Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Part I. Reprinted Articles
Chapter 1. Twenty-Fourth Award of the Aquinas Medal, by the American Catholic Philosophical Association, to W. Norris Clarke, SJ
Chapter 2. Interpersonal Dialogue: Key to Realism
Chapter 3. Causality and Time
Chapter 4 System: A New Category of Being?
Chapter 5. A Curious Blind Spot in the Anglo-American Tradition of Antitheistic Argument
Chapter 6. The Problem of the Reality and Multiplicity of Divine Ideas in Christian Neoplatonism
Chapter 7. Is the Ethical Eudaimonism of Saint Thomas Too Self-Centered?
Chapter 8. Conscience and the Person
Chapter 9. Democracy, Ethics, Religion: An Intrinsic Connection
Chapter 10. What Cannot Be Said in Saint Thomas's Essence-Existence Doctrine
Chapter 11. Living on the Edge: The Human Person as ''Frontier Being'' and Microcosm
Chapter 12. The Metaphysics of Religious Art: Reflections on a Text of Saint Thomas
Part II. New Articles
Chapter 13. The Immediate Creation of the Human Soul by God and Some Contemporary Challenges
Chapter 14. The Creative Imagination: Unique Expression of Our Soul-Body Unity
Chapter 15. The Creative Imagination as Treated in Western Thought
Chapter 16. The Integration of Personalism and Thomistic Metaphysics in Twenty-First-Century Thomism
Notes
Name Index
Subject Index