Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Preface
The CornerstoneChristian Faith and Modern Culture in Dialogue
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Sapientia DeiSacred Scripture andSacred Doctrine
1. Transubstantiation Revisited: Sacra Doctrina, Dogma, and Metaphysics
2. Ordering Wisdom: Aquinas, the Old Testament, and Sacra Doctrina
3. The Precarity of Wisdom: Modern Dominican Theology, Perspectivalism, and the Tasks of Reconstruction
Part 2. Mysterium Fidei: Sacraments and Metaphysics
4. The Importance of the Definitionof Sacraments as Signs
5. The Place of Romans 6 in Aquinas’s Doctrine of Sacramental Causality: A Balance of History and Metaphysics
6. The Human Acts of Christ and the Acts That Are the Sacraments
7. Verum sacrificium as the Fullness and Limit of Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Sacramental Theology of Thomas Aquinas: Historical Context and Current Significance
Part 3 Bonum—Lex—Virtus Moral Theology
8. St. Thomas and the Divinity of the Common Good
9. The Primacy of the Common Good and the Foundations of Natural Law in St. Thomas
10. A Reading Guide for Natural Law Ethics
11. Natural Law, the Moral Object, and Humanae Vitae
12. Contemplata Tradere: Embodied Interiority in Cessario, Pinckaers, and Lonergan
13. Moral Development and Connecting the Virtues: Aquinas, Porter, and the Flawed Saint
14. Vanity and Commerce: How De malo Supports Whig Thomism
Postscript: “There Is Only One Sadness . . . Not to Be Saints”: An Expression of Gratitude to Father Romanus Cessario, O.P.
Publications of Romanus Cessario, O.P.
Works Cited
Contributors
Index of Names