God and Philosophy

Abstract

We have seen how the ‘self-appropriation of one’s own intellectual and rational self-consciousness begins as cognitional theory’, and ‘expands into a metaphysics and an ethics’. It remains to be seen how it ‘mounts to a conception and an affirmation of God, only to be confronted with a problem of evil that demands the transformation of self-reliant intelligence into an intellectus quaerens fidem’ (an understanding seeking for faith).²

It seems fitting to borrow for the heading of this chapter the title of A.G.N. Flew’s splendid book; though Flew’s arguments and conclusions certainly differ from Lonergan’s.