Daniel Shields briefly responds to the review by John Brungardt of his book, Nature and Nature’s God.

The martyr can let himself be conquered by physical death; the doctor must hold fast to true knowledge so that he is not conquered by intellectual death. And if he does not have such knowledge, he should not become a doctor in the first place. For the theologian, not fortitude, but the truth, will set him free.

Given St. Joseph's pre-eminent nature in the Church and among the angels and saints, second only to the Mother of God, God would bestow the honor of accompanying Him to Heaven as He did for His Blessed Mother.

Hylomorphic dualism manages to keep the best insights from both hylomorphism—its unified account of the human being—and dualism—the immateriality of the intellect—, building a cohesive account of human beings that avoids the problems that arise for other forms of dualism.