Joseph Kenny OP: Thomistic Studies

Thomistic Studies

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Joseph Kenny, O.P.

Wisdom words of Thomas Aquinas   Independent column, 1999-2000. Thomas is known for his systematic thorough analysis of a question. His punch-packed aphorisms or logia buried in his presentation often go unnoticed. Here a few are brought out in free translation.
Christian-Islamic Preambles of Faith: An Exercise in Philosophy of Religion or Kalâm for Our Day   Summarizing and updating Thomas Aquinas's Summa Contra Gentiles, Books I-III, this book is an apologia pro fide, to the extent that this faith is shared by Christians and Muslims.
خلاصة الكلام لجميع الآنام   The Arabic of the above. I profoundly thank Daniel Ali for his corrections of my Arabic.
Thomas Aquinas: Reasons for the Faith against Muslim objections   (and one objection of the Greeks and Armenians), to the Cantor of Antioch. Introduction and translation, first published in Islamochristiana (Rome), 22 (1996), 31-52.
Philosophy of Nature   A critical summary of Thomas' Commentary on the Physics. As Aristotle's Physics culminates with an argument for the existence of a First Mover, the present work evaluates this argument and discusses all of Thomas' texts that argue for the existence of God.
Thomas Aquinas, Islam and the Arab philosophers   Which authors and works he knew and did not know, what he borrowed and what he rejected.
Thomas Aquinas and Islam   A bibliography.
Letter of Thomas Aquinas to Brother John on how to study   A translation of this brief note of advice.
Sacred Doctrine   A note summarizing Question 1 of the Summa theologiae and the issues it raises.
Saint Thomas, eschatology and virtual reality   A re-look and revision of some of Thomas' hypotheses about the life of the world to come.
Humanities and the sciences    For the University of Ibadan, Faculty of Arts Conference "The Humanities and social transformation in Africa," 3-4 December 2008.
Pre-natal consciousness    For World Day of Philosophy, Nnamdi Azikwe University, Awka 14-15 November 2011.
Medieval precedents for attitudes towards genomics    For EAGER Africa Conference (Ethics and Genomics Research in Africa), Abuja, 28-29 November 2011.
The idea of an African university    Edited by Joseph Kenny, O.P., with first chapter, "Lessons of World History of the University for Nigeria today." Washington, D.C.: Council for Values and Philosophy. ISBN 978-1-56518-230-1(paper). 2008 —the result of a seminar at the University of Ibadan 2002.
Kenny: Philosophy, bridging arts and sciences    For a seminar on The Idea of a Nigerian University: A Follow-up, at The Dempsey Centre, Dominican Institute, Ibadan, 21 November 2011, under auspices of the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (CRVP), Washington, D.C./ Beirut.

Thomistic Studies

Works by Joseph Kenny, O.P.

Works by
Joseph Kenny, O.P.