title: An Elementary Christian Metaphysics
author:  Joseph Owens 
description: "<i>An Elementary Christian Metaphysics</i> is intended primarily for undergraduate students as an introduction to metaphysics. . . . The scope of the metaphysical study pursued by Owens includes not only a general investigation of beings but also an analysis of knowledge (epistemology) and of the divine nature, all in light of natural reason". <i>Studies in Religion</i> (<i>Studies in Religion</i>)
zlib_text: Joseph Owens
  An Elementary 
  Christian 
  Metaphysics
  
  1
  AN ELEMENTARY CHRISTIAN 
  METAPHYSICS
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  JZoT 380- 3°°“?
  
  — St Thomas Aquinas, De Pot., Ill, 5, ad Im.
  . . . being that is in created things cannot be 
  understood except as derived from divine being, 
  just as a proper effect cannot be understood 
  except as derived from its proper cause.
  
  AN ELEMENTARY CHRISTIAN
  METAPHYSICS
  JOSEPH
  OWENS,
  C.Ss.R.
  Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
  CENTER FOR THOMISTIC STUDIES 
  University of St. Thomas 
  Houston, Texas 77006
  
  NIHIL OBSTAT: 
  Armand A. Maurer, C.S.B.
  Censor librorum
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 
  Owens, Joseph.
  An elementary Christian metaphysics.
  Center forThomistic Studies edition 1985 
  Copyright © 1963 by the Bruce Publishing Company 
  Reprinted with Permission
  All Rights Reserved
  IMPRIMATUR: 
  Francis V. Allen 
  Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto 
  June 15, 1962
  Reprinted in 1986, 1988, 1991, 1995, 2000, 2003, 
  2006, 2008,2011
  IMPRIMI POTEST:
  George T.