Aspects of Truth
A New Religious Metaphysics

This bold new work discusses truth, and the value of a metaphysical approach to truth, from philosophical and theological perspectives.

Catherine Pickstock (Author)

9781108840323, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 22 October 2020

340 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 2.4 cm, 0.61 kg

'Many Christians, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI included, will doubtless welcome Pickstock's robust and philosophically rigorous defence of object truth. While sceptics are unlikely to warm to her insistence on the centrality of Christ, others will see a volume of this kind as exactly what the modern secular world needs.' Jonathan W. Chappell, The Furrow

What is 'truth'? The question that Pilate put to Jesus was laced with dramatic irony. But at a time when what is true and what is untrue have acquired a new currency, the question remains of crucial significance. Is truth a matter of the representation of things which lack truth in themselves? Or of mere coherence? Or is truth a convenient if redundant way of indicating how one's language refers to things outside oneself? In her ambitious new book, Catherine Pickstock addresses these profound questions, arguing that epistemological approaches to truth either fail argumentatively or else offer only vacuity. She advances instead a bold metaphysical and realist appraisal which overcomes the Kantian impasse of 'subjective knowing' and ban on reaching beyond supposedly finite limits. Her book contends that in the end truth cannot be separated from the transcendent reality of the thinking soul.

1. Receiving
2. Exchanging
3. Mattering
4. Sensing
5. Minding
6. Realising
7. Thinging
8. Emptying
9. Spiriting
10. Conforming
Post-script.

Subject Areas: Theology [HRLB], Philosophy of religion [HRAB], Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600 [HPCB]