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 between creatures and God.
-John F. Wippel
Catholic University
...a most attractive presentation of Transcendental Thomism.
-Lewis S. Ford
Horizons
A provocative dialogue with Transcendental Thomism and Process Philosophy on how the human mind ascends to God.
-Rev. Brian J. Shanley, O.P., Ph.D.
President, Providence College
[Clarke] is as good a synthesizer as was Thomas himself.
-H-Net Reviews
...systematic arguments which warrant serious response from both Thomists and Whiteheadians...
-Process Studies
A creative and compelling act of reflective analysis showing the deep and surprising congruence between a reinterpreted Transcendental Thomism and the traditional Thomism with its approach to God by way of a neo-Platonic metaphysics of participation.
-Kenneth Schmitz
Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
...a writer of such expertise and influence for good is someone to be taken very seriously.
-Downside Review