The Task of Catholic Philosophy

Creatureliness as such – a vast and capacious reality – is poised to receive that verticality which transcends the horizon of creaturely being: the gift that descends from above. This gift awaits the embrace of creation’s womb, which unfolds as the horizontal dynamism of existence. Creation is made for this: its ultimate end is the reception of grace, a reception that transforms and transubstantiates all that is. This gift in no way undoes the dynamism of creation in a destructive mode, but rather saves, heals, and elevates it from within transcendently.