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51Philosophy, God, and motionRoutledge. 2005.In the post-Newtonian world motion is assumed to be a simple category which relates to the locomotion of bodies in space, and is usually associated only with physics. Philosophy, God and Motion shows that this is a relatively recent understanding of motion and that prior to the scientific revolution motion was a much broader and more mysterious category, applying to moral as well as physical movements. Simon Oliver presents fresh interpretations of key figures in the history of western thought i…Read more
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41The theodicy of Austin FarrerHeythrop Journal 39 (3). 1998.This article seeks to place the theodicy of the Anglican theologian Austin Farrer, as expressed in Love Almighty and Ills Unlimited , within the context of philosophical and theological approaches to the so‐called “problem of evil”. Farrer's work is initially contrasted with the theodicies of John Hick and Richard Swinburne. This comparison reveals some of the rationalist and foundationalist moral assumptions of modern philosophical theodicy of which Hick and Swinburne are representatives. By co…Read more
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36Teleology Revived? Cooperation and the Ends of NatureStudies in Christian Ethics 26 (2): 158-165. 2013.Modern natural science and philosophies of nature are often hostile to the notion of teleology in nature. Nevertheless, teleological orientation is ascribed to human behaviour because such behaviour is deliberative and intentional. This establishes a dualism between nature and culture, but also between intentional mind and inert matter. This essay argues that such dualisms are overcome by resisting a distinction between ‘extrinsic’ teleology and ‘intrinsic’ teleology, and by recovering Aristotle…Read more
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26Theology as a Pseudo-Ecology? Reply to Manussos MarangudakisTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1999 (115): 95-109. 1999.Manussos Marangudakis traces the roots of environmental concern within both Left and Right political thought.1 He examines the anti-technological and occasionally authoritarian stances of Hamsun, Williamson, Haeckel and Heidegger, and their associations with National Socialism, and compares them to the more recent ideologies of Deep Ecology, Ecofeminism, Eco-Socialism and Social Ecology, and their politics of egalitarianism, equality and autonomy. He concludes that, insofar as ecologists have op…Read more
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23The radical orthodoxy reader (edited book)Routledge. 2009._The Radical Orthodoxy Reader _presents a selection of key readings in the field of Radical Orthodoxy, the most influential theological movement in contemporary academic theology. Radical Orthodoxy draws on pre-Enlightenment theology and philosophy to engage critically with the assumption and priorities of secularism, modernity, postmodernity, and associated theologies. In doing so it explores a wide and exciting range of issues: music, language, society, the body, the city, power, motion, space…Read more
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21Book Review: Thomas Nagel, Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False (review)Studies in Christian Ethics 27 (4): 508-510. 2014.
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3The Theodicy of Austin FarrerHeythrop Journal 39 (3): 280-297. 1998.This article seeks to place the theodicy of the Anglican theologian Austin Farrer, as expressed in Love Almighty and Ills Unlimited, within the context of philosophical and theological approaches to the so‐called “problem of evil”. Farrer's work is initially contrasted with the theodicies of John Hick and Richard Swinburne. This comparison reveals some of the rationalist and foundationalist moral assumptions of modern philosophical theodicy of which Hick and Swinburne are representatives. By con…Read more
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1Radical orthodoxy : from participation to later modernityIn Simon Oliver & John Milbank (eds.), The radical orthodoxy reader, Routledge. 2009.
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Wisdom and belief in theology and philosophyIn John Cornwell & Michael McGhee (eds.), Philosophers and God: at the frontiers of faith and reason, Continuum. 2009.