The Department of Philosophy & Religion offers majors and minors in both philosophy and religion, as well as a combined philosophy and religion major.

Below you will find scholarly and other professional works of faculty in Philosophy & Religion.

Submissions from 2010

Mechanisms, Causes, and the Layered Model of the World, Stuart Glennan

Submissions from 2009

Ephemeral Mechanisms and Historical Explanation, Stuart Glennan

The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in its Jewish Context, James F. McGrath

Barack Obama, Resort to Force, and U.S. Military Hegemony, Harry van der Linden

Questioning the Resort to U.S. Hegemonic Military Force, Harry van der Linden

Submissions from 2008

Review of The Crisis of Secularism, Chad M. Bauman

Productivity, relevance and natural selection, Stuart Glennan

History and Fiction in the Acts of Thomas: The State of the Question, James F. McGrath

Review of Kenneth E. Bailey, Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels, James F. McGrath

Submissions from 2007

The Crisis of Secularism in India, Chad M. Bauman

Whose Science and whose Religion? Reflections on the Relations between Scientific and Religious Worldviews, Stuart Glennan

Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900): Commentary, Paul Valliere

WOULD THE UNITED STATES DOCTRINE OF PREVENTIVE WAR BE JUSTIFIED AS A UNITED NATIONS DOCTRINE?, Harry van der Linden

Submissions from 2006

Book Review of "Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal", Chad M. Bauman

Singing of Satnam: Blind Simon Patros, Dalit Religious Identity, and Satnami-Christian Music in Chhattisgarh, India, Chad M. Bauman

Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900): Selected and edited by Paul Valliere, Paul Valliere

The Left and Humanitarian Intervention, Harry van der Linden

Submissions from 2005

Economic Migration and Justice, Harry van der Linden

“Questioning Just War Theory,” review of Michael Walzer, Arguing About War, Harry van der Linden

Submissions from 2004

"Immigration," "Immanuel Kant", and "Kantian Ethics", Harry van der Linden

Submissions from 2003

Explaining, Assessing, and Changing High Consumption, Harry van der Linden

Submissions from 2002

Review of Sharon Anderson-Gold, Unnecessary Evil: History and Moral Progress in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant (2001), Harry van der Linden

Submissions from 2001

Review of Alexander Kaufman, Welfare in the Kantian State (1999), Harry van der Linden

Submissions from 1998

A REBELLIOUS SON? HUGO ODEBERG AND THE INTERPRETATION OF JOHN 5.18, James F. McGrath

Change in Christology: New Testament Models and the Contemporary Task, James F. McGrath

Submissions from 1997

Going up and coming down in Johannine legitimation, James F. McGrath

Prologue as Legitimation: Christological Controversy and the Interpretation of John 1:1-18, James F. McGrath

The Dead Sea Scrolls Today, James F. McGrath

Uncontrived Messiah...?, James F. McGrath

Review of Roger J. Sullivan, An Introduction to Kant's Ethics (1994), Harry van der Linden

Submissions from 1996

Mechanisms and the Nature of Causation, Stuart Glennan

Johannine Christianity: Jewish Christianity?, James F. McGrath

Review of Barbara Thiering, "Jesus of the Apocalypse. The Life of Jesus after the Crucifixion”, James F. McGrath

Review of Lawrence H. Shiffman "Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls. The History of Judaism, the Background of Christianity, The Lost Library of Qumran", James F. McGrath

Review of The World of Classical Myth, Paula Saffire

Marx's Political Universalism, Harry van der Linden

Submissions from 1995

Kant, the Duty to Promote International Peace, and Political Intervention, Harry van der Linden

Submissions from 1994

Whip, Whipped, and Doctors: Homer's Illiad and Camus' The Plague, Paula Saffire

Cohens sozialistische Rekonstruktion der Ethik Kants, Harry van der Linden

Hermann Cohen’s Political Philosophy and the Communitarian Critique of Liberalism, Harry van der Linden

Submissions from 1992

Review of Philip Arieti's Interpreting Plato, Paula Saffire

Review of Hans Reiss, editor, Kant, Political Writings (1991), Harry van der Linden

Review of Kenneth Baynes, The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls, and Habermas (1992), Harry van der Linden

Review of Richard Dien Winfield, The Just Economy (1988), Harry van der Linden

Submissions from 1991

Review of Joan De Jean's Fictions of Sappho, Paula Saffire

Cohen, Collective Responsibility, and Economic Democracy, Harry van der Linden

Review of Richard L. Velkley, Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy (1989), Harry van der Linden

Submissions from 1990

Review of Helmut Holzhey, Cohen und Natorp (1986): Volume I, Ursprung und Einheit; Volume II, Der Marburger Neukantianismus in Quellen, Harry van der Linden

Submissions from 1988

Creative Involvement with the Texts: Bernhard Goetz and the Ancient Historians, Paula Saffire