In an earlier post I compared the character Treebeard as we meet him in The Lord of the Rings, with movie-Treebeard as we meet him in...

For those whose first love is Tolkien's original novel, some of the changes made in Peter Jackson's films are bound to be disappointing....

What is it like to do philosophy? Here is an image. Imagine a rock on a calm sandy beach. The waves slowly wash up, caressing the rock,...

By the practice of gratitude I mean a lot more than observing all rules of etiquette about when and how to express gratitude to another...

The Scythians fight by flying. This is what Socrates tells us, anyway, in Plato’s Laches. He asks Laches himself what courage is, and...

Duns Scotus tells us that the three theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love perfect us as "wayfarers" on our way to heaven. Faith...

My main conviction about money is that it is a way of expanding the effectiveness of labor. I mean that it ought to be seen this way. I...

In an effort to get God out of the Laplacean problem of being merely a quasi-scientific hypothesis which may be accepted or rejected on...

What is Metaphysics? Metaphysics is not what is represented by the esoterica on display in some bookstores. It is not the subject you...

Yesterday I shared some notes about why I think a theory of divine ideas is important for theology. Today I’m sharing some notes about...

Here is a sketch of some of the theological motivation for a theory of Divine Ideas. I also say something about what I take such a theory...

I just "discovered" a text which is very well-known to Egyptologists and students of Ancient Egypt. Miriam Lichtheim published it as "The...

This week I'm reading a book about the development of monotheism in Ancient Egypt, James K. Hoffmeier's Akhenaten and the Origins of...

I have a new paper out today, "A Most Mitigated Friar: Scotus on Natural Law and Divine Freedom." It shows how Scotus reconciles the...

My latest journal article is now published by The Philosophical Quarterly. The title is "Scotism about Possible Natures," and it develops...

Bernard Williams has a famous paper, "The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality." I've been studying the paper and...

Mr. Jeremy Fisher is a toad with a diverse set of friends which includes Mr. Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise and Sir Isaac Newton, who is a...

On a more or less standard Christian understanding of the world, God is the creator of everything that exists, other than himself. This...

This semester's reading list has me thinking about Anselm's Proslogion back to back with Augustine's On Free Choice of the Will. Each...