Foreword by Denys Turner
Introduction by Brian Davies O.P.
1. Is Belief Wishful Thinking?
2. Are Creeds Credible?
3. Doubt is Not Unbelief
4. Why God?
5. Causes and God
6. A Very Short Introduction to Aquinas
7. Aquinas on 'God is Good'
8. Soul, Life, Machines, and Language
9. Son of God
10. Forgiveness
11. Immaculate Conception
12. Freedom
Brian Davies is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, New York, USA. His publications include An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 2003) and The Thought of Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 1992). Herbert McCabe was a Dominican Friar and theologian of outstanding originality who died in 2001. He was deeply influential on philosophers such as Anthony Kenny and Alasdair MacIntyre and poets and writers like Terry Eagleton and Seamus Heaney.
Philosophically and theologically highly informed, conversational
in style and free from unnecessary technical terms, inductively
biblical/credal in approach and delightfully illustrated with
literary and everyday examples, not lacking a touch of humor and
some healthy irony, these writings are a refreshing read for
everyone interested in theology and an eye-opening presentation of
the central tenets of Christian faith.
*Louvain Studies 34*
Review in Estudios Filosoficos, 2010
"Here is the latest collection of unpublished papers of the late
Herbert McCabe, and what a treat it is. The combination of crystal
logic, sparkling wit, and interrogative fides quaerens intellectum,
deeply informed by Aquinas and richly modulated by Wittgenstein,
are again on bravura display...excellent."
*Kim Fabricius, Faith & Theology*
'As one has come to expect of McCabe, there is wonderful clarity to
the writing.' Canon David Brown, Church Times
*Church Times*
"McCabe has been influentual in creating the commonest modern
account [of Aquinas]" Canon Brown, The Church Times, October
2007
*Church Times*
"a wonderful clarity to the writing" Canon Brown, Church
Times, October 2007
*Church Times*
"McCabe had written important articles during the 'Myth of God
Incarnate' controversy and the clarity of his thought shines
through in a sermon which is a model exposition of the Christian
faith." New Directions, July 2007
*New Directions*
Chapter extract in The Tablet
*Tablet, The*
"This is a book that has much to offer professional academics and
general readers alike. It is the work of a born communicator, who
has the power to inspire and to touch the heart, as well as to
argue his case with care and with rigour. Christianity could do
with more such advocates"
*Tablet, The*
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