Overview
Gestures of Grace is a celebration of the life and career of Robert Sweetman, H. Evan Runner Chair in the History of Philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies (2001-present). These essays, written by students and colleagues, testify to the remarkable breadth and depth of Sweetman's research and teaching, from his early scholarly career at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies to his time at ICS. Throughout the volume, there is extensive engagement with Sweetman's influential historical scholarship on topics such as the emergence and development of the Dominican order in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, medieval women authors, Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, and indeed on Sweetman's own systematic contribution to the nature and promise of Christian scholarship today.
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Author: Joshua Lee Harris ,
Héctor A Acero Ferrer ,
Ronald A Kuipers
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Imprint: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.572kg
ISBN: 9781666776034
ISBN 10: 1666776033
Pages: 298
Publication Date: 13 December 2023
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""Joshua Lee Harris and Héctor A. Acero Ferrer's collection of essays in honor of Prof. Robert Sweetman is a remarkably fine tribute to an outstanding medievalist and Christian scholar who engages in contemporary as well as historical thought. The collection, unlike so many other Festschriften, offers studies by a wide-ranging group of contributors who enter into dialogue with the equally catholic work of the scholar honored. No better tribute could be imagined for so broad, yet scholarly and keenly philosophical a mind, as Sweetman's."" --Timothy B. Noone, chair in philosophy, The Catholic University of America"
"""Joshua Lee Harris and H�ctor A. Acero Ferrer's collection of essays in honor of Prof. Robert Sweetman is a remarkably fine tribute to an outstanding medievalist and Christian scholar who engages in contemporary as well as historical thought. The collection, unlike so many other Festschriften, offers studies by a wide-ranging group of contributors who enter into dialogue with the equally catholic work of the scholar honored. No better tribute could be imagined for so broad, yet scholarly and keenly philosophical a mind, as Sweetman's."" --Timothy B. Noone, chair in philosophy, The Catholic University of America"
Author Information
Joshua Lee Harris is associate professor of philosophy at The King's University in Edmonton, AB, where he teaches various core and specialty courses in the philosophy department. Joshua's scholarly work centers on problems in the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the philosophy of social science. He has published in journals such as Res Philosophica, Ergo, Faith and Philosophy, and Philosophy East and West, among others, and is the lead editor of Philosophical Perspectives on Existential Gratitude (2023). Héctor A. Acero Ferrer is associate director of the Institute for Christian Studies' Centre for Philosophy, Religion, and Social Ethics. In addition to this role, Héctor is program coordinator of Martin Luther University College's BA in Christian studies & global citizenship, where he teaches courses on social justice, contextual theology, and intersectionality. Héctor's scholarly work explores how Liberation Theology contributes to the development of distinctive notions of justice, reconciliation, and peace in post-colonial Latin America.
