortals (review)Ancient Philosophy 22 (2): 430-434. 2002.
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47Neoplatonic Origins of the Act of BeingReview of Metaphysics 53 (2). 1999.IN A WELL-KNOWN ESSAY, Charles Kahn has addressed the question of “why existence does not emerge as a distinct concept in ancient Greek philosophy.” The assumption that gives rise to this question— namely, that the Greeks did not distinctly address the concept of existence—may seem puzzling. After all, οὐσία is one of the central terms of ancient metaphysics, and the Greeks engaged in endless wrangles over what deserves to be honored by that term and on what grounds the distinction is to be awar…Read more
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The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 19: History of Political Ideas, Hellenium, Rome, and Early Christianity. Edited by Athanasios Moulakis (review)The European Legacy 4 84-84. 1999.
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21Nicholas Wolterstorff. Acting Liturgically: Philosophical Reflections on Religious Practice (review)Journal of Analytic Theology 7 (1): 781-785. 2019.ㅤ.
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18Byzantine Philosophy, by Basil Tatakis, and Byzantine Philosophy and Its Ancient Sources, edited by Katerina Ierodiakonou (review)Ancient Philosophy 25 (1): 234-238. 2005.
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557A New Look at the Prime MoverJournal of the History of Philosophy 39 (1): 1-22. 2001.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:A New Look at the Prime MoverDavid BradshawThe last twenty years have seen a notable shift in scholarly views on the Prime Mover. Once widely dismissed as a relic of Aristotle's early Platonism, the Prime Mover is coming increasingly to be seen as a key—perhaps the key—to Aristotle's mature metaphysics and philosophy of mind. Perhaps the best example of the revisionist view is Jonathan Lear's Aristotle: The Desire to Understand. Lear…Read more
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10Ethics and the challenge of secularism: Russian and Western perspectives (edited book)Council for Research in Values and Philosophy. 2013.Proceedings of a conference held May 25-26, 2012 at the University of Notre Dame.
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68The Divine Glory and the Divine EnergiesFaith and Philosophy 23 (3): 279-298. 2006.Is the divine glory a creature, or is it God? The awkwardness of the question suggests that there is something wrong with the dichotomy in terms of which it is posed. A similar question can be asked about the divine "energies" (erzergeiai) in the New Testament. Both of these Scriptural themes challenge us to rethink our preconceptions about the nature of God and the relationship between creatures and Creator. In this paper I describe the interpretation of the divine glory and divine energies gi…Read more
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30The Vision of God in Philo of AlexandriaAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 72 (4): 483-500. 1998.
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2Maximus the confessorIn Lloyd P. Gerson (ed.), The Cambridge history of philosophy in late antiquity, Cambridge University Press. pp. 2--813. 2010.
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823The Divine Liturgy as Mystical ExperienceEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7 (2): 137--151. 2015.Most characterizations of mystical experience emphasize its private, esoteric, and non-sensory nature. Such an understanding is far removed from the original meaning of the term mystikos. For the ancient Greeks, the ”mystical’ was that which led participants into the awareness of a higher reality, as in the initiatory rites of the ancient mystery cults. This usage was taken over by the early Church, which similarly designated the Christian sacraments and their rites as ”mystical’ because they dr…Read more
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74Dialogue Between an Orthodox and a Barlaamite, and: The Ground of Union: Deification in Aquinas and Palamas (review) (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 38 (4): 586-588. 2000.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Dialogue Between an Orthodox and a Barlaamite, and: The Ground of Union: Deification in Aquinas and PalamasDavid BradshawSaint Gregory Palamas. Dialogue Between an Orthodox and a Barlaamite. Translated by Rein Ferweda with Introduction by Sara J. Denning-Bolle. Binghamton, NY: Global Publications/CEMERS, 1999. Pp. 108. Paper, $17.00.A. N. Williams. The Ground of Union: Deification in Aquinas and Palamas. New York and Oxfo…Read more
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