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Publications: Books
The Incarnation. Cambridge Elements Series. Cambridge University Press (Under Contract).
In Defense of Extended Conciliar Christology: A Philosophical Essay. Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology. Oxford University Press, 2019.
In Defense of Conciliar Christology: A Philosophical Essay. Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Publications: Articles and Book Chapters (peer-reviewed unless noted)
“The Metaphysics of the Incarnation: Christ’s Human Nature,” in: Herausforderungen des klassischen Theismus. Bd. 2: Inkarnation (eds. Thomas Marschler and Thomas Schärtl (Hg.): (STEP, 16/2), Münster 2020: Aschendorff): 131–148.
“Conciliar Trinitarianism, Divine Identity Claims, and Subordination,” TheoLogica (invited; peer-reviewed).
“Explosive Theology: A Reply to Jc Beall’s ‘Christ – A Contradiction,’” Journal of Analytic Theology, 7 (2019): 440-451 (invited for a symposium on Beall’s work; not peer reviewed).
“In Defense of Divine Truthmaker Simplicity,” Res Philosophica, 96.1 (2019): 63-75.
“A Reply to ‘The Antinomy of Future Contingent Events,’” Annals of Philosophy [Roczniki Filozoficzne] 66:4 (2018): 149-157 (invited for a special issue of the journal; not peer reviewed).
“Conciliar Christology and the Consistency of Divine Immutability with a Mutable, Incarnate God,” Nova et Vetera, 16.3 (2018): 913-937. (invited for a symposium on immutability and incarnation; not peer-reviewed).
“Nine Problems (And Even More Solutions) for Powers Accounts of Possibility” in Causal (ed. Jonathan D. Jacobs, Oxford University Press, USA, 2017): 105-123.
“Paradise and Growing in Virtue” (coauthored with Kevin Timpe) in Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven (eds. T Ryan Byerly and Eric Silverman, Oxford University Press, USA, 2017): 97-109.
“Truthmaking and Christian Theology,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 89 (2016): 181-194 (winner of the 2015 Young Scholar Award from the ACPA). doi: 10.5840/acpaproc201610548
“Free Will and Grace” in The Routledge Companion to Free Will (eds. Kevin Timpe, Meghan Griffith, Neil Levy, Routledge, USA, 2016): 531-542.
“Freedom and the Incarnation” (coauthored with Kevin Timpe), Philosophy Compass, 11 (2016): 743-756.
“Temporary Intrinsics and Christological Predication,” Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion vol. 7 (ed. Jon Kvanvig, Oxford University Press, 2016): 157-189.
“Christologically Inspired, Empirically Motivated Hylomorphism” (coauthored with Mark K. Spencer), Res Philosophica, 93.1 (2016): 137-160.
“Brian Hebblethwaite’s Arguments Against Multiple Incarnations,” Religious Studies 52:1 (2016): 117-130.
“A Thomistic Truthmaker Principle,” Acta Philosophica, 25:1 (2016): 45-64 (invited and peer-reviewed).
“Thomistic Multiple Incarnations,” The Heythrop Journal 57.2 (2016): 359-370. Abridged and translated into Finnish by Simo Lamponen.
“Conciliar Christology and the Problem of Incompatible Predications,” Scientia et Fides, 3.2 (2015): 85-106 (invited and peer-reviewed).
“Change, Difference, and Orthodox Truthmaker Theory,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92.3 (2014): 539-550.
"A Solution to the Fundamental Philosophical Problem of Christology,” The Journal of Analytic Theology, 2 (2014): 61-85.
“The Freedom of Christ and The Problem of Deliberation,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 75.3 (2014): 233-247. DOI 10.1007/s11153-014-9447-4.
“The Freedom of Christ and Explanatory Priority,” Religious Studies, 50.2 (2014): 157-173. DOI:10.1017/S0034412513000309.
“Stone's Evidential Atheism: A Critique,” Faith and Philosophy, 30.3 (2013): 317-329.
“Heavenly Freedom: A Response to Cowan” (coauthored with Kevin Timpe), Faith and Philosophy 30.2 (2013): 188-197.
“The Five Ways” in The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas (ed. Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump, Oxford University Press, USA, 2012): 115-131.
“Traditional Christian Theism and Truthmaker Maximalism,” The European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4.1 (2012): 197-218.
“Transubstantiation, Tropes and Truthmakers,” The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86.1 (2012): 71-96.
“Aquinas’s Five Ways” in Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy (ed. Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011): 9-17.
“The Possibility Principle and the Truthmakers for Modal Truths,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88.3 (2010): 417-428.
“Incompatibilism, Sin, and Free Will in Heaven” (coauthored with Kevin Timpe), Faith and Philosophy 26.4 (2009): 398-419.
“St. Thomas Aquinas on Blameworthiness and the Virtue of Faith,” Journal of Postgraduates in Wuhan University 21.4 (2005): 21-26 (invited).

Publications: Encyclopedia Entries
“Divine Immutability”, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2009
“St. Thomas Aquinas” The Literary Encyclopedia. 2009

Publications: Reviews and Booknotes
John A. Keller, ed., Being, Freedom, & Method: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter van Inwagen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. The Review of Metaphysics, 71:3 (2018): 581-582. [booknote]
Thomas Joseph White, O.P.’s The Incarnate Lord: A Thomistic Study in Christology. The Catholic University of America Press. 2015. The Journal of Analytic Theology, 6 (2018): 766-770.
Jeffrey Brower’s Aquinas’s Ontology of the Material World: Change, Hylomorphism, & Material Objects. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 89:4 (2015): 723-727.
Paul M Gould, ed., Beyond the Control of God?: Six Views on the Problem of God and Abstract Objects, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014; Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 93:3 (2015): 627-628. [booknote]
James E. Dolezal’s God without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Metaphysics of God’s Absoluteness, Pickwick Publications, 2011; Faith and Philosophy, 30.3 (2013): 480-486.
Lukáš Novák, Daniel D. Novotný, Prokop Sousedík, and David Svoboda (eds.) Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic, Ontos Verlag, 2012; Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2012.
Paul Weingartner’s God’s Existence: Can it be Proven? A Logical Commentary on the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas, Ontos Verlag, 2010; The European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 3:1 (2011): 243-248.
Mark Ian Thomas Robson’s Ontology and Providence in Creation: Taking Ex Nihilo Seriously, Continuum, 2008; Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2009.
Peter van Inwagen’s The Problem of Evil (O.U.P, 2006), in Religious Studies Review 36.1(2010): 52-53. [booknote]
Christian Moevs’ The Metaphysics of Dante’s Comedy (O.U.P., 2005), in Religious Studies Review 32.2 (2006): 115. [booknote]