First Things RSS Feed - Edward Feser https://www.firstthings.com/author/edward-feser en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:57:03 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/edward-feser 60 Boundaries of Belief https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/05/boundaries-of-belief https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/05/boundaries-of-belief Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 The Development of Dogma:
A Systematic Account
by guy mansini, o.s.b.
 catholic university of america, 192 pages, $29.95

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]]> Thomists in the Wilderness https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/11/thomists-in-the-wilderness https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/11/thomists-in-the-wilderness Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0400 The Thomistic Response to the Nouvelle Théologie
edited by jon kirwan and
translated by matthew k. minerd
 the catholic university of america, 406 pages, $34.95

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]]> Great Scot https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/04/great-scot https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/04/great-scot Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0400 Ordered by Love:
An Introduction to John Duns Scotus
by thomas m. ward
 angelico, 174 pages, $26

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]]> Doubting Thomas https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/03/doubting-thomas https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/03/doubting-thomas Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500 The Failure of Natural Theology:
A Critical Appraisal of the Philosophical Theology of Thomas Aquinas
by Jeffrey D. Johnson
 Free Grace, 247 pages, $40

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]]> Keep It Simple https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/04/keep-it-simple https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/04/keep-it-simple Wed, 01 Apr 2020 06:00:00 -0400 God Over All:
Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism
 by william lane craig
oxford, 280 pages, $88

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]]> Soul Proprietor https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/02/soul-proprietor https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/02/soul-proprietor Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0500 Are We Bodies or Souls?
 by richard swinburne
oxford, 208 pages, $19.95

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]]> Pope Francis and Capital Punishment https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/08/pope-francis-and-capital-punishment https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/08/pope-francis-and-capital-punishment Fri, 03 Aug 2018 06:00:00 -0400 In a move that should surprise no one, Pope Francis has once again appeared to contradict two millennia of clear and consistent scriptural and Catholic teaching. The Vatican has announced that the Catechism of the Catholic Church will be changed to declare the death penalty “inadmissible” given the “inviolability and dignity of the person” as understood “in the light of the Gospel.”

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]]> Taking Aquinas Seriously https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2017/06/taking-aquinas-seriously https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2017/06/taking-aquinas-seriously Fri, 30 Jun 2017 06:00:00 -0400 Edward Feser is associate professor of philosophy at Pasadena City College, where he writes and teaches on contemporary analytic philosophy from a Thomistic perspective. He recently spoke with first things junior fellow Connor Grubaugh about three of his favorite books in the field.

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]]> Omnibus of Fallacies https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/02/omnibus-of-fallacies https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/02/omnibus-of-fallacies Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0500 Faith versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
 by jerry a. coyne
viking, 336 pages, $28.95

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]]> Why Is There Anything At All? It’s Simple https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/10/why-is-there-anything-at-all-its-simple https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/10/why-is-there-anything-at-all-its-simple Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0400 I thank John Leslie and Robert Lawrence Kuhn for their gracious and substantive response to my recent comments on their fine anthology The Mystery of Existence: Why Is There Anything At All? In the course of my earlier remarks, I put forward a “friendly criticism” to the effect that John and Robert had paid insufficient attention in their book to the tradition of classical theism, which has its philosophical roots in Aristotelian and Neo-Platonic thought and whose many illustrious representatives include Augustine, Anselm, Avicenna, Maimonides, and Aquinas. Though there are selections from some of these writers, they are very brief, and the bulk of the theological selections in the book are from recent writers of what has sometimes been called a “theistic personalist” or “neo-theist” bent. John and Robert have offered a lively defense of their approach. In what follows I’d like to respond, pressing the case for the primacy of the classical theistic tradition.

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