Selected Publications
Highlights from Academic Work
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
Selected Articles, Book Chapters, and Reviews:
- "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.
- "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.
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- "Aquinas's Third Way as a Reply to Stephen Hawking's Cosmological Hypothesis,"
Études maritainiennes - Maritain Studies XXVII (2011): 99–121.
ISSN 0826-9920.
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- 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.
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- "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.
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- "The Via Romana", Review of Paula Fredriksen, Augustine and
the Jews, in The Globe and Mail (Apr 11, 2009), F13. [HTML]
- "Dialectic and Demonstration in the Philosophy of Nature", Études
maritainiennes - Maritain Studies XXIII (2007): 64-75. ISSN
0826-9920. [Note:
this volume was printed in 2008]
- "Blessings and blood", Review of Bruce Chilton, Abrahams Curse,
in The Globe and Mail: Books (Feb 23, 2008), D8. [HTML].
- "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. [HTML]
- Review of Rémi Brague, The Law of God in Bryn Mawr
Classical Review 2007.09.46. [HTML].
- "Original Sin and Generative Anthropology", Anthropoetics 13.2 (2007).
<http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1302/1302morrissey.htm>.
ISSN 1083-7264.
- "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), 7599. ISBN
978-1-888570-36-6.
- "The Nativity code", in The Globe and Mail (23 Dec 2006): D15.
- "Joining Gods army", Review of Michael W. Higgins, Stalking the
Holy: The Pursuit of Saint Making in The Globe and Mail (11
Feb 2006): D4.
- "Protection for human reason", Review of James V. Schall, Roman Catholic
Political Philosophy, in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 106 (Mar
2005). ISSN 0018-4268. [HTML].
- "Sparagmos! A Dialogue on Girard and Gans", Anthropoetics 11.1
(Spring/Summer 2005): <http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1101/sparagmos.htm>.
ISSN 1083-7264.
- Review of Clifford Angell Bates, Jr., Aristotles "Best Regime":
Kingship, Democracy, and the Rule of Law, in The Historian 66.4
(2004): 897-898. ISSN 0018-2370.
- "Aristotle, Derrida, Girard", Humanitas: Bulletin of the Institute
for the Humanities 3 (Spring 2004), 49-50.
- "Oedipus the Cliché: Aristotle on Tragic Form and Content", Anthropoetics
9.1 (Spring/Summer 2003): 1-14.
<http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0901/oedipus.htm>.
ISSN 1083-7264.
- "Reading Mimesis Against Revenge: Girard and Mimetic Violence", West
Coast Line 37.1 (Spring 2003): 55-66. ISSN 1182-4271.
- Collected Works on Mimetic Theory and Generative Anthropology
Philosophy of Education:
"A Common Ground for Global Culture", Fideles: A Journal of
Redeemer Pacific College 4 (2009): 113-119. ISSN 1718-9446.
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