: Guide to Thomas Aquinas - Pope Benedict XVI

Guide to Thomas Aquinas

Binding: Kindle Edition
Edition: Subsequent
Format: Kindle eBook
Label: Ignatius Press
Languages: EnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Ignatius Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: June 15, 2011
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Studio: Ignatius Press

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One of the great philosophers of the 20th Century, Josef Pieper, gives a penetrating introduction and guide to the life and works of perhaps the greatest philosopher ever, St. Thomas Aquinas. Pieper provides a biography of Aquinas, an overview of the 13th century he lived in, and a wonderful synthesis of his vast writings.

Pieper shows how Aquinas reconciled the pragmatic thought of Aristotle with the Church, proving that realistic knowledge need not preclude belief in the spiritual realities of religion. According to Pieper, the marriage of faith and reason proposed by Aquinas in his great synthesis of a "theologically founded worldliness" was not merely one solution among many, but the great principle expressing the essence of the Christian West. Pieper reveals his extraordinary command of original sources and excellent secondary materials as he illuminates the thought of the great intellectual Doctor of the Church.

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