Author’s Response to Contributors

Gaven Kerr

doi:10.18290/rf.2019.67.4-10

Gaven Kerr Pontifical University St Patrick’s College Maynooth https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5225-6900

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rf.2019.67.4-10

Keywords: God, essence, esse, metaphysics, causality, philosophy, Thomism

Abstract

The text represents the author’s responses to the contributors who have addressed issues in my 2015 book, Aquinas’s Way to God: The Proof in De Ente et Essentia, published by Oxford University Press.

Author Biography

Gaven Kerr, Pontifical University St Patrick’s College Maynooth

Gaven Kerr, O.P., PhD—Pontifical University St Patrick’s College Maynooth, Maynooth, Co., Kildare, Ireland

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