Brian Davies - The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
AQUINAS

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF

Edited by
BRIAN DAVIES
AND ELEONORE STUMP

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The Oxford handbook of Aquinas / edited by Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump.
p. cm.(Oxford handbooks)
ISBN 978-0-19-532609-3 (alk. paper)
1. Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?1274Handbooks,
manuals, etc. I. Davies, Brian, 1951
II. Stump, Eleonore, 1947
B765.T54O94 2011M
189.4dc22 2010029796

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MICHAEL BAUR is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Adjunct Professor of Law, and Director of the Natural Law Colloquium, at Fordham University. He is the translator of Fichtes Foundations of Natural Right (2000) and Series Editor of Cambridge Hegel Translations (Cambridge University Press).

JAMES BRENT currently teaches at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. His primary area of research is Aquinass account of the relation between faith and reason. His article Natural Theology can be found in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

JEFFREY BROWER is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. He is the author of a number of articles in medieval philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, and is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Abelard (2004).

DAVID BURRELL is Theodore Hesburgh Professor emeritus in Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame and Professor of Ethics and Development at Uganda Martyrs University. His efforts since 1982 in comparative issues in philosophical theology in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are evidenced in Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas (1986), Freedom and Creation in Three Traditions (1993), Original Peace (with Elena Malits, 1998), Friendship and Ways to Truth (2000), and two translations: Al-Ghazali on the Ninety Nine Beautiful Names of God (1993) and Al-Ghazali on Faith in Divine Unity and Trust in Divine Providence (2001). Most recently he has published Faith and Freedom (2004), Learning to Trust in Freedom