The Metaphysician at Prayer: Thomas Aquinas on Metaphysics and Prayer as “Interpreters of Desire”

Fall 2019 Vol. 17, No. 4

ISSN 1542-7315

Commentary
Theology and Culture in Newman’s Defense of the Immaculate Conception: An Essay in Commemoration of the Canonization of Saint John Henry Newman – Jacob Phillips
How Should Catholic Social Teaching Be Taught to Seminarians? – E. Christian Brugger
Catholicism and Democracy in America – Bruce D. Marshall

Articles
The Mystery of Christ’s Beatific Suffering: A Speyrian-Balthasarian Proposal Concerning Christ’s Beatific Vision in Life and Death – Joshua R. Brotherton
The Commentary of Thomas Aquinas in the History of Medieval Exegesis on Job: Intentio et Materia – Gilbert Dahan
Jesus’s Prophetic Knowledge and the Gospels – Anthony Giambrone, O.P.
The Doctrine of God and the Analogy of Being – Steven A. Long
Experience and Discourse, Revelation and Dogma in Catholic Modernism – Guy Mansini, O.S.B.
What Came First? The Sequence of God’s Grace in the Life of the Blessed Mother – John-Mark L. Miravalle
The Metaphysician at Prayer: Thomas Aquinas on Metaphysics and Prayer as “Interpreters of Desire” – Scott J. Roniger
The Human Body as an Instrumental Cause of Actions in the Writings of Thomas Aquinas – John Rziha
The Desire for Immortality at the Dawn of the Third Millennium: The Anthropological Stakes – Bernard N. Schumacher
Finding the Roots of Bonaventure’s Literary Style in Medieval Preaching – Randall B. Smith

Book Reviews
Augustine’s Early Theology of Image: A Study in the Development of Pro-Nicene Theology by Gerald P. Boersma – Michael P. Foley
Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Contra Gentiles: A Guide and Commentary by Brian Davies, O.P – Raymond Hain
The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age by Thomas Albert Howard – Jason A. Heron
Ethics as a Work of Charity: Thomas Aquinas and Pagan Virtue by David Decosimo – Daniel Lendman
Five Proofs of the Existence of God: Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, Leibniz by Edward Feser – Joshua Lim
James, First, Second, and Third John by Kelly Anderson and Daniel Keating – Steven C. Smith