Carl A. Vater, PhD

Monographs

God’s Knowledge of the World: Medieval Theories of Divine Ideas from Bonaventure to Ockham (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2022)

Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

“Medieval Theories of Divine Simplicity and Distinction,” Nova et Vetera (English edition) (forthcoming)

“The Program of Priestly Formation and the Mission of Saint Vincent College,” Conversatio 3, n. 1 (2023): 49–60.

“Learning for Its Own Sake: Saint Bonaventure’s Reply,” Conversatio 2, n. 1 (2022): 45–58.

“The Absence of Divine Ideas in the Summa Contra Gentiles,” New Blackfriars 102, n. 1102 (February 2022). 979–96. https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12639.

“An Inconsistency in Aquinas’s De veritate Account of Divine Ideas” Nova et Vetera 18.2 (2020): 639–52.
Cited in Benjamin R. DeSpain, Thinking Theologically about the Divine Ideas: Reexamining the Summa of Thomas Aquinas (Leiden: Brill, 2022)

With Timothy B. Noone, “The Sources of Scotus’s Theory of Divine Ideas.” In J.F. Falà and I.
Zavattero, Divine Ideas in Franciscan Thought (XIIIth–XIVth century), 85–111. Flumen Sapientiae: Studi sul pensiero medievale 8. Rome: Aracane, 2018.

“The Role of the Virtus Formativa in St. Thomas Aquinas’s Account of Embryogenesis,” The Thomist 82 (2018): 113–32.