David Bradshaw

David Bradshaw (PhD University of Texas, Austin) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. He specializes in ancient and medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion, and the interactions of theology and philosophy. He is a contributor to Turning East: Contemporary Philosophers and the Ancient Christian Faith (ed. Rico Vitz; St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2012), which also features Richard Swinburne, Terence Cuneo, and H.Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. He is also the author of Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom and is editor of Philosophical Theology and the Christian Tradition: Russian and Western Perspectives and Ethics and the Challenge of Secularism: Russian and Western Perspectives.

Selected Publications: 

Books

  • Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom (Cambridge University Press, 2004; paperback 2007)
  • Editor, Philosophical Theology and the Christian Tradition: Russian and Western Perspectives (Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2012)
  • Editor, Ethics and the Challenge of Secularism: Russian and Western Perspectives (Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2013)

Articles (since 2006)

  • “Time and Eternity in the Greek Fathers,” The Thomist 70 (2006), 311-66
  • “The Divine Energies in the New Testament,” St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 50 (2006), 189-223
  • “The Concept of the Divine Energies,” Philosophy and Theology 18 (2006), 93-120
  • “Augustine the Metaphysician,” Orthodox Readings of Augustine, ed. Aristotle Papanikolaou and George Demacopoulos (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2008), 227-51
  • “The Opuscula Sacra: Boethius and Theology,” The Cambridge Companion to Boethius, ed. John Marenbon (Cambridge University Press, 2009), 105-28
  • “The Mind and the Heart in the Christian East and West,” Faith and Philosophy 26 (2009), 576-98
  • "Maximus the Confessor," The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity, ed. Lloyd Gerson (Cambridge University Press, 2010), 813-28
  • “Divine Freedom in the Greek Patristic Tradition,” Quaestiones Disputatae 2 (2011), 56-69
  • “Divine Freedom: The Greek Fathers and the Modern Debate,” Philosophical Theology and the Christian Tradition: Russian and Western Perspectives, 77-92
  • “On Finding True Faith,” Turning East: Contemporary Philosophers and the Ancient Christian Faith, ed. Rico Vitz (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2012), 17-32
  • “Divine Simplicity and Divine Freedom in Maimonides and Gersonides,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 86 (2012), 75-87
  • “In Defense of the Essence/Energies Distinction: A Reply to Critics,” Divine Essence and Divine Energies: Ecumenical Reflections on the Presence of God in Eastern Orthodoxy, ed. C. Athanasopoulos and C. Schneider (James Clarke & Co., 2013), 256-73
  • “The Logoi of Beings in Greek Patristic Thought,” Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration: Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Environment, Nature, and Creation, ed. Bruce Foltz and John Chryssavgis (Fordham University Press, 2013), 9-22
  • “St. Maximus on the Will,” Knowing the Purpose of Creation through the Resurrection, ed. Bishop Maxim Vasiljević (Sebastian Press, 2013), 143-57
  • “The Cappadocian Fathers as Founders of Byzantine Thought,” The Cappadocian Legacy: A Critical Appraisal, ed. Doru Costache (St Andrew's Orthodox Press, 2013), 11-22
  • “Plato in the Cappadocian Fathers,” Plato in the Third Sophistic, ed. Ryan Fowler (De Gruyter, 2014), 193-210
  • “The Philosophical Theology of St. Cyril of Alexandria,” Phronema 29 (2014), 21-39
  • “The Divine Liturgy as Mystical Experience,” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7 (2015), 137-51
  • “Maximus the Confessor on Time, Eternity, and Divine Knowledge,” Studia Patristica 88 (2017), 119-44
  • “Kant and the Experience of God.”  Kant and the Question of Theology, ed. Nathan Jacobs, Chris Firestone, and James Joiner (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 79-96
  • “The Presence of Aristotle within Byzantine Theology.”  The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium, ed. Niketas Siniossoglou and Antony Kaldellis (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 381-96

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