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Here is where the Birthday ideas come: Ralph McInerny just released this great piece of work titled “Praeambule Fidei” which basicaly means Steps Before Faith. Here are the details below
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS
PRAEAMBULA FIDEI
Thomism and the God of the Philosophers
Ralph McInerny
Paper ISBN 0-8132-1458-0, $34.95
313 pages
Publication date: October 18, 2006
Book News for Immediate Release
The Catholic University of America Press announces publication of Ralph McInerny’s newest work, Praeambula Fidei: Thomism and the God of the Philosophers. The praeambula fidei (”preambles of faith”) are regarded by Thomas Aquinas as the culmination of philosophy: natural theology, the highest knowledge of God that is possible on philosophical grounds alone. The natural home for such considerations is the Metaphysics of Aristotle and Thomas’s commentary on that work. Yet Thomas’s view has been cast into doubt, with philosophers and theologians alike attempting to drive a wedge between Aquinas and Aristotle. In this book, renowned philosopher Ralph McInerny sets out to review what Thomas meant by the phrase and to defend a robust understanding of Thomas’s teaching on the subject. After setting forth different attitudes toward proofs of God’s existence and outlining the difference between belief and knowledge, McInerny examines the texts in which Thomas uses and explains the phrase “preambles of faith.” He then turns his attention to the work of eminent twentieth-century Thomists and chronicles their abandonment of the preambles. He draws a contrast between this form of Thomism and that of the classical Dominican commentators, notably Cajetan, arguing that part of the abandonment of the notion of the preambles as philosophical involves a misreading and misrepresentation of Cajetan. McInerny concludes with a positive rereading of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Aquinas’s use thereof. In the end, the book argues for a return to the notion of Aristotelico-Thomism–Thomistic philosophy as the organic development of the thought of Aristotle.
Ralph McInerny is Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies in the department of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is cofounder of Crisis magazine and author of several books published by CUA Press, namely, the bestselling Ethica Thomistica, The Question of Christian Ethics, Aquinas on Human Action, and Boethius and Aquinas.
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CONTENTS:
Preface
PART I: The Preambles of Faith
1. Introduction
PART II: The Erosion of the Doctrine
Prologue
2. Gilson’s Attack on Cajetan
3. De Lubac and Cajetan
4. Christian Philosophy
5. The Chenu Case
6. The Alleged Forgetfulness of Esse
PART III: Thomism and Philosophical Theology
Prologue
7. The Presuppostions of Metaphysics
8. The Science We Are Seeking
9. The Metaphysics as a Literary Whole
10. Methodological Interlude
11. The Book of Wisdom
12. Sed Contra
13. Aristotelian Existentialism and Thomistic Essentialism
Selected Bibliography
Index
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