Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter I: Thomas Aquinas and the Problem of Christian Philosophy
1: Etienne Gilson and Christian Philosophy
2: Personal Reflections
Part I. The Nature of Metaphysics and its Subjects Matter
Chapter II: Aquinas and Avicenna on the Relationship between First Philosophy and the Other Theoretical Sciences
Chapter III: "First Philosophy" According to Thomas Aquinas
Chapter IV: Metaphysics and Separatio in Thomas Aquinas
Part II. The Metaphysics of Created and Uncreated Being
Chapter V. Essence and Existence in the De Ente, Ch. 4
A Reply to Fr. Owens
Chapter VI. Essence and Existence in Other Writings
1: The "Genus" Argument
2: God-to-Creatures Argumentation
3: Arguments Based on Participation
4: Argumentation Based on the Limited Character of Individual Beings
Chapter VII. Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, and Godfrey of Fontaines on the Reality of Nonexisting Possibles
Chapter VIII. Thomas Aquinas on the Possiblity of Eternal Creation
Chapter IX. Quidditative Knowledge of God
1: Thomas Aquinas
1.1: God's Knowledge of Future Continggents
1.2: The Causal Character of god's Knowledge and God's Will
2: Henry of Ghent
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Topics