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11The Politics of Pears: Augustine on the Ethics of Privative Versus Eucharist CommunitiesHeythrop Journal 64 (3): 410-423. 2023.In my essay, I interpret Augustine's Confessions as a political text that portrays Augustine's attempt to find a true community. This search includes a critique of various defective communities that cannot provide the public good necessary for a true public. To show this, I focus on Augustine's account of the pear theft as an example par excellence of a privative community. I examine the story as an account of an inexplicable act of willing against the good that unmakes the will. I then argue th…Read more
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10Ways to GodPhilosophy and Theology 32 (1-2): 149-172. 2020.In this article, I explore how William Desmond recovers Thomas Aquinas's Five Ways by offering a new way for considering the relation of God to being. I do so in the context of Charles Taylor’s reflections on the immanent frame and the possibility of thinking towards God in the secular age. Desmond renews Aquinas proofs by seeing in them a hermeneutic openness to God. Considering each of Aquinas’s five ways through the lens of Desmond’s philosophy, I argue that each proof reveals God’s ways of b…Read more
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60Keeping Company with the Gods: Plato on Prayer and the Journey to the DivineHeythrop Journal 62 (2): 243-256. 2021.The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
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16Hope against HopePhilosophy and Theology 28 (1): 165-184. 2016.This essays considers hope as an essential aspect of Kierkegaard’s philosophy. Comparing his pseudonymous works with Works of Love helps us to understand hope as the breath of the eternal, which is experienced in time as future possibility. True hope rests in the future eternal good and not in optimistic or calculative expectations. Hope is a necessary condition of the self on the journey to the eternal and as such is constitutive of the self. It is the belief in the in-breaking of the eternal i…Read more
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11Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation. By ColbyDickinson. Pp. 114, Fordham University Press, 2017. $25.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (1): 213-214. 2021.
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4Hope against HopePhilosophy and Theology 28 (1): 165-184. 2016.This essays considers hope as an essential aspect of Kierkegaard’s philosophy. Comparing his pseudonymous works with Works of Love helps us to understand hope as the breath of the eternal, which is experienced in time as future possibility. True hope rests in the future eternal good and not in optimistic or calculative expectations. Hope is a necessary condition of the self on the journey to the eternal and as such is constitutive of the self. It is the belief in the in-breaking of the eternal i…Read more
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11‘You Made us for Yourself:’ Creation in Augustine’s Confessions. By Jared Ortiz. Pp. xxvi, 256, Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 2016, $79.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (4): 743-744. 2021.
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11God and the Soul: Augustine on the Journey to True SelfhoodHeythrop Journal 57 (4): 678-691. 2016.
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10Holy rhetoric: Anselm’s prayers and the phenomenology of divine compassionInternational Journal of Philosophy and Theology 81 (5): 447-465. 2020.In this essay, I examine Anselm’s ‘Prayers and Meditations’ as rhetorical prayers. I consider the basic structure of prayer as address to the Divine. For Anselm, this address is rhetorically struct...
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9Beginning and Ending with HestiaProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 85-96In my essay, I examine Plato’s understanding of justice and injustice within the home and the city. For Plato, the home, as private, must be suppressed to bring about a common polis. I critique Plato’s conclusions regarding the home and the city, especially his privative definition of justice, which loses the complexity of justice in-between persons, families, and communities. To critique Plato, I rely on his own doubts about his project, especially in his portrayal of the city of sows. The city…Read more
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8Breached Horizons: The Philosophy of Jean‐Luc Marion. Edited by RachelBath, AntonioCalcagno, KathrynLaws, Steve G.Lofts. Pp. ix, 277, Rowan & Littlefield International, 2018, $135.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (1): 203-204. 2021.
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39God and the Soul: Augustine on the Journey to True SelfhoodHeythrop Journal 57 (3): 678-691. 2016.
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14Beginning and Ending with Hestia in advanceProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. forthcoming.
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10Beginning and the Ending with Hestia: Finding a Home for Justice in Plato's Political PhilosophyProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 90 85-96. 2016.In my essay, I examine Plato’s understanding of justice and injustice within the home and the city. For Plato, the home, as private, must be suppressed to bring about a common polis. I critique Plato’s conclusions regarding the home and the city, especially his privative definition of justice, which loses the complexity of justice in-between persons, families, and communities. To critique Plato, I rely on his own doubts about his project, especially in his portrayal of the city of sows. The city…Read more
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University of PennsylvaniaProgram for Research On Religious and Urban Civil SocietyPost-doctoral Fellow
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
History of Western Philosophy |
Philosophical Traditions |