Where Stevenson’s work excels is its sustained critique of the historical Jesus scholarship, showing how metaphysical commitments cannot be sidestepped, since they remain deeply implicated in questions of historical method.

Among the many contributors to the revival of the Aristotelian philosophy of nature in recent decades one must include the work of William Wallace, O.P., Benedict Ashley, O.P., Nancy Cartwright, Robert Koons, William Simpson, Edward Feser, and many others. We can now include Fr. Andrew Younan’s title, Matter and Mathematics. Younan’s work is a refreshing, briskly argued addition to recent debates about the nature of the laws of nature that avoids pointless detours into their details without eschewing their necessary substance.

It was many years ago when I first learned about the android of St. Albert the Great. It is recorded, among other loca, in the oh-so-reliable Supplement to Mr. Chambers's Cyclopædia: or, Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, published in 1753 …

Sullivan’s book is one with which further scholarly and even pastoral engagement is needed. Such were the contexts in which I studied the book, while leading a monthly seminar on Habits and Holiness during the 2021–22 academic year. The participants were diocesan priests in Wichita, and, apart from the fraternity of the group itself, the further purpose of the discussion was to become better ministers of the sacrament of confession towards the end of bearing greater spiritual fruit in the lives of penitents. After reviewing the scope and contents of the work, along with a closer look at some points of detail, I close with some feedback from the monthly seminar.

Few topics inspire more controversy today than human sexuality and gender identity. There is no shortage of Thomistic reflections on the nature of sexual difference in human persons. Typically, Thomists must navigate between the manifest image of human sexual difference and Aquinas’s assumption of medieval Aristotelian biology (e.g., Nolan or Johnston), on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the post-scientific image of gender adopted in indefinitely diverse ways by our contemporaries. An array of ethical and moral theological literature on marriage, the conjugal act, and the family is ready to hand. …

Teaching the subjects of logic and natural theology well is no easy task, and aids are greatly to be desired, particularly by beginning teachers. Prof. Houser and Fr. Dodds have recently and respectively published excellent means to each end. My reason for discussing these two books together is to venture, at the end of this review essay, a few ideas concerning philosophical pedagogy in today’s classroom. This review of both books is based upon my own classroom use.