Fine-Tuning and the Afterlife in Aquinas

Fine-tuning and the Afterlife in Aquinas

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• afterlife, Aquinas, cosmology, fine-tuning, resurrection, teleology

Notes:

• Aquinas. Summa Theologica. Transl. Fathers of the English Dominican Province. Notre Dame: Christian Classics, 1948.

  Aquinas. Commentary on Aristotle’s De anima. Transl. Kenelm Foster, Silvester Humphries. Notre Dame: Dumb Ox Books, 1994.

  Aquinas. Compendium of Theology. Transl. Richard J. Regan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

  Aquinas. Summa Contra Gentiles. Transl. Charles J. O’Neil. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.

  Aquinas. The Power of God. Transl. Richard I. Regan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

  Aquinas. Commentary on the Sentences. Transl. Beth Mortensen, Peter Kwasniewski, Dylan Schrader. Green Bay: Aquinas Institute, 2018.

  Aquinas. Quodlibetal Questions. Transl. Turner Nevitt and Brian Davies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

  Aquinas. Commentary on Aristotle’s De Caelo. Transl. Fabian R. Larcher and Pierre H. Conway. https://isidore.co/aquinas/english/DeCoelo.htm

  Blanchette, Oliva. The Perfection of the Universe. A Teleological Cosmology. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.

  Bobik, Joseph. “The Elements in Aquinas and the Elements Today”, in Joseph Bobik (ed.), Aquinas on Matter and Form and the Elements. A Translation and Interpretation of the De Principiis Naturae, and the De Mixtione Elementorum of St. Thomas Aquinas. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998.

  Carl, Brian T. “Thomas Aquinas on the Proportionate Causes of Living Species”. Scientia et Fides, 8 (2), 2020. 223-248.

  Chaberek, Michael. Aquinas and Evolution. Why St. Thomas’s Teaching on the Origins is Incompatible with Evolutionary Theory? The Chartwell Press, 2017.

  Davies, Paul. The Goldilocks Enigma. Why Is the Universe just Right for Life? New York: Penguin 2009.

  Davies, Paul. The 5th Miracle. The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life. New York: Simon&Schuster, 2000.

  Dodds, Michael. Unlocking Divine Action. Contemporary Science and Thomas Aquinas. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2012.

  Friedrich, Simon. “Fine-Tuning”. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2021

  Lamb, Matthew L. “The Eschatology of St. Thomas Aquinas.” Thomas G. Weinandy, Daniel A. Keating, and John P. Yocum (eds.), Aquinas on Doctrine. A Critical Introduction. London/New York: T&T Clark International, 2004.

  Leget, Carlo. Living with God. Thomas Aquinas on the Relation between Life on Earth and ‘Life’ after Death. Leuven: Peeters, 1997.

  Leget, Carlo. “Eschatology”. N.R. Van, J. Wawrykow (eds.), The Theology of Thomas Aquinas. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.

  Leslie, John. Universes. London/New York: Routledge, 1989.

  Levering, Matthew. Jesus and the Demise of Death: Resurrection, Afterlife, and the Fate of the Christian. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2012.

  Lewis, Geraint F. and Barnes, Luke A. A Fortunate Universe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

  Litt, Thomas. Les corps célestes dans l’univers de Saint Thomas d’Aquin. Louvain: Publications Universitaires, 1963.

  Mawson, T.J. “Explaining the Fine Tuning of the Universe to Us and the Fine Tuning of Us to the Universe”. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 68, 2011, 25-50.

  Mulgan, Tim. Purpose in the Universe. The Moral and Metaphysical Case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

  Polkinghorne, John. “Eschatology. Some Questions and Some Insights from Science”. John Polkinghorne and Michael Welker (eds.), The End of the World and the Ends of God: Science and Theology on Eschatology. London: Bloomsbury, 2000.

  Polkinghorne, John. The God of Hope and the End of the World. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2002.

  Russell, Robert John. Cosmology, Evolution, and Resurrection Hope: Theology and Science in Creative Mutual Interaction, ed. Carl S. Herlich. Kitchener: Pandora Press, 2006.

  Russell, Robert. “Cosmology and Eschatology”. Jerry L. Walls (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

  Smith, Randall B. From Here to Eternity: Reflections on Death, Immortality, and the Resurrection of the Body. Emmaus Road Publishing, 2022.

  Wright, John H. The Order of the Universe in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. Rome: Analecta Gregoriana, 1957.