The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas

The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas

In this final edition of his classic study of St. Thomas Aquinas, Etienne Gilson presents the sweeping range and organic unity of Thomistic philosophical thought.

Gilson demonstrates that Aquinas drew from a wide spectrum of sources in the development of his thoughtâ€”from Aristotle, to the Arabic and Jewish philosophers of his time, as well as from Christian writers. What results is an insightful introduction to the thought of Aquinas and the Scholastic philosophy of the Middles Ages.

Praise for The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas

â€œAs the only English version of anyÂ edition of Le Thomisme, and therefore for yearsÂ a kind of manual for North American students approaching Aquinas, the book deserves recirculation. With it appears the masterful â€˜Catalogue of St. Thomasâ€™ worksâ€™ prepared by the Rev. I. T. Eschmann to accompany Shook's translation and available nowhere else. . . . Its overview of principles and conclusions in the history of the texts has not been surpassed.â€â€”The Philosophical Quarterly

â€œ[This volume presents] L. K. Shook's English translation of the final version of the late Etienne Gilson's (1884-1978) classic overview of the Christian philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. . . . Gibson was one of the pioneers, in the early part of [the twentieth] century, of medieval philosophy in general and the work of Aquinas in particular. He sought to restore the study of Aquinasâ€™Â texts an historical sensitivity, thus rescuing them from the near canonical status accorded in the well-intentioned but inhabiting late nineteenth-century palpal revival of Thomistic studies and preserved in the so-called â€˜manual theologyâ€™ of the seminar curriculum. . . . The endnotes are an invaluable resource, as is the still unsurpassed catalogue of Aquinasâ€™ works compiled by Eschmann and included as an invaluable appendix here.â€â€”Theological Book Review

Country	USA
Author	Etienne Gilson
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780307823359
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Random House
Manufacturer	Random House
NumberOfPages	514
PublicationDate	2013-05-01
Publisher	Random House
ReleaseDate	2013-05-01
Studio	Random House

The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas

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