Professor Bradshaw is a specialist in ancient and medieval philosophy, especially metaphysics, natural theology, and philosophy of mind. He also has interests in philosophy of religion and the interaction between philosophy and theology. His recent book, Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom, is a study of the role of metaphysics in the division between the eastern and western branches of Christianity. It begins with Aristotle and the pagan Neoplatonists, and continues through representative thinkers such as Augustine, Boethius, and Aquinas (in the West) and Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, and Gregory Palamas (in the East). It has been awarded the Forkosch Prize by the Journal of the History of Ideas as the best work of intellectual history by a new author published in 2004.

Recent Publications:

"The Opuscula Sacra: Boethius and Theology." The Cambridge Companion to Boethius, ed. John Marenbon (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

"Augustine the Metaphysician." Orthodox Readings of Augustine, ed. George Demacoupolos & Aristotle Papanikolaou (Fordham University Press, forthcoming).

"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.

"Time and Eternity in the Greek Fathers," The Thomist 70 (2006), 311-66.

Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Courses Recently Taught:

PHI 700: Aristotle's Metaphysics

PHI 503: Aristotle & Aristotelians on the Mind

PHI 503: Nietzsche & the Greeks

PHI 506: Neoplatonism

PHI 545: Philosophy of Religion

PHI 700: Plato's Late Dialogues

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