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Trinity in Aquinas
Gilles Emery
Sapientia Press, 2008
Gilles Emery belongs among the world’s premier theologians of the Trinity. With an introduction by the renowned Dominican Thomist Jean-Pierre Torrell, "Trinity in Aquinas" combines historical erudition and mature speculative insight. In scholarly prose of rare clarity and precision, Emery explores the key themes of Trinitarian theology: divine unity, the Trinitarian character of the divine act of ...
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Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology Of The Body 13 reviews
John Paul II
Pauline Books & Media, 2006
Stupendous and Life-Changing
+ Excellent
+ Theology of the Body, awe-inspiring
+ What is True Love...
+ Theology of the Body
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Introduction To Christianity (Communio Books)29 reviews
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, ...
Ignatius Press, 2004
Finally, the whole story
+ amazon book purchase
+ An Indepth Study of The Creed---Outstanding!
+ Neat
+ Beyond the unassuming introduction
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Trinity and Truth (Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine) 3 reviews
Bruce D. Marshall
Cambridge University Press, 1999
Trinitarian Truth and Analytic Epistemology
+ Theology Meets Analytic Philosophy
In this important work, Bruce Marshall has brought a robust Trinitarian way of thinking about truth and the justification of belief into the wider human discussion of truth and knowledge as it is currently being engaged by analytic philosophers. The author follows George Lindbeck (see "Nature of ...
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Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, with a Revised English Translation 50th Anniversary ...12 reviews
Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, ...
Wiley-Blackwell, 1991
Stop Carping
+ A sea change in philosophy
+ The key text.
+ Nice Version of a Contemporary Classic
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Pseudo-Dionysius And the Metaphysics of Aquinas1 review
Fran O'Rourke
University of Notre Dame Press, 2005
Good monograph exploring the relationship between two key thinkers
Many students of Aquinas know quite well his intimate aquinatance with Aristotle, and often (mistakenly) see Aquinas only as a follower of Aristotle and his Philosophy. But Aquinas was also open to the Platonic heritage in Philosophy, as mediated through the East by Dionysius the Aeropagite, and ...
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Love Alone Is Credible 6 reviews
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Ignatius Press, 2005
Beginning to Read von Balthasar
+ Love Alove Really is ALL that is Creidible
+ The greatest of these is Love
+ Read slowly. Again and again
+ A Good Start
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From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, Second Revised Edition7 reviews
W. V. Quine
Harvard University Press, 1980
Quine's Two Dogmas: Nominalism and Wholism
+ Universals, dogmas, useful myths, efficacy in communication
+ Shipped/Delivered Promptly and the Book is Great
+ a classic
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Priority of Christ, The: Toward a Postliberal Catholicism1 review
Robert Barron
Brazos Press, 2007
Learned, passionate, profound
In this very ambitious book, Robert Barron tries to reconstruct Christian theology, so that it gets beyond the sterile dead ends of modernity and liberalism. The book is learned, profound and passionate. He gives a very well-reasoned analysis of modern philosophy and its limitations. That ...
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Faith and Freedom: An Interfaith Perspective (Challenges in Contemporary Theology)
David Burrell
Wiley-Blackwell, 2004
In this book, David Burrell, one of the foremost philosophical theologians in the English-speaking world, presents the best of his work on creation and human freedom. A collection of writings by one of the foremost philosophers of religion in the English-speaking world. Brings together in one volume the best of David Burrell’s work on creation and human freedom from the last twenty years. ...
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Method in Theology4 reviews
Bernard Lonergan
University of Toronto Press, 1990
blew my mind
+ Fascinating stuff
+ Profound, yet comprehensive knowledge
+ In-depth philosophy and theology combined!
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Freedom and Creation in Three Traditions
David B. Burrell
University of Notre Dame Press, 1994
This work of philosophical theology brings together Jewish, Christian and Muslim perspectives on the complex questions surrounding divine and human freedom. The author emphasises the common ground among the three traditions.
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics: Locality, Fields, Energy, and Mass2 reviews
Marc Lange
Wiley-Blackwell, 2002
A must read
+ Great introduction
This is just an excellent book. With questions that all early physics students ask and are usually shunned for asking them. Is the electric field a real entity? What is the difference between a real quantity and a math tool that gives us the right answer. Spactiotemperal locality is covered very ...
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Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics (Aristotelian Commentary Ser.)2 reviews
Thomas Aquinas
St. Augustines Dumb Ox Books, 1995
Another Excellent Work in the Dumb Ox Series
+ What is The Meaning Of Being?
This is a great translation of Aquinas' comments on Aristotle's work titled, "Metaphysics." Ralph McInerny (Notre Dame University) wrote the preface and the work was translated by John P. Rowan. Both men are strong in their field of expertise and both are Thomists. The book is a phrase by ...
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The Triune God: Systematics (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan)
Bernard Lonergan
University of Toronto Press, 2009
~ Buried for more than forty years in a Latin text written for seminarian students at the Gregorian University in Rome, Bernard Lonergan’s 1964 masterpiece of systematic-theological writing, De Deo trino: Pars systematica, is only now being published in an edition that includes the original Latin along with an exact and literal translation. De Deo trino , or The Triune God, is the third great ...
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Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan) (v. 2)2 reviews
Bernard Lonergan
University of Toronto Press, 1997
from cognitional theory to metaphysics in St. Thomas
+ Reenvisioning Aquinas - review by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB
"To perfect the old by means of the new" Lonergan took the task of determining what the old really was. 'Verbum' is the result from the long years reaching up to the mind of St. Thomas. Not to the concepts used by St. Thomas but to the acts of thinking in him to revive his thinking mind again for ...
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Sharing in Christ's Virtues: For a Renewal of Moral Theology in Light of Veritatis Splendor
Livio Melina
Catholic University of America Press, 2001
The encyclical "Veritatis splendor" (The Splendor of Truth) represents the first document of the magisterium devoted to the foundations of the Catholic moral life. Though it was intended to confront a genuine crisis of moral disintegration and to offer positive directions for carrying out the work of renewing moral theology, it was fiercely criticized by theologians who regarded it as a ...
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Theo-Logic, vol. 3: The Spirit Of Truth
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Ignatius Press, 2005
Theo-Logic is the third and crowning part of the great trilogy of the masterwork of theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, following his first two parts, The Glory of the Lord and Theo-Drama. This is the third volume of Theo-Logic. Theo-Logic is a variation of theology, it being about not so much what man says about God, but what God speaks about himself. Balthasar does not address the truth ...
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Reality of God and the Problem of Evil1 review
Brian Davies
Continuum International Publishing, 2006
The reality of evil IS a problem for god
Brian Davies leads us to expect that he has an answer to the basic problem of evil in the Christian conception of an all knowing, all powerful, and all benevolent god. The very fact that evil exists is a strong, if not irrefutable argument that the creator of all universe cannot be at once all ...
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The Tasks of Philosophy: Volume 1: Selected Essays
Alasdair MacIntyre
Cambridge University Press, 2006
How should we respond when some of our basic beliefs are put into question? What makes a human body distinctively human? Why is truth an important good? These are among the questions explored in this collection of essays by Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the most creative and influential philosophers working today. Ten of MacIntyre's most influential essays written over almost thirty years are ...
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