The Sheed & Ward Anthology of Catholic Philosophy is a thorough introduction to the evolution of Catholic philosophy from Biblical times to the present day. The first comprehensive collection of readings from Catholic philosophers, this volume aims to sharpen the understanding of Catholic philosophy by grouping together the best examples of this tradition, both well-known classics and lesser-known selections.

The Sheed & Ward Anthology of Catholic Philosophy is a thorough introduction to the evolution of Catholic philosophy from Biblical times to the present day. The first comprehensive collection of readings from Catholic philosophers, this volume aims to sharpen the understanding of Catholic philosophy by grouping together the best examples of this tradition, both well-known classics and lesser-known selections. The readings emphasize themes integral to the Catholic tradition such as the harmony of faith and reason, the existence and nature of God, the nature of the human person and the nature of being, and the objectivity of the moral law.

Each reading includes a brief introduction and is historically placed within five major groups—1) Preliminaries, including readings from the Bible, Plato and Aristotle, 2) The Patristic Era, selections from Aristides to Boethius, and a heavy focus on Augustine, 3) The Middle Ages, readings from the early Moslem and Jewish thinkers to William of Ockham, with an emphasis on Aquinas, 4) The Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century, including Suarez, Descartes, Pascal, Newman, and Pope Leo XIII, and 5) The Twentieth Century and Beyond, including Maritain and Lonergan, Blondel and Marcel, Geach and Rescher, and others like Chesterton and Teilhard.

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Part 1 Preliminaries
Chapter 2 What Is Catholic Philosophy?
Chapter 3 The Bible: Verses
Chapter 4 Plato: Dialogues
Chapter 5 Aristotle: Treatises
Part 6 The Patristic Era
Chapter 7 Introduction
Chapter 8 Aristides the Philosopher: A Defense of Christianity
Chapter 9 Justin Martyr: From Philosophy to Christianity
Chapter 10 Irenaeus: Freedom and Evil
Chapter 11 Clement of Alexandria: Philosophy and Christianity
Chapter 12 Tertullian: Athens and Jerusalem
Chapter 13 Minucius Felix: A Pagan-Christian Debate
Chapter 14 Origen: First Principles
Chapter 15 Plotinus: Absolute Beauty
Chapter 16 Gregory of Nyssa: Not Three Gods
Chapter 17 Augustine: Confessions
Chapter 18 Augustine: Christian Doctrine
Chapter 19 Augustine: Freedom and Evil
Chapter 20 Augustine: God's Providence
Chapter 21 Pseudo-Dionysius: Mystical Theology
Chapter 22 Boethius: Foreknowledge and Freedom
Part 23 The Middle Ages
Chapter 24 Introduction
Chapter 25 Avicenna: Essences
Chapter 26 Anselm: The Ontological Argument
Chapter 27 Averroës: The Incoherence of the Incoherence
Chapter 28 Moses Maimonides: Guide for the Perplexed
Chapter 29 Roger Bacon: Experimental Science
Chapter 30 Peter of Spain: Logic
Chapter 31 Bonaventure: The Mind's Journey to God
Chapter 32 Thomas Aquinas: The Existence of God
Chapter 33 Thomas Aquinas: Natural Law
Chapter 34 Thomas Aquinas: The Principles of Nature
Chapter 35 Thomas Aquinas: On Being and Essence
Chapter 36 Thomas Aquinas: Can War Be Just?
Chapter 37 Meister Eckhart: The Nearness of the Kingdom
Chapter 38 John Duns Scotus: Universals
Chapter 39 Margaret Porette: Mirror of Simple Souls
Chapter 40 William of Ockham: Against Theistic Proofs
Part 41 Renaissance through Nineteenth
Chapter 42 Introduction
Chapter 43 Ignatius of Loyola: Principle and Foundation
Chapter 44 Francisco Suárez: Essence and Existence
Chapter 45 Galileo Galilei: Physics and Religion
Chapter 46 Pierre Gassendi: Against the Aristotelians
Chapter 47 René Descartes: I Think, Therefore I Am
Chapter 48 Blaise Pascal: The Wager
Chapter 49 Nicolas Malebranche: Occasionalism
Chapter 50 John Henry Newman: Loving God
Chapter 51 Josef Kleutgen: Scholastic Philosophy
Chapter 52 Vatican I: Constitution on the Catholic Faith
Chapter 53 Pope Leo XIII: The Revival of Thomism
Part 54 The Twentieth Century and Beyond
Chapter 55 Introduction
Chapter 56 The Vatican: Twenty-Four Thomistic Theses
Chapter 57 Maurice Blondel: Action
Chapter 58 Max Scheler: The Problem of Eudaemonism
Chapter 59 G. K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy
Chapter 60 Pierre Rousselot: Intelligence
Chapter 61 Joseph Maréchal: Transcendental Thomism
Chapter 62 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Evolution and Christianity
Chapter 63 Jacques Maritain: Existence and the Existent
Chapter 64 Étienne Gilson: God and Modern Philosophy
Chapter 65 Gabriel Marcel: Ontological Mystery
Chapter 66 Edith Stein: Woman's Special Value
Chapter 67 Charles Hart: Neothomism in America
Chapter 68 Alfred Tarski: What Is Truth?
Chapter 69 John Courtney Murray: Religious Freedom
Chapter 70 Karl Rahner: Can We Still Believe?
Chapter 71 Bernard Lonergan: The Subject
Chapter 72 Frederick Copleston: A Debate with Bertrand Russell
Chapter 73 Peter Geach: God's Omnipotence
Chapter 74 Elizabeth Anscombe: Contraception and Chastity
Chapter 75 Pope John Paul II: Faith and Reason
Chapter 76 Alan Donagan: Agency
Chapter 77 Herbert McCabe: The Logic of Mysticism
Chapter 78 Nicholas Rescher: Matters of Religion
Chapter 79 Alasdair MacIntyre: Virtue and Dependence
Chapter 80 Arthur McGovern: Is Atheism Essential to Marxism?
Chapter 81 Eui-Chai Tjeng: East and West
Chapter 82 Charles Taylor: Transcendental Arguments
Chapter 83 Alvin Plantinga: Advice to Christian Philosophers
Chapter 84 Sidney Cornelia Callahan: Abortion and Feminism
Chapter 85 Hugo Meynell: Faith and Foundationalism
Chapter 86 John Finnis: Natural Law
Chapter 87 John Caputo: Against Ethics
Chapter 88 Harry Gensler: God, Science, and the Golden Rule
Chapter 89 Jean-Luc Marion: God without Being
Chapter 90 Patrick Lee: Plantinga, Faith, and Reason
Chapter 91 Danilo de Souza Filho: Maker's Knowledge
Chapter 92 Arthur Madigan: Catholic Philosophers in the U.S