Michael Root
Biographic Data
| ID | 964833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Root |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Root |
| SIGNATURE | ROOT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-0126-0557 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Alfonso Salmerón on the Scriptures
Regensburg 1–4 and the Catholic Tradition
The opening four articles of the Regensburg Colloquy are here compared with the treatment of the same topics by the Council of Trent’s Decrees on Original Sin and on Justification and by the Catholic–Lutheran Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification. Attention is paid to the way each of the three texts were written to play specific ecclesiastical functions, which shaped the kind of agreements sought in each text. A broad similarity is n…
Ecumenism and Philosophy
Community-Based Research
The Development of Doctrine
In this essay, a Lutheran understanding of the development of doctrine is developed, in contrast with what George Lindbeck calls ‘historical situationalism’, the limitations of which are analysed. While the final authority of doctrine is a function of its evangelical content, a particular historical development of church teaching can possess a subordinate, distinct, formal authority as an authoritative sign of the material authority of its conten…
The Number of Black Widows in the National Academy of Sciences
Studies in the social and biomedical sciences of racial differences in socioeconomic status or health within a population view the race of members as fixed and look for a difference in the frequency of a trait like average income or disease risk between racial subgroups. But, as I explain in this paper, there are good reasons to allow the race of members to vary with the trait whose variation within the population is to be described or explained.…
Aquinas, Merit, and Reformation Theology after the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification
Lutheran considerations of Aquinas have been shaped by the Reformation division. Can a Reformation consideration of Aquinas on merit move beyond either false contrast or false harmonization? Merit plays a limited, but important role in Aquinas' understanding of God's movement of the human self toward its end of eternal life. Lutheran differences from Aquinas on merit also focus on eternal life. While much of the difference is rooted in difference…
Interpretation Updated
IN 1982, SEVEN PEOPLE in the Chicago area died after taking Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. Newspapers at the time wondered about the motives of the killer. A few looked for an economic motive for the crime and speculated that the killer was an investor in Johnson and Johnson, the manufacturer of the drug, who had sold his stock in the company short. According to this economic interpretation of the event, the deaths, the killer reasoned, wou…
The Use of Race in Medicine as a Proxy for Genetic Differences
Race is a prominent category in medicine. Epidemiologists describe how rates of morbidity and mortality vary with race, and doctors consider the race of their patients when deciding whether to test them for sickle-cell anemia or what drug to use to treat their hypertension. At the same time, critics of racial classification say that race is not real but only an illusion or that race is scientifically meaningless. In this paper, I explain how race…
The Problem of Race in Medicine
The biomedical sciences employ race as a descriptive and analytic category. They use race to describe differences in rates of morbidity and mortality and to explain variations in drug sensitivity and metabolism. But there are problems with the use of race in medicine. This article identifies a number of the problems and assesses some solutions. The first three sections consider how race is defined and whether the racial data used in biomedical re…
How We Divide the World
Real kinds or categories, according to conventional wisdom, enter into lawlike generalizations, while nominal kinds do not. Thus, gold but not jewelry is a real kind. However, by such a criterion, few if any kinds or systems of classification employed in the social science are real, for the social sciences offer, at best, only restricted generalizations. Thus, according to conventional wisdom, race and class are on a par with telephone area codes…
The Philosophy of Social Science
The Unity of the Church and the Reality of the Denominations
On Social Facts
The Narrative Structure of Soteriology
How We Divide the World
Real kinds or categories, according to conventional wisdom, enter into lawlike generalizations, while nominal kinds do not. Thus, gold but not jewelry is a real kind. However, by such a criterion, few if any kinds or systems of classification employed in the social science are real, for the social sciences offer, at best, only restricted generalizations. Thus, according to conventional wisdom, race and class are on a par with telephone area codes…
The Use of Race in Medicine as a Proxy for Genetic Differences
Race is a prominent category in medicine. Epidemiologists describe how rates of morbidity and mortality vary with race, and doctors consider the race of their patients when deciding whether to test them for sickle-cell anemia or what drug to use to treat their hypertension. At the same time, critics of racial classification say that race is not real but only an illusion or that race is scientifically meaningless. In this paper, I explain how race…
The Problem of Race in Medicine
The biomedical sciences employ race as a descriptive and analytic category. They use race to describe differences in rates of morbidity and mortality and to explain variations in drug sensitivity and metabolism. But there are problems with the use of race in medicine. This article identifies a number of the problems and assesses some solutions. The first three sections consider how race is defined and whether the racial data used in biomedical re…
The Narrative Structure of Soteriology
On Social Facts
The Unity of the Church and the Reality of the Denominations
The Philosophy of Social Science
How We Divide the World
Real kinds or categories, according to conventional wisdom, enter into lawlike generalizations, while nominal kinds do not. Thus, gold but not jewelry is a real kind. However, by such a criterion, few if any kinds or systems of classification employed in the social science are real, for the social sciences offer, at best, only restricted generalizations. Thus, according to conventional wisdom, race and class are on a par with telephone area codes…
The Problem of Race in Medicine
The biomedical sciences employ race as a descriptive and analytic category. They use race to describe differences in rates of morbidity and mortality and to explain variations in drug sensitivity and metabolism. But there are problems with the use of race in medicine. This article identifies a number of the problems and assesses some solutions. The first three sections consider how race is defined and whether the racial data used in biomedical re…
The Use of Race in Medicine as a Proxy for Genetic Differences
Race is a prominent category in medicine. Epidemiologists describe how rates of morbidity and mortality vary with race, and doctors consider the race of their patients when deciding whether to test them for sickle-cell anemia or what drug to use to treat their hypertension. At the same time, critics of racial classification say that race is not real but only an illusion or that race is scientifically meaningless. In this paper, I explain how race…
Aquinas, Merit, and Reformation Theology after the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification
Lutheran considerations of Aquinas have been shaped by the Reformation division. Can a Reformation consideration of Aquinas on merit move beyond either false contrast or false harmonization? Merit plays a limited, but important role in Aquinas' understanding of God's movement of the human self toward its end of eternal life. Lutheran differences from Aquinas on merit also focus on eternal life. While much of the difference is rooted in difference…
Interpretation Updated
IN 1982, SEVEN PEOPLE in the Chicago area died after taking Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. Newspapers at the time wondered about the motives of the killer. A few looked for an economic motive for the crime and speculated that the killer was an investor in Johnson and Johnson, the manufacturer of the drug, who had sold his stock in the company short. According to this economic interpretation of the event, the deaths, the killer reasoned, wou…
The Development of Doctrine
In this essay, a Lutheran understanding of the development of doctrine is developed, in contrast with what George Lindbeck calls ‘historical situationalism’, the limitations of which are analysed. While the final authority of doctrine is a function of its evangelical content, a particular historical development of church teaching can possess a subordinate, distinct, formal authority as an authoritative sign of the material authority of its conten…
The Number of Black Widows in the National Academy of Sciences
Studies in the social and biomedical sciences of racial differences in socioeconomic status or health within a population view the race of members as fixed and look for a difference in the frequency of a trait like average income or disease risk between racial subgroups. But, as I explain in this paper, there are good reasons to allow the race of members to vary with the trait whose variation within the population is to be described or explained.…
Community-Based Research
Ecumenism and Philosophy
Regensburg 1–4 and the Catholic Tradition
The opening four articles of the Regensburg Colloquy are here compared with the treatment of the same topics by the Council of Trent’s Decrees on Original Sin and on Justification and by the Catholic–Lutheran Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification. Attention is paid to the way each of the three texts were written to play specific ecclesiastical functions, which shaped the kind of agreements sought in each text. A broad similarity is n…
Alfonso Salmerón on the Scriptures
Philosophy (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Library science (4 works) · Race (biology) (4 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (4 works) · Citation (3 works)