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Book

The Agnostic Inquirer: Revelation from a Philosophical Standpoint (with Thomas D. Sullivan), Eerdmans Publishing, 2007, 347pp.

Articles

"The Nyāyakusumāñjali’s Injection of Revelation into Philosophy: The Role of the First Two Stabakas", with John D. Kronen. Religions (2025) 16:1336, ed. Jeffrey D. Long. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16111336.

"Christian Religious Epistemology", with Thomas D. Sullivan. The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology, ed. Jonathan Fuqua, John Greco, and Tyler Dalton McNabb (Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 132-147.

"Can I Be Obliged to Believe?", with Thomas D. Sullivan. Religions (2022) 13:1159, ed. Charles Taliaferro and Paul Reasoner. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13121159

"The Argument from Ramified Natural Theology", with Thomas D. Sullivan. Contemporary Arguments in Natural Theology: God and Rational Belief, ed. Colin Ruloff and Peter Horban (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), pp. 311-325.

"Matter" (with John D. Kronen), Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, ed. Richard Cross and J.T. Paasch (London: Routledge), 2021.

"Revelation and Scripture," The Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology, ed. William J. Abraham and Frederick Aquino (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2017.

"Towards a Robust Hylomorphism" (co-author: John Kronen), Studia Neoaristotelica, Vol. 13, Issue 1 (2016), pp. 5-43. 13,000 words.

"The Argument from Wholes: A Classical Hindu Design Argument for the Existence of God" (co-author: John D. Kronen), Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 30, No. 2 (April 2013), pp. 138-158.

"Hylomorphism and Design: A Reconsideration of Aquinas's 5th Way (with John D. Kronen), The Modern Schoolman,Vol. 89, No. 3-4 (July and October 2012), pp. 155-180.

"The Defensibility of Zoroastrian Dualism" (with John D. Kronen), Religious Studies, Vol. 46, No. 2 (June 2010), pp. 185-205.

"Revelation and Miracles" (with Thomas D. Sullivan), in The Cambridge Companion to Christian Philosophical Theology, ed. Charles Taliaferro and Chad V. Meister (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 201-215.

"The Insufficiency of Any Secular Case for Absolute Human Rights, and the Resources of Divine Revelation: The Suicide Argument" (with Thomas D. Sullivan), in Immersed in the Life of God: The Healing Resources of the Christian Faith, ed. Paul L. Gavrilyuk, Douglas M. Koskela, and Jason E. Vickers (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing, 2008), pp. 164-185.

"Religious Belief for the Rest of Us: Reflections on Reformed Epistemology" (with Thomas D. Sullivan), God Matters: Readings in the Philosophy of Religion (New York: Longman Press, 2002), pp. 244 - 255.

"The Existence of God and the Existence of Homer: Rethinking Theism and Revelatory Claims" (with Thomas D. Sullivan), Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 19, No. 3 (July 2002), pp. 331 - 347.

"The Problem of the Continuant: Aquinas and Suarez on Prime Matter and Substantial Generation" (with John D. Kronen and Thomas D. Sullivan), The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 53 (June 2000), pp. 863 - 885.

"Homer and Evil" (co-author: Thomas D. Sullivan), Theos, Anthropos, Christos: A Compendium of Modern Philosophical Theology, ed. Roy Abraham Varghese (New York and Washington: American University Studies - Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 235-260.

"Dostoevskian Horrors and the Problem of Grading Worlds" (co-author: Thomas D. Sullivan), Theos, Anthropos, Christos: A Compendium of Modern Philosophical Theology, ed. Roy Abraham Varghese (New York and Washington: American University Studies - Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 223-234.

"Maximal Goodness vs. Maximal Wickedness", Annual Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Vol. LXXI (1997), pp. 91-99.

"Does God Will Evil?" (with Thomas D. Sullivan), The Monist, Vol. 80, No. 4 (1997), pp. 598 - 610.

"Grading Worlds," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Annual Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Vol. LXX (1996), pp. 149 - 161.

"Must God Create?" (with Thomas D. Sullivan), Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 12, No. 3 (July 1995), pp. 321 - 341.

"Evil and Faith: Reflections on Simone Weil" (co-author: Thomas D. Sullivan), Becoming Persons: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Persons (Oxford: Applied Theology Press, 1995), pp. 311-324.

"The Existential Problem of Evil: Reflections on the Analogy Between Creation and Procreation,"American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Annual Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Vol. LXVIII (1994), pp. 229 - 246.

"Critical Thinking and the Construction of Knowledge," American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 37, No. 1 (September/October 1993), pp. 85 - 93.

"Do Women and Men Use Different Logics? A Reply to Carol Gilligan and Deborah Orr", Informal Logic, Vol. XV, No. 2 (1993), pp. 123-138.

"God Does Not Harden Hearts" (with Thomas D. Sullivan), American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Annual Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Vol. LXVII (1993), pp. 119 - 134.


2016 - University of St. Thomas, John Ireland Presidential Scholar

Consulting Editor, Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, University of St. Thomas, 2004 - 2008. Logos Journal Website

Co-editor, Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, University of St. Thomas, 1998 - 2003.

Associate Editor, Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, University of St. Thomas, 1997-1998.