Does God ‘Exist’ According to Catholicism? An Attempt to Establish Intersubjective Understanding Between Thomists and Postmodernists

• In Event: Faith & Communication Theory in Conversation: Theoretical and Methodological Engagements

Abstract

I argue that no productive discussion between adherents to these competing worldviews (postmodernism and Thomism) can occur without a measure of intersubjective understanding, and this understanding is only possible after consensus can be reached on important first principles. Finally, I attempt to initiate this productive discussion by offering a synthetic reading of Aquinas and Heidegger that attempts to reconcile the two.

Author

• L. Paul Strait, University of Southern California