Recovering Nature

<p>The recovery of nature has been a unifying and enduring aim of the writings of Ralph McInerny Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame director of the Jacques Maritain Center former director of the Medieval Institute and author of numerous works in philosophy literature and journalism. While many of the fads that have plagued philosophy and theology during the last half-century have come and gone recent developments suggest that McInerny's commitment to Aristotelian-Thomism was boldly if quietly prophetic. In his persistent clear and creative defenses of natural theology and natural law McInerny has appealed to nature to establish a dialogue between theists and non-theists to contribute to the moral and political renewal of American culture and particularly to provide some of the philosophical foundations for Catholic theology.</p><p>This volume brings together essays by an impressive group of scholars including William Wallace O.P. Jude P. Dougherty John Haldane Thomas DeKoninck Alasdair MacIntyre David Solomon Daniel McInerny Janet E. Smith Michael Novak Stanley Hauerwas Laura Garcia Alvin Plantinga Alfred J. Freddoso and David B. Burrell C.S.C.</p>