Opening Windows onto Reality

Abstract

Human rational inquiry affords a series of windows onto reality, the combination of whose perspectives provides the basis for a worldview. Through scientific windows, we perceive signs of fruitfulness, threat, and futility; through humane windows, signs of finitude and hope; through biblical windows, the great sign of Christ's resurrection. The increasing, scientific importance of the concept of information encourages a recovery of the Aristotelian-Thomistic concept of the soul as the form of the body. Combining all these insights leads to an articulation of Christian eschatological hope that respects both traditional understanding and contemporary thought.