Fr. Michael Dodds' Publications & Media

Unlocking Divine Action: Contemporary Science and Thomas Aquinas. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2012.

Philosophical Anthropology. Oakland, CA: Western Dominican Province, 2014.

The Philosophy of Nature. Oakland, CA: Western Dominican Province, 2010.

The Unchanging God of Love: Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Theology on Divine Immutability. Second Edition. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2008.

The Seeker's Guide to Seven Life-Changing Virtues. By Bill Dodds and Michael J. Dodds, OP. Chicago: Loyola Press, 1999.

Happily Ever After Begins Here and Now: Living the Beatitudes Today. By Bill Dodds and Michael J. Dodds, OP. Chicago: Loyola Press, 1997. [Republished by Bill Dodds, lulu.com, 2010]

The Unchanging God of Love: A Study of the Teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas on Divine Immutability in View of Certain Contemporary Criticism of this Doctrine. Fribourg, Switzerland: Editions Universitaires, 1986.

'Causality', St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology. Edited by Brendan N. Wolfe et al. https://www.saet.ac.uk/Christianity/Causality (2023)

"From the Action of Creatures to the Existence of God: The First Way, Science, and the Philosophy of Nature." Nova et Vetera 19, 2 (2021): 739-68.

"The Reception of Aquinas in the Philosophy of Nature and Science." In The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas. Edited by Matthew Levering and Marcus Plested. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, 539-53.

"Thomas Aquinas," in T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and the Modern Sciences. Edited by John Slattery. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2020, 105-115.

“The Doctrine of Causality in Aquinas and The Book of Causes: One Key to Understanding the Nature of Divine Action.” In Aquinas's Sources. Edited by Timothy L. Smith. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, (forthcoming). [Also:http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/ti00/dodds.htm.]

“Top Down, Bottom Up or Inside Out? Retrieving Aristotelian Causality in Contemporary Science.” In Science, Philosophy and Theology. Edited by John O'Callaghan. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, (forthcoming). [Also:http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/ti/dodds.htm].

“The God of Life, the Science of Life, and the Problem of Language.” In God: Reason and Reality. Edited by Anselm Ramelow, O.P. Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 2014, 197-231.

“God, Proofs for the Existence of.” By Raymond Carroll Smith, O.P., and Michael J. Dodds, O.P. In New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-13: Ethics and Philosophy. 4 vols. Edited by Robert L. Fastiggi. Detroit: Gale, 2013, 2:622-30.

“Causality, Divine.” By Thomas Chrysostom O'Brien, O.P., and Michael J. Dodds, O.P. In New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-13: Ethics and Philosophy. 4 vols. Edited by Robert L. Fastiggi. Detroit: Gale, 2013, 1:225-30.

“Unlocking Divine Action: Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Science.” In Dominicans and the Challenge of Thomism. Edited by Michal Paluch and Piotr Lichacz. Warsaw: Institut Tomistyczny, 2012, 131-41.

“Scientific Vetoes and the 'Hands-off' God: Divine Immanence, Quantum Mechanics, and the Search for a Better Way.” Response to Thomas Tracy, “Scientific Vetoes and the “Hands-off” God: Can We Say that God Acts in History?” Theology and Science 10 (2012): 89-94.

“Nauki empiryczne, język i Bóg życia.” Translated by Mariusz Tabaczek, O.P. Teofil 31, no. 2 (2012): 222-50.

“Hylomorphism and Human Wholeness: Perspectives on the Mind-Brain Problem.” Theology and Science 7 (2009): 141-62.

“Unlocking Divine Causality: Aquinas, Contemporary Science, and Divine Action.” Angelicum 86 (2009): 67-86.

“The Teaching of Thomas Aquinas on the Mysteries of the Life of Christ (Summa Theologiae, Part III, Questions 27-45).” In Aquinas on Doctrine: a Critical Introduction. Edited by Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM. Cap., Daniel Keating and John Yocum. London: T&T Clark/ Continuum, 2004, 91-115.

“Science, Causality and Divine Action: Classical Principles for Contemporary Challenges.” CTNS Bulletin, 21, nr.1 (Winter, 2001): 3-12.

“Of Angels, Oysters and an Unchanging God: Aquinas on Divine Immutability.” Listening 30 (1995): 35-49.

“Ultimacy and Intimacy. Aquinas on the Relation between God and the World.” In Ordo Sapientiae et Amoris, Image et message de Saint Thomas d'Aquin à travers les récentes études historiques, herméneutiques et doctrinales. Hommage au Professeur Jean-Pierre Torrell, OP. Edited by Carlos-Josaphat Pinto de Oliveira. Fribourg: Editiones Universitaires, 1993, pp.211-227.

“Thomas Aquinas, Human Suffering, and the Unchanging God of Love.” Theological Studies 52 (1991): 330-44.

“St. Thomas Aquinas and the Motion of the Motionless God.” New Blackfriars. 63(1987) 233-242. (Reprinted in J. Van der Veken, ed., God and Change: Process Thought and the Christian Doctrine of God. Leuven: Center for Metaphysics and Philosophy of God, 1987. p.233-242.)

“What's Right with the Catholic Church Today!” By Michael J. Dodds, OP, et al. Catholic Dossier 3, no. 6 (November-December, 1997): 18.

“Science, Causality, and Divine Action,” Angelicum 91 (2014): 13-35.

“Divine Action Unlocked: Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Science.” Josephenum 20, 2 (2013): 1-13.

“Unlocking Divine Action: Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Science.” In Dominicans and the Challenge of Thomism. Edited by Michal Paluch and Piotr Lichacz. Warsaw: Institut Tomistyczny, 2012, 131-41.

Translation of Jan Ambaum, “An Empty Hell? The Restoration of all Things? Balthasar's Concept of Hope for Salvation.” Communio 18 (1991): 35-52.

Translation of Horst Bürkle, “Guilt and its Resolution outside the Christian Tradition.” Communio 16 (1989): 172-85.

“The Reality of the Soul in an Age of Neuroscience,” Nova et Vetera (forthcoming)

“Philosophy of Nature/Science.” In The Oxford Handbook on the Reception of Aquinas. Edited by Matthew Levering. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming)

“Chapter 13. St. Thomas Aquinas,” in Christian Theology and the Modern Sciences. Edited by John Slattery. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, forthcoming.”Deus providebit: Providence, Prayer, and Science,” Touchstone (Canada) 36, 2 (2018): 31-39.

“The Abiding Compassion of the Unchanging God of Love,” Light and Life: Voice of The Rosary Center and Confraternity 71, 1 (2018): 2-4.

“Thomas Aquinas vis-à-vis Natural Theology, Theology of Nature, and Religious Naturalism,” Theology and Science 15, 3 (2017): 266-75.

“Introduction” in God: An Introduction to Problems in Theology, by Cornelio Fabro, ed. Nathaniel Dreyer, tr. Joseph T. Papa (Chillum, MD: IVE Press, 2017), ix-xvi.

“Aquinas, Divine Action, and the Liber de Causis,” in Habitus fidei - Die Überwindung der eigenen Gottlosigkeit: Festschrift für Richard Schenk OP zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. Jeremiah Alberg and Daniela Köder (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2016), 193-218.

“Gdzie jest Jezus?” [Where is Jesus?—A Gospel Meditation], W Drodze Miesięcznik (December 1, 2016).

“Jak to jest być owcą” [What s it like to be a Sheep?—A Gospel Meditation], W Drodze Miesięcznik (September 1, 2016), 138.

“Dobre rady” [Good Advice—A Gospel Meditation], W Drodze Miesięcznik (June 1, 2016): 140.

“Response to John R. Searle's 'The Future of Philosophy,'” Nova et Vetera 14, 2 (2016): 559-64.

“'Of All the Gin Joints…' Causality, Science, Chance, and God,” Nova et Vetera 14, 2 (2016): 503-25.

“Przepaść miłosierdzia” [A Great Mercy—A Gospel Meditation], W Drodze Miesięcznik (March 1, 2016): 137.

“Słowo w pajęczej sieci” [The Word in the Spider's Web—A Gospel Meditation], W Drodze Miesięcznik (January 1, 2016): 133.

Nicholas E. Lombardo, O.P. The Logic of Desire: Aquinas on Emotion. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2011. Pro Ecclesia (forthcoming).

D. Z. Phillips, The Problem of Evil and the Problem of God. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004. Nova et Vetera (forthcoming)

James E. Dolezal, God Without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Metaphysics of God’s Absoluteness. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2011. Thomist 77 (2013): 625-29.

James F. Keating and Thomas Joseph White, O.P., editors, Divine Impassibility and the Mystery of Human Suffering. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009. Pro Ecclesia19 (2010): 460-63.

Dietrich von Hildebrand, The Heart: an Analysis of Human and Divine Affectivity. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2007. Review of Metaphysics 62 (2008): 164-66.

Lawrence Dewan, O.P., Form and Being: Studies in Thomistic Metaphysics. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2006. The Thomist 71 (2007): 323-326.

Anselm K. Min, Paths to the Triune God: an Encounter Between Aquinas and Recent Theologies. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. Theological Studies 68 (2007): 197-199.

F. F. Centore, Theism or Atheism: the Eternal Debate. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. Thomist 69 (2005): 335-339.

Colin E. Gunton, Act and Being: Towards a Theology of the Divine Attributes. Grand Rapids: W. B. Eerdmans, 2003. Theological Studies 66 (2005): 935.

Oliva Blanchette, Philosophy of Being: A Reconstructive Essay in Metaphysics. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003. Thomist 68 (2004): 469-472.

John Capreolus, On the Virtues. Translated by Kevin White and Romanus Cessario, O.P. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2001. Theological Studies 64 (2003): 193-194.

F. Michael McLain and W. Mark Richardson, eds. Human and Divine Agency: Anglican, Catholic, and Lutheran Perspectives. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999. CTNS Bulletin 20 (Spring, 2000) 30-32. (Reprinted in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 104 (October, 2003), 70-74.)

Frederick E. Crowe, Three Thomist Studies. Boston: Lonergan Workshop, 2000. Theological Studies 62 (2001): 653.

Thomas G. Weinandy, O.F.M. Cap., Does God Suffer? Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000. Theological Studies 61 (2000): 769-770.

Stephen T. Davis. God, Reason and Theistic Proof. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1997; and Richard Swinburne. Is There a God? New York: Oxford, 1996. Thomist 63 (1999): 334-37.

Thomas O'Meara, O.P. Thomas Aquinas: Theologian. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. Horizons 25(1998): 321-22.

Greg Dues. Catholic Customs and Traditions: a Popular Guide., Mystic, CT: Twenty-third Publications, 1994. Catholic Heritage 5, no. 5(July/August, 1996): 28.

Fabrizio Amerini, Aquinas on the Beginning and End of Human Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. Review of Metaphysics 68 (2014): 413-15.

W. Norris Clarke, S.J. Explorations in Metaphysics: Being, God, Person. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994. Theological Studies 57 (1996): 161-63.

Barry Miller. From Existence to God: a Contemporary Philosophical Argument. New York: Routeledge, 1992. Thomist 58 (1994): 364-68.

Richard M. Gale. On the Nature and Existence of God. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Thomist 57 (1993): 317-321.

Peter C. Hodgson. God in History: Shapes of Freedom. Nashville: Abingdon, 1989. Thomist 54 (1990): 361-65.

John J. O'Donnell. The Mystery of the Triune God. London: Sheed and Ward, 1988. New Blackfriars 71 (1990): 462-63.

Claude Geffré, OP. The Risk of Interpretation: On Being Faithful to the Christian Tradition in a Non-Christian Age. Translated by David Smith. New York: Paulist, 1987. Thomist 53 (1989): 156-60.

David B. Burrell. Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986. New Blackfriars 69 (1988): 45-46.

Robert Joseph Matava. Divine Causality and Human Free Choice: Domingo Banez, Physical Premotion, and The Controversy De Auxiliis Revisited. Leiden: Brill, 2016. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 92, 4 (2018):714-17.

Emmanuel Durand, Évangile et Providence: Une théologie de l'action de Dieu. Paris: Cerf, 2014. The Thomist 80, 1 (2016): 133-36.

John F. X. Kansas, Aquinas and the Cry of Rachel: Thomistic Reflections on the Problem of Evil. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2013. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 89 (2015): 163-66.

“Faith, Science, and the Creator.” Interview on the DVD, Cosmic Origins: The Scientific Evidence for Creation, presented by Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J. San Francisco: Ignatius Press and Origin Entertainment, 2012

“Daily Meditations for December, 2012.” Our Sunday Visitor's My Daily Visitor 55, no. 6 (November/December 2012), Huntington IN: Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., 2012

“Genesis, Science, and Thomas Aquinas.” Interview by Chris Graney on the program, “Science and Catholicism,” on Holy Family Radio, WLCR AM 1040, Louisville, KY, aired November 21, 2012. Available online at: http://www.wlcr.org/page.php?page=archives-sc.

“Daily Meditations for April 2009.” Our Sunday Visitor's My Daily Visitor 53, no. 2 (March/April 2009), Huntington IN: Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., 2009.

“Daily Meditations for December, 2007.” Our Sunday Visitor's My Daily Visitor 51, no. 6 (November/December, 2007), Huntington IN: Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., 2007.

“Keys to Divine Action: Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Science.” Ad gentes. Publication of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology. (Winter, 2012): 1-7.

“Toward Understanding the Trinity.” Interview by Timothy Putnam on the program, “Outside the Walls,” broadcast on Oklahoma Catholic Broadcasting; St. Michael Catholic Radio; and Iowa Catholic Radio, aired on June 2, 2018. Available online here.