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The Philosophical Approach to God: A New Thomistic Perspective, 2nd Edition
W. Norris Clarke
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Paperback. Includes three lectures delivered by the author at Wake Forest University in 1979. This book is a useful resource for scholars and teachers of the philosophy of religion. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
227g
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823227198
SKU
V9780823227198
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About W. Norris Clarke
W. NORRIS CLARKE, S. J., has for decades taught philosophy at Fordham. Among his books are Explorations in Metaphysics: Being-God-Person, The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics, and The Philosophical Approach to God: A New Thomistic Perspective, 2nd Edition (Fordham).
Reviews for The Philosophical Approach to God: A New Thomistic Perspective, 2nd Edition
Illustrates a talented Thomist trying to make sense of the Transcendental Thomist and Whiteheadian circles in which Clarke moved at Fordham University.
-American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly
Particularly noteworthy is Clarke's grounding of analogous speech about God on the 'bridge of causal participation' and the minimum degree of likeness that must obtain between an effect and its cause, even ... Read more
-American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly
Particularly noteworthy is Clarke's grounding of analogous speech about God on the 'bridge of causal participation' and the minimum degree of likeness that must obtain between an effect and its cause, even ... Read more