Research

Divine and Created Causation in Medieval Philosophy, book in progress.

Medieval thinkers made great advances in conceptualizing the relationship between divine and created causality.  Their views shaped early modern discussions of causality and continue to influence philosophers and theologians today.

My current book, Divine and Created Causation in Medieval Philosophy, provides a comprehensive overview of key positions and issues, bringing together well-studied and comparatively neglected aspects of medieval causality debates. The authors I discuss include well-known figures, such as Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus, as well as lesser-studied figures, such as Peter Olivi and Henry of Ghent.  The book will show how other emerging views, on topics such as God’s sovereignty, human freedom, and the nature of sin, impacted the development of views about divine and created causality.

My work on the project is supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities faculty fellowship (FEL-301849).