Simon Hewitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4641836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Hewitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Hewitt |
| SIGNATURE | HEWITT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2720-4428 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Life after Death after Marx
Karl Marx's criticism of religion, as applied to afterlife belief, needs to be taken seriously by Christian theologians. After outlining that belief, the author examines a picture of heaven implicit in much Christian belief and practice which is susceptible to that critique. he sets out an alternative eschatology, centred on the Kingdom of God and the resurrection of the body, which is somewhat less susceptible. He then explores whether a doctrin…
Late 1990s subscription-based online videogame film adaptations
This article explores an important moment in late 1990s US film and videogame industrial convergence. It does so through a Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) of the contemporaneous industrial paratexts surrounding three film-to-subscription-based online videogame adaptations, Aliens Online (1998), Godzilla Online (1998), and Independence Day Online (2000). It asks why these adaptations failed critically and commercially despite the critical praise…
On Omnipotence
The doctrine that God is unlimited in power has been challenged recently by figures such as Thomas Oord and Philip Goff. This article responds to these challenges from the perspective of classical theism. It is argued that omnipotence follows from God’s being the reason why there is something rather than nothing, and that understanding God in this way is the only coherent way of fleshing out the claim that God is the creator. The relationship of …
The theology of suffering and mental distress
In understanding the intersection of religion and psychopathology it is vital, clinically and philosophically, to attend to internal – theological – perspectives on mental distress. This article explores the Christian theology of mental distress, arguing that there is a tendency to sacralize suffering, in general, and psychological suffering, in particular. Alternative theological perspectives can be appealed to in order to counteract this sacral…
Human Beings and Ethics in the Thought of Herbert McCabe
Cartesian pictures of the human self and act-centred understandings of ethics dominate modern thought. Throughout his work, Herbert McCabe challenges these, and as such remains an important resource for philosophical and theological ethics. This paper lays out McCabe’s philosophical anthropology, showing how he draws on Wittgenstein to revive a Thomist account of the human person. It then shows how this anthropology feeds into a philosophical eth…
Need anything follow from a contradiction
Classical and intuitionistic logic both validate Ex Contradictione Quodlibet (ECQ), according to which any proposition whatsoever follows from a contradiction. Many philosophers have found ECQ counter-intuitive, but criticisms of the principle have almost universally been directed from a position of support for relevance or other orthodox paraconsistent logics, according to which some, but not necessarily all, propositions follow from a contradic…
Negation, denial and falsity
Negation, denial and falsity lie at the heart of debates about logic. We set out the classical account of the relationship between negation and denial, owing to Frege and Geach. We then challenge this on the basis that it does not permit an adequate account of falsity. A dialetheic alternative is minuted and criticised before a novel rejectivist account is proposed according to which falsity is the aim of the speech‐act of denial, whilst negation…
Herbert McCabe on God and Humanity
Over the eight hundred years of the English Dominican province, few of its members have matched the rigour and depth of thought of Herbert McCabe. This paper presents a brief overview of McCabe's thought, focusing first on his understanding of God and then on his conception of human beings. Like Thomas before him, McCabe thought it vital to think clearly and correctly about both God and humanity, an effort which in the case of God involves recogn…
Grammatical thomism
Centred on figures like Herbert McCabe, David Burrell, and Brian Davies the loose tradition known as grammatical thomism is undervalued within analytic philosophy of religion. This is particularly unfortunate, since a grammatical thomist approach offers the prospect of both a reorientation towards a more apophatic conception of God, consonant with the theology and practice of many religious traditions, and of moving beyond certain debates in the …
Disowning the Mystery
On the face of it Aquinas stands in the mainstream of Western mystical theology, and in particular is a noteworthy proponent of negative theology. This view, however, is challenged within anglophone philosophical theology. The clearest attack on the view that Aquinas is an apophatic theologian is to be found in Eleonore Stump's Aquinas. This paper lays out Stump's reasons for reading Aquinas as non-apophatic, and shows that they are not convincin…
Lead us not into Temptation
Recently a change to the Italian text of the Pater Noster has been proposed. Motivation for this change centers on worries about the suggestion that God leads us into temptation. This paper argues that these worries issue from a confused picture of the relationship between God and creaturely freedom. More fundamentally, however, the suggestion that these kind of worries ought to precipitate revision of liturgical texts fails to take seriously the…
Breton (Treger dialect)
Fairly broad transcription. Stress is strong. Unstressed vowels are short, stressed vowels are half long unless before fortis (voiceless, double) consonants or consonant clusters, where they are short. Adjacent vowels are in hiatus and thus form two syllables, w, j are consonantal except when final or before a consonant where they represent the second element of falling closing diphthongs. , ã = a in W. Treger, ã in E. Treger. Contingent nasality…
Breton (Treger dialect)
Fairly broad transcription. Stress is strong. Unstressed vowels are short, stressed vowels are half long unless before fortis (voiceless, double) consonants or consonant clusters, where they are short. Adjacent vowels are in hiatus and thus form two syllables, w, j are consonantal except when final or before a consonant where they represent the second element of falling closing diphthongs. , ã = a in W. Treger, ã in E. Treger. Contingent nasality…
Breton (Treger dialect)
Fairly broad transcription. Stress is strong. Unstressed vowels are short, stressed vowels are half long unless before fortis (voiceless, double) consonants or consonant clusters, where they are short. Adjacent vowels are in hiatus and thus form two syllables, w, j are consonantal except when final or before a consonant where they represent the second element of falling closing diphthongs. , ã = a in W. Treger, ã in E. Treger. Contingent nasality…
Disowning the Mystery
On the face of it Aquinas stands in the mainstream of Western mystical theology, and in particular is a noteworthy proponent of negative theology. This view, however, is challenged within anglophone philosophical theology. The clearest attack on the view that Aquinas is an apophatic theologian is to be found in Eleonore Stump's Aquinas. This paper lays out Stump's reasons for reading Aquinas as non-apophatic, and shows that they are not convincin…
Lead us not into Temptation
Recently a change to the Italian text of the Pater Noster has been proposed. Motivation for this change centers on worries about the suggestion that God leads us into temptation. This paper argues that these worries issue from a confused picture of the relationship between God and creaturely freedom. More fundamentally, however, the suggestion that these kind of worries ought to precipitate revision of liturgical texts fails to take seriously the…
Negation, denial and falsity
Negation, denial and falsity lie at the heart of debates about logic. We set out the classical account of the relationship between negation and denial, owing to Frege and Geach. We then challenge this on the basis that it does not permit an adequate account of falsity. A dialetheic alternative is minuted and criticised before a novel rejectivist account is proposed according to which falsity is the aim of the speech‐act of denial, whilst negation…
Herbert McCabe on God and Humanity
Over the eight hundred years of the English Dominican province, few of its members have matched the rigour and depth of thought of Herbert McCabe. This paper presents a brief overview of McCabe's thought, focusing first on his understanding of God and then on his conception of human beings. Like Thomas before him, McCabe thought it vital to think clearly and correctly about both God and humanity, an effort which in the case of God involves recogn…
Grammatical thomism
Centred on figures like Herbert McCabe, David Burrell, and Brian Davies the loose tradition known as grammatical thomism is undervalued within analytic philosophy of religion. This is particularly unfortunate, since a grammatical thomist approach offers the prospect of both a reorientation towards a more apophatic conception of God, consonant with the theology and practice of many religious traditions, and of moving beyond certain debates in the …
Need anything follow from a contradiction
Classical and intuitionistic logic both validate Ex Contradictione Quodlibet (ECQ), according to which any proposition whatsoever follows from a contradiction. Many philosophers have found ECQ counter-intuitive, but criticisms of the principle have almost universally been directed from a position of support for relevance or other orthodox paraconsistent logics, according to which some, but not necessarily all, propositions follow from a contradic…
Human Beings and Ethics in the Thought of Herbert McCabe
Cartesian pictures of the human self and act-centred understandings of ethics dominate modern thought. Throughout his work, Herbert McCabe challenges these, and as such remains an important resource for philosophical and theological ethics. This paper lays out McCabe’s philosophical anthropology, showing how he draws on Wittgenstein to revive a Thomist account of the human person. It then shows how this anthropology feeds into a philosophical eth…
Life after Death after Marx
Karl Marx's criticism of religion, as applied to afterlife belief, needs to be taken seriously by Christian theologians. After outlining that belief, the author examines a picture of heaven implicit in much Christian belief and practice which is susceptible to that critique. he sets out an alternative eschatology, centred on the Kingdom of God and the resurrection of the body, which is somewhat less susceptible. He then explores whether a doctrin…
Late 1990s subscription-based online videogame film adaptations
This article explores an important moment in late 1990s US film and videogame industrial convergence. It does so through a Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) of the contemporaneous industrial paratexts surrounding three film-to-subscription-based online videogame adaptations, Aliens Online (1998), Godzilla Online (1998), and Independence Day Online (2000). It asks why these adaptations failed critically and commercially despite the critical praise…
On Omnipotence
The doctrine that God is unlimited in power has been challenged recently by figures such as Thomas Oord and Philip Goff. This article responds to these challenges from the perspective of classical theism. It is argued that omnipotence follows from God’s being the reason why there is something rather than nothing, and that understanding God in this way is the only coherent way of fleshing out the claim that God is the creator. The relationship of …
The theology of suffering and mental distress
In understanding the intersection of religion and psychopathology it is vital, clinically and philosophically, to attend to internal – theological – perspectives on mental distress. This article explores the Christian theology of mental distress, arguing that there is a tendency to sacralize suffering, in general, and psychological suffering, in particular. Alternative theological perspectives can be appealed to in order to counteract this sacral…
Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Karl Barth and Christian Theology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Theology and Philosophy of Evil (4 works) · Medieval Philosophy and Theology (3 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works)