Gregory Sadler
Dr. Sadler’s family home is in Northwestern Indiana, but he teaches down in North Carolina, at Fayetteville State University, as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, and in the Department of Government and History. His wife, Angela, is also a philosopher and an instructor at St. Joseph’s College, Rensalear, Indiana. He has a daughter, Catherine Elaine (named after the patroness of the Alexandrian, and of Christian philosophers) and a son, Matthew Douglas. He is comfortably middle-aged , and enjoys playing banjo and singing in the choir, blazing trails and cutting wood. He taught for the last six years for Ball State University at Indiana State Prison.
Of late, his studies have mainly been of St. Anselm, the notion of Christian philosophy and the participants in the 1930s Christian philosophy debates, Aristotle, Maurice Blondel. He can be contacted by email.
Other published works:
- A Perfectly Simple God and Our Complicated Lives: The 2008 Saint Anselm Lecture, at the Institute for Saint Anselm Studies, Saint Anselm’s College, in The Saint Anselm Journal, v. 5, n. 1.
- “Divine and Human Rectitude: Meeting Anselm’s God through Moral Life,” in Essays on St. Anselm On the Occasion of the 900 Year Anniversary of His Death, Fr. John Fortin, O.S.B. and Ralph McInerny, eds. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 2008)
- Anselm of Canterbury, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- “Rethinking Christian Philosophy: Adriaan Peperzak’s Contributions,” Acta Philosophica, v. 17, n. 2
- “Aristotle’s Psychology, Emotion’s Rationality, and Cognition of Being: A Critical Note on Ogren’s Position,” Minerva, v. 11
- St. Anselm’s Fides Quaerens Intellectum as a Model for Christian Philosophy, The Saint Anselm Journal, v. 4, n. 1.
- “Mercy and Justice in St. Anselm’s Proslogion,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, v. 80, n. 1
- The Ontological Proof and the ‘Unique Necessaire’: Blondel’s Examination of the Proof in Anselm, Descartes, and Malebranche, The Saint Anselm Journal, v. 2, n. 2.
- Maurice Blondel, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- “Continental Philosophy, Catholicism and the Exigencies of Responsibility: the Resources of Maurice Blondel’s Works,” Chapter 11 of Rethinking Philosophy of Religion: Approaches from Continental Philosophy, Phillip Goodchild, ed. (New York: Fordham University Press. 2002)
- “Blondel’s Conception of the Option between Egoism and Charity and its Consequences for Intellectual Life and Culture,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, v. 75.
- Translations of Thomas’s Commentary on the Psalms, numbers 8, 11, 35, 51, 52, 53, 54, with the Aquinas Translation Project.