Contents
Introduction: The Catholic Intellectual Life
Human Search for an Unknown God
Religious Pluralism and “The True Philosophy”
Skepticism and the Usefulness of Belief
Scripture
Teaching Authority: Tradition and the Magisterium
Infallibility
The Intellectual Form of Faith: Theology
Who Is God?
Affective and Theoretical Knowledge
A Basic Statement of Trinitarian Faith
The One God
The Illative Sense
Rational Arguments for the Existence of God
The Divine Names
Knowing the Trinity
The Trinity and Christian Mysticism
Thinking about the Trinity
Is Trinitarian Faith Monotheistic?
Creation ex Nihilo
A Hierarchy of Natures
Natural Sciences and the Book of Genesis
Why the Human Person? The Meeting Point of the Spiritual and Physical
Imago Dei
Creation in Grace: Original Justice
The Fall
The Non-Christian Search for God: Natural Law and Grace
Salvation Is from the Jews: Prophecy and Judaism
Why Did God Become Human?
The Divinity of Christ
The Humanity of Christ
Christ’s Life and Teaching
Atonement
The Resurrection
The Holy Spirit and the Apostolic College
The Seven Sacraments
The Sacrifice of the Mass
Justification and Sanctification
“No Salvation Outside the Church”?
States of Life: The Vocations of Priests, Laity, and Religious
The Virgin Mary
The Perennial Controversy
Justice and the City of Man
The Sanctification of Sex
Religious Freedom
Death and Final Judgment
Hell
Purgatory
Heaven
Universal Resurrection
Epilogue: On Prayer
Recommended Readings
Bibliography
Index