Theology Needs Philosophy / edited by Matthew L. Lamb.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lamb, Matthew L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Faith and reason--Christianity.

Faith and reason.

Philosophical theology.

Catholic Church and philosophy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The Catholic University of America Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Theology Needs Philosophy brings together essays by leading theologians and philosophers on the fundamental importance of human reason and philosophy for Catholic theology and human cultures generally.This edited collection studies the contributions of reason, with its acquired wisdom, science, and scholarship, in five sections.

Contents:

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, SJ5. 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, OPPart 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. Guerra16. 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

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

0-8132-2840-9

OCLC:

953453668