Selected Publications

Highlights from Academic Work

Dr. Christopher S. Morrissey
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Redeemer Pacific College
Specialist in Philosophical Theology
Translator of the Ancient Greek Poetry of Hesiod's Theogony & Hesiod's Works and Days

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