Stephen J. Costello

The Roots of the World

Philosophy

“Chesterton is the prince of paradox who is also a prophet. Now, his noble name becomes associated with prescience in Reyburn’s richly researched and seminal study. It is Chesterton’s love of the ‘ordinary’ that enables him to see so precisely into the order of things. Because he knew something about formal causality he could also comment on final causality, discerning within it the direction of our divine destiny. Reyburn reads this Christian Platonist persuasively through the metaxological metaphysics of four apposite thinkers. Reyburn is well suited to this task, being a Catholic convert like his mentor. I can but warmly recommend this highly original and outstanding philosophical contribution which succeeds in putting the reader in contact with reality itself.”