Leonardo Messinese

In the paper I provide some insights in response to the remarks I received during the discussion about my recent book on Gustavo Bontadini, which took place on 28 April 2022 at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. After highlighting some of Bontadini’s lesser-studied themes that deserve to be better known (the concept of Christian philosophy, the relationship between metaphysical and scientific knowledge, the dehellenisation of the Christian faith), I focus on his youthful Postulate of the Rationality of Reality, his historical-theoretical relationship with Gentile’s Actualism and, finally, on the metaphysical-theological inference and the conjugation of faith and reason that he had developed...