Onsi Aaron Kamel / أنسي هرون كامل

Place as a Metaphysical Problem in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas’ particular synthesis of Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism, and the intellectual tradition it inaugurated, has at least twice faced critical challenges from developments in physics. Bes...

I'm pleased to share my latest journal article, "Place as a Metaphysical Problem in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas," in Modern Theology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

30.01.2025 13:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, I think we agree. Really appreciate your comments, and I'm grateful to hear you think the article is worth reading.

28.11.2024 14:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is probably the strangest one I've ever gotten, but they are always good.

27.11.2024 01:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations! What wonderful news.

24.11.2024 10:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Huge! Congratulations!

21.11.2024 16:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

الكنيسة الإنجيلية بحدائق القبة

The plaque is dedicated to my great-grandfather, Faheem, born in the village of Sharunah, who founded the congregation (or, more accurately, "God built the church by his hands").

16.11.2024 12:33 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

More pictures from my recent trip to Egypt: food and sweets at a Palestinian restaurant in Cairo.

16.11.2024 12:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Enoch Kuo, a recent PhD from the Princeton Religion department, has given a great deal of thought to early modern and modern natural sciences (and the institutional arrangements that give them the shape they have taken) and their relationship to the modern university, humanities, and theology.

16.11.2024 11:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Put another way, watching one person of brilliance build within a system is the means to learning how to build within it oneself.

15.11.2024 19:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have found it helpful to think about intensive focus on one figure as a means to learning one instance of a tradition really well, the better to get a handle on the relevant tradition itself. The sense for how various pieces fit together is also the sense for how they can be re-shuffled.

15.11.2024 19:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Figured I'd get my account going with some pictures from my most recent trip to Egypt. Starting with Mar Girgis church. The first picture is the view from the Mar Girgis metro stop (the Cairo metro is so clean!), and the second is the view of the dome from inside.

15.11.2024 11:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0