ABSTRACT
Whereas Part II focused upon an examination of the hostility of modern culture to the instantiation of the principles of the Thomist tradition, Part III focuses upon an examination of how the Thomist tradition is being developed by proponents of a postmodern Augustinian Thomism to incorporate within it an account of the signifi cance of culture for moral and intellectual formation. This has been made necessary by the crisis created within the tradition by the emergence of the culture of modernity, and by the emphasis placed within the Genealogical tradition on the signifi cance of rival cultures and traditions and the rôle of culture in the formation of the soul, or, as Liberals and Genealogists would say, ‘self ’. Since such an account of the theological signifi cance of culture was in part completely missing from classical Thomism and in part only latently present, this lacuna needs to be ‘fi lled in’ if the Thomist tradition is to have any hope of engaging the arguments of the rival Liberal and Genealogical traditions.
