International Journal of Philosophy and Theology

  • Believing in “nothing in particular”: religious nones, despair, and the closing of the immanent frame
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology06 April 2025By Jung H. Lee Department of Philosophy & Religion, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USAJung H. Lee is an Associate Professor of Religion at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. He teaches courses and does research on comparative religious ethics, the philosophy of religion, and early Chinese philosophy. He has published articles in the Journal of Religious Ethics, Religious Studies, and Philosophy East and West, among others.
  • Knowing where we are: on the intelligibility of the world, living well and meaningless suffering
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology13 March 2025By Maikki Aakko Campion Hall, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKMaikki Aakko is a PhD. student at the University of Oxford. Her current work focuses on the significance of aesthetic religious experiences for theodical questions.
  • Hildebrand, moral disagreement, and the concept of “morality”
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology11 March 2025By Joseph Gamache Marian University, Indianapolis, INJoseph Gamache is Assistant Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Marian University in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he teaches, courses including epistemology, personalism, and existentialism. He has published articles in International Philosophical Quarterly, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, and History of Philosophy Quarterly, among others. His forthcoming book is entitled: Gabriel Marcel and F. H. Bradley: Enemies of Abstraction.
  • Paradise Lost in Derrida and Agamben: onto-theology of animal life
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology18 December 2024By Arthur Willemse a Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlandsb Faculty of Law, University of Hasselt, Hasselt, BelgiumArthur Willemse is Lecturer in the Foundations of Law department of Maastricht University Faculty of Law, at University College Maastricht, and at the University of Hasselt Faculty of Law. He teaches philosophy of law and political thought, and does research in political theology and philosophical theology.
  • ‘When will the wickedness of man have an end?’ The problem of divine providence in Cugoano’s Thoughts and Sentiments
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology28 November 2024By Benjamin Randolph Philosophy Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USABenjamin Randolph is a Lecturer in Pennsylvania State University’s Philosophy Department. He works in the history of philosophy and critical social theory. He is especially interested in how philosophers inherit and translate concepts from tradition to effect change in their contemporary readers.
  • Beyond the Spirit of Gravity: a constructive Nietzschean critique of Christian theology
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology11 November 2024By Jahdiel Perez Humanities Department, Villanova University, Villanova, USAJahdiel Perez is Assistant Professor of Humanities & Sciences in the Humanities Department at Villanova University, USA. His research areas include modern theology, specifically the works of C.S. Lewis and Nietzsche, as well as psychology of religion and the theodicy/anti-theodicy debate.
  • Nietzsche on Socrates, Jesus, and the slave revolt in morality
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology09 November 2024By Peter Stewart-Kroeker Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaPeter Stewart-Kroeker received his PhD in Philosophy from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. His work has appeared in Parrhesia and Open Philosophy. He is completing a monograph entitled “Pessimism and the Affirmation of Life in Nietzsche’s Tragic Philosophy.” He has taught at McMaster.
  • On the very idea of perfection
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology01 November 2024By Leslie Stevenson Department of Philosophy, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, UKLeslie Stevenson was Lecturer in Logic and Metaphysics (then Reader) at the University of St. Andrews 1968-2000, now Honorary Reader (retired). Author of Seven Theories of Human Nature, The Metaphysics of Experience, The Many Faces of Science, Inspirations from Kant, Open to New Light, Eighteen Takes on God, and in 2023 Animals, Humans and Kant.
  • Thinking finitude as abandonment: Heidegger’s death of God
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology06 October 2024By Gideon Baker School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, AustraliaGideon Baker is an Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. He is the author of works on nihilism and philosophy, political theology, Nietzsche, and the history of Western philosophy.
  • Volitional imagining and religious dramatizing
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology06 October 2024By Steven G. Smith Department of Religious Studies, Millsaps College, Jackson, FL, USASteven G. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Millsaps College. His publications include The Concept of the Spiritual (Temple, 1988), Worth Doing (SUNY, 2004), Appeal and Attitude (Indiana, 2005), Scriptures and the Guidance of Language (Cambridge, 2018), Full Responsibility (SUNY, 2022), and The Meaning of Height in Aspiration, Responsibility, and Higher Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
  • Grammatical thomism – an introduction
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology03 August 2024By Filippo Casati Simon Hewitt a Department of Philosophy, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, USAb School of Philosophy, Religion and the History of Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, UKFilippo Casati teaches philosophy at Lehigh University and has wide-ranging interests. With a background in logic and the philosophy of Heidegger, he also works on Deleuze, Meinong and Wittgenstein. He is the author of Heidegger on the Contradiction of Being and editor (with Daniel O. Dahlstrom) of Heidegger on Logic. He is currently co-authoring a book (with Simon Hewitt) on the paradox of divine ineffability.Simon Hewitt teaches theology at the University of Leeds. Working within the tradition of grammatical thomism, he is particularly interested in questions around divine ineffability, the doctrine of creation, and the relationship between Christianity and Marxism. He is the author of Negative Theology and Philosophical Analysis, and is currently co-authoring a book (with Filippo Casati) on the paradox of divine ineffability.
  • Reading Aquinas with David Burrell, CSC: how Lonergan’s exegesis and method open a way to Grammatical Thomism
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology03 August 2024By Matthew Dunch Department of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, USAMatthew Ian Dunch is assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago and a Jesuit, Catholic priest. His research focuses on the role of practical reason in the formation of religious and ethical language. He also writes on Jesuit pedagogy both as an historical project and a contemporary practice.
  • Nothing is hidden: nonsense and the revelation of limits
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology03 August 2024By Austin C. Kopack Divinity, University of St Andrews Fife, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandAustin Kopack is a PhD candidate in philosophical theology at the university of St Andrews where he works on Wittgenstein and theology. His dissertation, inspired by the writings of Cornelius Ernst, aims to develop a theological account of metaphor in conversation with the philosophy of language, cognitive linguistics, and phenomenology. He has been deeply shaped by many of the ‘Grammatical Thomists’ whose writings are the focus of this special edition.
  • Does the ‘problem of evil’ rest on a mistake?
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology03 August 2024By Brian Davies Philosophy, Fordham University, New York, NY, USABrian Davies is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, New York. His books include The Thought of Thomas Aquinas (Oxford, 1992), The Reality of God and the Problem of Evil (Continuum, 2006), Thomas Aquinas’s ‘Summa Theologiae’: A Guide and Commentary (Oxford, 2014), Thomas Aquinas’s ‘Summa Contra Gentiles’: A Guide and Commentary (Oxford, 2016), and An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (Fourth Edition, Oxford, 2021).
  • McCabe on Marx
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology03 August 2024By Simon Hewitt Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UKSimon Hewitt teaches theology at the University of Leeds. As well as Herbert McCabe, he is interested in Aquinas, systematic theology and political theology (including the relationship between Christianity and Marxism). He is the author of ‘Negative Theology and Philosophical Analysis’ and ‘Church and Revolution’.
  • Evil as privative: a McCabian defence
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology03 August 2024By Anastasia Phillipa Scrutton School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, UKAnastasia Phillipa Scrutton is an Associate Professor in Philosophy and Religion at the University of Leeds. Her work includes philosophy of religion, theology, and religion and mental health. Recent publications include Psychopathology AND religious experience?, forthcoming in Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology.
  • Grammatical thomism and how (not) to speak about God
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology03 August 2024By Daniel Soars Divinity Department, Eton College, Windsor, UKDaniel Soars teaches in the Divinity department at Eton College. He is a guest lecturer in Hindu-Christian spirituality at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, and book reviews editor of the Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies. He co-edited Hindu-Christian Dual Belonging (Routledge, 2022) and wrote The World and God Are Not-Two: A Hindu-Christian Conversation (Fordham, 2023).
  • McCabe and Davies on God as not being a moral agent
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology03 August 2024By Roger Pouivet a Philosophy, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, Franceb Theology Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, BelgiumRoger Pouivet is Professor Emeritus at the Université de Lorraine and Invited Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain. Among his publications: After Wittgenstein, saint Thomas (St Augustine’s Press, 2006), Épistemologie des croyances religieuses (Le Cerf, 2013), L’éthique intellectuelle, une épistémologie des vertus (Vrin, 2020), as well as numerous articles, some of them published in New Blackfriars. He recently translated Peter Geach’s The Virtues into French.
  • Nietzsche’s holy jest: the ambivalence of laughter in thus spoke zarathustra
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology27 July 2024By Nicholas E Low Transcendence and Transformation Initiative, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, USANicholas E Low is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for the Study of World religions at Harvard Divinity School, working in the Transcendence and Transformation Initiative. He received an MTS in Philosophy of Religions from Harvard Divinity School, and a PhD from Harvard University in November 2023. His research focuses on points of contact between theology, religion, and modern philosophy, tracking especially the afterlives of gods, divinities, and other “religious” phenomena in continental philosophy.
  • Vicarious religious ordinance: forcing your faith on the unsuspecting
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology26 April 2024By Thomas J. SpiegelGraduate School of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, JapanThomas J. Spiegel earned his PhD in 2017 at the University of Leipzig. He is currently a JSPS & Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Waseda University.

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