The creative retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas : essays in Thomistic philosophy, new and old / W. Norris Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, W. Norris (William Norris), 1915-2008.

Contributor:

Francis A. Jackson Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas.

Physical Description:

vii, 271 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2009.

Contents:

Part I: Reprinted articles

Twenty-fourth award of the Aquinas medal, by the American Catholic Philosophical Association, to W. Norris Clarke, SJ

Interpersonal dialogue : key to realism

Causality and time

System : a new category of being?

A curious blind spot in the Anglo-American tradition of antitheistic argument

The problem of the reality and multiplicity of divine ideas in Christian neoplatonism

Is the ethical eudaimonism of Saint Thomas too self-centered?

Conscience and the person

Democracy, ethics, religion : an intrinsic connection

What cannot be said in Saint Thomas's essence-existence doctrine

Living on the edge : the human person as "frontier being" and microcosm

The metaphysics of religious art : reflections on a text of Saint Thomas

Part II: New articles

The immediate creation of the human soul by God and some contemporary challenges

The creative imagination : unique expression of our soul-body unity

The creative imagination as treated in Western thought

The integration of personalism and Thomistic metaphysics in twenty-first-century Thomism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-259) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Francis A. Jackson Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780823229284

0823229289

OCLC:

227930920