Redeeming Philosophy

From Metaphysics to Aesthetics

ed by John J. Conley, S.J.

© 2014 American Maritain Association.

Contents

• Introduction: Disputed Questions of Redemption / John J. Conley, S.J.

I. METAPHYSICAL TURN

• Being and the Twenty-First Century Thomist / John F. X. Knasas
• Natural Mysticism Gateway or Detour? Aquinas, Maritain, and the Core / Contextualist Debate / Heather M. Erb
• Simon and Maritain on the Vocation of Species in Media / Daniel D. De Haan
• Incarnate Spirit: Proper Thomistic Definition of the Human Being or Merely a Description of the Human Soul? / James Capehart
• Maritain on the Void / Michael Novak

II. THEOLOGICAL TURN

• Christ's Esse and Filiation: Interpreting St. Thomas on the Metaphysical Status of Christ's Human Nature / Roger W. Nutt
• The Proper Role of Credibility in the Work of Theology / James F. Keating
• Jacques Maritain, Charles Journet, and Humanae Vitae / Bernard Doering
• Sign, Symbol, Initiatory Sacrament / John J. Conley, S.J.

III. HISTORICAL TURN

• Hope and History / Randall B. Smith

IV. AESTHETIC TURN

• Spiritual Expressionism: Léon Bloy, the Maritains, and the Mystery of Israel / C. A. Tsakiridou
• Maritain's Influence on American Literature / John Marson Dunaway
• The Sound and the Fury, Symbolizing Something: Maritain and Percy on the Paradoxical Miracle at the Limits of Language / Joshua Hren

V. SOCIAL TURN

• Maritain on Education / Anne M. Wiles
• Aristotle's Gentleman: A Good and Noble Philosophy of Education Samantha / Bertrand
• Two False Theories of Human Equality Identified by Jacques Maritain: Applied to Feminist Issues / Bernadette E. O Connor
• Philosophy and the Search for Peace / Nikolaj Zunic
• Moral Problems in Economic Organization in the Work of Yves R. Simon: Unequal Exchange and Man as the Principle of Integration / Thomas R. Rourke


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