Improvisations in Thomistic Methaphysics: Reading Ferdinand Ulrich Homo Abyssus: The Drama of the Question of Being, Ferdinand Ulrich, Humanum Academic, 2018 (ISBN 978‐1‐948195‐01‐0), lviii + 526 pp., hb $70 A Companion to Ferdinand Ulrich's Homo Abyssus, D. C. Schindler, Humanum Academic, 2019 (ISBN 978‐1‐948195‐03‐4), x + 238 pp., pb $30

The recent translation of the philosophical work of Ferdinand Ulrich has the potential to make a significant contribution to the ongoing debates about the role of metaphysics in theology. Together with D. C. Schindler's Companion, this difficult book is made more accessible. While Ulrich's Homo Abyssus generates sophisticated and nuanced responses to various forms of post‐ or anti‐metaphysical theology (especially those in the wake of Heidegger), perhaps its greatest contribution is an altogether more humane way of pursuing metaphysics.