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Eleonore Stump
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Biography

Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. She is an Honorary Professor at Wuhan University, at the University of York and at the Logos Institute, St Andrews. She is also a Professorial Fellow at Australian Catholic University and a Patron at Blackfriars, Oxford.

She has published extensively in philosophy of religion, contemporary metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. Her books include Aquinas (Routledge, 2003), Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (Oxford, 2010) and Atonement (Oxford, 2018). She has given the Gifford Lectures at Aberdeen (2003), the Wilde lectures at Oxford (2006), the Stewart lectures at Princeton (2009) and the Stanton lectures at Cambridge (2018).

She is past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the American Philosophical Association, Central Division. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Publications

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Books

Monographs and Scholarly Translations with Annotations and Essays

Boethius's De topicis differentiis. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978. Second printing, 1989.

—Selected texts reprinted in The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present, 3rd edition. Cornell University Press, forthcoming. 

Boethius's In Ciceronis Topica. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Dialectic and Its Place in the Development of Medieval Logic (collected essays). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989.

Aquinas, (in the series The Arguments of the Philosophers). London and New York: Routledge, 2003.

—Abridged edition, translated into Russian by Galina Vdovina and published by Languages of Slavonic Culture, Moscow, 2013.

Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 

The God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers, Aquinas Lecture. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2016.

Atonement. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 

—Part of chapter 9 reprinted as “Suffering and Flourishing.” In Ethos: The Quarterly of the John Paul II Institute KU, a special issue on Hope. Edited by Agnieszka Lekka-Kowalik, forthcoming.

Edited Volumes, Editions, and Translations

Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy. Associate editor with editors Norman Kretzmann, Anothony Kenny, and Jan PinborgCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Hamartia: The Concept of Error in the Western Tradition: Essays in Honor of John M. Crossett. Editor with others. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1983.

Simon of Faversham’s Quaestiones super libro Elenchorum. Editor with others. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1984.

The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts, vol. 1: Logic and the Philosophy of Language. Editor with Norman Kretzmann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. 

—Selected texts reprinted in Catholic Philosophy Anthology, Swindal and Gensler (eds.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005, pp. 217-19, and pp. 227-28.

—Reprinted: “Extract from Summa Lamberti.” In Blackwell Readings in Medieval Philosophy. Edited by Gyula Klima, 104-11. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.

Hermes and Athena: Biblical Exegesis and Philosophical Theology. Editor with Thomas Flint. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993.

The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas. Editor with Norman Kretzmann. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

—Second edition (ed. with Thomas Joseph White), forthcoming.

Reasoned Faith. EditorIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993.

Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions. Editor with Michael Murray. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1999.

Aquinas's Moral Theory: Essays in Honor of Norman Kretzmann. Editor with Scott MacDonald. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999.

The Cambridge Companion to Augustine. Editor with Norman Kretzmann. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Second printing, 2002.

—Expanded revised edition (ed. with David Meconi), 2014.

—Expanded revised edition (ed. with David Meconi), translated into Portuguese by Jaime Clasen and published as Agostinho by Ideias & Letras, Sao Paolo, 2016.

The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas. Editor with Brian Davies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Göttliches Vorherwissen und menschliche Freiheit. Beiträge aus der aktuellen analytischen Religionsphilosophie. Editor with Georg Gasser and Johannes Grössl. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer GmbH, 2015.

Hidden Divinity and Religious Belief: New Perspectives. Editor with Adam Green. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Guest Editor, special issue of Faith and Philosophy: Jewish Philosophy of Religion, 1997.

Guest Editor, special issue of European Journal of Philosophy of Religion (with Andrew Pinsent), Vol. 5, No. 4, Winter 2013.

Intellectual Humility. Guest editor with John Greco, special issue of Res Philosophica 93, no.3 (2016).

Guest Editor, special issue of Res Philosophica in honor of Fr. Theodore Vitali (2018).

The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas, second edition. Editor with Thomas Joseph White. New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Articles (since 2000)

“The God of Abraham, Saadia, and Aquinas.” In Referring to God: Jewish and Christian Philosophical and Theological Perspectives. Edited by Paul Helm, 95-119. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

“Second-Person Accounts and the Problem of Evil.” In Perspectives in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion. Edited by Tommi Lehtonen and Timo Koistinen, 88-113. Helsinki: Luther-Agricola-Society, 2000.

“The Direct Argument for Incompatibilism.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61.2 (2000): 459-66. 

“Transfer Principles and Moral Responsibility.” (with John Martin Fischer) Action and Freedom: Philosophical Perspectives 14 (2000): 47-55. Edited by James Tomberlin.

“Francis and Dominic: Persons, Patterns, and Trinity,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association issue, 74 (2000): 1-25.

“Augustine on Free Will.” In The Cambridge Companion to Augustine. Edited by Norman Kretzmann and Eleonore Stump, 124-47. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

“Introduction.” In The Cambridge Companion to Augustine. Edited by Norman Kretzmann and Eleonore Stump, 1-11. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

“Evil and the Nature of Faith.” In Seeking Understanding: The Stob Lectures 1986-1998. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2001, 530-50.

“Aquinas’ Metaphysics of the Incarnation.” in The Incarnation: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Incarnation of the Son of God. Edited by Stephen T. Davis, Daniel Kendall, SJ, and Gerald O’Collins, SJ, 197-218. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 

“Control and Causal Determinism.” In Contours of Agency: Essays on Themes from Harry Frankfurt. Edited by Sarah Buss and Lee Overton, 33-60. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.

“Word and Trinity.” Translated into Russian, in The Most Holy Trinity. Edited by Alexander I. Kirlezjev. Moscow: Sophrino, 2002.

“Aquinas’s Account of Divine Simplicity.” In Théologie Négative. Edited by Marco M. Olivetti, 575-84. Casa Editrice Dott, Antonio Milani, 2002. 

“Moral Responsibility without Alternative Possibilities.” In Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities: Essays on the Importance of Alternative Possibilities. Edited by Michael McKenna and David Widerker, 139-58. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, 2003. 

“Aquinas on Being, Goodness, and Divine Simplicity.” In Die Logik des Transzendentalen. Festschrift für Jan A. Aertsen zum 65. Edited by M. Pickavé, 212-25. Miscellanea Mediaevalia 30. Berlin and New York: W. de Gruyter, 2003. 

“Aquinas’s Virtue Ethics and its Metaphysical Foundation.” In Was ist das für den Menschen Gute? Menschliche Natur and Güterlehre. What is good for a human being? Human Nature and Values. Edited by Jan Szaif  and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, 209-28. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2004.

“Aquinas’s Metaphysics: Individuation and Constitution.” In Categories: Historical and Systematic Essays. In Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, edited by Jude P. Dougherty. Edited by Michael Gorman and Jonathan J. Sanford, 33-44. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004.         

“Narrative and the Problem of Evil: Suffering and Redemption.” In The Redemption: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Christ as Redeemer. Edited by Stephen T. Davis, Daniel Kendall, SJ, and Gerald O’Collins, SJ, 207-34.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.     

“Personal Relations and Moral Residue.” In History of the Human Sciences: Theorizing from the Holocaust: What is to be Learned? Edited by Paul Roth & Mark S. Peacock, 33-56. Vol. 17 No. 2/3: August 2004.

“Grace and Free Will.” in Le don et la dette. Edited by Marco M. Olivetti, 411-8. Biblioteca dell’ Archivio di Filosofia, Casa Editrice Dott. Antonio Milani, CEDAM, 2004.

“Substance and Artifact in Aquinas’s Metaphysics.” In Knowledge and Reality: Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga. Edited by Thomas M. Crisp, Matthew Davidson, and David Vander Laan, 63-79. Dordrecht: Springer, 2006.

“Love, By All Accounts.” Proceedings and Addresses of The American Philosophical Association 80.2 (November 2006): 25-43.

“Foreword.” In Essays in the Philosophy of Religion, by Philip L. Quinn. Edited by Christian B. Miller, vi-viii. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

“Forms and Bodies: The Soul.” In Intellect and Imagination in Medieval Philosophy.  Actes du XI Congrès International de Philosophie Médiévale de la Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (S.I.E.P.M.). Edited by Maria Candida Pacheco and Jose Francisco Meirinhos. Porto, du 26 au 31 août 2002, (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004).

“Resurrection, Reassembly, and Reconstitution: Aquinas on the Soul.” in Die menschliche Seele: Brauchen wir den Dualismus? Edited by Bruno Niederbacher and Edmund Runggaldier, 151-71. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2006.

“Beauty as a Road to God.” Sacred Music 134.4 (Winter 2007): 11-24.

“Justifying Faith, Free Will, and the Atonement.” In Freedom and the Human Person. Edited by Richard L. Velkley, 90-105. In the series Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, vol 48. Washington, D. C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2007.  

“Samson and Self-Destroying Evil.” in Philosophers and the Jewish Bible. Edited by Charles Manekin  and Robert Eisen, 199-217. College Park, MD: University Press of Maryland, 2008.

“The Problem of Evil and the Desires of the Heart.” In Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, vol. 1. Edited by Jonathan L. Kvanvig, 196-215. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

“Presence and Omnipresence.” In Liberal Faith: Essays in Honor of Philip Quinn. Edited by Paul Weithman, 59-82. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008.

“Goodness and the Nature of Faith: Abraham, Isaac, and Ishmael.” Archivio di filosofia 1-2 (2008): 133-40.

“Aquinas on Love and Forgiveness.” In Chinese translation of Reading Thomas Aquinas. Edited by Kelly James Clark and Xu Xiangdong. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2009.

“The Problem of Evil: Analytic Philosophy and Narrative.” In Analytic Theology: New Essays in the Philosophy of Theology. Edited by Oliver D. Crisp and Michael C. Rea, 251-64. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

“The Problem of Evil.” In Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, vol. 2. Edited by Robert Pasnau, 773-84. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

“Modes of Knowing: Autism, Fiction, and Second-person Perspectives.” Faith and Philosophy 26.5 (2009, appeared in 2010): 553-65.

“The Problem of Evil and the History of Peoples: Think Amalek.” In Divine EvilThe Moral Character of the God of Abraham. Edited by Michael Bergmann, Michael J. Murray, and Michael C. Rea, 179-197. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

“Reply to Draper.” in Divine EvilThe Moral Character of the God of Abraham. Edited by Michael Bergmann, Michael J. Murray, and Michael C. Rea, 204-8. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

“Comments on ‘Does God Love Us?’” In Divine EvilThe Moral Character of the God of Abraham. Edited by Michael Bergmann, Michael J. Murray, and Michael C. Rea, 47-53. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

“Introduction of the Aquinas Medalist.” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 85 (2011): 15-7.

“The Non-Aristotelian Character of Aquinas’s Ethics: Aquinas on the Passions.” Faith and Philosophy 28.1 (2011): 29-43.      

“Eternity, Simplicity, and Presence.” In The Science of Being as Being: Metaphysical Investigations. Edited by Gregory T. Doolan, 243-63. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2012.

“Introduction.” with Brian Davies, in The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas. Edited by Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump, 3-11. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

“God’s Simplicity.” In The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas. Edited by Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump, 135-46. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

“Resurrection and the Separated Soul.” In The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas. Edited by Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump, 458-66. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

“Providence and the Problem of Evil.” In The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas. Edited by Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump, 401-17. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

“The Problem of Suffering: A Thomistic Approach.” In Thomas Aquinas: Teacher and Scholar. Edited by James McEvoy, Michael W. Dunne, and Julia Hynes, 101-19. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012.

“Atonement and the Cry of Dereliction from the Cross.” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4.1 (Spring 2012): 1-17.

“The Nature of the Atonement.” In Reason, Metaphysics, and Mind: New Essays on the Philosophy of Alvin Plantinga. Edited by Kelly James Clark and Michael Rea, 128-44. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

“Emergence, Causal Powers, and Aristotelianism in Metaphysics.” in Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism. Edited by Ruth Groff and John Greco, 48-68. New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2013.

Wandering in Darkness: Further Reflections.” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4 (2012): 197-219.

“The Nature of a Simple God.” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 87 (2013): 33-42.

“Athens and Jerusalem: The Relationship of Philosophy and Theology.” Journal of Analytic Theology 1.1 (2013): 45-59.

“Christianity and the Contemporary Challenge.” In Christ Across the Disciplines. Edited by Roger Lundin, 117-32. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013.

“Conversion, Atonement, and Love.” In Conversion. Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, Conference 2011. Edited by Ingolf U. Dalferth and Michael Ch. Rodgers, 115-33. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.

“Not My Will but Thy Will Be Done: Aquinas and Eckhart on Willing what God Wills.” Medieval Mystical Theology 22.2 (2013).

“Narrative and the Knowledge of Persons.” Euresis 5 (2013): 153-69.

“Omnipresence, Indwelling, and the Second-Personal.” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 5.4 (2013): 29-53.

“On the Principles of Nature.” Translated by Eleonore Stump and Stephen Chanderbhan. In Thomas Aquinas, Basic Works. Edited by Jeffrey Hause and Robert Pasnau, 2-13. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2014.

“Faith, Wisdom, and the Transmission of Knowledge through Testimony.” in Religious Faith and Intellectual Virtue. Edited by Timothy O’Connor and Laura Frances Callahan, 204-30. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

“Vorwort.” In Göttliches Vorherwissen und menschliche Freiheit. Beiträge aus der aktuellen analytischen Religionsphilosophie. Edited by Eleonore Stump, Georg Gasser, and Johannes Grössl, 9-13. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer GmbH, 2015.

“Atonement and Eucharist.” In Locating Atonement: Explorations in Constructive 

Dogmatics. Edited by Oliver D. Crisp and Fred Sanders, 209-25. Grand Rapids, Zondervan, 2015.

“Simplicity and Aquinas’s Quantum Metaphysics.” In Die Metaphysik des Aristoteles im Mittelalter: Rezeption und Transformation. Edited by Gerhard Krieger, 191-210. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2016.

“Love and Forgiveness: Swinburne on Atonement.” In Reason and Faith: Themes from Richard Swinburne. Edited by Michael Bergmann and Jeffrey E. Brower, 148-70. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

“The Atonement and the Problem of Shame.” In Selected Papers in Honor of William P. Alston. Edited by Thomas D. Senor and Michael DePaul. Special supplement to Journal of Philosophical Research 41 (2016)111-29.

“The Problem of Evil and Atonement.” in Being, Freedom, and Method: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter van Inwagen. Edited by John A. Keller, 186-208. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

“Natural Law, Metaphysics, and the Creator.” In The Future of Creation Order: Vol. 1, Philosophical, Scientific, and Religious Perspectives on Order and Emergence. Edited by Gerrit Glas and Jeroen de Ridder, 33-49. New York: Springer, 2018.

“Theology and the Knowledge of Persons.” In New Models of Religious Understanding. Edited by Fiona Ellis, 172-90. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

“The Openness of God: Eternity and Free Will.” In Philosophical Essays Against Open Theism. Edited by Benjamin H. Arbour. New York: Routledge, 2018.

“Reply to Bishop.” In The Problem of Evil: Eight Views in Dialogue. Edited by N.N. Trakakis, 34-36. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

“Reply to Oppy.” In The Problem of Evil: Eight Views in Dialogue. Edited by N.N. Trakakis, 37-39. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

“Reply to Trakakis.” In The Problem of Evil: Eight Views in Dialogue. Edited by N.N. Trakakis, 39-41. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

“Response to Oppy.” In The Problem of Evil: Eight Views in Dialogue. Edited by N.N. Trakakis, 80-82. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

“Response to Bishop.” In The Problem of Evil: Eight Views in Dialogue. Edited by N.N. Trakakis, 54-56. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

“Response to Trakakis.” In The Problem of Evil: Eight Views in Dialogue. Edited by N.N. Trakakis, 107-109. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

“Atonement and Sacrifice.” In Das Letzte – der Erste. Gott denken (The Last – The First. Thinking God), a Festchrift in honor of Ingolf U. Dalferth. Edited by Hans-Peter Grosshans, Michael Moxter, and Philipp Stoellger, 395-413. Germany: Mohr Siebeck Tübingen, 2018.

“Introduction.” Res Philosophica 96.1 (January 2019), pp. 1-1.

“The Personal God of Classical Theism.” In The Question of God’s Perfection: Jewish and Christian Essays on the God of the Bible and Talmud. Part of the series Philosophy of Religion—World Religions Vol. 8. Edited by Yoram Hazony and Dru Johnson, 65-81. Leiden and Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2019.

—Reprinted in In Search of Harmony: Metaphysics and Politics. Edited by James G. Hanink. The American Maritain Association Book Series Vol. 29. Washington, DC: American Maritain Association; distributed by the Catholic University of America Press, 2019.

“The Doctrine of the Atonement: Response to Michael Rea, Trent Dougherty, and Brandon Warmke.” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 11.1 (2019), pp. 165-186.

“Union and Indwelling.” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 17.2 (2019): pp. 343-61.

“Dante on the Evil of Treachery—Narrative and Philosophy.” In Evil: A History. Edited by Andrew Chignell. Part of the Oxford Philosophical Concepts Series, edited by Christia Mercer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 252-7. Also published on Oxford Scholars Online URL.

“Narrative Cognition.” The Noesis Review (2019).

“Aquinas’s Ethics: The Infused Virtues and the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit.” Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 95.2 (2019): pp. 269-81.

Atonement: An Overview.” In a Religious Studies Symposium on Atonement. Edited by Yujin Nagasawa, 2019.

Atonement: Response to Critics.” In a Religious Studies Symposium on Atonement. Edited by Yujin Nagasawa, 2019.

The Sunflower: Guilt, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation.” in Forgiveness. Edited by Michael McKenna, Dana Nelkin, and Brandon Warmke. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

—Revised and reprinted as “Love, Guilt, and Forgiveness.” In Passions and the Emotions. Edited by Anthony O’Hear, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 85, 1-19. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

“Life after Death and the True Self.” In a volume on Death and Immortality, edited by T. Ryan Byerly, forthcoming.

“Worship and the True Self.” In a volume on Worship and the Divine. Edited by Samuel Lebens, forthcoming.

“Foreword.” In Reading Augustine: On Self-Harm, Narcissism, Atonement, and the Vulnerable Christ. Edited by David Vincent Meconi. New York: Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming.

“The Nature of a Human Person (Soul and Body), the True Self.” In The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas, second edition. Edited by Eleonore Stump and Thomas Joseph White. New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.