Online Papers
* = All online papers are (or soon will be) available in published form, but some of the online papers are given here only in manuscript form, rather than in published form. Please do not cite manuscripts as "on-site PDF's". Please use the appropriate bibliographic information of the published versions.
Selections from Atonement
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)
Chapter 2: "Guilt, Shame, and Satisfaction," from Atonement, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). [On-Site PDF*]
Chapter 10: "The Atonement and the Solution to the Problems of Guilt and Shame," from Atonement, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). [On-Site PDF*]
“The Doctrine of the Atonement: Response to Michael Rea, Trent Dougherty, and Brandon Warmke.” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 11.1 (2019), pp. 165-186. [On-Site PDF*]
Selections from Wandering in Darkness
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
Chapter 4: "Narrative and the Knowledge of Persons," from Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). [On-Site PDF*]
Chapter 5: "The Medieval World: The Nature of Love," from Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). [On-Site PDF*]
“Wandering in Darkness: Further Reflections,” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4 (2012), pp. 197-219. [On-Site PDF*]
Selections from Aquinas
Chapter 9: "Freedom: Action, Intellect, and Will", from Aquinas, (London and New York: Routledge, 2003). [On-Site PDF*]
Chapter 10: "A Representative Moral Virtue: Justice", from Aquinas (London and New York: Routledge, 2003). [On-Site PDF*]
Selected Articles
Medieval Philosophy
"Roger Swyneshed's Theory of Obligations", Medioevo 7 (1981), pp. 135-174. [On-Site PDF*]
"The Logic of Disputation in Walter Burley's Treatise on Obligations", Synthese 63 (1985) pp. 355-374. [On-Site PDF*]
"Resurrection, Reassembly, and Reconstitution: Aquinas on the Soul," in Die menschliche Seele: Brauchen wir den Dualismus? Bruno Niederbacher and Edmund Runggaldier (eds.), (Ontos Verlag, 2006). [On-Site PDF*]
“The Problem of Evil.” In Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, vol. 2. Edited by Robert Pasnau, 773-84. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. [On-Site PDF*]
“The Non-Aristotelian Character of Aquinas’s Ethics: Aquinas on the Passions,” Faith and Philosophy 28.1 (2011), pp. 29-43. [On-Site PDF*]
“Resurrection and the Separated Soul,” in The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas. Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump (eds.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 458-466. [On-Site PDF*]
“Dante on the Evil of Treachery—Narrative and Philosophy.” In Evil: A History. Edited by Andrew Chignell. Part of the Oxford Philosophical Concepts Series, edited by Christia Mercer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 252-7. [On-Site PDF*]
Philosophy of Religion (including work on Eternity)
"Eternity" (with Norman Kretzmann), Journal of Philosophy 78 (1981) pp. 429-458. [On-site PDF*] [JSTOR]
"Dante's Hell, Aquinas's Moral Theory, and the Love of God," The Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16 (1986) pp. 181-198. [On-Site PDF*]
"Prophecy, Past Truth, and Eternity" (with Norman Kretzmann), James Tomberlin (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives 5 (1991) pp. 395-424. [On-Site PDF*]
"Eternity, Awareness, and Action" (with Norman Kretzmann), Faith and Philosophy 9 (1992), pp. 463-482. [On-Site PDF*]
“An Objection to Swinburne’s Argument for Dualism” (with Norman Kretzmann), Faith and Philosophy 13 (1996) 405-412. [On-Site PDF* - includes Swinburne's response]
"Saadia Gaon on the Problem of Evil," Faith and Philosophy 14 (1997), pp. 523-549. [On-Site PDF*]
“God’s Simplicity,” in The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas. Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump (eds.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 135-146. [On-Site PDF*]
“Faith, Wisdom, and the Transmission of Knowledge through Testimony”, in Religious Faith and Intellectual Virtue, ed. Timothy O’Connor and Laura Frances Callahan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 204-230. [On-Site PDF*]
"The True Self and Life After Death in Heaven", in Death, Immortality, and Eternal Life, ed. T. Ryan Byerly (London: Routledge, 2021). [On-Site PDF*]
Free Will and Metaphysics
"Sanctification, Hardening of the Heart, and Frankfurt's Concept of Free Will", Journal of Philosophy 85 (1988) pp. 395-420. [On-Site PDF*]
“Persons: Identification and Freedom”, Philosophical Topics 24 (1996), pp. 183-214. [On-Site PDF*]
"Libertarian Freedom and the Principle of Alternative Possibilities”, in Faith, Freedom, and Rationality: Philosophy of Religion Today, Daniel Howard-Snyder and Jeff Jordan (eds.), (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996) pp. 73-88. [On-Site PDF*]
"Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility: The Flicker of Freedom", The Journal of Ethics, 3 (1999) pp. 299-324. [On-Site PDF*]
"The Direct Argument for Incompatibilism", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (2000) pp. 459-466. [On-Site PDF*]
"Transfer Principles and Moral Responsibility" (with John Martin Fischer), Philosophical Perspectives 14 (2000) pp. 47-55. [On-Site PDF*]
“Moral Responsibility without Alternative Possibilities,” in Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities: Essays on the Importance of Alternative Possibilities, Michael McKenna and David Widerker (eds.), (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, 2003), pp. 139-158. [On-Site PDF*]
“Emergence, Causal Powers, and Aristotelianism in Metaphysics,” in Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism. Ruth Groff and John Greco, (eds.) (New York and London: Routledge, 2012), pp. 48-68. [On-Site PDF*]
“The Openness of God: Eternity and Free Will.” In Philosophical Essays Against Open Theism. Edited by Benjamin H. Arbour. New York: Routledge, 2018. [On-Site PDF*]
Other
"The Mirror of Evil", in God and the Philosophers, Thomas Morris (ed.), (Oxford University Press, 1994) pp. 235-247. [On-Site PDF*]
"Orthodoxy and Heresy", Faith and Philosophy 16 (1999) pp. 487-503. [On-Site PDF*]
"Personal Relations and Moral Residue," in History of the Human Sciences: Theorizing from the Holocaust: What is to be Learned?, Paul Roth & Mark S. Peacock (eds.), Vol., 17 No 2/3 (August 2004), pp. 33-57. [On-Site PDF*]
"Beauty as a Road to God", Sacred Music, Winter 2007 (134.4), pp. 11-24. [On-Site PDF*]