Andrew Younan – författare

Mar Narsai (413–503 CE) is arguably the most significant theological author of an entire segment of Apostolic Christianity, the "Church of the East," whose branches are now the Chaldean Catholic Church, the Assyrian Church of the East, and the Malabar Catholic Church. Narsai's metrical homilies are sources of deep scriptural reflection, breathtaking poetic beauty, and unique, insightful theology.Endorsements"Narsai is one of the most fascinating, yet least widely known figures from late ancient Christianity. His metrical homilies resound with theological complexity and subtle wordplay, and both elements shine through in Andrew Younan's translations. Moreover, Younan's thoughtful overview of Narsai's context, life, and theology will surely serve as one of the most succinct and accessible introductions to this important author available in English."—J. Edward Walters, editor of Eastern Christianity: A Reader"Narsai of Nisbis, the almost forgotten poet of the Church of the East, is brought alive by the vibrant translations of Fr. Andrew Younan—from Adam and Eve to Jonah to the Thief on the Right."—Robert Kitchen, DPhil, translator of The Book of Steps"Narsai is among the most important and influential Syriac authors. Fr. Andrew Younan has done a tremendous service in making twelve metrical homilies of Narsai available in English translation, most of them for the first time. The texts translated here should be of utmost interest to all those working on Syriac, on Eastern Christianity, and on Late Antiquity more broadly."—Aaron Butts, University Professor at the University of HamburgAndrew Younan is the first American-born priest of the Chaldean Catholic Church and is the founding rector of the only Chaldean rite seminary outside of Iraq. He teaches philosophy, theology, and biblical languages at John Paul the Great Catholic University, St. Patrick's Seminary, and the University of St. Thomas in Houston. He completed his PhD at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.

What is "A Law of Nature"? It's a question that's vexed philosophers and scientists ever since Descartes first coined the term. Fr. Andrew Younan explores it in this insightful book. After carefully reviewing the positions of Humeans and Anti-Humeans, he employs the philosophy of Aristotle and Aquinas to argue for an essentialist understanding. His study leads him back to the beginnings of modern science and then forward to quantum mechanics. The philosophical account of how the laws of nature arise from observed regularities in the world is followed by a theological discussion of the nature and action of the Lawgiver."—from the foreword by Michael J. Dodds, OPTo borrow a phrase from Galileo: What does it mean that the story of the creation is "written in the language of mathematics?" This book is an attempt to understand the natural world, its consistency, and the ontology of what we call laws of nature, with a special focus on their mathematical expression. It does this by arguing in favor of the Essentialist interpretation over that of the Humean and Anti-Humean accounts. It re-examines and critiques Descartes' notion of laws of nature following from God's activity in the world as mover of extended bodies, as well as Hume's arguments against causality and induction. It then presents an Aristotelian-Thomistic account of laws of nature based on mathematical abstraction, necessity, and teleology, finally offering a definition for laws of nature within this framework.