Abstract

This is a welcome paperback edition of a 1960 publication, which sums up in incomparable style some forty years of mature reflection by M Gilson on the basic meaning of Christian philosophy which he accepted in the face of scepticism of its scientific consistency: ‘that way of philosophizing in which the Christian faith and the human intellect join forces in a common investigation of philosophical truth’. His own distinctive solution is calmly restated. To philosophize in faith is to seek an Augustinian wisdom within a speculative theology and in a theological order of exposition, such as is classically attained in the Summa theologiae of St Thomas