Christina Van Dyke, Associate Professor, Philosophy
616-526-6676
cvdyke@calvin.edu
Hiemenga Hall 350
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Educational Background
PhD, Philosophy, Cornell University, 2000
MA, Philosophy, Cornell University, 1997
BA, Philosophy and Classical Civilization, Calvin College, 1994
Courses
- Fundamental Questions in Philosophy (153)
- Ethics (205)
- Philosophy of Gender (211)
- Male Bodies in Current Culture (Interim)
Research Interests
Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind and Metaphysics, Philosophy of Gender, Ancient Philosophy
Books
The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, editor Robert Pasnau, associate editor Christina Van Dyke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Aquinas’s Ethics: Metaphysical Foundations, Moral Theory, and Theological Context (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009). Coauthored with Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung and Colleen McCluskey.
Recent Publications/Presentations
"Mysticism,” The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosoph (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
“Not Properly a Person: the Rational Soul and ‘Thomistic Substance Dualism,’” Faith and Philosophy (forthcoming).
"An Aristotelian Theory of Divine Illumination: Robert Grosseteste’s Commentary on the Posterior Analytics,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 17.4 (2009): 685-704.
"Human Identity, Immanent Causal Relations, and the Principle of Non-Repeatability: Thomas Aquinas on the Bodily Resurrection,” Religious Studies 43 (2007): 373-94.
"The Problem of the Rich Man and the Rich Man’s Soul: Aquinas on Personhood and Disembodied Souls,” Medieval Philosophy and Theology (forthcoming).
"Aquinas’s Metaphysics of Human Nature,” (in volume of edited papers from the 2006 Beijing International Conference in Medieval Philosophy, forthcoming).
"Eating as a Gendered Act: Christianity, Feminism, and Reclaiming the Body,” in Kelly James Clark (ed.), Readings in the Philosophy of Religion, 2nd Edition (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2008).
"The Beauty in Brokenness,” Perspectives: a Journal of Reformed Thought (March 2005).
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