Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation.
This concise book tells the story of the most important theological work of the Middle Ages, the vast Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, which holds a unique place in Western religion and philosophy.
Following a scholarly account of Thomas Aquinas's life, Davies explores his purposes in writing the Summa Theologiae and works systematically through each of its three Parts.
Distinguishing itself from other secondary works on Aquinas, this volume focuses solely on the Summa, with essays by some of the best Aquinas scholars of the last half-decade.
Levering explains that the ceremonial aspect of the Law is indeed a covenant that lasts forever. Aquinas's fundamental answer to Wyschogrod, according to Levering, is “that the Mosaic Law, in a real sense, is still observed by ...
In this concise new volume by the acclaimed author of the biography of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Jean-Pierre Torrell brings his expertise to bear on Aquinas's Summa Theologiae.
Mark F. Carr, Passionate Deliberation: Emotion, Temperance, and the Care Ethic in Clinical Moral Deliberation (Boston: Kluwer Academic, 2001), vii, 53, 159. 11. Van Wensveen, “Attunement” 71, 73. 12. Van Wensveen, “Attunement,” 72.
Ethics. as. a. Guide. into. Metaphysics. James Joyce once quipped, ''The difficulty about Aquinas is that what he says is so like what the man in the street says.'' And in response to a friend's derisive comment that Aquinas ''has ...
Fulvio Di Blasi argues that through the active intellect, a person should come to know the universal good is God; DiBlasi, “Knowledge of the Good as Participation in God's Love,” Giornale di Metafisica 27, ...
In The Aquinas Catechism you'll find his deeply insightful, straightforward, and clear explanations of the Apostles' Creed, the Commandments, and the Sacraments -- as well as of the Lord's Prayer and the Hail Mary.In other words, this book ...