Author: Marie-Dominique ChenuPublisher: Chicago: H. Regnery Company
ISBN:
Category : Reason
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Toward Understanding Saint Thomas
Author: Marie-Dominique ChenuPublisher: Chicago: H. Regnery Company
ISBN:
Category : Reason
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Saint Thomas Aquinas: The person and his work
Author: Jean-Pierre TorrellPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 9780813214238
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Highly acclaimed as the most reliable, thorough, and accessible introduction to Thomas Aquinas, this first volume in Jean-Pierre Torrell's set of books on the great Dominican theologian has been revised to include a new appendix. The appendix consists of additions to the text, the catalog of Aquinas's works, and the chronology. Each item in the appendix is called out in the original part of the book with an asterisk in the margin. "This is the introduction to Thomas: presenting all the known facts of his life and work, tracing the themes of his writing out of his juvenilia, and following the influence of his thought in the years immediately after his death."--First Things "The most up-to-date biography available."--Choice
St. Thomas Aquinas
Author: G. K. ChestertonPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486122263
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Chesterton's customary wit and engaging storytelling provide a brief but vivid profile. He focuses on the saint's life, rather than on theology, to illustrate Thomas's relevance to modern readers.
The Ethics of Aquinas
Author: Stephen J. PopePublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9780878408887
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
In this comprehensive anthology, twenty-seven outstanding scholars from North America and Europe address every major aspect of Thomas Aquinas's understanding of morality and comment on his remarkable legacy. While there has been a revival of interest in recent years in the ethics of St. Thomas, no single work has yet fully examined the basic moral arguments and content of Aquinas' major moral work, the Second Part of the Summa Theologiae. This work fills that lacuna. The first chapters of The Ethics of Aquinas introduce readers to the sources, methods, and major themes of Aquinas's ethics. The second part of the book provides an extended discussion of ideas in the Second Part of the Summa Theologiae, in which contributors present cogent interpretations of the structure, major arguments, and themes of each of the treatises. The third and final part examines aspects of Thomistic ethics in the twentieth century and beyond. These essays reflect a diverse group of scholars representing a variety of intellectual perspectives. Contributors span numerous fields of study, including intellectual history, medieval studies, moral philosophy, religious ethics, and moral theology. This remarkable variety underscores how interpretations of Thomas's ethics continue to develop and evolve-and stimulate fervent discussion within the academy and the church. This volume is aimed at scholars, students, clergy, and all those who continue to find Aquinas a rich source of moral insight.
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Volume 2
Author: Jean-Pierre TorrellPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813213169
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
V. 1 The Person and His Work; v. 2 Spiritual Master.
Aquinas and the Market
Author: Mary L. HirschfeldPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674988604
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Economists and theologians usually inhabit different intellectual worlds. Economists investigate the workings of markets and tend to set ethical questions aside. Theologians, anxious to take up concerns raised by market outcomes, often dismiss economics and lose insights into the influence of market incentives on individual behavior. Mary L. Hirschfeld, who was a professor of economics for fifteen years before training as a theologian, seeks to bridge these two fields in this innovative work about economics and the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. According to Hirschfeld, an economics rooted in Thomistic thought integrates many of the insights of economists with a larger view of the good life, and gives us critical purchase on the ethical shortcomings of modern capitalism. In a Thomistic approach, she writes, ethics and economics cannot be reconciled if we begin with narrow questions about fair wages or the acceptability of usury. Rather, we must begin with an understanding of how economic life serves human happiness. The key point is that material wealth is an instrumental good, valuable only to the extent that it allows people to flourish. Hirschfeld uses that insight to develop an account of a genuinely humane economy in which pragmatic and material concerns matter but the pursuit of wealth for its own sake is not the ultimate goal. The Thomistic economics that Hirschfeld outlines is thus capable of dealing with our culture as it is, while still offering direction about how we might make the economy better serve the human good.
Aquinas and His Role in Theology
Author: Marie-Dominique ChenuPublisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814650790
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Chenu also portrays the religious and spiritual personality of Aquinas, showing how his typically systematic theology is rooted in personal contemplative roots and a passion for pastoral preaching."--BOOK JACKET.
Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge
Author: Therese Scarpelli CoryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107042925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A study of Aquinas's theory of self-knowledge, situated within the mid-thirteenth-century debate and his own maturing thought on human nature.
The Quiet Light
Author: Louis De WohlPublisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 168149535X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The famous novelist de Wohl presents a stimulating historical novel about the great St. Thomas Aquinas, set against the violent background of the Italy of the Crusades. He tells the intriguing story of St. Thomas who defied his illustrious, prominent family's ambition for him to have great power in the Church by taking a vow of poverty and joining the Dominicans. The battles and Crusades of the 13th century and the ruthlessness of the excommunicated Emperor Frederick II play a big part of the story, but it is Thomas of Aquino who dominates this book. De Wohl succeeds notably in portraying the exceptional quality of this man, a fusion of mighty intellect and childlike simplicity. A pupil of St. Albert the Great, the humble Thomas, through an intense life of study, writing, prayer, preaching and contemplation, ironically rose to become the influential figure of his age, and later was proclaimed by the Church as the Angelic Doctor.
Christ and Spirituality in St. Thomas Aquinas
Author: Jean-Pierre TorrellPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813218780
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The studies in this volume investigate themes of particular spiritual relevance in Aquinas's theology: friendship, charity, prayer, configuration to Christ, priesthood, preaching.