International Journal of Philosophy and 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.
  • Should moral commitments be articulated? An introduction
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology21 February 2024By Ariën VoogtPetruschka SchaafsmaProtestant Theological University, The NetherlandsAriën Voogt is PhD student in Philosophical Theology at the Protestant Theological University in the Netherlands and is part of the Moral Compass Project. He writes his dissertation on the tension between pantheism and personhood in Classical German Philosophy. His broader research interests lie in philosophy of religion and philosophy of secularization, specifically regarding the relation between Christianity and modern (secular) thought, and also philosophy of the person and philosophy of (digital) technology. He is co-founder of non-profit Algorithm Audit, working on the responsible use of AI. His recent publications include ‘Agamben on Secularization as a Signature’ (in this journal) and ‘Hegel on What Cannot Be Said: an Interpretation of the Ineffable in the Phenomenology’s “Sense-Certainty”’ (Hegel Bulletin).Petruschka Schaafsma is Professor of Theological Ethics at the Protestant Theological University in the Netherlands. She runs a research program in the field of ethics and theology on the meaning of family, with special attention for the aspects of givenness and dependence (Family and Christian Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 2023). She is project leader of the Moral Compass Project which explores the potential of views of divine law for current morality (The Transcendent Character of the Good, Routledge 2022).
  • Interruption that liberates to love. On the positive potential of the ‘paradox of ethics’
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology21 February 2024By Petruschka SchaafsmaProfessor of Theological Ethics, Protestant Theological University, The NetherlandsPetruschka Schaafsma is Professor of Theological Ethics at the Protestant Theological University in the Netherlands. She runs a research program in the field of ethics and theology on the meaning of family, with special attention for the aspects of givenness and dependence (Family and Christian Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 2023). She is project leader of the Moral Compass Project which explores the potential of views of divine law for current morality (The Transcendent Character of the Good, Routledge 2022).
  • Obstacles to moral articulation in interreligious engagement
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology21 February 2024By Nicholas AdamsUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, UKNicholas Adams (University of Birmingham) is the author of Habermas and Theology (CUP 2006) and Eclipse of Grace: Divine and Human Action in Hegel (Wiley-Blackwell 2013), as well as articles on the relationship between philosophy and theology, and on philosophical problems in interreligious engagement, with a focus on the practice of scriptural reasoning.
  • Reply to my respondents
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology21 February 2024By Nicholas AdamsDepartment of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, EnglandNicholas Adams (University of Birmingham) is the author of Habermas and Theology (CUP 2006) and Eclipse of Grace: Divine and Human Action in Hegel (Wiley-Blackwell 2013), as well as articles on the relationship between philosophy and theology, and on philosophical problems in interreligious engagement, with a focus on the practice of scriptural reasoning.
  • Taking God to court: Job’s deconstruction and resistance of dominant ideology
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology24 January 2024By Ilse SwartYasir Saleema Faculty of Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlandsb Department of Old Testament Studies and Biblical Archaeology, University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaIlse Swart is currently working on her PhD at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam in New Testament studies. In her PhD, she investigates the expectation of an alternative and imminent future as envisioned by Paul of Tarsus through the lenses of prefigurative politics and queer theory.Yasir Saleem is a university assistant (PhD candidate) in Old Testament studies at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Vienna. His dissertation project focuses on intertextuality between the book of Job and the Priestly tradition in the Pentateuch.
  • ‘Comprehended history’: Hegelian and Judaic conceptions of the embodiment of exile
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology12 January 2024By Terrin WinkelCollege of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Student, Philosophy, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL, USATerrin Winkel’s work focuses in particular on German Idealism, modern French theory and postmodern religious studies. He is a student at Roosevelt University. His current research interests include cultural practices of mourning and memorialization, the archiving of cultural memory, and theological conceptions of alterity.
  • From representation to power: the Bilderverbot reconsidered
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology09 January 2024By Beniamino FortisInstitute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, GermanyBeniamino Fortis holds a PhD in Philosophy. He studied in Venice, Florence, and Berlin. His research interests are in picture theory, aesthetics, and contemporary Jewish thought. Recently, he has published his second monograph Tertium Datur. A Reading of Rosenzweig’s ‚New Thinking‘ (2019) and edited the collective volume Bild und Idol. Perspektiven aus Philosophie und jüdischem Denken (2022). His current research is focused on the topic of idolatry between Jewish studies and philosophy.
  • The dialectic of articulation: a Hegelian response to Adams
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology26 December 2023By Ariën VoogtProtestant Theological University, Amsterdam, NetherlandsAriën Voogt is PhD student in philosophical theology at the Protestant Theological University in Amsterdam and is part of the Moral Compass Project. He writes his dissertation on the tension between pantheism and personhood in Classical German Philosophy. His broader research interests lie in philosophy of religion and philosophy of secularization, specifically regarding the relation between religion or theology and modern (secular) thought, and also philosophy of the person and philosophy of (digital) technology. He is co-founder of non-profit Algorithm Audit, working on the responsible use of AI. His recent publications include Agamben on Secularization as a Signature (in this journal) and Hegel on What Cannot Be Said: an Interpretation of the Ineffable in the Phenomenology’s ‘Sense-Certainty’ (Hegel Bulletin).
  • The Baader-Schelling controversy in Schelling’s Das System der Weltalter: Elohim as divine proxies
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology22 December 2023By Aleksandr GaisinFaculty of Divinity, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UKAleksandr Gaisin is a PhD student in the Divinity Faculty at the University of Cambridge, where he works on his thesis on Schelling’s philosophy. He previously studied Religious Studies, Philosophy and Theology in Saint Petersburg, Nottingham and Warsaw. He is interested in theological background of modern, especially German and Russian, thought and has published articles on Vladimir Solovyov’s connection to Jewish mysticism and to Jacob Böhme.
  • Taking God to court: job’s deconstruction and resistance of dominant ideology
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology22 December 2023By Ilse SwartYasir Saleema Faculty of Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlandsb Department of Old Testament Studies and Biblical Archaeology, University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaIlse Swart is currently working on her PhD at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam in New Testament studies. In her PhD, she investigates the expectation of an alternative and imminent future as envisioned by Paul of Tarsus through the lenses of prefigurative politics and queer theory.Yasir Saleem is a university assistant (PhD candidate) in Old Testament studies at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Vienna. His dissertation project focuses on intertextuality between the book of Job and the Priestly tradition in the Pentateuch.
  • The epistemology of spirit beliefs
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology19 December 2023By Shandon L. GuthrieDepartment of Philosophy, The University of Nevada Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  • Perfect imperfection: articulation in moral formation
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology18 December 2023By Dominique A. GosewischSystematic Theology, Protestant Theological University, Amsterdam, the NetherlandsDominique Gosewisch is PhD researcher at the Protestant Theological University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her dissertation is on law, virtue, and grace in the ethics of Reformed Scholastics, and focuses on the tension between divine and human action. Recent publication: Dominique Klamer, “Law, Virtue, and Duty in Petrus van Mastricht’s Theoretico-Practica Theologia,” in The Transcendent Character of the Good: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives, ed. Petruschka Schaafsma, Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory (New York, NY: Routledge, 2023), 139–55.
  • Commitment and reflection in moral life
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology12 December 2023By Rob CompaijenProtestant Theological University, Amsterdam, NetherlandsRob Compaijen (1986) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Protestant Theological University. His research focuses on the role of detachment in ethics, paying special attention to the notion of objectivity and the (epistemological) role of affect in ethical life. He is also writing a book, in Dutch, on envy.
  • Løgstrup, Knud E. Controverting Kierkegaard
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology07 December 2023By Michiel HermanUniversity of Antwerp

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