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Robert Sweetman, PhD (University of Toronto), MSL (Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies) holds the H. Evan Runner Chair in the history of philosophy at ICS and is an Associate Member of the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Centre for the Study of Religion of the University of Toronto. Sweetman joined the ICS faculty in 1991, after teaching several years at Calvin College in Michigan. Sweetman's published articles include “Thomas of Cantimpré, Performative Reading and Pastoral Care,” “Plotting the Margins: The Management of Social Plurality in the Later Middle Ages,” “Of Tall Tales and Small Stories: Postmodern ‘Fragmatics’ and the Christian Historian,” “Love, Understanding and the Mystical Knowledge of God” and “Haunting Conceptual Boundaries: Miracle in the Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas,"   “Univocity, Analogy, and the Mystery of Being According to John Duns Scotus.” He has just published the book In the Phrygian Mode: Neo-Calvinism, Antiquity and the Lamentations of Reformational Philosophy, and finished a second book manuscript entitled Delineations: Re-Imagining the Adventure of Christian Scholarship.   He is currently working on a third book manuscript: Exemplary Care: Stoic Therapy, Dominican Pastoral Literature, and the Transformation of Human Identity, 1225-1275.

Telephone: 416-979-2331 ext. 231
http://www.icscanada.edu/faculty/bsweetman/

View my syllabus for: (in reverse chronological order)

Religion, Life, and Society: Reformational Philosophy
Love's Wisdom: Soundings in Pre- and Post-modern Philosophy
Albert the Great, Meister Eckhart and Women's Spirituality
Nature, Supernature and Miracle in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas
Faithful Thinking as 'World' Orientation: Augustine
Rhetoric as Philosophy from Isocrates to the Age of Abelard and Heloise

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