Ep. 111 - ’The Essence-Energies Distinction & Philosophy of Religion’ w/ Dr. David Bradshaw

Dr. David Bradshaw is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin in 1996 with a specialization in ancient philosophy. He is the author of Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom (2004) and the editor of Philosophical Theology and the Christian Tradition: Russian and Western Perspectives (2012) and Ethics and the Challenge of Secularism: Russian and Western Perspectives (2013), as well as co-editor of Natural Theology in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition (2021). He also edited the section on “The Greek Christian Tradition” for Medieval Philosophy: A Multicultural Reader, ed. Bruce Foltz (2019). He also just published Divine Energies and Divine Action, in which he explores further the Essence-Energies distinction.

Dr. Bradshaw joins me to discuss why philosophy matters, what the "energies" of God are, and why your theology has real world consequences (something subscribers to this channel have heard us discuss at length, in the past.)

Some places to check out his work, and sites to purchase the books:

https://uky.academia.edu/DBradshaw

https://philpeople.org/profiles/david-bradshaw

https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/users/dbradsh

https://www.amazon.com/Aristotle-East-West-Bradshaw/dp/0521035562/ref=sr_1_1?crid=9PHPRYJEHM1O&keywords=%22david+bradshaw%22&qid=1689172125&s=books&sprefix=david+bradshaw+%2Cstripbooks%2C92&sr=1-1