Over at Thomistica, Professor John F.X. Knasas has kindly responded to my rejoinder to his reply to my review of his book. Here is the sequence for those interested: My essay-length review of Knasas, Thomistic Existentialism & Cosmological Reasoning (July 2020) Knasas’s response to my review, “Aquinas’ Metaphysics and Aristotle’s Arguments for the Eternity of … Continue reading Debate with Knasas
Fr. Philip-Neri Reese, O.P., has recently written “Losing the Forest for the Tree: Why All Thomists Should (Not) Be River Forest Thomists,” an open-access article in the journal Religions. Here is the abstract: One of the most influential and controversial schools of 20th century Thomism—especially in North America—is the “River Forest School” or “River Forest … Continue reading The Natural Path to Saving the Old River Forest “Tree”
Over at Thomistica, I review two books of interest to philosophers and Thomists. The first is Fr. Ezra Sullivan’s Habits and Holiness. The second is Resnick and Kitchell’s biography of St. Albert the Great.
Now published in Aquinas and Us, edited by Timothy Kearns, Gyula Klima, and Alex Hall, the latest volume (no. 18) of the Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics. From the publisher: “This volume considers the contemporary relevance of Aquinas’ thought and what parameters should influence its reception. It discusses the reception of … Continue reading From First Physics to Fundamental Physics and Back Again
In preparation for an upcoming symposium talk on the Aristotelian-Thomistic understanding of chance and indeterminism in nature, I had the opportunity to read Cardinal Cajetan’s commentary on ST, Ia, q. 115, a. 6, where St. Thomas wonders “whether heavenly bodies impose necessity on things subject to their action?” This article and Cajetan’s commentary is used … Continue reading Cajetan on contingency in the stars
John G. Brungardt 