Contents -- Preface -- Part I. The Preambles of Faith -- 1. Introduction -- Part II. The Erosion of the Doctrine -- Prologue -- 2. Gilson's Attack on Cajetan -- 3. De Lubac and Cajetan -- 4. Christian Philosophy -- 5. The Chenu Case -- 6. The Alleged Forgetfulness of Esse -- Part III. Thomism and Philosophical Theology -- Prologue -- 7. The Presuppositions of Metaphysics -- 8. The Science We Are Seeking -- 9. The Metaphysics as a Literary Whole -- 10. Methodological Interlude -- 11. The Book of Wisdom -- 12. Sed Contra -- 13. Aristotelian Existentialism and Thomistic Essentialism -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.