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8The Sense of Creation: Experience and the God BeyondRoutledge. 2008.What kind of experience might help to confirm and make sense of the puzzling belief in divine creation, so central to the main monotheistic religions? Anselm and Aquinas developed a philosophical understanding of 'Creation' as an asymmetrical relationship between the world and God i.e. that the world is really related to God in a relationship of total dependence but God is in no way really related to or modified by this created world. This idea of an asymmetrical relationship is the key concept …Read more
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My life in philosophyIn Fran O'Rourke & Patrick Masterson (eds.), Ciphers of transcendence: essays in philosophy of religion in honour of Patrick Masterson, Irish Academic Press. 2019.
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Select BibliographyIn Fran O'Rourke & Patrick Masterson (eds.), Ciphers of transcendence: essays in philosophy of religion in honour of Patrick Masterson, Irish Academic Press. 2019.
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28Ciphers of transcendence: essays in philosophy of religion in honour of Patrick Masterson (edited book)Irish Academic Press. 2019.The doyen of university presidents emeriti, Patrick (Paddy) Masterson remains one of UCD's most admired scholars and leaders twenty-five years after he was its President. A Festschrift is the crowning accolade for an academic, and the present volume is testament to the high esteem in which Paddy Masterson is regarded by his peers. It is also a token of gratitude from his Alma Mater. Outside of Ireland, he has been honoured in Portugal, Italy, the United States, and his beloved France. He shares …Read more
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5In reasonable hope: philosophical reflections on ultimate meaningThe Catholic University of America Press. 2021.In examining the question "what, in the final analysis, is the ultimate meaning and value of being in general and of human existence in particular?" the author considers 3 main approaches--humanism, scientism, and theism--arguing that he personally finds theism most convincing.
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44Richard Kearney's hermeneutics of othernessPhilosophy and Social Criticism 34 (3): 247-265. 2008.The article considers a particular case of Richard Kearney's characteristic hermeneutical exploration of `the possible' as an `imaginative' way of casting light upon philosophical issues. This particular case is his recent hermeneutical and phenomenological consideration of `Otherness' in the context of philosophy of religion. This consideration, strongly influenced by philosophers such as Heidegger, Levinas, Ricoeur and Derrida, is developed in two of his recent works Strangers, Gods and Monste…Read more
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7Approaching God: between phenomenology and theologyBloomsbury Academic. 2013.Approaching God explores the ways in which phenomenology, metaphysics and theological enquiry can throw light upon each other. This is a matter of great interest and importance to the future of philosophical theology and the philosophy of religion. What, if anything, has philosophical reflection about God to contribute to Christian theology? And if indeed philosophy plays a positive role in theological reflection—what kind of philosophy? The first-person philosophical perspective of phenomenolog…Read more
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22Thomas NagelInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 18 (1). 2010.This Article does not have an abstract
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Morality and transcendenceIn Enda McDonagh & Vincent MacNamara (eds.), An Irish reader in moral theology: the legacy of the last fifty years, Columba Press. 2009.
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Natural law todayIn Enda McDonagh & Vincent MacNamara (eds.), An Irish reader in moral theology: the legacy of the last fifty years, Columba Press. 2009.
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