Michael Waddell

Saint Mary's College of Notre Dame, IN
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    Autism and Assisted Suicide
    Journal of Disability and Religion 24 (1): 1-28. 2019.
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    Restoring Nature: Essays in Thomistic Philosophy and Theology (edited book)
    St. Augustine's Press. 2003.
    Collected essays on the topic of nature in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. Introduction by Ralph McInerny.
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    Aquinas on the Light of Glory
    Tópicos: Revista de Filosofía 40 (1): 105-132. 2011.
    In this article, I examine Thomas Aquinas's teaching on the light of glory (lumen gloriae), and attempt to resolve several problems that arise within this teaching.
  • Truth Beloved: Thomas Aquinas and the Relational Transcendentals
    Dissertation, University of Notre Dame. 2000.
    The doctrine of the transcendentals is a prominent feature of medieval thought. Briefly stated, this doctrine asserts that "being" has certain properties, including unity, truth and goodness. One of Thomas Aquinas's contributions to reflection on the transcendentals was to articulate a set of transcendental properties relating "being" to the faculties of the soul: truth is "being" in relation to intellect and goodness is "being" in relation to will. Thus, truth and goodness are known as the rela…Read more
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    Faith and Reason in the Wake of Milbank and Pickstock
    International Philosophical Quarterly 48 (3): 381-396. 2008.
    In Truth in Aquinas, John Milbank and Catherine Pickstock attempt to render a “radically orthodox” reading of Aquinas that rejects an autonomous realm of natural reason unaided by faith. I argue that Milbank and Pickstock’s account fails as a reading of Aquinas and is problematic as a theory of the relationship between faith and reason. After sketching Milbank and Pickstock’s understanding of the relationship between faith and reason, I examine Aquinas’s doctrines of grace and divine naming in o…Read more
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    In this article, I argue that Thomas Aquinas's primary intention in De Veritate 1.1 was to define truth rather than to offer a systematic doctrine of the transcendentals, and consider the implications of this reading for various aspects of Aquinas's philosophy and theology.
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    The role of natural theology in St. Thomas Aquinas's early doctrine of (transcendental) trut, especially in question one of Aquinas's "Disputed Questions on Truth (De veritate).