People
David Burrell, C.S.C.
Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor in Philosophy and Theology
(A.B., University of Notre Dame, 1954; S.T.L., Gregorian University, Rome, 1960; Ph.D., Yale University, 1965)
Profile
Burrell has been working since 1982 in comparative issues in philosophical theology in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as evidenced in Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas (Notre Dame, 1986), and Freedom and Creation in Three Traditions, (Notre Dame, 1993), and two translations of al-Ghazali: Al-Ghazali on the Ninety-Nine Beautiful Names of God (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1993) and Al-Ghazali on Faith in Divine Unity and Trust in Divine Providence [=Book 35 of his Ihya Ulum ad-Din] (Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2001). With Elena Malits he co-authored Original Peace (New York: Paulist, 1998). A translation of al-Ghazali's "Aims of the Philosophers" is forthcoming from Brigham Young University Press. He served as Luce Professor of Abrahamic Faiths at Hartford Seminary and University of Hartford in the fall of 1998, and has been asked to direct the University's Jerusalem program, housed at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute each spring until 2004.
Earlier published writings include Analogy and Philosophical Language (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1973), Exercises in Religious Understanding (Notre Dame IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1975), Aquinas: God and Action (Notre Dame IN: University of Notre Dame Press / London: Routlege and Kegan Paul, 1979), and an edition (with Bernard McGinn): God and Creation (Notre Dame IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990).
Contact
327 Malloy Hall
574-631-7094
David.B.Burrell.1@nd.edu
Website: www.nd.edu/~dburrell/