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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am grateful to friends and colleagues for their help in these essays as they were written over many years, especially John Brough, David Burrell, C.S.C., Peter Casarella, Richard Cobb-Stevens, Jean De Groot, Jude P. Dougherty, John Drummond, James Hart, Richard Hassing, V. Bradley Lewis, John C. McCarthy, Guy Mansini, O.S.B., Francis Martin, Susan Needham, Kurt Pritzl,O.P.,Owen Sadlier,O.S.F.,Brian Shanley,O.P.,John Smolko, and John Wippel. I am particularly indebted to Francis Slade and KevinWhite for their philosophical inspiration and conversation, and wish to recall the memory of Thomas Prufer,my primary mentor in philosophy and theology. ix ...

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