The Church is the realization of God's vision of man, and of the meaning of man. It is
also the incarnation of our communion into God. The Second Vatican Council sought an
"aggiornamento", and proclaimed a richer perspective of that mutual communion of God
and man. Unfortunately the Council offered no new synthesis of philosophy through
which to frame a new vision. The medieval Scholastic synthesis, abstract and
essentialist, has become increasingly irrelevant to the philosophy of science. As a result
Relativism and Secularism is disintegrating Christian life and the doctrine of the
Incarnation. Yet if the principles which are truly "perennial" in the older philosophy are
existentially rethought, and realigned within the recognition of a cosmic Unity-Law of
control and purposive direction which culminates in the Incarnation of God in Christ, the
result is startling. We are able to evoke a philosophy at once relevant to modem thought,
and necessarily demonstrative of the existence of God and his Transcendence. Some
principles of such rethinking we proffer with humility and hope in this first version of
"Perspectives".