The Philosophical Approach to God - 2nd Edition by W Norris Clarke (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This book is a revised and expanded edition of three lectures delivered by the author as the centerpiece of a symposium on the philosophy of God 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, explores two lesser-known resources of Aquinas's philosophical ascent of the mind to God. The first is the unrestricted dynamism of the human spirit, both intellect and will, reaching toward the fullness of being as both true (i.e., intelligible) and good. The second is the strictly metaphysical ascent to God from finite to infinite, in the line of Aquinas's later, more Neoplatonically inspired, metaphysics of participation.The third lecture is a critique of Whitehead's process philosophy. It asks: Is process philosophy compatible with Christian theism? This article is heavily revised from its earlier version, distinguishing Aquinas more sharply and critically from Whitehead than in the first edition.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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<br>philosophy of religion. <p/>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 the fullness of being, and the strictly metaphysical ascent to God from finite to infinite, in the line of Aquinas's later, more Neoplatonically inspired, metaphysics of participation. <p/>The third, and most heavily revised, lecture is a critique of Whitehead's process philosophy, distinguishing Aquinas more sharply and critically from Whitehead than in the first edition.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>...a writer of such expertise and influence for good is someone to be taken very seriously.-- "--Downside Review"<br><br>...systematic arguments which warrant serious response from both Thomists and Whiteheadians...-- "--Process Studies"<br><br>[Clarke] is as good a synthesizer as was Thomas himself.-- "--H-Net Reviews"<br><br>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"<br><br>...a most attractive presentation of Transcendental Thomism.<b>-----Lewis S. Ford, <i>Horizons</i></b><br><br>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.<b>-----Kenneth Schmitz, <i>Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto</i></b><br><br>A provocative dialogue with Transcendental Thomism and Process Philosophy on how the human mind ascends to God.<b>-----Rev. Brian J. Shanley, O.P., Ph.D., <i>President, Providence College</i></b><br><br>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.<b>-----John F. Wippel, <i>Catholic University</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><br><strong>W. NORRIS CLARKE</strong>, S. J., has for decades taught philosophy at Fordham. Among his books are <em>Explorations in Metaphysics: Being-God-Person, The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics</em>, and <em>The Philosophical Approach to God: A New Thomistic Perspective, 2nd Edition </em>(Fordham).<br>
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