Introduction

Aquinas: My purpose this morning is to provide an overview of the metaphysical and epistemological issues involved in such an integration project. Since there's a vast set of issues, indeed, my strategy will be to go over them in a narrative form. So I'm going to proceed in three parts. In the first part, I'll lay out Aristotle's philosophy of nature and the metaphysical picture it gives us. And I'll look at some of its ethical and theological implications. Finally, I'll propose a way out to integrate the results of science into a theologically informed faith - what I call the hermeneutics of wisdom and love.