Publications
Books
in Print
- An Introduction to the
Philosophy of Religion (Oxford University Press: Oxford,
1982).
- Thinking About
God (Geoffrey Chapman: London,
1985).
- The Thought of
Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University
Press: Oxford, 1992).
- An Introduction
to the Philosophy of Religion
(Revised Edition, Oxford, 1993). Korean translation,
1996. Romanian translation, 1996. Ukrainian
translation, 1996. Hungarian translation, 1999,
Polish translation 2006.
- Aquinas
(Continuum: London and New York, 2002).
- Aquinas: An
Introduction (Continuum: London and
New York, 2003 (a revised edition of the 2002 volume
Aquinas
listed above).
- An Introduction
to the Philosophy of Religion (3rd
edn., Oxford University Press, 2003). (This is a
complete rewrite of the 1993 revision of the
original text.)
- The Reality of
God and the Problem of Evil
(Continuum: London and New York, 2006).
- Thomas
Aquinas on God and Evil (Oxford University
Press: Oxford and New York, 2011).
- Thomas
Aquinas's Summa Theologiae: A Guide and
Commentary (Oxford University Press: Oxford,
2014).
Edited
Books
A
- Language,
Meaning and God: Essays in honour of Herbert
McCabe O.P. (Geoffrey Chapman: London, 1987).
- (with G.R.
Evans) Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works
(Oxford University Press: Oxford,1998).
- Philosophy
of Religion: A Guide to the Subject (Geoffrey
Chapman: London, 1998).
- Philosophy
of Religion: A Guide and Anthology (Oxford
University Press: Oxford, 2000).
- The De
Malo of Thomas Aquinas (Translated by
Richard Regan. Edited with an Introduction and Notes
by Brian Davies) (Oxford University Press: New York
and Oxford, 2001).
- Thomas
Aquinas: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives
(Oxford University Press: New York and Oxford,
2002).
- (with Brian
Leftow), The
Cambridge Companion to Anselm (Cambridge
University Press: Cambridge, 2004).
- Aquinas’s
“Summa Theologiae”: Critical Essays (Roman
and Littlefield: Lanham, Boulder, New York,
Toronoto, Oxford, 2005).
- (with Brian
Leftow), Aquinas:
“Summa Theologiae”, Questions on God
(Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 2006).
- (with Eleonor
Stump), The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas (Oxford
University Press: Oxford 2011).
B
I am editor of the
series Outstanding
Christian Thinkers, published by Continuum
(London and New York). To date, twenty-nine volumes
have been published under my editorial initiation and
direction. These are:
- A. Louth, Denys the Areopagite
(1989)
- G.R. Evans, Anselm (1989)
- A. Nicholls, Yves Congar
(1989)
- K. Durkin, Reinhold Niebuhr
(1989)
- S. Tugwell, The Apostolic Fathers
(1989)
- B. Ward, The Venerable Bede
(1990)
- H. Swanston, Handel (1990)
- R. Williams, Teresa of Avila
(1991)
- W. Dyke, Karl Rahner
(1992)
- D. Fergusson, Bultmann (1992)
- F. Crowe, Lonergan (1993)
- J. O'Donnell, Von Balthasar
(1993)
- J.E. Smith, Jonathan Edwards
(1993)
- C.K. Barrett, St. Paul (1994)
- PhilipKennedy, Schillebeeckx
(1994)
- Mary T. Clark, Augustine
(1994)
- C.Parker, Calvin (1995)
- A. Pettersen, Athanasius
(1995)
- A. Meredith, The Cappadocians
(1995)
- J. Watkin, Kierkegaard
(1996)
- G. Cavallini, Catherine of Siena
(1998)
- J. Heywood
Thomas, Tillich
(2000)
- J.Webster, Barth (2000)
- A. Dulles, Newman (2002)
- B. Davies, Aquinas (2002)
- S. Borden, Edith Stein
(2004)
- S. Plant, Bonhoeffer
(2004)
- E. Rummel, Erasmus (2004)
- M. von der Ruhr,
Simone Weil
(2006)
C
I am
also Editor of a new series published by Oxford
University Press under the title Great Medieval Thinkers.
Fourteen volumes are published so far: Duns Scotus by
Richard Cross; Bernard
of Clairvaux by G.R. Evans; Eriugena, by
Deirdre Carabine; Grosseteste,
by James McEvoy; Boethius,
by John Marenbon; Peter
Lombard, by Philipp Rosemann; Abelard and Helouise,
by Constant Mews; Bonaventure,
by Christopher M. Cullen; Anselm, by Sandra
Visser and Thomas Williams; Hugh of Saint Victor,
by Paul Rorem; John Wyclif, by Stephen
Lahey; John Buridan, by Gyula Klima; Avicenna,
by Jon McGinnis; Al-Kindi, by Peter Adamson.
Several other volumes are in course of production.
D
Herbert
McCabe O.P., who died in 2001, made me his literary
executor. Since his death I have edited five published
volumes drawing on materials he left behind at the
time of his death. These are:
- God Still Matters
(Continuum: London and New York, 2002)
- God, Christ and Us
(Continuum: London and New York, 2003)
- The Good Life: Ethics
and the Pursuit of Happiness (Continuum:
London and New York, 2005).
- Faith Within Reason
(Continuum: London and New York, 2007).
- God and Evil
in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas
(Continuum: London and New York, 2010).
Contributions to Books
- 'The
Resurrection and Christian Belief', in Paul Burns
and John Cumming (ed.), The Bible Now (Gill and Macmillan:
Dublin, 1981).
- 'Impassibility',
'Infinity' and 'Ubiquity' in Alan Richardson and
John Bowden (ed.), A New Dictionary of Christian Theology
(S.C.M Press: London, 1983).
- 'Speaking in
Tongues: A Philosophical Comment', in David Martin
and Peter Mullen (ed.), Strange Gifts? (Basil Blackwell:
Oxford, 1984).
- 'God, Time and
Change', in Santiago Sia (ed), Process Theology and
the Christian Doctrine of God (Fowler
Wright: Petersham MS and Leominster, 1986).
- 'God, Time and
Change', in J. Van der Veken and E. Lippens (ed.), God and Change:
Process Thought and the Christian Doctrine of God
(Centre for Metaphysics and Philosophy of God:
Leuven, 1987).
- 'Catherine of
Siena', in Louis Dupré and James Wiseman (ed.), Light from Light
(Paulist Press: New York, 1988).
- 'Eternity' in
Louis J. Pojman (ed.), Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology
(Wadsworth: Belmont, CA., 1989).
- The Doctrine of
God’, in Michael J. Walsh (ed.) Commentary on the
Catechism of the Catholic Church (Cassell:
London, 1994).
- ‘How is God
Love?’, in Luke Gormally (ed.), Moral Truth and Moral
Tradition: Essays in Honour of Peter Geach and
Elizabeth Anscombe (Four Courts Press:
Dublin and Portland OR, 1994).
- ‘St Thomas
Aquinas’ in John Bowker (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary
of World Religions (Oxford University
Press: Oxford and New York, 1997).
- ‘Absolute
Idealism’, ‘Contingency’, ‘Determinism’,
‘Cosmological Argument’, ‘Ontological Argument’, ‘Quinque Viae’,
in E.A. Livingstone (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian
Church (Oxford University Press: Oxford,
1997).
- ‘Aquinas’:
Chapter 11 of John Marenbon (ed.), The Routledge History
of Medieval Philosophy (Routledge: London,
1998).
- ‘Aquinas' in A.
Hastings (ed.), The
Oxford Companion to Christian Thought
(Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2000).
- ‘Anselm of Bec
and Canterbury’, ‘Catherine of Siena’, and ‘Thomas
Aquinas’, in Patrick W. Carey and Joseph T. Lienhard
(ed.), Biographical
Dictionary of Christian Theologians
(Hendrickson: Westport, CT, and London, 2000).
- ‘Thomas Aquinas’
in Jorge J.E. Gracia and Timothy B. Noone (ed.), A Companion to
Philosophy in the Middle Ages (Blackwell:
Oxford 2003).
- ‘Thomas Aquinas’
in Adrian Hastings, Alistair Mason and Hugh Pyper
(ed.), Key
Thinkers in Christianity (Oxford University
Press: Oxford, 2003).
- ‘God and Some
American Philosophers’ in Frank T. Birtel (ed.), Religion and the
American Experience (New City Press:Hyde
Park, NY, 2005).
- ‘Is God a Moral
Agent?’ in D.Z. Phillips (ed.), Whose
God? Which Tradition? The Nature of
Belief in God (Ashgate: Aldershot and
Burlington, 2008).
- 'Simplicity' in
Charles Taliaferro and Chad Meister (ed.), The
Cambridge Companion to Christian Philosophical
Theology (Cambridge University Press:
Cambridge, 2010).
- 'The Action of
God' in John Cottingham and Peter Hacker (ed.), Mind,
Method, and Morality: Essays in Honour of Anthony
Kenny (Oxford University Press: Oxford,
2010).
Published
Articles
- 'Thinking About
God', New
Blackfriars (February, 1974).
- 'God and
Language', The
Downside Review (January, 1975).
- 'Through a Glass
Darkly', The
Downside Review (October, 1975).
- 'Apologetics and
Religious Education', Catholic Education Today
(April/June,1976).
- 'Mary in
Christian Practice', Doctrine and Life (June,1976).
- 'Contemporary
Anglo-Saxon Philosophy of Religion', The Clergy Review
(October, 1976).
- 'A Modern
Irenaean Theodicy: Professor Hick on Evil', New Blackfriars
(November, 1976).
- 'Theology and
Natural Theology', New Blackfriars (June,1977).
- 'Some Comments
on a Proposed Sexual Ethic', The Downside Review
(October,1977).
- 'Wittgenstein
and Religion', New
Blackfriars (October,1977).
- 'God, Time and
Change', The
Clergy Review (February,1978).
- 'In Defence of
Natural Theology, New
Blackfriars (February,1978).
- 'Experience,
Knowledge and God', The Clergy Review (September,
1978).
- 'The Rule of the
Master (Regula
Magistri) and Christian Practice', The Downside Review
(January, 1979).
- 'The Coherence
of Theism', New
Blackfriars (February, 1979).
- 'St Thomas
Aquinas as a Dominican', New Blackfriars (March,1979).
- 'Heads in the
Clouds: Thomas Aquinas and John Hick on Faith', New Blackfriars
(June, 1979).
- 'The Natural
Knowledge of God', Irish Theological Quarterly
(1979:2).
- 'Wittgenstein
and God', Philosophy
(January, 1980).
- 'A Reply to
Robin Attfield', New
Blackfriars (June 1980).
- 'An Approach to
Sexual Ethics', The
Clergy Review (July, 1980).
- 'The Concept of
Divine Necessity', New Blackfriars (November, 1980).
- 'What Happens
When You Pray?', New
Blackfriars (December,1980).
- 'The Rule of St
Benedict and Christian Practice', Theology
(January, 198l).
- 'Faith and
Reason', New
Blackfriars (September, 1981).
- 'Kenny on God',
Philosophy
(January, 1982).
- 'More Modern
Philosophy of Religion', The Clergy Review (January, 1982).
- 'George Eliot
and Christianity', The Downside Review (January,
1982).
- 'Scarlet O'Hara:
A Portrait Restored', Philosophy (July,1982).
- 'The
Intelligible Universe', New Blackfriars (September,1982).
- 'Does God
Exist?', Catholic
Truth Society (London, 1982).
- 'The Problem of
Evil and Modern Philosophy', New Blackfriars
(December, 1982 and January,1983).
- 'The
Cosmological Argument', New Blackfriars (March,1983).
- 'A Timeless
God?', New
Blackfriars (May,1983).
- 'Mackie on the
Argument from Design', New Blackfriars (September, 1983).
- 'God and Evil:
Responses and Questions', The Clergy Review (November,
1983).
- 'Yet More Modern
Philosophy of Religion', The Clergy Review (October, 1984).
- 'God and Evil',
Catholic Truth
Society (London, 1984).
- 'Thomas
Aquinas', Catholic
Truth Society (London, 1985).
- 'God and
Freedom: A Discussion', New Blackfriars (January, 1986).
- 'Proving God's
Existence I', Cogito
(January, 1987).
- 'Proving God's
Existence II: The Cosmological Argument', Cogito (July
1987).
- 'Proving God's
Existence III: The Argument from Design', Cogito (January
1988).
- 'Proving God's
Existence IV: The Ontological Argument',Cogito (Summer
1988).
- 'Homilies for
September', The
Furrow (August, 1988).
- ‘Proving God's
Existence V: The Argument from Experience’, Cogito (Autumn
1988).
- ‘Why Should We
Believe It?’, New
Blackfriars (October,1988).
- 'Proving God's
Existence VI: The Argument from Morality', Cogito (Vol.3,
No.1, 1989).
- 'Thomas Aquinas:
An Outline', Cogito
(Vol.3, No.3, 1989).
- 'The
Psychologisation of the Church', New Blackfriars
(January, 1990
- 'Is Sacra Doctrina
Theology?', New
Blackfriars (March,1990).
- 'Does God Create
Existence?', International
Philosophical Quarterly (June 1990).
- 'God, Time and
Helm', New
Blackfriars (June 1990).
- 'Quod Vere Sit Deus:
Why Anselm Thought God Truly Exists', New Blackfriars
(May 1991).
- 'Miracles', New Blackfriars
(February 1992).
- ‘God and
Freedom: Reply to Jordan’, Sophia (Vol.31, 1992).
- 'Philosophy and
Theology in the Monastery: The Thought of Dom Illtyd
Trethowan', New
Blackfriars (December 1993).
- ‘The Action of
God’, New
Blackfriars (February 1994).
- 'The Mystery of
God: Aquinas and McCabe', New Blackfriars (July-August
1996).
- 'Aquinas, God
and Being', The
Monist, 1998.
- 'Aquinas on What
God is Not', Revue
Internationale de Philosophie, Volume 52,
No.204, 1998.
- ‘Aquinas’s Third
Way’, New
Blackfriars (October 2001).
- ‘Aquinas and the
Academic Life, New
Blackfriars 83 (2002).
- ‘Letter from
America’, New
Blackfriars 84 (2003).
- ‘Why Is There
Anything At All?’, Think (Journal of the Royal
Institute of Philosophy, U.K.), Issue 4, Summer
2003.
- ‘God and Evil: A
Dialogue’, New
Blackfriars 85 (2004).
- ‘Aquinas and
Catholic Universities’, New Blackfriars 86 (2005).
- ‘Kenny on
Aquinas on Being’, The Modern Schoolman
LXXXII (January, 2005).
- ‘D.Z. Phillips
on Belief in God’, Philosophical Investigations
30 (July, 2007).
- 'Is God Beyond
Reason?', Philosophical Investigations 32
(October 2009).
Newspaper
Articles
- Obituary for
Professor Elizabeth Anscombe, The Times
(London), January 8, 2001.
- Obituary for
Herbert McCabe OP, The Times (London), July 11, 2001.
- Credo column, The Times
(London), November 10, 2001.
- ‘Creationism and
All That’, The
Tablet (London), May 11, 2002.
- Credo column, The Times
(London), March 9, 2002.
- Credo column, The Times
(London), June 1, 2002.
- Credo column, The Times
(London), May 17, 2003.
Published Book Reviews
Numerous reviews in the following
journals (details can be supplied on request):
- Anglican
Theological Review
- The Clergy
Review
- The Downside
Review
- Faith and
Philosophy
- International
Philosophical Quarterly
- Journal of
Theological Studies
- The New York
Times
- Philosophy
- The
Philosophical Review
- Religious
Studies
- The Tablet
- Theology
- Theology Today
- Times Literary
Supplement
- The Thomist
- New Blackfriars
Other Editorial Work
- From 1979 to
1995 I was Book Reviews Editor of New Blackfriars.
- Since 1992 I
have been Associate European Editor of International
Philosophical Quarterly. I was Book Reviews
Editor of the journal from 1996 to 2006.
- From December
2000 to January 2006 I was a member of the Editorial
Board of Religious
Studies, published by Cambridge University
Press.
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