Edmund Lazzari, PhL, PhD
Adjunct Professor
lazzarie@duq.edu
Miracles in Said Nursi and Thomas Aquinas: Non-Noninterventionist Approaches to Divine action and the Sciences (Routledge, 2025) https://www.routledge.com/Miracles-in-Said-Nursi- and-Thomas-Aquinas-Non-Noninterventionist-Approaches-to-Divine-Action-and-the- Sciences/MichaelLazzari/p/book/9781032819419
Why Nature Matters: Unlocking Divine Action through Commonsense Philosophy (New Priory Press, 2022)
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Nature-Matters-Commonsense-Philosophy-ebook/ dp/B0BPNSXRLZ
“Multiple Incarnations and the Scandal of Particularity,” Review-Essay of Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine by Andrew Davison, Nova et Vetera 24 (2026): 661–680
“Miracles and the Natural Sciences,” Encyclopedia of Catholic Theology https://www.ect.org/en/article/miracles-and-the-natural-sciences
“Is Jesus Physically Present in the Eucharist? Or How Not to Teach Berengarius” Religions 16 (2025): 1497, https//doi.org/10.3390/rel16121497
“The Divine Nature Is Not a Cause among Causes: A Response to Kittle and Sollereder.” Theology and Science 23 (2025): 543–555. https://doi.org/10.1080/14746700.2025.2514304
“AI/ML Chatbots‘ Souls, or Transformers: Less than Meets the Eye, ” New Blackfriars 105 (2024): 47-50. https://doi.org/10.1017/nbf.2023.9
“Laws of Science, Ṭ abī’a’, and the Mânâ-yı harfî : Can There Be An Islamic Aristotelianism? ” Katre: Interational Human Studies Journal 8 (2023): 29- 40. https://doi.org/10.53427/katre.1386193
“Why Angels and Aliens Do Not Receive the Sacraments, ” New Blackfriars 103 (2022): 678-685. https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12737
“The Cosmic Catastrophe of History: Patristic Angelology and Augustinian Theology of History in Tolkien’s ‘Long Defeat,’” Journal of Tolkien Research , 14.2.5 (2022): 1-9
“Virtual Catholicism? A Phenomenological and Psychosomatic Critique, ” Antiphon 25.3 (2021): 318-331. https://doi.org/10.1353/atp.2021.0028
“John Finnis’s Philosophical Ethics in the Catholic Tradition: A Response to Recent Criticism, ” Lex Naturalis 6 (2021): 51-86.
“Renewability and Land-Ethic: The Proto-Ecological Ethics of Rerum Novarum, ” Asian Horizons 15.2 (2021): 394-406.
“An Anscombian Approach to Beauty in Sacred Music,” Antiphon 22.3 (2018): 243–261. https://doi.org/10.1353/atp.2018.0023
“Would St. Thomas Aquinas Baptize an Extraterrestrial? ” New Blackfriars 99 (2018): 440- 457. https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12319
“The Hymns of Lauds,” Sacred Music 143.1 (Spring 2016): 7-25
“Apophaticism and Nature in St. Gregory of Nyssa‘s ‘On Not Three Gods,’” Dunwoodie Review 39 (2016): 149-162
“An ‘Intellectual‘ Conversion in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas,” Dunwoodie Review 38 (2015): 84-95.
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