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652 BOOK REVIEWS to the Wesley brothers, John and Charles (for all the occasional differences between them), where the invocations might run "Sancte Thoma, ora pro nobis. . . . Sancti loannes et Carole, orate pro nobis," and where the entire space might resonate with the hymns of Aquinas as well as those of the Wesleys; and all that might not be too far away from what Col6n-Emeric himself calls "kneeling ecumenism" (183-85). Whatever the outcome of my particular flight of architectural fancy, the dialogue between Methodists and Catholics must continue on its way towards its stated goal of "full communion in faith, mission, and sacramental life." And certainly Col6n-Emeric, as a theologian of the upcoming generation, has important contributions to make from the Methodist side. Duke University Divinity School Durham, North Carolina GEOFFREY WAINWRIGHT Truth: Studies of a Robust Presence. Edited by KURT PRITZL. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy 51. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University ofAmerica Press, 2010. Pp. 368. $79.95 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-8132-1680-5. . The present volume seeks to respond to the important "return to truth" that is evident throughout the work of a number of contemporary philosophers. The articles included offer multiple perspectives that take as their focus a "robust theory" of truth. This robust theory sets itself in contrast to modern deflationary theories (common to the contemporary analytic tradition), denials of truth (found in the postmodern deconstructionist approach), and relativist theories found in both. The volume brings together two sides of the truth question, namely, that of the being of objective truth and that of the human capacity to know the truth. Despite the numerous contemporary debates and studies that have dealt with the importance of truth and the power of philosophical argumentation, serious doubt appears on both sides ofthe question. The doubt surrounds the possibility, first, that objective truth can be obtained and shared and, second, that truth has any hold "over the lives of persons whose rationality is subordinate to will or desire" (2). In taking on this question, in both these aspects, and in recognizing its contemporary relevance and importance, the collection advances our understanding in two important ways. First, it seeks to go beneath the current debate to uncover what assumptions about truth may in fact obstruct a proper approach and resolution to the question. Second, it offers historical studies that are not a simple rehearsing of past arguments. Each article deals concretely with BOOK REVIEWS 653 the question and contributes to our deeper understanding of philosophers who have taken the question of truth seriously. Pritzl's opening study, "Aristotle's Door" presents and defends Aristotle's "exuberant account of truth" over against contemporary thin or dismissive accounts of truth. Understanding truth as "The proverbial door, which no one can fail to hit" (Metaphysics 2.1), Pritz! offers a consideration of the expression of noetic and dianoetic truth in Aristotle's Metaphysics and De anima as two sides of a teleological account of truth, both of which offer an explanation of how human knowing, despite its limitations, has real contact with reality. Mitchell Miller's "A More Exact Grasp of the Soul?" complements the study of Aristotle with that of Plato. This essay offers a close and compelling reading of the two approaches to the soul that are found in Plato's Republic (a tripartite soul) and in the Philebus (the dialectic approach). Miller's fascinating and dense contribution sets the stage for a fuller understanding, not just of Socrates and Plato, but of the domain of human existence. He does this by means of an intertextual analysis. His study demonstrates what the "fuller path" to truth about the soul requires of the philosopher. This article offers a stand-alone study of Plato's texts as well as contributing to the overall purpose of the volume. In "Truth, Creation and Intelligibility in Anselm, Grosseteste, and Bonaventure," Timothy Noone presents the development of the medieval position on truth, in light of the Christian commitment to creation. While attempting to preserve the Greek notion of truth as the unity of being and what the intellect knows about what is, all three medieval thinkers contextualize the philosophical...

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