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Late scholastics and renaissance humanists on the passions in moral actionIn Stephan Schmid (ed.), Philosophy of Mind in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, Routledge. 2018.
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10New Readings of Anselm of Canterbury's Intellectual Methods (edited book)Brill. 2022.New readings of Anselm’s speculative and spiritual writings brought in light of questions and thinkers from Augustine to today.
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13What Is a Person? Realities, Constructs, Illusions by John M. RistJournal of the History of Philosophy 59 (2): 345-346. 2021.John Rist's What Is a Person? is a scholarly, rich, and trenchant study of the history of the concept of personhood in Western thought. However, its sharp critique of modern and postmodern accounts of personhood, though thought-provoking, also uses jarringly polemical language, which further undermines the book's flawed overall argument. The first section, "Constructing the Mainline Tradition," carefully mines ancient and medieval sources, tracing with nuance and complexity the different threads…Read more
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13When Is It Wrong? Models of Argument and Interpretation from the 12th to the 13th CenturyIn Andreas Speer & Maxime Mauriège (eds.), Irrtum – Error – Erreur (Miscellanea Mediaevalia Band 40), De Gruyter. pp. 19-38. 2018.
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41The Soul–Body Problem at Paris, ca. 1200–1250: Hugh of St-Cher and His Contemporaries (review)Speculum 88 (1): 255-257. 2013.
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Aquinas' Notion of Science: Its Twelfth-Century Roots and Aristotelian TransformationDissertation, The University of Texas at Austin. 1986.In the period between the mid-12th and mid-13th centuries, the notion of 'science' replaced that of 'art' as the category against which all areas of academic inquiry including theology were measured. This dissertation selectively traces one aspect of this change as it is understood by Thomas Aquinas: the understanding of the relationship of sacred and secular study given these two different models of learning, art and science. ;Hugh of St. Victor's Didascalicon is discussed as it represents the …Read more
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1Aquinas' Notion of Science: Its 12th Century Roots and Aristotelian TransformationUniversity Microfilms International. 1986.
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Speculative Theology and the Transformation of Separation and LongingIn Chris Schlauch & William Meissner (eds.), Psyche and Spirit -Dialectics of Transformation, University of America Press. pp. 199-224. 2003.
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19Miner, Robert. Thomas Aquinas on the Passions: A Study of Summa Theologiae Ia2ae 22-48. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009, in The Journal of Religion 91 (2) (2011): 277-78. (review)Journal of Religion 91 (2): 277-278. 2011.
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5Rewriting the Narrative of Scripture: 12th-Century Debates over Reason and Theological FormJournal of Nietzsche Studies 3 1-34. 1993.
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21Anselm of Canterbury and the Desire for the WordThe Catholic University of America Press. 2012.Eileen C. Sweeney. gap between what faith believes and what reason understands, is also expressed in the attempt to think “that than which none greater can be thought.” For to think it is to reach God via a single, long extension of the mind ...
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37From Determined Motion to Undetermined Will and Nature to Supernature in AquinasPhilosophical Topics 20 (2): 189-214. 1992.This essay will focus on analogies drawn from Aristotle’s account of natural motion and change which Thomas Aquinas uses to construct responses and explanations of free choice and its characteristic act, i.e. creation for God, and acts of virtue for human beings. Though these analogies to natural change recur throughout the Thomistic corpus, my analysis will focus on their use in the Summa Theologiae, where they consistently bear the weight of Aquinas’s account of the divine and human will and t…Read more
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Three Notions of Analysis (Resolutio) and the Structure of Reasoning in AquinasThe Thomist 58 (2): 197-243. 1994.
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22Logic, Theology and Poetry in Boethius, Abelard and Alan of LillePalgrave/MacMillan. 2006.This interdisciplinary study offers an interpretation of the major logical, philosophical/theological and poetic writings of Boethius, Abelard and Alan of Lille. The author examines their theories of language and the ways in which they explore how words illuminate things, how the mind comprehends God and how the individual reaches beatitude.
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28Review of Thomas Aquinas, The Treatise on Human Nature: Summa Theologiae 1a 75-89 (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (4). 2003.
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24Abelard and the JewsIn Babette S. Hellemans & E. J. Brill (eds.), Rethinking Abelard: A Collection of Critical Essays, . pp. 37-50. 2014.
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115From Determined Motion to Undetermined Will and Nature to Supernature in AquinasPhilosophical Topics 20 (2): 189-214. 1992.
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Thomas Aquinas and the Difficulties of Reading the Natural Law Written on Our HeartsIn Jonathan J. Jacobs (ed.), Reason, Religion and the Natural Law, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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McGrade, Stephen, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2003, in Philosophical Books, 46 (Apr 2005): 141-2. (review)Philosophical Books 46 (2): 141-142. 2005.
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35Seeing 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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Anselm und der Dialog. Distanz und VersoehnungIn Gunter Narr Verlag (ed.), Gespraeche lesen. Philosophische Dialoge im Mittelalter, . pp. 101-124. 1999.
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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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