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Whether you’re a wine connoisseur or not, you’ve likely had a moment at a party or a dinner where someone poured you a glass and expected that you would know what to do next. Give it a swirl, smell it, taste it, and then come up with a myriad of descriptions to describe its characteristics. […]
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In 1999 I was an area dean overseeing a group of clergy in west Norwich, England. Having encouraged my colleagues to read my first book, published the previous year, another priest suggested we read a book about theology and development. In it a Filipino activist described three forms of social engagement: working for, where I […]
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According to Thomas Aquinas, knowledge of first causes is the most fundamental kind of knowledge. Since a cause is an explanation – a reason why something is — to say things have no cause is to say that they have no explanation. Moreover there has to be a First Cause, because the First Cause is […]
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Kant’s 1797 essay “On a Supposed Right to Lie from Love of Humanity” has done more than any of his other works to scare students off his moral theory. Interpreters have little time for it. They call it “grotesque”, “shocking” or “morally perverse”. This is not surprising. The central thesis of Kant’s short piece is […]
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For the last two thousand years and more, the story of Noah and the flood in the book of Genesis has been thought of as an historical account of what happened around 2,500 BCE, some 1,500 years after the creation of the world. For the last several hundred years, for mos,t it has become the […]
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Kings Saul, David, and Solomon are some of the most famous biblical figures. Stories about Solomon’s wealth and wisdom have become proverbial in the cultures dominated by Abrahamic religions, and David’s defeat of Goliath is a metaphor so powerful and pervasive, it is still used by hit tv shows and bestselling books. But who were […]
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“No work of St. Bonaventure is more widely known and more justly praised than the brief treatise called the Itinerarium mentis in Deum. For clarity of expression, mastery of organization, and density of thought, the Itinerarium ranks as one of the purest gems of medieval theology.” So wrote University of Chicago professor Benard McGinn, author […]
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Whether you’re a wine connoisseur or not, you’ve likely had a moment at a party or a dinner where someone poured you a glass and expected that you would know what to do next. Give it a swirl, smell it, taste it, and then come up with a myriad of descriptions to describe its characteristics. […]
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What makes ‘a religion of peace’? This rarely-explained and occasionally maligned phrase has become a commonplace in 21st century speechcraft. Puzzlingly, it is rarely applied in a comparatively straightforward descriptive fashion – perhaps to distinguish the Mahāvratas of Jain monasticism or the idiosyncratic ethical doctrines of the Anabaptist Peace Churches. Rather, it finds its most […]
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In 1999 I was an area dean overseeing a group of clergy in west Norwich, England. Having encouraged my colleagues to read my first book, published the previous year, another priest suggested we read a book about theology and development. In it a Filipino activist described three forms of social engagement: working for, where I […]
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According to Thomas Aquinas, knowledge of first causes is the most fundamental kind of knowledge. Since a cause is an explanation – a reason why something is — to say things have no cause is to say that they have no explanation. Moreover there has to be a First Cause, because the First Cause is […]
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Kant’s 1797 essay “On a Supposed Right to Lie from Love of Humanity” has done more than any of his other works to scare students off his moral theory. Interpreters have little time for it. They call it “grotesque”, “shocking” or “morally perverse”. This is not surprising. The central thesis of Kant’s short piece is […]
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For the last two thousand years and more, the story of Noah and the flood in the book of Genesis has been thought of as an historical account of what happened around 2,500 BCE, some 1,500 years after the creation of the world. For the last several hundred years, for mos,t it has become the […]
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Kings Saul, David, and Solomon are some of the most famous biblical figures. Stories about Solomon’s wealth and wisdom have become proverbial in the cultures dominated by Abrahamic religions, and David’s defeat of Goliath is a metaphor so powerful and pervasive, it is still used by hit tv shows and bestselling books. But who were […]
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“No work of St. Bonaventure is more widely known and more justly praised than the brief treatise called the Itinerarium mentis in Deum. For clarity of expression, mastery of organization, and density of thought, the Itinerarium ranks as one of the purest gems of medieval theology.” So wrote University of Chicago professor Benard McGinn, author […]
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Edwin Mares is Professor of Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington. His publications include Relevant Logic: A Philosophical Interpretation (Cambridge, 2004).
Mariusz Tabaczek, O.P., is a friar preacher, professor of theology, and member of the Thomistic Institute at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome. He is the author of Emergence: Towards A New Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science (2019), and Divine Action and Emergence: An Alternative to Panentheism (2021).
Mark Scarlata is Senior Lecturer in Old Testament at St Mellitus College, London. He is also the vicar-chaplain at St. Edward, King and Martyr, Cambridge and the director of the St. Edward\'s Institute for Christian Thought.
Randall Smith is Full Professor in the Department of Theology at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. He is the author of five books, among them Aquinas, Bonaventure and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris (Cambridge, 2021).
Jesse Spafford is a Lecturer at the Victoria University of Wellington. His work explores debates between libertarians, socialists, and anarchists over the moral status of the market and the state, and he is the author of a number of articles in journals including Philosophical Studies, Synthese, and the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy.
David Merritt author of A Philosophical Approach to MOND
Simon Friederich, author of Multiverse Theories: A Philosophical PerspectiveRijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Roy W. Perrett, University of Melbourne
Helen Wilcox, Professor of English at Bangor University
Magna Carta, Religion and the Rule of Law
Author of The Late Sigmund Freud
Damon Mayrl is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
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