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, Abrahams 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), 7599. ISBN
978-1-888570-36-6.
- "The Nativity code", in The Globe and Mail (23 Dec 2006): D15.
- "Joining Gods 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., Aristotles "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