Demske James Oconnell Robert Dulles (4 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used Very Good.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Support Small Business by buying this book! Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24-48 hours. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding sound. Some light creasing on cover between ftonr and spine, and light sun-taning to and light wear on cover. Overall good condition, clean copy.…

grey cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. minor fading on rear cover. edges clean. tiny old bookshop sticker inside rear cover, otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vgcond. minor soiling, thin water mark strip on rear along top, rubbing at corners & along front flap edge, not price clipped. nice clean vintage copy. no library markings, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings. first edition. first printing(same date on title & copyright pg., no additional printings indicated). imprimi potest. nihil obstat. imprimatur February 28, 1955. ix+345p. general reading list. index of proper names. subject index. analytical table of contents. religion. theology. philosophy. ~ This textbook is written on the premise that philosophy is a search for wisdom~a personal search in which the opinions of the great philosophers should be used as guides. Beginning from the evident data of experience, the student is led through an orderly series of analyses until the main lines of the Thomistic synthesis have emerged as a coherent set of answers to genuine questions. The first two sections deal with the nature and metaphysical structure of the beings we know from experience. Attention is then directed to God as the source of all the changeable, finite, and multiple reality about us. In a final section the activities of created beings are considered in relation to God's transcendent causality. The essentials of General Metaphysics, Cosmology, and Natural Theology are thus blended into a smooth and compact course. The three authors of this book are all young Jesuits, not yet ordained, but with considerable teaching experience.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Sheed & Ward; First Edition (1955). IX+345 pages. NearFine Hardcover, NearFine DJ. 8.5"x5.7"x1.2". be36223.