True Catholic Doctrinal Development: The Modal Distinction of Francisco Suárez and its Christological-Theological Consequences
True Catholic Doctrinal Development: The Modal Distinction of Francisco Suárez and its Christological-Theological Consequences
by Dr. Rafael Xavier Gonzalez
In this book, Dr. Rafael Gonzalez discusses Suárez’ modal distinction, which seems to satisfy both medieval Thomism (and neo-Thomism) and the newer pejoratively called “la nouvelle théologie” in their views of the distinction between nature and supernature, philosophy and theology. In other words, the traditional Scholastic theology and the more contemporary Ressourcement theology are synthesized by Suárezian modes, which emerges from the synthesis that is Christ himself.
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TESTIMONIALS
“In his book entitled Truth and Tolerance, Pope Benedict XVI writes, ‘Without faith, philosophy cannot be whole, but faith without reason cannot be human.’ The throughline that permeates Dr. Rafael Gonzalez’s brilliant exposition of the modal metaphysics of Francisco Suárez is precisely this Catholic insistence that doing philosophy clarifies and deepens our faith, thereby moving us closer to God—knowledge leads to love. Dr. Gonzalez convincingly argues that Suárez’s modal metaphysics is ideally suited for organically developing the central Catholic doctrine that Christ is fully human and fully divine, and that in and through this Christological synthesis, we are not destroyed but rather divinized. With this book, Dr. Gonzalez introduces the English-speaking world to a seminal figure who can help Catholics avoid the heretical beliefs of modernity and post-modernity that arise when we insist on either/or thinking over the both/and synthesis that characterizes Catholic faith.” – Martin O. Yalcin, PhD, Theology Department, Paramus Catholic High School
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