Many thanks are owed to those who helped make this edition possible: to Brian Benestad, Stephen Brown, and Fr. Matthew Lamb for their encouragement; to Marcel Klicova and Nathan Bailey at the University of Notre Dame for their patient scanning and proofing of many of the original texts; to Shane and Violet Slowey at Baylor University for their careful proofreading of the finished manuscript; to my wife Alexandra for transcribing several of the pieces and helping with a number of other clerical tasks; to Marc A. LePain for his excellent translation of Saint Augustine and the Neoplatonic Doctrine of the Soul; and to the Ernest Fortin Foundation for their generous financial assistance. I also wish to thank the following for their permission to print or reprint the pieces found in this volume:
ESSAYS
Chapter 1. The Rebirth of Patristic Studies is reprinted from Delta Epsilon Sigma Bulletin (October 1959), 11-20. By permission of Delta Epsilon Sigma Honors Society.
Chapter 2. The Church Fathers and the Transmission of the Christian Message, previously unpublished, is printed by permission of Rev. Dennis Gallagher, A.A., Provincial of the U.S. Region of the Assumptionists.
Chapter 3. The Nature of the Christian Message, previously unpublished, is printed by permission of the U.S. Region of the Assumptionists.
Chapter 4. The Rhetoric of the Church Fathers, previously unpublished, is printed by permission of the U.S. Region of the Assumptionists.
Chapter 5. Saint Augustine and the Neoplatonic Doctrine of the Soul: Letter 137.11 is printed by permission of Dr. Marc A. LePain.
Chapter 6. The City of God is reprinted from Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia, ed. Rev. Allan D. Fitzgerald, O.S.A. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999), 196-20, where it appeared under the title, De civitate Dei. The book, an excellent resource, may be purchased from www.eerdmans.com . By permission of Eerdmans Publishing.
Chapter 7. Translatio Studii is reprinted from Folia: Studies in the Christian Perpetuation of the Classics 10:2 (1956), 43-51, by permission of the U.S. Region of the Assumptionists.
Chapter 8. Thomas Aquinas as a Political Thinker is reprinted from Perspectives on Political Science 26/2 (Spring 1997), 92-96. Reprinted with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802. www.heldref.org . Copyright 1997.
Chapter 9. Dante and Averroism is reprinted from Actas del V Congreso Internacional de Filosofia Medieval, vol. 2 (Madrid: Editora Nacional, 1979), 739-46. By permission of the U.S. Region of the Assumptionists.
Chapter 10. The New Moral Theology: Genesis and Present State, previously unpublished, is printed by permission of the U.S. Region of the Assumptionists.
Chapter 11. Christianity and the Enlightenment: A Foreword is reprinted from CCICA Annual 4 (1985), 1-7. By permission of Dr. Frederick Crosson and Brother Daniel Burke, FSC.
Chapter 12. The Enlightenment and the Church: The Changing Configurations is reprinted from CCICA Annual 16 (1997), 73-87. By permission of Dr. Frederick Crosson and Brother Daniel Burke, FSC.
Chapter 13. A Tocquevillian Perspective on Religion and the American Regime, previously unpublished, is printed by permission of the U.S. Region of the Assumptionists.
Chapter 14. Humanae Vitaes Silver Jubilee: Twenty-Five Years Later, previously unpublished, is printed by permission of the U.S. Region of the Assumptionists.
Chapter 15. Men of Letters: The Little-Known Correspondence Between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin is reprinted from Crisis 9:3 (March 1991), 33-36. Reprinted with permission from Crisis Magazine, www.crisismagazine.com .
Chapter 16. Why I Am Not a Thomist, previously unpublished, is printed by permission of the U.S. Region of the Assumptionists.
Chapter 17. Philosophy and Democratic Education is reprinted from Assumption (Summer 1961), 28-31. By permission of Assumption College.
Chapter 18. The New Catholic College is printed by permission of the U.S. Region of the Assumptionists.
Chapter 19. An Academic Approach to the Teaching of Theology, previously unpublished, is printed by permission of the U.S. Region of the Assumptionists.
Chapter 20. Moral Values is reprinted from Report of the University Planning Council: Societal Changes Salient to Boston College 1981-1982 (Boston: Boston College, 1983), 3-4. By permission of Mr. Ben Birnbaum and the Trustees of Boston College.
Chapter 21. The Anguish of Unity: A Roman Catholic Perspective, is reprinted from The Anguish of Unity (Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ, 1967). By permission of the U.S. Region of the Assumptionists.
Chapter 22. The Ecumenical Venture, previously unpublished, is printed by permission of the U.S. Region of the Assumptionists.
Chapter 23. Holiness of the Church and Ministerial Holiness, previously unpublished, is printed by permission of the U.S. Region of the Assumptionists.
Chapter 24. Christian Mission and Spirituality: Roman Catholics and Methodists in Dialogue is reprinted from New Catholic World (July-August 1977), 191-95. Copyright 1977 the Missionary Society of St. Paul in the State of New York. Used with permission of Paulist Press, Inc., New York/Mahwah, N.J., www.paulistpress.com .
Chapter 25. EcumenismWhere Do We Go from Here? is reprinted from Theology in Revolution, ed. George Devine (Staten Island, New York: College Theology Society, 1970), 86-94. By permission of Rev. Edmund Lane and Alba House.
Chapter 26. Public Theology: A Response to Max Stackhouse is reprinted from This World 8 (1984), 97-103. By permission of Elizabethtown College.
Chapter 27. Religious Consciousness: A Response to Robert Bellah, previously unpublished, is printed by permission of the U.S. Region of the Assumptionists.
Chapter 28. The Enlightenment and Freedom: Critical Remarks on Ernest van den Haags The Desolation of Reality, previously unpublished, is printed by permission of the U.S. Region of the Assumptionists.
Chapter 29. Religion and the American Regime, previously unpublished, is printed by permission of the U.S. Region of the Assumptionists.
Chapter 30. Comment on Hughes Regarding the Strauss-Voegelin Correspondence is reprinted from Review of Politics 56:2 (Spring 1994), 352-54. Copyright 1994, reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.
Chapter 31. Aristotle and the Sociobiologists: An Old Controversy Revived is reprinted from Politics and the Life Sciences 6:2 (February 1988), 205-8. By permission of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences and its journal, Politics and the Life Sciences.
REVIEWS
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Augustine and the Limits of Politics, from The Review of Politics 59:2 (Spring 1997), 365-68. Copyright 1997. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.
Harry A. Wolfson, The Philosophy of the Church Fathers, is reprinted from The Bridge 4 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1962), 371-78. By permission of the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies, Seton Hall University.
J. Pelikan, Emergence of the Christian Tradition, is reprinted from Theological Studies 33 (1972), 330-33. By permission of Theological Studies.
H.Y. Jung, The Crisis of Political Understanding: A Phenomenological Perspective in the Conduct of Political Inquiry, from The Review of Metaphysics 34 (1981), 387-88. Copyright 1981 by The Review of Metaphysics. Reprinted with permission.