Thomistic Common Sense: The Philosophy of Being and the Development of Doctrine

Despite living in an information age we are confronted by the clash of ideologies and a crisis of universal knowledge The Church is not unaffected by the world's weariness and similarly faces what Fr Mauro Gagliardi describes as the lack of truth or perhaps better the disinterest in it Today's philosophical and doctrinal decline are the results of the loss of first principles and a relativistic view of doctrinal development This book sees the great Dominican master address a variety of fundamental topics that we need to return to and relearn in our day: the relationship between common sense and both philosophy and faith; the proper defense for philosophical realism; the subordination and coordination of philosophical first principles; our natural capacity for knowing God's existence; and at length the problem of dogmatic development