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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...

What follows does not intend to be a full and nuanced interpretation of this complex theme in Aquinas, but rather a sketch, in broad strokes, of the straightforward meaning of certain texts from the Summa. A more interesting and adequate view of Aquinas’s notion of reason has been developed over the last century, and we will indicate some of these openings, where appropriate, in the footnotes. The purpose of this section, however,
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