Chapter 6. The Problem of the Reality and Multiplicity of Divine Ideas in Christian Neoplatonism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Part I. Reprinted Articles
5. Chapter 1. Twenty-Fourth Award of the Aquinas Medal, by the American Catholic Philosophical Association, to W. Norris Clarke, SJ 3
6. Chapter 2. Interpersonal Dialogue: Key to Realism 16
7. Chapter 3. Causality and Time 27
8. Chapter 4 System: A New Category of Being? 39
9. Chapter 5. A Curious Blind Spot in the Anglo-American Tradition of Antitheistic Argument 48
10. Chapter 6. The Problem of the Reality and Multiplicity of Divine Ideas in Christian Neoplatonism 66
11. Chapter 7. Is the Ethical Eudaimonism of Saint Thomas Too Self-Centered? 89
12. Chapter 8. Conscience and the Person 95
13. Chapter 9. Democracy, Ethics, Religion: An Intrinsic Connection 109
14. Chapter 10. What Cannot Be Said in Saint Thomas’s Essence-Existence Doctrine 117
15. Chapter 11. Living on the Edge: The Human Person as ‘‘Frontier Being’’ and Microcosm 132
16. Chapter 12. The Metaphysics of Religious Art: Reflections on a Text of Saint Thomas 152
17. Part II. New Articles
18. Chapter 13. The Immediate Creation of the Human Soul by God and Some Contemporary Challenges 173
19. Chapter 14. The Creative Imagination: Unique Expression of Our Soul-Body Unity 191
20. Chapter 15. The Creative Imagination as Treated in Western Thought 209
21. Chapter 16. The Integration of Personalism and Thomistic Metaphysics in Twenty-First-Century Thomism 226
22. Notes 233
23. Name Index 261
24. Subject Index 267