The Fittingness of the Incarnation: Essays in Analytic Thomistic Philosophy and Theology - Hardcover

by David Briane (Author), Thomas Joseph White (Foreword by), Brandon Dahm (Editor)

The Fittingness of the Incarnation collects David Braine's best unpublished philosophical and theological essays. The essays contained herein are representative of Braine's careful, rich and distinctive work. As one of the more interesting philosophers of his generation, David Braine offered a realist account of the world - God's existence, the human person, and language - through his major works, and these essays help follow through on some of those thoughts, explain underlying metaphysical or epistemological principles, and we see many of these applied in his theological essays. Additionally, the book includes Braine's plans for books on the realism of St. Thomas Aquinas, which helps us see again his vision for a unified philosophical account, and the Incarnation, which shows how Braine's philosophical anthropology informs. Altogether, the book contributes the final papers of David Braine to the fields at large.

Author Biography

David Braine (1940-2017) was Gifford Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, and the author of Language and Human Understanding: The Roots of Creativity in Speech and Thought. Thomas Joseph White, OP, is Rector, Pontifical University of St. Thomas, Angelicum. Brandon Dahm is assoicate professor of philosopy, Franciscan University of Steubenville. Daniel D. De Haan is a Research Fellow of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford. Andrew Willard Jones is the Director of Catholic Studies at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Tony Schmitz is Director of Studies at Diaconate Commission Bishops' Conference of Scotland.