Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Need for Reason in Theology - Matthew L. Lamb
Part One: A Need for Philosophy in Theology
1. All Theologians Are Philosophers, Whether Knowingly or Not - Charles Morerod, OP
2. Videtur quod non sit necessarium, praeter theologicam disciplinam, aliam doctrinam haberi: Legitimacy of Philosophy as an Autonomous Discipline and Its Service to Theology in Aquinas and Ralph McInerny - John P. O'Callaghan
Part Two: A Need for a Metaphysics of Nature in Theology
3. Theology and the Metaphysics of Creation - Lawrence Dewan, OP
4. The Concept of Nature: Philosophical Reflections in Service of Theology - Joseph Koterski, SJ
5. On Natural Knowledge of God: Aquinas’s Debt to Aristotle - Steven A. Long
Part Three: Human Reason and Reveation
6. Logos as Reason and Logos Incarnate: Philosophy, Theology, and the Voices of Tradition - Brian Daley, SJ
7. Are Aristotelian-Thomists Rationalists?: On Thomism, the Praeambula Fidei, and Theological Faith - Roger Nutt
8. Philosophical Starting Points: Reason and Order in Aquinas’s Introductions to the Posterior Analytics, De Caelo, and Nicomachean Ethics - Kevin White
9. Tunc scimus cum causas cognoscimus: Some Medieval Endeavors to Know Scripture in Its Causes - Timothy Bellamah, OP
Part Four: Philosophy in Systematic Theology
10. Ad aliquid: Relation in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas - Gilles Emery, OP
11. Aquinas on the Procession of the Holy Spirit - John Boyle
12. Christology of Disclosure in Robert Sokolowski - Guy Mansini, OSB
13. Ego sapientia: The Mariology of Laval Thomism - Romanus Cessario, OP
14. Reflections on Ralph McInerny’s Dante and the Blessed Virgin Mary - Kevin Flannery, SJ
Part Five: Philosophy in Moral Theology
15. Moderating the Magnanimous Man: Aquinas on Greatness of Soul - Marc D. Guerra
16. Charles De Koninck and Aquinas’s Doctrine of the Common Good - Sebastian Walshe, O Praem
17. Reading Aquinas’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: A Reply to Mark D. Jordan - Christopher Kaczor
Afterword: Remembering a Genuine Lover of Wisdom: The Impressive Legacy of Ralph McInerny - Michael Novak
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index