Brian Leftow is the Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at Oriel College

Oriel College

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, Oxford

University of Oxford

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, succeeding Richard Swinburne

Richard Swinburne

Richard G. Swinburne is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Over the last 50 years Swinburne has been a very influential proponent of philosophical arguments for the existence of God. His philosophical contributions are primarily in philosophy of religion and...

, who retired in 2002. Leftow's research interests include metaphysics

Metaphysics

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, medieval philosophy

Medieval philosophy

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, and philosophical theology

Philosophical Theology

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. He is a graduate of Grove City College

Grove City College

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, and earned his M.A and Ph.D. at Yale University

Yale University

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. Before occupying the Nolloth chair at the University of Oxford, Leftow taught at Fordham University

Fordham University

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Selected works

• Divine Ideas, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming.
• Matter, Parts and Number: Aquinas' Philosophy of Mathematics. Oxford, forthcoming.
• "Anti Social Trinitarianism," in Steven Davis and Daniel Kendall, eds., The Trinity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• "The Eternal Now," in Gregory Ganssle and David Woodruff, eds., God and Time. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• "Necessary Being", and "Concepts of God," in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge Press, 1998.
• "Anselm on the Cost of Salvation," Medieval Philosophy and Theology. 1997.
• "Eternity," in The Cambridge Companion to Philosophy of Religion, ed. Philip Quinn and Charles Taliaffero. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
• "Divine Action and Embodiment," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1997.
• "Can Philosophy Argue God's Existence?" in The Rationality of Belief and The Plurality of Faith, ed. Tom Senor. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995.
• Time and Eternity. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991.