Theological Explanation [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 16 (3):589-589 (1963)
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By studying afresh the "act of explanation," the author hopes to achieve a reconciliation of diverse methodologies. Man's own personal being is to be taken as the clue to the nature of our "ultimate explanatory forms."--P. K. J.

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