Американский богослов, философ и патролог.

Научные интересы: античная и средневековая философия, патристика, философия религии, межрелигиозные отношения.

В 1982 году окончил Аубурнский университет (Алабама, США) со степенью бакалавра физики. В 1996 году защитил докторскую диссертацию в Университете Техаса (США). Тема диссертации: "Действие, действительнось и энергия: Енергия у Аристотеля и в поздней греческой философии".

В 1992 -1995 гг. являлся преподавателем философии в Университете Техаса. В 1996-1997 гг. преподавал философию в Индианском университете. В 1997-2003 гг. являлся приглашенным профессором философского факультета Университета Кентукки. В 2003 году стал постоянным профессором факультета.

В настоящее время является деканом философского факультета Университета Кентукки.

Библиография

Книги
Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom (Cambridge University Press, 2004; paperback 2007). Winner of Forkosch Prize from Journal of the History of Ideas, 2004.

Статьи
“All Existing is the Action of God: The Philosophical Theology of David Braine.” The Thomist 60 (1996), 379-416.
“Aristotle on Perception: The Dual Logos Theory.” Apeiron 30 (1997), 143-61.
“In What Sense Is the Prime Mover Eternal?” Ancient Philosophy 17 (1997), 359-69.
“The Argument of the Digression in the Theaetetus.” Ancient Philosophy 17 (1997), 61-68.
“The Vision of God in Philo of Alexandria.” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 72 (1998), 483-500.
“Neoplatonic Origins of the Act of Being.” Review of Metaphysics 53 (1999), 383-401.
“A New Look at the Prime Mover.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 39 (2001), 1-22.
“Iamblichus and St. Gregory of Nyssa on Participation in the Divine Energeiai.” Journal of Neoplatonic Studies 9 (2001), 37-62.
“Faith and Reason in St. Anselm’s Monologion.” Philosophia Christi 4 (2002), 509-17.
“The Divine Energies in the New Testament.” St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 50 (2006), 189-223.
“The Divine Glory and the Divine Energies.” Faith and Philosophy 23 (2006), 279-98.
“The Concept of the Divine Energies.” Philosophy and Theology 18 (2006), 93-120.
“Time and Eternity in the Greek Fathers.” The Thomist 70 (2006), 311-66.
“The Mind and the Heart in the Christian East and West.” Faith and Philosophy, forthcoming.
“Divine Freedom in the Greek Patristic Tradition.” Quaestiones Disputatae (on-line journal), forthcoming.

Главы в книгах
“A Reply to Corvino.” Same Sex: Debating the Ethics, Science, and Culture of Homosexuality, ed. John Corvino (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), 17-30. Reprinted in Contemporary Moral Problems, ed. James White (Wadsworth Publishing, several editions).
Addendum to Chapter 6: “Philosophies of Greece, Rome, and the Near East” in World Philosophies by Ninian Smart (Routledge, 2008), 188-90.
“Augustine the Metaphysician.” Orthodox Readings of Augustine, ed. Aristotle Papanikolaou and George Demacopoulos (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2008), 227-51.
“The Opuscula Sacra: Boethius and Theology.” The Cambridge Companion to Boethius, ed. John Marenbon (Cambridge University Press, 2009), 105-28.
“Maximus the Confessor.” Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity, ed. Lloyd Gerson (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
“On Drawing the Mind into the Heart: Psychic Wholeness in the Greek Patristic Tradition” (Chinese translation). Reading Thomas Aquinas, ed. Kelly James Clark and Xu Xiangdong (Peking University Press, forthcoming).
“The First Cause, Creation, and Emanation.” Blackwell History of Philosophy in the Middle Ages, ed. John Inglis, Daniel Frank, and Taneli Kukkonen (Blackwell, forthcoming).