Section

Faculty Research

Dr. Phillip Cary

Major Publications

Books

Good News for Anxious Christians (working title), Brazos Press, forthcoming 2010.

Augustine and Philosophy, co-edited with Kim Paffenroth, Lexington Books, forthcoming 2010.

Jonah, Brazos Press (series: Theological Commentary on the Bible), 2008.
Inner Grace: Augustine in the Traditions of Plato and Paul, Oxford University Press, 2008.

Outward Signs: The Powerlessness of External Things in Augustine's Thought, Oxford University Press, 2008.

Augustine's Invention of the Inner Self: The Legacy of a Christian Platonist, Oxford University Press, 2000.

Audio/video lecture courses

The History of Christian Theology (36 half-hour lectures), The Teaching Company, 2008.

Martin Luther: Law, Gospel and Reformation (24 half-hour lectures), The Teaching Company, 2004.

Great Minds of the West (16 half-hour lectures contributed to a course of 80 lectures done in collaborationwith several other lecturers) The Teaching Company, 2000.
Philosophy and Religion in the West, (32 half-hour lectures) The Teaching Company, 1998.

Augustine: Philosopher and Saint (12 half-hour lectures) The Teaching Company, 1997.

Selected Articles

“Sola Fide: Luther and Calvin” in Concordia Theological Quarterly, July/Oct. 2007.

“A brief history of the concept of free will: Issues that are and are not germane to legal reasoning” in Behavioral Sciences and the Law 25/2 (March/April 2007) 165-181.

“The New Evangelical Subordinationism: Reading Inequality into the Trinity” in The Priscilla Papers, 20/4, (Autumn 2006).

"Why Luther is not Quite Protestant: The Logic of Faith in a Sacramental Promise" in Pro Ecclesia, 14/4 (Fall 2005).

"The Incomprehensibility of God and the Origin of the Thomistic Concept of the Supernatural" in Pro Ecclesia 9:3 (Summer 2002).

"What Licentius Learned: A Narrative Reading of the Cassiciacum Dialogues," in Augustinian Studies, 29/1 (1998).

"Believing the Word: a Proposal about Knowing Other Persons" in Faith and Philosophy, 13/1 (Jan. 1996).

"Historical Perspectives on Trinitarian Doctrine" in Religious and Theological Studies Fellowship Bulletin, Nov/Dec 1995.

"The Logic of Trinitarian Doctrine" in Religious and Theological Studies Fellowship Bulletin, Sept/Oct 1995.

"On Behalf of Classical Trinitarianism: an historical and systematic critique of Rahner on the Trinity," The Thomist, July 1992.

Book Chapters

“Augustine” in Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion, ed. C. Meister and P. Copan (Routledge, 2007).

"The Weight of Love: Augustinian Metaphors of Movement in Dante's Souls," in Augustine and Literature, ed. J. Doody, R.P. Kennedy and K. Paffenroth (Lexington Books, 2006).

"United Inwardly by Love: Augustine's Social Ontology" in Augustine and Politics, ed. J Doody, K.L. Hughes and K. Paffenroth (Lexington Books, 2005).

"Book Seven: Inner Vision as the Goal of Augustine's Life," in A Reader's Companion to Augustine's Confessions," ed. K. Paffenroth and R.P.Kennedy (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003).

"Interiority" in Augustine through the Ages: an Encyclopedia (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999).

Dr. RJ Snell

Dr. RJ Snell BookBooks

Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan and Richard Rorty on Knowing Without a God’s-Eye View, Marquette University Press, 2006.

Selected Articles

“The Gift of Good Sex: Thinking Contraception Anew” in The Covenant Quarterly, (2008).

“Upon this Rock: Genuine Foundations and Geivett’s Narrative,” in Philosophia Christi (2007).

Selected Conference Presentations

“Resisting Boredom: Stability, Examen of Consciousness, and the Noonday Demon,” Teaching, Learning and Christian Practices Conference, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI. October 2009.

“Thomism and Noetic Sin, Transposed,” American Catholic Philosophical Association, New Orleans, November 2009.

“Pietism and the Conversion of Knowledge,” The Pietist Impulse: Lilly Conference. Bethel
University, Minneapolis, MN. March 2009.

Invited respondent, The Bitar Lectures, Geneva College, PA. March 25-27, 2009.

“Saving Faith:  Neocalvinism, Radical Orthodoxy, and the Thomist’s Nature,” Evangelical
Theological Society, Providence, RI. November 2008.

“Sanctifying us Everywhere”: Charles Taylor and the Apologetics of A Secular Age,” Evangelical Philosophical Society. Providence, RI, November 2008.

“Thomism and Noetic sin, Transposed,” Evangelical Philosophical Society Midwest Regional Meeting,
Chicago, IL. March 2008.

“Worldviews, Metanarratives, and Intellectual Conversion: An Augustinian Challenge to Realists and
Antirealists”. EPS, San Diego, CA. November 2007.

“A More Inward Manner: Bernard Lonergan’s Contribution to the Psychological Analogy”. New Projects in  Systematic Theology, San Diego, CA. November 2007.

“God’s Glory, Neighbor’s Good: The Pietist Option in Christian Higher Education,” Reimagining Educational  Excellence Conference, Calvin College. October 2007.

Current Work

Ontological Lapsometer: Boredom, Death, and Contemporary Culture

Educating for Conversion: Sin and Renewal in Christian Higher Education

“Love in the Ruins: On the Tyranny of the Practical”