John P Burgess

Biographic Data

ID5604970
NAMEJohn P Burgess
GIVEN NAMESJohn P
FAMILY NAMEBurgess
SIGNATUREBURGESS J P
AFFILIATIONS(BA, Colorado College; MA and PhD, University of Chicago) is Professor of Systematic Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Why Read Pavel Florensky?

    Andrew Louth, John P Burgess et al.BOOKWhy Read Pavel Florensky?2024

  • A Nation’s Right to Exist

    J Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLEJournal of the Society of…2024

    In justifying Russian aggression against Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin asserts that Ukraine is neither a distinct nation nor a viable state. In response, this essay will establish a Christian account of Ukraine’s right to self-defense not only via just war criteria but also in relation to its purpose theologically as a nation-state. This essay, after reviewing Christian ethical positions that either reject or embrace the nation-state, draws o…

  • Democracy as Theological Dilemma for Historically Orthodox Nations

    Open AccessJ Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLEJournal of Church and State2022

    Democracy as Theological Dilemma for Historically Orthodox Nations John P Burgess John P Burgess [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, csaa102, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csaa102 Published: 21 December 2020

  • A Protestant Response to “Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World”

    J Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLEJournal of World Christianity2021

    This article sets forth a Protestant response to three key aspects of the Holy and Great Council’s “Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World” and related statements: (1) the Council’s understanding of ecumenical relations, (2) its vision of God’s transfiguration of all reality, and (3) the relation between theological reflection and church practice. The article concludes that Protestants will learn from the Council’s …

  • Blessing as the Ground of Morality

    J Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLEJournal of the Society of…2021

    This essay argues that Pavel Florensky (1882–1937), one of Russia’s most creative religious philosophers, makes an important contribution to Christian social ethics by positing “blessing” as a central moral act. Drawing on Orthodox liturgical practices of blessing, Florensky redescribes reality; it is filled with God’s energies. Especially in letters from the gulag, after his arrest in 1933 for “counter-revolutionary” activity, Florensky calls fo…

  • Kripke on Functionalism

    Open AccessJ Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLECritica2016

    Saul Kripke’s still largely unpublished views on functionalism in the philosophy of mind are expounded on the basis of a transcript of a 1984 lecture of his on the topic, and some unresolved questions identified

  • The Theological Politics of the Icon of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia

    J Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLEJournal of Church and State2016

    Journal Article The Theological Politics of the Icon of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia Get access John P. Burgess John P. Burgess [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 58, Issue 3, Summer 2016, Pages 483–507, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csv005 Published: 29 March 2015

  • Just War and the Peaceable Kingdom

    Open AccessJ Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLEHarvard Theological Review2014

    Nations love to go to war, argue leftist pacifists in democratic Western societies. By this account, governments cannot resist the temptation to assert their selfish interests by violent means. Political leaders use the language of just war to hide their real intentions: imperialistic domination and economic profit. These pacifists charge that with the Iraq war, the disastrous consequences of such politics have become hideously clear again

  • On a derivation of the necessity of identity

    Open AccessJ Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLESynthese2014Cited by: 2References: 18

  • A Jump Ahead”

    Open AccessWolf Krötke, J Peter Burge et al.ARTICLETheology Today2012

    North American Christians increasingly spe ak of the church’s missiological task in a post-Christian context. The situation of the church in Eastern Germany offers us important insights. This area, once the heart of the Reformation, is now among the most secularized parts of the world. Most people no longer know basic Christian language or practices. They are either indifferent about matters of faith or suspicious that Christianity, like all reli…

  • Truth

    Open AccessAlexis Burgess, Alexis G Burgess et al.BOOKTruth2011

    This book is a concise introduction to current philosophical debates about truth. Combining philosophical and technical material, the book is organized around, but not limited to, the view known as deflationism. In clear language, the book covers a wide range of issues, including the nature of truth, the status of truth–value gaps, the relationship between truth and meaning, relativism and pluralism about truth, and semantic paradoxes from Alfred…

  • Truth

    Open AccessAlexis G Burge, Alexis Burgess et al.BOOKTruth2011

    This is a concise introduction to current philosophical debates about truth. Combining philosophical and technical material, the book is organized around, but not limited to, the view known as deflationism. In clear language, Burgess and Burgess cover a wide range of issues, including the nature of truth, the status of truth-value gaps, the relationship between truth and meaning, relativism and pluralism about truth, and semantic paradoxes from A…

  • Mathematics, Models, and Modality

    Open AccessJ Peter Burge, John P BurgessBOOKMathematics, Models, and Modality2008

    John Burgess is the author of a rich and creative body of work which seeks to defend classical logic and mathematics through counter-criticism of their nominalist, intuitionist, relevantist, and other critics. This selection of his essays, which spans twenty-five years, addresses key topics including nominalism, neo-logicism, intuitionism, modal logic, analyticity, and translation. An introduction sets the essays in context and offers a retrospec…

  • Mathematics, Models, and Modality

    John P Burge, John P BurgessBOOKMathematics, Models, and Modality2008

  • Quine, Analyticity and Philosophy of Mathematics

    J Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2004Cited by: 2References: 3

    Quine correctly argues that Carnap's distinction between internal and external questions rests on a distinction between analytic and synthetic, which Quine rejects. I argue that Quine needs something like Carnap's distinction to enable him to explain the obviousness of elementary mathematics, while at the same time continuing to maintain as he does that the ultimate ground for holding mathematics to be a body of truths lies in the contribution th…

  • Truth and the Absence of Fact

    J Peter Burge, John P Burgess et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2002

  • Truth and the Absence of Fact

    J Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2002

    Book Review| October 01 2002 Truth and the Absence of Fact Hartry Field, Truth and the Absence of Fact. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 401. John P. Burgess John P. Burgess Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 602–604. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-4-602 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation John P. Burgess; Truth and the Absence of Fa…

  • Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics

    J Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2001Cited by: 1

    Book Review| January 01 2001 PLATONISM AND ANTI-PLATONISM IN MATHEMATICS PLATONISM AND ANTI-PLATONISM IN MATHEMATICS. By Mark Balaguer. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 217. John P. Burgess John P. Burgess Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (1): 79–82. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-110-1-79 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citati…

  • Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics

    J Peter Burge, John P Burgess et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2001

    In this deft and vigorous book, Mark Balaguer demonstrates that there are no good arguments for or against mathematical platonism (i.e., the view that abstract, or non-spatio-temporal, mathematical objects exist, and that mathematical theories are descriptions of such objects). Balaguer does this by establishing that both platonism and anti-platonism are defensible positions. In Part I, he shows that the former is defensible by introducing a nove…

  • A Subject with No Object

    Thomas Hofweber, J Peter Burge et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2001Cited by: 6

    Numbers and other mathematical objects are exceptional in having no locations in space or time or relations of cause and effect. This makes it difficult to account for the possibility of the knowledge of such objects, leading many philosophers to embrace nominalism, the doctrine that there are no such objects, and to embark on ambitious projects for interpreting mathematics so as to preserve the subject while eliminating its objects. A Subject Wi…

  • The East German Church and the End of Communism

    Bernd Schaefer, Bernd Schäfer et al.ARTICLEGerman Studies Review1999

    Burgess addresses the role of religion in the massive political changes that took place in Eastern Europe in 1989, focusing particularly on the role played by the East German Church in that country's bloodless revolution

  • A Subject with no Object

    Zoltan Gendler Szabo, J Peter Burge et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1999

  • Framing the Homosexuality Debate Theologically

    J Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLEReview of Religious Research1999Cited by: 5

  • Can I Know that my Time has Come

    Open AccessJ Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLETheology Today1994

  • Constructibility and Mathematical Existence

    J Peter Burge, John P Burgess et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1992