Dr. Christopher S. Morrissey
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Redeemer Pacific College
Specialist in Philosophical Theology
Including the Medieval Latin Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas and His Commentatorial Tradition

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Most Recent Publications:

2012 (forthcoming)

• "Thomas Aquinas on Providence, Prudence, and Natural Law", in Gabriel R. Ricci (ed.),
  Politics in Theology (Piscataway, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2012). ISBN 978-1-4128-4300-3.
  


• "A Model for the Many Senses of Scripture",
  Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 19 (2012): 231–248.
  


• "Solesmes Old and New: Modeling Systems Theory and Gregorian Semiology"
  


• "'The Great Visible God': Socrates, Aristotle, and Thomas Aquinas on the Way from Nature to Nature's God"
  

2011

• "How Agent Intellect Enables a Syntactic Interior Word: Aquinas's Contribution Within Neoplatonism",
  Quaestiones Disputatae: A Journal of Philosophical Inquiry and Discussion 1.2 (Spring 2011): 164–183. [PDF]
  


• "Aquinas's Third Way as a Reply to Stephen Hawking's Cosmological Hypothesis",
  Études maritainiennes - Maritain Studies XXVII (2011): 99–121. ISSN 0826-9920. [PDF]
  


• Review of Ryan Topping, Augustine (Continuum Library of Educational Thought, Vol. 17),
  in Études maritainiennes - Maritain Studies XXVII (2011): 159–162. ISSN 0826-9920.
  


• "Aristotle's 'Natural Slaves' and Colossae's Unnatural 'Scythians': A Generative Exegesis of Colossians 3:11",
  in Ann W. Astell and Sandor Goodhart (eds.), Sacrifice, Scripture, and Substitution:
  Readings in Ancient Judaism and Christianity, Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity Series, Volume 18
  (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011), 410–423. ISBN 0268020388. [UND Press] [PDF excerpt]
  


• "Can We Prove God Exists?", Fideles: A Journal of Redeemer Pacific College 6 (2011): 89–100. ISSN 1718-9446.
  


• "Capitalism needs Catholicism to succeed", in The B.C. Catholic (Nov 7, 2011), 7. [HTML version]
  


• "Do you take unfair cream & sugar with your 'fair trade' coffee?", in The B.C. Catholic (Sep 19, 2011), 7. [HTML version]
  


• "Is Fair Trade really a poverty solution?", in The B.C. Catholic (Sep 12, 2011), 7. [HTML version]
  


• "Theology intertwines with science — Part 2", in The B.C. Catholic (Aug 22, 2011), 7. [HTML version]
  [corrected sentence (substitute for the sentence at the end of the ninth paragraph):
  "Ideoscopic science thus presupposes and cannot be founded on anything other than cenoscopic experience."]
  


• "Theology intertwines with science", in The B.C. Catholic (Jul 25, 2011), 7. [HTML version]
  [to be read with a caveat (from John Deely's Four Ages) on "What to Do with Common Sense?"]
  


• "'Fair trade' fails to live up to its message", in The B.C. Catholic (Jul 11, 2011), 7. [HTML version]
  


• "Meditations impart insight on education", review of Ryan Topping, Augustine
  (Continuum Library of Educational Thought, Vol. 17), in The B.C. Catholic (Jun 6, 2011), 7.
  


• "Carpe diem: Stick to today", translation of Horace, Odes i.11, with Micah Towery,
  in Loaded Bicycle: Journal of Poetry, Art, and Translation <http://www.loadedbicycle.com/horace1.html>.
  


• In the news: "Do good, avoid evil: unwritten law", The B.C. Catholic (May 2, 2011), 3–13.
  


• "Bottling up discontent over water issues", The B.C. Catholic (Feb 28, 2011), 7.
  [my reply to the proponents of a one-size-fits-all solution]
  


• "Redeemer Pacific explores bishops' letter on chastity:
  Lecture tackled questions surrounding 'authentic Christian chastity' and why it's important today", The B.C. Catholic (Feb 14, 2011), 3.
  


• "The right to water, 'an essential element':
  Human connectivity can be enabled by 'a network of economic institutions,' Pope Benedict writes", The B.C. Catholic (Jan 24, 2011), 7. [HTML version]
  [my reply to the enthusiasts of the bottled water crusade]
  


• "'Great authors can illuminate a culture':
  Catholic students operate an online literary lighthouse showcasing Catholic culture in Canada", The B.C. Catholic (Jan 17, 2011), 3. [HTML version]
  [interview with Catherine Nolan, the Editor-in-Chief of The Alexandrian: Journal of Catholic Culture in Canada]
  

2010

• "Did the Latin Age Really Begin with Augustine?" in Leonard G. Sbrocchi et al. (eds.), Semiotics 2009: The Semiotics of Time (New York: Legas, 2010), 296–303. ISBN 1897493193.


• "Facing the crusade against bottled water", The B.C. Catholic (Dec 13, 2010), 7. [HTML version]
  [my comment on why the bottled water crusade is misguided (see Nov 22 issue, page 7)]


• "Fr. Spitzer is antidote to faulty logic", The B.C. Catholic (Oct 4, 2010): 6.
  [print version of the Web publication listed below]


• "Father Spitzer: the antidote to Stephen Hawking's faulty logic", www.bccatholic.org (Sep 12, 2010).
  [my comment on the M-theory controversy: the laws of gravity and quantum theory are not unconditioned]


• "A Twitch Upon the Thread: Aquinas on Elicited Natural Desire for God", Fideles: A Journal of Redeemer Pacific College 5 (2010): 131–158. ISSN 1718-9446.


• "Benedict's preacher deserves better", The B.C. Catholic (Apr 12, 2010), 8.
  [my comment on the firestorm over an example to illustrate mimetic theory]


• "He paved road to understanding Aquinas", The B.C. Catholic (Mar 22, 2010), 12.
  [my obituary for Ralph McInerny: requiescat in pace]

2009

• "A Catholic take on the vampire vogue", The B.C. Catholic (Dec 21, 2009), 17.


• "The Luminosity of Existence", an essay on David Walsh's The Modern Philosophical Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2008), in Fideles: A Journal of Redeemer Pacific College 4 (2009): 77–96. ISSN 1718-9446.


• "A Common Ground for Global Culture", Fideles: A Journal of Redeemer Pacific College 4 (2009): 113–119. ISSN 1718-9446.


• "Has Notre Dame University lost its faith?", The B.C. Catholic (May 18, 2009), 8.


• "Render Unto Obama? Needed: A Faith-and-Reason University", CatholicOnline.com (May 16, 2009).


• "The Via Romana", Review of Paula Fredriksen, Augustine and the Jews, in The Globe and Mail (Apr 11, 2009), F13.


• "Obama nation", The B.C. Catholic (Mar 16, 2009), 14.


• "For the love of Latin": Interview with Maggi Hall, Mars' Hill (Volume 13, Issue 10).


• "President Visits Canada", CatholicOnline.com (Feb 19, 2009).


• "Who's your neighbour?", The B.C. Catholic (Feb 16, 2009), 9.


• "What does Obama's inauguration augur?", The B.C. Catholic (Jan 26, 2009), 4.


• "The Obama Economy: With Charity toward None?", CatholicOnline.com (Jan 22, 2009).


• "Archbishop Miller addresses Redeemer Pacific College", CatholicOnline.com (Jan 16, 2009).

2008

• "Dialectic and Demonstration in the Philosophy of Nature," Études maritainiennes - Maritain Studies XXIII (2007): 64–75. ISSN 0826-9920 [View item].


• "Transfiguring Heidegger: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Philosopher Friend," Fideles: A Journal of Redeemer Pacific College 3 (2008): 121–136. ISSN 1718-9446 [View item].


• "Can you get what you want? Catholic mind at work," Review of James V. Schall, The Mind that is Catholic: Philosophical and Political Essays (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2008), in The B.C. Catholic (Dec 8, 2008), 11. [View item].


• "Greek Bible now available in a new translation," The B.C. Catholic (Oct 6, 2008), 20. [View item].


• "What if? Thomas Aquinas, Political Pundit," CatholicOnline.com (Sep 17, 2008). [View item].


• "Order of Canada now a threat to liberty," The B.C. Catholic (Sept 1, 2008), 8. [View item].


• "René Girard's Accusation: Intellectuals are the Castrators of Meaning," An interview with Giulio Meotti in Il Foglio (March 20, 2007); Translation by Paul N. Faraone and Christopher S. Morrissey in Modern Age (Spring 2008): 180–185. [View item].


• "Vatican Latin reboots education for true freedom," The B.C. Catholic (July 28, 2008), 7. [View item].


• "Catholic university is 'our heritage': Archbishop Miller speaks to Redeemer Pacific College on 'the greatness of the Catholic intellectual tradition'," The B.C. Catholic (June 23, 2008), 9. [View item].


• "Order must be 'already built in': Catholic physicist speaks at TWU on harmony of modern physics and ancient faith," The B.C. Catholic (Apr 21, 2008), 2. [View item].


• "Faith, reason, and the university," The B.C. Catholic (Mar 31, 2008), 4 and 16. [View item].


• "Canada has unique religious political history: priest," The B.C. Catholic (Mar 31, 2008), 4. [View item].


• "'Fair looks and a kind heart' not enough," The B.C. Catholic (Mar 17, 2008), 14. [View item].


• "Students take on the ogres of Spiderwick," The B.C. Catholic (Mar 3, 2008), 10. [View item].


• "Blessings and blood," The Globe and Mail: Books (Feb 23, 2008), D8. [View item].


• "Catholic students 'Meet the Spartans'," The B.C. Catholic (Feb 11, 2008), 7. [View item].


2007

• "The Analogy of Being: Three Misunderstandings, Three Clarifications", Fideles: A Journal of Redeemer Pacific College 2 (2007): 103–129. ISSN 1718-9446 [View item].


• "Pope Benedict contemplates truth," The B.C. Catholic (Dec 17, 2007), 25. [View item].


• "Pope proposes a new 'solidarity' against utopian ideologies," Catholic Ezine (November 2007). [View item].


• Review of Rémi Brague, The Law of God in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.09.46. [View item].


• "Original Sin and Generative Anthropology," Anthropoetics 13.2 (2007). ISSN 1083-7264 [View item].


• "The Epigenetic Evolution of the Immaterial Intellect on the Originary Scene," in Adam Katz (ed.) The Originary Hypothesis: a Minimal Proposal for Humanistic Inquiry, Critical Series in the Humanities (Aurora, Colorado: Davies Group, 2007), 75–99. [View item].


• "Reading between the Vatican's lines," The Globe and Mail (July 23, 2007), A13. [View item].


• "Document on one, true Church advances ecumenism," The B.C. Catholic (July 23, 2007), 12. [View item].


• "Redeemer Pacific College: New life for Catholic higher education in Canada," Catholic Insight (May 2007): 33–34. [View item].

Recent Publications by C.S. Morrissey