Metaphysical Themes 2.0
More than twenty years ago Fr. John Wippel compiled his articles into the volume Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1984), which served as the go-to source in English for the main features of Thomas's metaphysical teaching until his later The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas: From Finite Being to Uncreated Being (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2000). Catholic University of America Press is now announcing that Fr Wippel has collected articles subsequent to those in his Metaphysical Themes I into a new volume, Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas II. The contents of the volume—officially published today— are as follows:
- The Possibility of a Christian Philosophy: A Thomistic Perspective
- The Latin Avicenna as a Source for Thomas Aquinas's Metaphysics
- Truth in Thomas Aquinas
- Thomas Aquinas and the Axiom: "What is Received is Received According to the Mode of the Receiver"
- Thomas Aquinas and the Axiom that Unreceived Act is Unlimited
- Thomas Aquinas on Our Knowledge of God and the Axiom that Every Agent Produces Something Like Itself
- Thomas Aquinas on Creatures as Causes of esse
- Thomas Aquinas on Demonstrating God's Omnipotence
- Thomas Aquinas on God's Freedom to Create or Not
- Thomas Aquinas's Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics
- Platonism and Aristotelianism in Aquinas
CUA Press has kindly provided a PDF file with further details about the book.