Wisdom's apprentice : Thomistic essays in honor of Lawrence Dewan, O.P. / edited by Peter A. Kwasniewski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dewan, Lawrence, 1932-2015.

Kwasniewski, Peter A., 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxii, 305 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [2007]

Contents:

Biography of Lawrence Dewan, O.P. xiii

Publications of Lawrence Dewan, O.P. xv

Part I Metaphysics

Is Truth Not a Transcendental for Aquinas? / Jan A. Aertsen 3

Thomas Aquinas and "What Actually Exists" / Stephen L. Brock 13

Really Distinguishing Essence from Esse / David B. Twetten 40

The Real Distinction between Supposit and Nature / J. L. A. West 85

Part II Natural Theology

From Shadows and Images to the Truth / Ralph McInerny 109

Re-thinking the Infinite / Leslie Armour 122

Is Thomas's Doctrine of Divine Ideas Thomistic? / Gregory T. Doolan 153

Part III Philosophy of Nature

The Impossibility of Action at a Distance / Christopher A. Decaen 173

Physics and Philosophy / Jude P. Dougherty 201

Two Masters, Two Perspectives: Maritain and Gilson on the Philosophy of Nature / Ralph Nelson 214

Part IV Ethics and Spirituality

Moral Taxonomy and Moral Absolutes / Kevin L. Flannery, S.J. 237

Interior Peace: Inchoatio vitae aeternae / Heather McAdam Erb 260.

Notes:

"Publications of Lawrence Dewan, O.P." (pages xv-xxii).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-297) and index.

ISBN:

0813214955

9780813214955

OCLC:

71146216