Clarke, W. Norris, S.J. The Philosophical Approach to God: A Neo-Thomist Perspective . Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University, 1979.

Abstract

"The aim of these three lectures is to present for your reflection and discussion some of the significant developments that have been going on in the contemporary Neo-Thomist school of philosophers and philosophizing theologians with respect to the philosophical approach to God...I understand the term "Neo-Thomist" here very broadly to signify that loosely but recognizably united group of thinkers who acknowledge that the basic inspiration and structure of their thought derives from St. Thomas Aquinas, even though each one may have made various creative adaptations of his own, in both method and content, inspired by various movements of thought since the time of St. Thomas. Many of you may perhaps believe that since the heyday of Jacques Maritain and Etienne Gilson, when it seemed temporarily to regain a place in the sun in contemporary thought, Thomism had quietly faded away, save perhaps in a few seminaries. Others of you may perhaps wish that it would just fade away and cease to bother us, once and for all, as anything but a chapter in the history of thought. Neither belief nor wish seems likely of immediate fulfillment. Thomism has a remarkable survival power, and every so often, just when it seems that it is about to fade out, it has a way of renewing itself, like the phoenix, usually by a double movement of deeper return to its own sources plus the creative assimilation of some new insight or method of later thought."