Contents
Editor?s Introduction iv
Biography of Lawrence Dewan ix
Publications of Lawrence Dewan xi
Part I: Metaphysics
JAN A. AERTSEN, Is Truth Not a Transcendental for Aquinas? 2
STEPHEN L. BROCK, Thomas Aquinas and ?What Actually Exists? 11
DAVID TWETTEN, On Really Distinguishing Essence from Esse 35
J. L. A. WEST, The Real Distinction between Supposit and Nature 67
Part II: Natural Theology
RALPH MCINERNY, From Shadows and Images to the Truth 86
LESLIE ARMOUR, Re-thinking the Infinite 100
GREGORY T. DOOLAN, Is Thomas?s Doctrine of Divine Ideas Thomistic? 128
Part III: Philosophy of Nature
CHRISTOPHER A. DECAEN, The Impossibility of Action at a Distance 144
JUDE P. DOUGHERTY, Physics and Philosophy 167
RALPH NELSON, Two Masters, Two Perspectives:
Maritain and Gilson on the Philosophy of Nature 181
Part IV: Ethics and Spirituality
KEVIN L. FLANNERY, Moral Taxonomy and Moral Absolutes 201
HEATHER MCADAM ERB, Interior Peace: Inchoatio vitae aeternae 223
Endnotes
Works Cited
Contributors
Index of Names