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Title: Person and Being (Aquinas Lecture 57) by W. Norris Clarke ISBN: 0-87462-160-7 Publisher: Marquette Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1993 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A genuine "self-help" book
Comment: Why should you read this book? Let me try to answer that. This book is about the relational aspect of Being. That right there is what is remarkable. Fr. Clarke shows us how the revelation of the Trinity actually helps us understand ourselves more fully. If God relates to (within) himself through this combination of relationality (being relational in nature) and substantiality (being a substance, a thisness), then, upon further inspection of what it means that we share in that Being, we see that we too find our most authentic mode of existing by living in this tension between being ourselves (a stand alone substance) and being defined by how we relate to others. Practically speaking, I think it's good for people to recognize that their existence, for its fulfillment, requires that they develop both aspects of themselves. As a child grows up, they have to successfully progress through increasingly complex relations with others. They start with their parents, then their friends, then their boyfriends/girlfriends, then their spouses. And in each stage, they go out to others and then come back to themselves a little bit different each time. You've met people who close themselves off to these relations. They close in on themselves. And they fail to live an authentically human existence. I think it's a book that's encouragement and reassurance for people who are committed to being as fully human as possible. It shows them that God himself is not far removed from their quest when they see that He too is relational in nature (Father, Son and Holy Spirit).
Rating: 5
Summary: The Wisdom of a Lifetime
Comment: Norris Clarke, in this remarkable little book, sums up many years of intense philosophical exploration into the meaning of personhood. He writes of deep things without a trace of affectation, never burying the light of his message beneath a bushel-basket of jargon and cant. With gentle but insistent urgency, he challenges readers to appropriate their personhood--with all the infinite longing and immeasurable richness that implies. How many contemporary philosophical books have the power to change lives? This one does. Read it and find out for yourself.
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Title: The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics by W. Norris Clarke, Norris Clarke ISBN: 0268037078 Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Explorations in Metaphysics: Geing-God-Person by W. Norris Clarke ISBN: 0268006970 Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Selfhood of the Human Person by John F. Crosby ISBN: 0813208653 Publisher: Catholic Univ of Amer Pr Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: At the Center of the Human Drama: The Philosophical Anthropology of Karol Wojtyla/Pope John Paul II (Michael J. McGivney Lectures of the John Paul I) by Kenneth L. Schmitz, John M. Grondelski ISBN: 0813207800 Publisher: Catholic Univ of Amer Pr Pub. Date: December, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox by G.K. Chesterton ISBN: 0385090021 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 15 January, 1974 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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