Aleš Ušeničnik was one of the leading representatives of Slovenian neoscholastic thought, which was built on the Aristotelian assumptions of the “perennial philosophy”. The first part of this article presents Ušeničnik’s neo-scholastic metaphysics and his understanding of Christianity and Catholicism. Ušeničnik is highly critical of modernity, which refuses the eternal truths of classical metaphysics, and that Ušeničnik considers incompatible with the Catholic faith. The second part of the article questions both Ušeničnik’s critique of modernity and the necessity of Aristotelian-inspired metaphysics as the “natural basis” of the Christian worldview. It is argued that there is a tension between the novelty of Christian revelation and Greek metaphysics, and that is one of the important causes of the rise of modernity. Christianity with its biblical understanding of time and history cannot be expressed in a static and rigid metaphysical structure. The third part of the article addresses the challenges of postmodernity and its rejection of metaphysics, which is not acceptable from the Christian point of view. It is therefore important to look for a new understanding of metaphysics, as to be able to recognize the positive dimensions of tradition – including Ušeničnik – while taking into account the peculiarity of biblical revelation in its existential-historical dimension.
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