The Philosophical Approach to God : A New Thomistic Perspective, 2nd Edition / W. Norris Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, W. Norris, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book is a revised and expanded edition of three lectures delivered by the author at Wake Forest University in 1979. Long out of print, in its new edition it should be a valuable resource for scholars and teachers of the philosophy of religion. The first two lectures, after a critique of the incompleteness of St. Thomas Aquinas’s famous Five Ways of arguing for the existence of God, explore lesser-known resources of Aquinas’s philosophical ascent of the mind to God: the unrestricted dynamism of the human spirit as it reaches toward the fullness of being, and the strictly metaphysical ascent to God from finite to infinite, in the line of Aquinas’s later, more Neoplatonically inspired, metaphysics of participation. The third, and most heavily revised, lecture is a critique of Whitehead’s process philosophy, distinguishing Aquinas more sharply and critically from Whitehead than in the first edition.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword to second revised edition

Part one The Turn to the Inner Way in Contemporary Neo-Thomism

The Transcendental Thomist Movement

The Ascent through the Dynamism of the Intellect

The Ascent through the Dynamism of the Will

Part two The Metaphysical Ascent to God

Why the Inner Path Is Insufficient

Ascent to God through Participation Metaphysics

The Analogical Structure of Language about God

Part three Christian Theism and Whiteheadian Process Philosophy: Are They Compatible?

Is God Creator of the Universe? Whitehead’s Position

God’s Real Relatedness to the World, Mutability, and Enrichment by the World

Notes

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

9780823293155

0823293157

OCLC:

1369653787