Dr. Christopher S. Morrissey
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Redeemer Pacific College
Specialist in the Medieval Latin Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas and His Commentatorial Tradition

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Most Recent Publications:

2010

• "Did the Latin Age Really Begin with Augustine?" in Leonard G. Sbrocchi et al. (eds.), Semiotics 2009 (New York: Legas, forthcoming 2010), 296-303.


• "A Twitch Upon the Thread: Aquinas on Elicited Natural Desire for God", Fideles: A Journal of Redeemer Pacific College 5 (2010): 131-158. ISSN 1718-9446.


• "Benedict's preacher deserves better", The B.C. Catholic (Apr 12, 2010), 8. [comment on a firestorm]


• "He paved road to understanding Aquinas", The B.C. Catholic (Mar 22, 2010), 12.

2009

• "A Catholic take on the vampire vogue", The B.C. Catholic (Dec 21, 2009), 17.


• "The Luminosity of Existence", an essay on David Walsh's The Modern Philosophical Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2008), in Fideles: A Journal of Redeemer Pacific College 4 (2009): 77-96. ISSN 1718-9446.


• "A Common Ground for Global Culture", Fideles: A Journal of Redeemer Pacific College 4 (2009): 113-119. ISSN 1718-9446.


• "Has Notre Dame University lost its faith?", The B.C. Catholic (May 18, 2009), 8.


• "Render Unto Obama? Needed: A Faith-and-Reason University", CatholicOnline.com (May 16, 2009).


• "The Via Romana", Review of Paula Fredriksen, Augustine and the Jews, in The Globe and Mail (Apr 11, 2009), F13.


• "Obama nation", The B.C. Catholic (Mar 16, 2009), 14.


• "For the love of Latin": Interview with Maggi Hall, Mars' Hill (Volume 13, Issue 10).


• "President Visits Canada", CatholicOnline.com (Feb 19, 2009).


• "Who's your neighbour?", The B.C. Catholic (Feb 16, 2009), 9.


• "What does Obama's inauguration augur?", The B.C. Catholic (Jan 26, 2009), 4.


• "The Obama Economy: With Charity toward None?", CatholicOnline.com (Jan 22, 2009).


• "Archbishop Miller addresses Redeemer Pacific College", CatholicOnline.com (Jan 16, 2009).

2008

• "Dialectic and Demonstration in the Philosophy of Nature," Études maritainiennes - Maritain Studies XXIII (2007): 64-75. ISSN 0826-9920 [View item].


• "Transfiguring Heidegger: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Philosopher Friend," Fideles: A Journal of Redeemer Pacific College 3 (2008): 121-136. ISSN 1718-9446 [View item].


• "Can you get what you want? Catholic mind at work," Review of James V. Schall, The Mind that is Catholic: Philosophical and Political Essays (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2008), in The B.C. Catholic (Dec 8, 2008), 11. [View item].


• "Greek Bible now available in a new translation," The B.C. Catholic (Oct 6, 2008), 20. [View item].


• "What if? Thomas Aquinas, Political Pundit," CatholicOnline.com (Sep 17, 2008). [View item].


• "Order of Canada now a threat to liberty," The B.C. Catholic (Sept 1, 2008), 8. [View item].


• "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. [View item].


• "Vatican Latin reboots education for true freedom," The B.C. Catholic (July 28, 2008), 7. [View item].


• "Catholic university is 'our heritage': Archbishop Miller speaks to Redeemer Pacific College on 'the greatness of the Catholic intellectual tradition'," The B.C. Catholic (June 23, 2008), 9. [View item].


• "Order must be 'already built in': Catholic physicist speaks at TWU on harmony of modern physics and ancient faith," The B.C. Catholic (Apr 21, 2008), 2. [View item].


• "Faith, reason, and the university," The B.C. Catholic (Mar 31, 2008), 4 and 16. [View item].


• "Canada has unique religious political history: priest," The B.C. Catholic (Mar 31, 2008), 4. [View item].


• "'Fair looks and a kind heart' not enough," The B.C. Catholic (Mar 17, 2008), 14. [View item].


• "Students take on the ogres of Spiderwick," The B.C. Catholic (Mar 3, 2008), 10. [View item].


• "Blessings and blood," The Globe and Mail: Books (Feb 23, 2008), D8. [View item].


• "Catholic students 'Meet the Spartans'," The B.C. Catholic (Feb 11, 2008), 7. [View item].


2007

• "The Analogy of Being: Three Misunderstandings, Three Clarifications", Fideles: A Journal of Redeemer Pacific College 2 (2007): 103-129. ISSN 1718-9446 [View item].


• "Pope Benedict contemplates truth," The B.C. Catholic (Dec 17, 2007), 25. [View item].


• "Pope proposes a new 'solidarity' against utopian ideologies," Catholic Ezine (November 2007). [View item].


• Review of Rémi Brague, The Law of God in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.09.46. [View item].


• "Original Sin and Generative Anthropology," Anthropoetics 13.2 (2007). ISSN 1083-7264 [View item].


• "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), 83-109 [View item].


• "Reading between the Vatican's lines," The Globe and Mail (July 23, 2007), A13. [View item].


• "Document on one, true Church advances ecumenism," The B.C. Catholic (July 23, 2007), 12. [View item].


• "Redeemer Pacific College: New life for Catholic higher education in Canada," Catholic Insight (May 2007): 33-34. [View item].

Recent Publications by C.S. Morrissey