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. [PDF] [HTML]
  


• "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]
  


• "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. [PDF]
  


• "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, Abraham’s 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), 75–99. ISBN 978-1-888570-36-6.
  


• "The Nativity code", in The Globe and Mail (23 Dec 2006): D15.
  


• "Joining God’s 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., Aristotle’s "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. [PDF]