God -- Philosophy -- God and philosophy -- God, philosophy, and universities -- Augustine -- Boethius, the pseudo-Dionysius, and Anselm -- The Islamic and Jewish prologue to Catholic philosophy -- The genesis of the Catholic philosophical tradition -- Aquinas : philosophy and our knowledge of God -- Aquinas : philosophy and the ilfe of practice -- Aquinas : God, philosophy, universities -- After Aquinas : Scotus and Ockham -- From scholasticism to skepticism -- Descartes, Pascal, and Arnauld -- The Catholic absence from and return to philosophy, 1700-1850 -- Newman : God, philosophy, universities -- From Aeterni Patris to Fides et ratio -- Fides et ratio : the Catholic philosophical tradition redefined -- Now : universities, philosophy, God.