Selected Works of Cornelio Fabro

Selected Works of Cornelio Fabro Volume 3: Selected Articles on Atheism and Freedom, is the third volume of the English Selected Works of Cornelio Fabro. In addition to an introduction by Elvio Fontana of the Pontifical Urban University, this volume contains the following articles, published together for the first time: - Encyclopædia Britannica, s.v. "Atheism." 15th edition. Volume 2, 258—262. Heilen Hemingwai Benton Publisher, 1974. © 1974 by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Reprinted with permission. - New Catholic Encyclopedia, s.v. "Fichte, Johann Gottlieb." 1st edition, 1967. 2nd edition, Volume 5, 708—709, Detroit: Gale, 2003. © 2003 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. Reproduced by permission. www.cengage.com/permissions. - "Theology in the Context of a Philosophy of Nothingness." in Theology of Renewal: Proceedings of the Congress on Theology of Renewal of the Church, Centenary of Canada, 1867—1967, ed. Laurence K. Shook, vol. 1, Renewal of Religious Thought, 329—355. Montreal: Palm Publishers, 1968. - "The Problem of the Rights of Man in the Hebrew-Christian Tradition." Round table Meeting on Human Rights, Oxford, UK, 1965. UNESCO/SS/HR/4. Paris: November 3, 1965. - "Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, Teacher of Christian Freedom." The Irish Theological Quarterly, 47, no. 1 (March 1980): 56—60. - "Freedom and Existence in Contemporary Philosophy and in St. Thomas." The Thomist 38, no. 3 (1974): 524—556. This volume also includes one work that has never before appeared in publication: the transcription of "Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Trends in Radical Freedom." Visiting scholar lecture, Rockhurst College (now University), Kansas City, MO, February 24, 1974.

Perhaps the first thing to strike one, in reading Cornelio Fabro's account of the question of God, is his passion for this topic, evident throughout this admirable translation of a work first published over sixty years ago (Dio: Introduzione al problema teologico [1953]). To Fabro, the question of God haunts every human life and "every age of human history." even atheists witness "to the God whose presence they cannot tolerate" by "the obstinacy that consumes them and the insolence that makes them implacable persecutors". If Fabro's comment described the atheists of 1953, it is all the more apt for the "new Atheism" of our time.

Fabro's Introduction to Saint Thomas is much more than simply a life of Aquinas; imbued with the reflections of a lifetime of philosophical and theological research, the Stigmatine presents not only the life and works of Aquinas, but also a detailed study of the Thomistic schools throughout the centuries, and explains how Aquinas can enter into dialogue with the philosophical world of today.