Papers by Marilyn McCord Adams

This is a collection of philosophical papers by Marilyn McCord Adams. Eventually, I hope to make it complete.

Articles and Book Chapters

(2022) "Duns Scotus on the Dignities of Human Nature". In Interpreting Duns Scotus: Critical Essays, edited by Giorgio Pini, 122–48. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(2021) "Mit elem Gott zurechtkommen, den wir haben". In Logische Brillanz—Ruchlose Denkungsart? Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Diskussion des Problems des Übels in der analytishen Religionsphilosphie, edited by Oliver J. Wiertz, 273–98. Münster: Aschendorff.
(2020) "Eucharistic Real Presence: Some Scholastic Background to Luther's Debate with Zwingli". In The Medieval Luther, edited by Christine Helmer, 65–90. Studies in the Late Middle Ages, Humanism, and the Reformation 117. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
(2020) "What Wideness, Whose Strictness? The Scope and Limits of Divine Love for Humankind". In Love Divine and Human: Contemporary Essays in Systematic and Philosophical Theology, edited by Oliver D. Crisp et al., 113–26. London: T. & T. Clark.
(2019) "Some Paradoxes of Pain for Rational Agency". In Philosophy of Suffering: Metaphysics, Value, and Normativity, edited by David Bain et al., 278–94. London: Routledge. [PDF, alt]
(2018) "Aquinas on the Soul: Some Intriguing Conundrums". In Aquinas's Summa Theologiae, edited by Jeffrey Hause, 88–110. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(2018) "For Better for Worse Solidarity". In Christ and the Created Order, edited by Andrew B. Torrance and Thomas H. McCall, 167–78. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.
(2018) "Mascot or Judge: God and the Mores of Church and Society". In God and the Moral Life, edited by Myriam Renaud and Joshua Daniel, 171–84. New York: Routledge.
(2018) "Sanctifying Matter". In Knowing Creation, edited by Andrew B. Torrance and Thomas H. McCall, 171–80. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.
(2017) "A Modest Proposal? Caveat Emptor! Moral Theory and Problems of Evil". In Ethics and the Problem of Evil, edited by James Sterba, 9–26. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
(2017) "Showings to Share: The Mystical Theology of Julian of Norwich". In The Renewal of Mystical Theology: Essays in Memory of John N. Jones (1964–2012), edited by Bernard McGinn, 88–108. New York: Herder & Herder.
(2016) "Horrors: To What End?" In Alternative Concepts of God: Essays in the Metaphysics of the Divine, edited by Yujin Nagasawa and Andrei Buckareff, 128–44. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2016) "Prayer as ‘the Lifeline of Theology’". Anglican Theological Review 98: 271–83.
(2016) "What about Hylomorphism? Some Medieval and Recent Ruminations on Swinburne's Dualism". In Reason and Faith: Themes from Richard Swinburne, edited by Jeffrey Brower and Michael Bergmann, 220–43. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2015) "Duns Scotus on the Female Gender". In The Oxford Handbook of Theology: Sex and Gender, edited by Adrian Thatcher, 255–70. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2015) "The Indwelling of the Holy Spirit: Some Alternative Models". In Christian Philosophical Perspectives on Human Nature, edited by J. Prudhomme and Peter Weigel, 83–99. New York: Lang.
(2014) "Eucharistic Drama, Rehearsing for a Revolution". In Theatrical Theology: Explorations in Performing the Faith, edited by Wesley Vander Lugt and Trevor A. Hart, 203–23. Eugene: Cascade.
(2014) "Friendliness: Human and Divine". In Rethinking the Medieval Legacy for Contemporary Theology, edited by Anselm K. Min, 43–70. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
(2014) "Liberal and Proud of It!" Modern Believing 55: 331–34.
(2014) "The Ordination of Women: Some Theological Implications". In Looking Forward, Looking Backward: Forty Years of Women's Ordination, edited by Fredrica Harris Thompsett, 64–73. New York: Morehouse.
(2014) "Scotus on the Metaphysics of Habits". Proceedings of the ACPA 88: 71–83.
(2014) "What's Wrong with the Ontotheological Error?" Analytic Theology 2: 1–12.
(2013) "Genuine Agency, Somehow Shared: The Holy Spirit and Other Gifts". Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 1: 23–60.
(2013) "God Because of Evil: A Pragmatic Argument from Evil for Belief in God". In The Blackwell Companion to the Problem of Evil, edited by Justin McBrayer and Daniel Howard-Snyder, 160–73. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
(2013) "Ignorance, Instrumentality, Compensation, and the Problem of Evil". Sophia 52: 7–26.
(2013) "Powers versus Laws: God and the Order of the World according to Some Late Medieval Aristotelians". In The Divine Order, the Human Order, and the Order of Nature: Historical Perspectives, edited by Eric Watkins, 3–26. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2013) "Truth and Reconciliation". In The Theologians in Their Own Words, edited by Derek Nelson et al., 15–33. Minneapolis: Fortress.
(2012) "Evil as Nothing: Contrasting Construals in Boethius and Anselm". The Modern Schoolman 89: 131–45; Reprinted in Anselmo e la 'Nuova' Europa, edited by Guilio Cipollone and Maria Silvia Boari, 57–75. Miscellanea Historiae Pontificiae 70. Rome: Gregorian Biblical Press, 2014.
(2012) "Sex and the Sins of the Fathers: Fertility Religion versus Human Rights". In Radical Christian Voices and Practice: Essays in Honour of Christopher Rowland, edited by Zoe Bennett and David B. Gowler, 241–55. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2012) "St. Anselm on the Goodness of God". In St. Anselm and His Legacy, edited by Giles E. M. Gasper and Ian Logan, 360–84. Toronto: Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies.
(2012) With Cecilia Trifogli. "Whose Thought Is It? The Soul and the Subject of Action in Some Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Philosophers". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 85: 624–47.
(2012) "Why Bodies as Well as Souls in the Life to Come?" In The Science of Being as Being: Metaphysical Investigations, edited by Gregory T. Doolan, 264–97. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press.
(2011) "Arguments from Tradition". In Christian Holiness and Human Sexuality: A Study Guide for Episcopalians, edited by Gary R. Hall and Ruth A. Meyers, 13–16. New York: Church Publishing.
(2011) "God and Evil among the Philosophers". Proceedings and Addresses of the APA 85: 65–80; Reprinted in Portraits of American Philosophy, edited by Stephen Cahn, 129–50. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.
(2011) "Julian of Norwich: Problems of Evil and the Seriousness of Sin". Philosophia 39: 433–47.
(2011) "Recent Developments in the Anglican Communion, or Ecumenism Misapplied". Modern Believing 52: 4–14.
(2011) "Which Is It? Religious Pluralism or Global Theology?" In Religious Pluralism and the Modern World: An Ongoing Engagement with John Hick, edited by Sharada Sugirtharaja, 34–44. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
(2010) "The Episcopacy of All Believers". Modern Believing 51: 9–28.
(2010) "Essential Orders and Sacramental Causality". In Proceedings of "The Quadruple Congress" on John Duns Scotus, Part I, edited by Mary Beth Ingham and Oleg Bychov, 191–205. Münster: Aschendorff.
(2010) "The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary: A Thought Experiment in Medieval Philosophical Theology". Harvard Theological Review 103: 133–59.
(2009) "William Ockham on Making the Most of Morality, While Keeping Morality in Its Place". Ex Corde 1: 28–50.
(2008) "Bodies in Their Places: Multiple Location according to John Duns Scotus". In Johannes Duns Scotus, 1308–2008: Die Philosophisches Perspektiven Seines Werken, Proceedings of the Quadruple Congress on John Duns Scotus, Part III, edited by Ludger Honnefelder et al., 139–49. Münster: Aschendorff.
(2008) "The Metaphysics of the Trinity in Some Fourteenth Century Franciscans". Franciscan Studies 66: 101–68.
(2008) "Plantinga on ‘Felix Culpa’: Analysis and Critique". Faith and Philosophy 25: 123–40.
(2008) "Shaking the Foundations: LGBT Bishops and Blessings in the Fullness of Time". Anglican Theological Review 90: 713–32.
(2008) "Unfit for Purpose, or Why a Pan-Anglican Covenant Is a Very Bad Idea". Modern Believing 49: 23–45.
(2007) "Powerless Causes: The Case of Sacramental Causality". In Thinking about Causes: From Greek Philosophy to Modern Physics, edited by Peter Machamer and Gereon Wolters, 47–76. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
(2007) "A Shameless Defense of a Liberal Church". Modern Believing 48: 25–37.
(2006) "Can Creatures Create?" Philosophia 34: 101–28.
(2006) "Questioning and Disputing Authority: Medieval Methods for Modern Preaching". The Expository Times 17: 231–36.
(2005) "The Coherence of Christology: God Enmattered and Enmattering". Princeton Seminary Bulletin 26: 157–79.
(2005) "Faithfulness in Crisis: The Follies of the Windsor Report". In Gays and the Future of Anglicanism, edited by Andrew Lindzey and Richard Kirker, 70–80. Winchester: O Books.
(2005) "Sexuality without Taboos". In The Bible, the Church, and Homosexuality, edited by Nicholas Coulton, 36–48. London: Dartman, Longman, & Todd.
(2005) "What's Metaphysically Special about Supposits? Some Medieval Variations on Aristotelian Substance". Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 79: 15–52. [PDF, alt]
(2004) "Afterword". In The Call for Women Bishops, edited by Harriet Harris and Jane Shaw, 193–96. London: SPCK.
(2004) "Biting and Chomping Our Salvation! Eucharistic Presence, Radically Understood". In Redemptive Transformation in Practical Theology, edited by Dana Wright and John D. Kuentzel, 69–94. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
(2004) "Courtesy, Human and Divine". Sewanee Theological Review 47: 145–63.
(2004) "Cur Deus Homo? Priorities among the Reasons". Faith and Philosophy 21: 1–18.
(2004) "The Metaphysical Size Gap". Sewanee Theological Review 47: 129–44.
(2004) "The Primacy of Christ". Sewanee Theological Review 47: 164–80.
(2004) "Sceptical Realism: Faith and Reason in Collaboration". In Fides et Ratio: Friends or Foes in the New Millenium, edited by Anthony Fisher and Hayden Ramsey, 1–18. Adelaide: Australasian Theological Forum.
(2003) "In Praise of Blasphemy". Philosophia 36: 1–17.
(2002) "Neglected Values, Shrunken Agents, Happy Endings: A Reply to Rogers". Faith and Philosophy 19: 487–505.
(2002) "Ockham on the Soul: Elusive Proofs, Dialectical Persuasions". American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 75: 55–97.
(2001) "Afterword". In Encountering Evil, edited by Stephen T. Davis, 191–203. 2nd ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.
(2001) "Horrors in Theological Context". Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 57: 871–80; Also published in Scottish Journal of Theology 55 (2002): 468–79. [SJT version PDF]
(2001) "Trinitarian Friendship: Same Gender Models of Godly Love in Richard of St. Victor and Aelred of Rievaulx". In Theology and Sexuality: Ancient and Contemporary Readings, edited by Eugene F. Rogers Jr., 322–39. Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell.
(2000) "Final Causality and Explanation in Scotus' De Primo Principio". In Nature in Medieval European Thought: Some Approaches East and West, edited by Chumaru Koyama, 153–83. Leiden: Brill.
(2000) "Re-reading De Grammatica, or Anselm's Introduction to Aristotle's Categories". Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 11: 83–112.
(1999) "Elegant Necessity, Prayerful Disputation: Method in Cur Deus Homo". Studia Anselmiana: 367–96.
(1999) "History of Philosophy as Tutor to Christian Philosophy". In The Question of Christian Philosophy Today, edited by Francis J. Ambrosio, 37–60. New York: Fordham University Press.
(1999) "Ockham on Will, Nature, and Morality". In Cambridge Companion to Ockham, edited by Paul Vincent Spade, 245–72. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(1998) "Ockham on Final Causality: Muddying the Waters". Franciscan Studies 56: 1–46.
(1998) "Reviving Philosophical Theology: Some Medieval Models". In Miscallanea Mediaevalia, Band 26: Was ist Philosophie im Mittelalter?, edited by Jan A. Aertsen and Andreas Speer, 60–68. Berlin: de Gruyter.
(1998) "Romancing the Good: God and the Self according to St. Anselm of Canterbury". In The Augustinian Tradition, edited by Gareth Matthews, 91–109. Berkeley: University of California Press.
(1997) "Chalcedonian Christology: A Christian Solution to the Problem of Evil". In Philosophy and Theological Discourse, edited by Stephen T. Davis, 173–98. London: Macmillan.
(1997) "Dissolution and Integrity in the Fourteenth Century". In Tradition and Ecstacy: Agony in the Fourteenth Century, edited by Nancy van Deusen, 99–108. Ottawa: Institute of Mediaeval Music.
(1996) "Evil and the God Who Does Nothing in Particular". In Religion and Morality, edited by D. Z. Phillips, 107–31. London: Macmillan.
(1996) "Hurricane Spirit, Toppling Taboos". In Ourselves, Our Souls & Bodies, edited by Charles Helling, 129–41. Cambridge, MA: Cowley.
(1996) "Scotus and Ockham on the Connection of the Virtues". In John Duns Scotus: Metaphysics and Ethics, edited by Ludger Honnefelder et al., 499–522. Leiden: Brill.
(1995) "Common Nature and Instants of Nature: Ockham's Critique of Scotus Reconsidered". Veritas 14: 55–67.
(1995) "Duns Scotus on the Will as Rational Potency". In Via Scoti: Methodologica ad mentem Joannis Duns Scoti, edited by Leonardo Sileo, 839–54. Roma: PAA-Edizioni Antonianum.
(1995) "Introduction". In Peter Abelard: Ethical Writings—Ethics and Dialogue between a Philosopher, a Jew, and a Christian, translated by Paul V. Spade, vii–xxvi. Indianapolis: Hackett.
(1995) "Praying the Proslogion". In The Rationality of Belief and the Plurality of Faith, edited by Thomas Senor, 13–39. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
(1995) "Satisfying Mercy: Anselm's Cur Deus Homo Reconsidered". The Modern Schoolman 72: 91–108.
(1994) "Love of Learning, Reality of God". In Philosophers Speak of God, edited by Thomas V. Morris, 137–61. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(1993) "Aesthetic Goodness as a Solution to the Problem of Evil". In God, Truth, and Reality: Essays in Honor of John Hick, edited by Arvind Sharma, 46–61. London: Macmillan.
(1993) "God and Evil: Polarities of a Problem". Philosophical Studies 69: 167–86.
(1993) With Allan B. Wolter. "Memory and Intuition: A Focal Debate in Fourteenth Century Cognitive Psychology: Introduction, Edition, and Translation of Scotus' Ordinatio IV, d.45, q.3". Franciscan Studies 53: 175–230.
(1993) "The Problem of Hell: A Problem of Evil for Christians". In Reasoned Faith: A Festschrift for Norman Kretzmann, edited by Eleonore Stump, 301–27. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press; Reprinted in Readings in the Philosophy of Religion, edited by Kelly James Clark, 317–27. Toronto: Broadview, 2000.
(1993) "The Role of Miracles in the Structure of Luke-Acts". In Hermes and Athena, edited by Eleonore Stump and Thomas Flint, 235–73. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame.
(1992) "Fides Quaerens Intellectum: St. Anselm's Method in Philosophical Theology". Faith and Philosophy 9: 409–35; Slightly revised version reprinted as “Anselm on Faith and Reason.” In The Cambridge Companion to Anselm, edited by Brian Leftow and Brian Davies, 32–59. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
(1992) "Julian of Norwich on the Tender Loving Care of Mother Jesus". In Our Knowledge of God: Essays on Natural and Philosophical Theology, edited by K. J. Clark, 203–19. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.
(1992) "Philosophy and the Bible: The Areopagus Speech". Faith and Philosophy 9: 135–50.
(1992) "The Resurrection of the Body according to Three Medieval Aristotelians: Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, William Ockham". Philosophical Topics 20: 1–33.
(1992) "St. Anselm on Evil: De Casu Diaboli". Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 3: 423–51.
(1992) "Symbolic Value and the Problem of Evil: Honor and Shame". In Interpretation in Religion, edited by Shlomo Biderman and Ben-Ami Scharfstein, 259–82. Leiden: Brill.
(1991) "Aristotle and the Sacrament of the Altar: A Crisis in Medieval Theology". Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume 17: 195–249.
(1991) "Forgiveness: A Christian Model". Faith and Philosophy 8: 277–304; Reprinted in Christian Theism and Moral Philosophy, edited by Michael Beaty et al., 77–106. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1998.
(1991) "Sin as Uncleanness". Philosophical Perspectives 5: 1–27; Reprinted in A Reader in Contemporary Philosophical Theology, edited by Oliver Crisp, 254–77. London: T. & T. Clark, 2009.
(1990) "Ockham on Truth". Medioevo 16: 143–72.
(1990) "Ockham's Individualisms". In Die Gegenwart Ockhams, edited by W. Vossenkuhl and R. Schonberger, 3–24. Weinheim: VCH Verlagsgesellschaft.
(1990) "St. Anselm on Truth". Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 1: 353–72.
(1989) "Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 63: 299–310; Reprinted in The Problem of Evil, edited with an Introduction by Marilyn McCord Adams and Robert Merrihew Adams, 209–21. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990; Reprinted in Readings in the Philosophy of Religion, edited by Kelly James Clark, 219–26. Toronto: Broadview, 2000.
(1988) "Problems of Evil: More Advice to Christian Philosophers". Faith and Philosophy 5: 121–43.
(1988) "Separation and Reversal in Luke-Acts". In Philosophy and the Christian Faith, edited by Thomas Morris, 92–117. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame.
(1988) "Theodicy without Blame". Philosophical Topics 16: 215–45.
(1987) "Duns Scotus on the Goodness of God". Faith and Philosophy 4: 486–505.
(1987) "St. Anselm on the Goodness of God". Medioevo 13: 75–102.
(1987) "William Ockham: Voluntarist or Naturalist?" In Studies in Medieval Philosophy, edited by John Wippel, 219–48. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press.
(1986) "Redemptive Suffering: A Christian Solution to the Problem of Evil". In Rationality, Religious Belief, and Moral Commitment, edited by Robert Audi and William Wainwright, 248–67. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press; Reprinted in The Problem of Evil: Selected Readings, edited by Michael L. Peterson, 210–32. 2nd ed. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 2017.
(1986) "The Structure of Ockham's Moral Theory". Franciscan Studies 46: 1–35.
(1985) "The Metaphysics of the Incarnation in Some Fourteenth Century Franciscans". In Essays Honoring Allan B. Wolter, edited by William A. Frank and Girard J. Etzkorn, 21–57. St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute.
(1985) "‘Things’ versus ‘Hows’, or Ockham on Predication and Ontology". In How Things Are: Studies in Predication and the History of Philosophy and Science, edited by James Bogen and James E. McGuire, 175–88. Dordrecht: Reidel.
(1982) With Allan B. Wolter. "Duns Scotus' Parisian Proof for the Existence of God". Franciscan Studies 42: 248–321.
(1982) "Relations, Subsistence, and Inherence, or Was Ockham a Nestorian in Christology?" Noûs 16: 62–75.
(1982) "Universals in the Early Fourteenth Century". In Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, edited by N. Kretzmann and A. Kenny, 411–39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(1981) With Rega Wood. "Is To Will It as Bad as To Do It? The Fourteenth Century Debate". Franciscan Studies 41: 5–60.
(1979) "Was Ockham a Humean about Efficient Causality?" Franciscan Studies 39: 5–48.
(1978) "Ockham's Theory of Natural Signification". Monist 61: 444–59.
(1977) "Ockham's Nominalism and Unreal Entities". Philosophical Review 86: 144–76.
(1976) "Divine Justice, Divine Love, and the Life to Come". Crux 13 (1976–77): 12–18.
(1976) "Ockham on Identity and Distinction". Franciscan Studies 36: 5–74.
(1976) "What Does Ockham Mean by ‘Supposition’?" Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 28: 375–91.
(1975) "Hell and the God of Justice". Religious Studies 11: 433–47.
(1973) "Did Ockham Know of Material and Strict Implication? A Reconsideration". Franciscan Studies 33: 5–37.
(1972) "Was Anselm a Realist? The Monologium". Franciscan Studies 32: 5–14.
(1971) "Universal Salvation: A Reply to Mr. Bettis". Religious Studies 7: 245–49.
(1970) "Intuitive Cognition, Certainty, and Skepticism in William Ockham". Traditio 26: 389–98.
(1967) "Is the Existence of God a ‘Hard’ Fact?" Philosophical Review 76: 492–503; Reprinted in God, Foreknowledge, and Freedom, edited with an introduction by John Martin Fischer, 74–85. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989; Reprinted in Readings in Philosophy of Religion, edited by Baruch A. Brody, 437–45. 2nd ed. Hoboken, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992.

Books

(2022) Housing the Powers: Medieval Debates about Dependence on God (with Cecilia Trifogli; edited by Robert Merrihew Adams)
(2010) Some Later Medieval Theories of the Eucharist: Thomas Aquinas, Giles of Rome, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham
(2008) Opening to God: Childlike Prayers for Adults
(2006) Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology
(2005) Wrestling for Blessing
(1999) Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God
(1999) What Sort of Human Nature? Medieval Philosophy and the Systematics of Christology
(1987) William Ockham (2 vols.) [review by Martin Tweedale]

Dissertation

(1967) "The Problem of Foreknowledge and Free Will in Boethius and William of Ockham". Cornell University.

Reviews

(2010) "Metaphysics and Eschatology: A Response to Tonstad". Conversations in Religion and Theology: 34–36.
(2001) "Review of The Philosophy of William of Ockham in the Light of Its Principles, by Armand Maurer". University of Toronto Quarterly 71 (2001/2): 202–5.
(1996) "Review of Confessions of a Rational Mystic: Anselm's Early Writings, by Gregory Schufreider". Speculum: 242–45.
(1993) "Review of Lectura Secunda, vols. 1–3, by Adam de Wodeham, edited by Rega Wood and Gedeon Gál". Philosophical Review 102: 588–94.
(1988) "Review of Opera Theologica VII, by G. de Ockham, edited by Rega Wood and Gedeon Gál". Philosophical Review: 417–24.
(1986) "Review of Opera Theologica V–VI, by G. de Ockham". Philosophical Review: 474–80.
(1983) "Review of Opera Theologica IV, by G. de Ockham, edited by G. Etzkorn and F. Kelly". Philosophical Review: 93–97.
(1983) "Review of Opera Theologica IX, by G. de Ockham, edited by J. Wey". Philosophical Review 92: 98–103.
(1980) "Review of The Dissolution of the Medieval Outlook: An Essay on the Intellectual and Spiritual Change in the Fourteenth Century, by Gordon Leff". Journal of the History of Philosophy 18: 83–87.
(1980) "Review of Opera Philosophica II, by G. de Ockham, edited by Gedeon Gál et al.". Philosophical Review: 129–37.
(1979) "Review of Scriptum in Librum Sententiarum: Ordinatio, Vol. III, by William Ockham, edited by G. Etzkorn". Philosophical Review: 117–21.
(1977) "Review of William Ockham: The Metamorphosis of Scholastic Discourse, by Gordon Leff". Journal of the History of Philosophy 15: 334–39.
(1976) "Review of Commentary on Anselm's De Grammatica, by D. P. Henry". Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences: 311–17.
(1973) "Review of Peter Abelard's Ethics, with an introduction, translation, and notes by D. E. Luscombe". Philosophical Review: 404–9.
(1970) "Review of Scriptum in Librum Primum Sententiarum: Ordinatio, Vol. I, Prologus, by William Ockham, edited by Gedeon Gál and Stephen Brown". Philosophical Review: 268–74.

Edited, Translated, and Annotated Works

(1996) Guest editor. Faith and Philosophy: Journal for the Society of Christian Philosophers 13.4. Theological Contributions to Theodicy.
(1990) Wolter, Allan B. The Philosophical Theology of John Duns Scotus. Edited by Marilyn McCord Adams. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
(1990) McCord Adams, Marilyn, and Robert Merrihew Adams, eds. The Problem of Evil. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(1983) Ockham, William. Predestination, God's Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents. Second edition with new introduction by Marilyn McCord Adams. Indianapolis: Hackett.
(1977) Paul of Venice. On the Truth and Falsity of Propositions and On the Significatum of a Proposition. Edited by Francesco del Punta. Translation and annotations by Marilyn McCord Adams. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(1969) Ockham, William. Predestination, God's Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents. Translated with introduction, notes, and bibliographies by Marilyn McCord Adams and Norman Kretzmann. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

Encyclopedia and Dictionary Articles

(1998) "Hell". In Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward Craig, 4:329–33. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
(1998) "The Problem of Evil". In Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward Craig, 3:466–72. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
(1995) "Anselm of Canterbury, St". In The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, edited by Robert Audi, 26–28. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(1995) "Anselm of Canterbury, St". In Companion to Metaphysics, edited by E. Sosa and J. Kim, 12–13. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
(1995) "Anselm of Canterbury, St". In The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, edited by Ted Honderich, 37–38. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(1995) "Hylomorphism". In The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, edited by Ted Honderich, 384–85. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(1995) "Ockham's Razor". In The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, edited by Ted Honderich, 633. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(1995) "Ockham's Razor, Parsimony, Principle of". In The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, edited by Robert Audi, 545. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(1995) "Ockham, William". In The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, edited by Robert Audi, 543–45. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(1995) "Ockham, William". In Companion to Metaphysics, edited by E. Sosa and J. Kim, 371–73. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
(1995) "William Ockham". In The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, edited by Ted Honderich, 633. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(1992) "Ockham, William of". In Companion to Epistemology, edited by Jonathan Dancy and Ernest Sosa, 313–14. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
(1991) "William Ockham". In vol. 2 of Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, edited by Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith, 939–43. Munich: Philosophia.
(2009) "Occasion, Occasionalism". In A Companion to Metaphysics, 2nd ed., edited by Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa, and Gary S. Rosenkrantz, 462. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Sermons, Prayers, and Biblical Commentary

(2016) "And Immediately". Questioning and Disputing, November 24.
(2016) "Arranged Marriage". Questioning and Disputing, November 24.
(2016) "The B-I-B-L-E". Questioning and Disputing, November 22.
(2016) "Brazen Deference". Questioning and Disputing, November 23.
(2016) "Bullying". Questioning and Disputing, November 23.
(2016) "Courtesy as Sacrifice". Questioning and Disputing, November 24.
(2016) "Death and Memory". The Episcopal Cafe, November 13.
(2016) "‘In Between’ Faithfulness". Questioning and Disputing, November 27.
(2016) "Keeping Faith at the Polls". Questioning and Disputing, November 24.
(2016) "Omnibus Benediction". Questioning and Disputing, November 23.
(2016) "Out-of-bounds Power". Questioning and Disputing, November 25.
(2016) "Resurrecting the Cosmos". Questioning and Disputing, November 25.
(2016) "Understanding Mind, Heart of Wisdom". Questioning and Disputing, November 24.
(2015) "And Finally… Really Present Relationship!" Expository Times 126 (February): 258.
(2014) "Crossing over Jordan". Expository Times 126 (October): 30–32.
(2014) "‘Getting Real’!" The Expository Times 125 (February): 237–39.
(2014) "Once and Future Rescue: Psalm 85". Interpretation 68: 69–71.
(2014) "Speaking to the Soul: The Coming Judgment". Episcopal Cafe, December 18.
(2013) "Amos 6:1a, 4–7". In Feasting on the Word: Additional Essays, Year C. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.
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(2013) "Which Shepherd?" The Expository Times 124 (March): 289–91.
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