Montague Brown

My areas of interest are medieval philosophy (mainly Augustine, Anselm, and Aquinas), metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of mind, and the relation between faith and reason.

Ethics, Metaphysics, Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Great Books Seminars.

• Human Nature Seminar: Between heaven and Earth
• Ethics Seminar: The Good Life
• Medieval Philosophy
• Philosophy of God
• Modern Christian Philosophers
• Metaphysics
• Great Books Seminars
• Focused Study on Dante
• The Catholic Intellectual Tradition

Books

Reason, Revelation and Metaphysics: The Transcendental Analogies, Catholic University Press, 2020

Love and Friendship: Maritain and the Tradition, Editor with Introduction, Catholic University of America Press, 2013.

Freedom, Philosophy, and Faith: The Transformative Role of Judeo-Christian

Freedom in Western Thought, Lexington Books, 2011.

The Restoration of Reason: The Eclipse and Recovery of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, Baker Academic, 2006.

Half-Truths, Sophia Institute Press, 2003.

The One-Minute Philosopher, Sophia Institute Press, 2001.

The Quest for Moral Foundations, Georgetown University Press, 1996

The Romance of Reason: An Adventure in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas, St. Bede’s Publications, 1993.
 

Articles

“Keefe on Human Nature and Immortality,” The Saint Anselm Journal, Volume 15, Number 2 (Spring 2020).

 “Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on the Resurrection of the Body in Aquinas,” The Saint Anselm Journal, Volume 12, Number 2 (Spring 2017).

“Islam and the Natural Law,” The Levantine Review (Winter 2015).

“Faith and the Revival of Metaphysics: A Survey from the Ancients to the Present,” in Divine Promise and Human Freedom in Contemporary Catholic Thought, ed. Kevin McMahon, Lexington Books (2015).

“Imago Dei in Thomas Aquinas,” The Saint Anselm Journal, Volume 10, Number 1 (Fall 2014).

“Montaigne and the Limits of Human Reason,” Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, in Plymouth, MA, April 3-6, 2008.

“Augustine and Anselm on the Essence of Moral Responsibility,” The Saint Anselm Journal, Volume 4, Number 2 (Spring 2007).

“Metaphysics and Freedom in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas,” Proceedings of Metaphysics 2006, a conference held in Rome, July 6-9, 2006.

“Fairness, Freedom, and Responsibility,” in The Human Person and a Culture of Freedom, selected papers from the 2003 Conference of the American Maritain Association.

“Augustine on Freedom and God,” in The Saint Anselm Journal, Volume 2, Number 2 (Spring 2005).

“Faith and Reason in Anselm: Two Models,” in The Saint Anselm Journal, Volume 2, Number 1 (Fall 2004).

“Religion, Politics, and Natural Law: Thomas Aquinas on Our Obligations to Others,” in Skepsis, Vol. XV/11-111, 2004, pp. 316-30.

“Aquinas and the Individuation of the Human Person Revisited,” International Philosophical Quarterly, Spring, 2003.

“Anselm on the Existence of God: The Other Ways,” in the Proceedings of The Second Saint Anselm Conference, held April 12-13, 2002.

“Infinite Regress Revisited,” the Proceedings of the Seventy-fourth Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, held in Dallas, Texas, November 3-5, 2000.

“Anselm’s Argument in the Proslogion and Aquinas’s Proofs: The Fundamental Agreement,” Proceedings of Saint Anselm, His Origins and Influence Conference, held at Saint Anselm College, March 31-April 1, 2000.

“Augustine on Justice, Mercy, and Freedom,” forthcoming, Oxford Patristics Conference  Proceedings

“Anselm on Truth as Free and Historical,” forthcoming in Proceedings for Anselm Conference,  Durham, UK

“Donald Keefe on the Eucharist and the Refusal of Reductionism,” forthcoming The Saint Anselm Journal

Director, Institute for Saint Anselm Studies

Editor, The Saint Anselm Journal

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