Pre-Owned An Introduction to Natural Theology (Paperback) 153264633X 9781532646331

What is the God of the philosopher? Can the philosopher that is to say can human reason unenlightened by the revealed word come to a true and secure understanding of He-Who-Is ? Is it possible for mere man without the impact of a personal experience intimate and intuitive to arrive by means of an objective demonstration at an absolute affirmation that the Being we call God exists or that He is Pure Act Existence Itself because without him the world of our experience is unintelligible a complete contradiction? And even if we admit as all Christian philosophers must that unaided reason is able by its own power to reach an objectively true and secure assent that God exists is there any evidence in the recorded history of our world that man without the directive knowledge of revelation ever did secure by a metaphysical effort this absolute truth that the Ipsum Esse exists? Whatever be the answer to this difficult problem--and we do not pretend to know it--it is obvious that Father Holloway in composing his philosophical approach to God allowed himself to be guided by the knowledge of faith. Indeed he must have prayed often for the enlightenment which the supernatural motion of divine grace brings even to the limited and imperfect intellect of a philosopher. --From the Foreword by Henri Renard S.J.