What kind of natural desire is this? How can there be a natural desire for what can only be supernaturally obtained? How can such a desire be reconciled with the gratuitousness of grace and glory? What are its implications for apologetics? These and similar questions have caused a debate to rage for centuries over the proper interpretation of the natural desire to see God. This work seeks to determine the nature of this desire and its relationship with the supernatural order through an examination of the thought of St. Thomas and some of his most prominent interpreters, including Scotus, Cajetan, Suárez, and Henri de Lubac. This is a stunning book, on many counts: the sheer toil it represents, the amount of information it offers, the force of its arguments, and above all, the significance of its conclusions. Much of recent Catholic theology turns on the relation between the natural and the supernatural, and this deep and careful investigation sets the issue in a new light. Theologians and philosophers alike can benefit greatly from it. --Stephan L. Brock, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross Lawrence Feingold has performed an invaluable service to all who seek to understand the profound and difficult question of the character of the natural desire to see God. His magisterial command of the doctrinal tradition, exegetic care, and capacity to unfold an argument while appreciating all the delicate reticulations of commentatorial interpretation, highly commend this book. The sheer scope of the book, treating all the principal commentators engaged with this question, up to and including Laporta and de Lubac, combined with its speculative penetration, render it far and away the finest of the historico-doctrinal works addressing this issue. This is a tour de force: a book whose implications for the future of theology, and for a just appreciation and assessment of its past, truly need to be drawn. --Steven A. Long, Ave Maria University Lawrence Feingold converted to Catholicism in 1989 together with his wife, while engaged in realist marble sculpture in Pietrasanta, Italy. He studied Philosophy and Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome from 1990 to 1999, earning a doctorate in Dogmatic Theology. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Theology in the Institute for Pastoral Theology of Ave Maria University.