Alasdair MacIntyre has written a selective history of the Catholic philosophical tradition, designed to show how belief in God informed and informs philosophical enquiry in different historical and social settings.

Introduction God, philosophy, Universities Chapter 1 God Chapter 2 Philosophy Chapter 3 God and philosophy Chapter 4 God, philosophy, universities Prologues to the Catholic philosophical tradition Chapter 5 Augustine Chapter 6 Boethius, PseudoDionysius, Anselm Chapter 7 The Islamic and Jewish prologue to Catholic philosophy Chapter 8 The genesis of the Catholic philosophical tradition Aquinas and after Chapter 9 Aquinas: philosophy and our knowledge of God Chapter 10 Aquinas: philosophy and the life of practice Chapter 11 Aquinas: God, philosophy, universities Chapter 12 After Aquinas: Scotus and Ockham The threshold of modern philosophy Chapter 13 From scholasticism to scepticism Chapter 14 Descartes, Pascal, and Arnauld Modernity Chapter 15 The Catholic absence from philosophy and the Catholic return to philosophy 1700-1850 Chapter 16 Newman: God, philosophy, universities Chapter 17 From Aeterni Patris to Fides et Ratio Chapter 18 Fides et Ratio: the Catholic philosophical tradition redefined Chapter 19 Now: Universities, philosophy, God Index About the Author

While not a work of academic philosophy—MacIntyre intends it for undergraduate seniors and first-year graduate students—this book can profitably be read by any reader of First Things. In fact, it should be so read, as either an introduction or a refresher to the great tradition, and then passed on to a friend.