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In The Catholicity of Reason, D. C. Schindler compellingly argues for recovering a robust notion of reason and truth. Responding to modern rationalism and postmodern skepticism, Schindler explains the “grandeur of reason”—the recollection of which Benedict XVI has presented as a primary task of Christian engagement with the contemporary world. Schindler deftly argues that many postmodern...

presents a difficulty for the temporal coming to be of the world that is entailed in the Christian belief in creation in time. On the one hand, Aquinas affirms that substances as such imply the transcendence of time—“time does not measure the substance of things”35—and for this reason, because demonstration concerns the essence of things (which represents their non-temporal aspect), creation in time cannot be demonstrated. This implies that a “supra-temporal” aspect of being is essential to its intelligibility,
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