First edition, first impression. xx, 188pp. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine. 8vo. Cloth is gently rounded at corners and spine ends. Upper text block edge a little dull. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original paper dust wrapper, rubbed and chipped at edges with small area of loss on upper rear edge, a little toned.
This volume takes the doctrines of analogy and of existence as the guiding principles of a survey of the foundations of natural theology. Mr Mascall writes from the standpoint of a 20th century Thomism, based on the concepts of Saint Thomas but taking into account post-Thomist thought.