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20McMullin’s Augustinian SettlementAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2): 331-342. 2012.In developing his trademark use of “consonance” to prescribe a relationship between Christian faith and the natural sciences, Ernan McMullin drew on severaldistinctly Augustinian philosophical and theological themes during his fifty years of scholarship. Particularly prominent in McMullin’s work were an emphasis placed on Augustine’s biblical hermeneutic, which prioritized both literal and non-literal interpretive techniques, and Augustine’s epistemology of divine illumination. This paper examin…Read more
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16Joseph A. Bracken, SJ. The World in the Trinity: Open-Ended Systems in Science and ReligionPhilosophy, Theology and the Sciences 4 (1): 115. 2017.
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30Critical Realism Redux: A Response to Josh ReevesZygon 55 (3): 772-781. 2020.This article combines an appreciation of several themes in Josh Reeves's Against Methodology in Science and Religion: Recent Debates on Rationality and Theology while arguing in favor of critical realism. The author holds that critical realism manages to combine the objective truth reached through inference and especially cognitive acts of judgment as well as the various, contingent historical contexts that also define where science is practiced. Reeves advocates a historical perspective, but th…Read more
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29Evolution and the Fall. Edited by William T. Cavanaugh and James K. Smith. Pp. 231, Grand Rapids, MI, Eerdmans, 2017, $26.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 60 (5): 811-812. 2019.
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37Sin and Natural Theology: An Augustinian Framework Beyond BarthNeue Zeitschrift für Systematicsche Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie 57 (1): 14-31. 2015.Name der Zeitschrift: Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie Jahrgang: 57 Heft: 1 Seiten: 14-31
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140An Augustinian philosopher between dualism and materialism: Ernan McMullin on human emergenceZygon 48 (2): 294-304. 2013.In claiming the independence of theology from science, Ernan McMullin nevertheless saw the danger of separating these disciplines on questions of mutual significance, as his accompanying article “Biology and the Theology of the Human” in this edition of Zygon shows. This paper analyzes McMullin's adoption of emergence as a qualified endorsement of a view that avoids the excesses of both dualism and materialism. I argue that McMullin's distinctive contribution is the conceptual clarification of e…Read more
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22Upholding the humanum: Science and theology's foundational characterHeythrop Journal 47 (3). 2006.Theologians in the liberal tradition have developed the distinctive method of critically correlating Christian revelation with critical interpretations of history, texts and social realities. Non‐foundationalists react to this stance by developing theological anthropologies for which interdisciplinary correlation is deemed unnecessary. In response, this paper argues for a retrieval of a philosophical anthropology that address the advances made in the fields of genetics and evolutionary biology, …Read more
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13Upholding the Humanum: Science and theology's Foundational Character 1Heythrop Journal 47 (3): 367-386. 2006.Theologians in the liberal tradition have developed the distinctive method of critically correlating Christian revelation with critical interpretations of history, texts and social realities. Non‐foundationalists react to this stance by developing theological anthropologies for which interdisciplinary correlation is deemed unnecessary. In response, this paper argues for a retrieval of a philosophical anthropology that address the advances made in the fields of genetics and evolutionary biology, …Read more
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Concordia UniversityRegular Faculty
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
Philosophy of Biology |