This course is structured to appreciate the transformative potential of Peircean approaches to evolution and to scholastic philosophy. These topics are related. Can scholastic philosophy produce a theology of evolution? The answer is yes, especially when Peirce’s categories come into play. Peirce enlivens and revives scholastic concepts. The course begins with Speculations on Thomism and Evolution and concludes with Comments on Dennis Venema and Scot McKnight’s Book (2017) Adam and the Genome. Select four articles standing between these bookends.

A Course on Evolution and Thomism

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Speculations on Thomism and Evolution by
Series: Reverberations of the Fall · Considerations of Jacques Maritain, John Deely and Thomistic Approaches to the Questions of These Times · A Course on Evolution and Thomism. Price: $1.80 USD. Words: 4,930. Language: English. Published: April 5, 2018. Categories: Nonfiction » Philosophy » Religious philosophy, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Religion & Science
Michael Chaberek, O.P., publishes a book titled Aquinas and Evolution (2017). The next year, Nicanor Austriaco, O.P., responds in the Witherspoon Institute's Public Discourse Forum, defending "Thomistic Evolution". This essay re-articulates the concepts in this defense, relying of the category-based nested form. In the end, living forms are rendered as mysteries compatible with the Word.
Comments on Michal Chaberek’s Essay (2019) "Classical Metaphysics and Theistic Evolution" by
Series: Considerations of Jacques Maritain, John Deely and Thomistic Approaches to the Questions of These Times · A Course on Evolution and Thomism. Price: $2.00 USD. Words: 5,560. Language: English. Published: September 14, 2019. Categories: Nonfiction » Philosophy » Metaphysics, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Religion & Science
In 2019, Michal Chaberek publishes an inquiry into the incompatibility between classical metaphysics and theistic evolution. Yes, the key word is “incompatible”. The question is “why?”. Is theistic evolution a fig leaf for atheistic materialism? If so, then the incompatibility needs to be nuanced. These comments show how Chaberek’s criticism opens the path to theistic entanglement.
Comments on Mariusz Tabaczek’s Essay (2019) "What do God and Creatures Really Do in an Evolutionary Change?" by
Series: Considerations of Jacques Maritain, John Deely and Thomistic Approaches to the Questions of These Times · A Course on Evolution and Thomism. Price: $2.15 USD. Words: 5,770. Language: English. Published: July 27, 2019. Categories: Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Religion & Science, Nonfiction » Philosophy » Metaphysics
In 2019, Mariusz Tabaczek, OP, publishes an essay in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. The subtitle is “Divine Concurrence and Transformation from the Thomistic Perspective”. These comments use the category-based nested form and other relational models developed within the tradition of C.S. Peirce.
Comments on Donna West’s Essay (2019) "Thirdness along the Intuitional Path" by
Series: Considerations of Jacques Maritain, John Deely and Thomistic Approaches to the Questions of These Times · A Course on Evolution and Thomism. Price: $1.95 USD. Words: 5,070. Language: English. Published: November 2, 2019. Categories: Nonfiction » Philosophy » Logic, Nonfiction » Philosophy » Metaphysics
In 2019, Donna West publishes an inquiry in Studia Gilsoniana. The complete title is “Thirdness along the Intuitional Path: Reflections from Maritain and Peirce”. The essay addresses a key question: What are the pre-conditions for the emergence of event relations? These comments diagram features using the category-based nested form and the triadic structure of judgment.
Comments on Fr. Thomas White’s Essay (2019) "Thomism for the New Evangelization" by
Series: Considerations of Jacques Maritain, John Deely and Thomistic Approaches to the Questions of These Times · Empirio-schematics · A Course on Evolution and Thomism. Price: $2.00 USD. Words: 5,900. Language: English. Published: November 9, 2019. Categories: Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Religious philosophy, Nonfiction » Philosophy » Metaphysics
Why does Thomism matter? In 2019, Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., offers his insights on the promise of Thomism for the new evangelization. His argument touches on six key points. These comments show how Peirce’s categories and semiotics bring these key points, as well as the promise of Thomism, forward, in novel ways. Welcome to the Age of Triadic Relations.
Comments on Matthew Minerd’s Essay (2019) "Thomism and the Formal Object of Logic" by
Series: Considerations of Jacques Maritain, John Deely and Thomistic Approaches to the Questions of These Times · A Course on Evolution and Thomism. Price: $2.14 USD. Words: 6,430. Language: English. Published: June 22, 2019. Categories: Nonfiction » Philosophy » Logic, Nonfiction » Philosophy » Metaphysics
In 2019, Matthew Minerd publishes a narrative in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. The story concerns the historical development of the science of logic within the Thomist school. These comments use the category-based nested form and other relational models developed within the tradition of C.S. Peirce.
Comments on Dennis Venema and Scot McKnight’s Book (2017) Adam and the Genome by
Series: Reverberations of the Fall · A Course on Evolution and Thomism. Price: $2.40 USD. Words: 9,330. Language: English. Published: June 24, 2017. Categories: Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Christian Theology / Anthropology, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Religion & Science
These comments address a book by geneticist, Dennis Venema, and theologian, Scot McKnight. Venema establishes that Adam and Eve cannot be the actual parents of all humans. McKnight establishes the stories of Adam and Eve are written in styles and themes of ancient Near East literature. My goal is to re-articulate their arguments using the category-based nested form and the first singularity.