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The thought of Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas was one of the greatest Western philosophers and one of the greatest theologians of the Christian Church. For workers in both philosophy and theology he is not only illuminating (for his questions as much as his answers) but suprisingly relevant to our concerns. Philosophers who, since Wittgenstein, have been struggling to escape from the thought patterns so powerfully established by Descartes, and theologians seeking to escape the sectarian dichotomies dating from the same era, both find Aquinas refreshingly free from these preoccupations and speaking quite directly to our own time. In this book we at last have a modern comprehensive presentation of the total thought of Aquinas. Books on Aquinas invariably deal either with his philosophy or his theology. But Aquinas himself made no arbitrary division between his philosophical and his theological thought, and this book allows readers to see him as a whole. It introduces the full range of Aquinas' thinking; and it relates this thinking to writers both earlier and later than Aquinas himself. The book will be of considerable interest to professional theologians and philosophers, as well as to those with particular interest in medieval thinking. Since it is designed to serve as an overall study of Aquinas, it will also be of interest to general readers without specialist knowledge of medieval thought and without professional training in philosophy and theology.

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  • "Thomas Aquinas was one of the greatest Western philosophers and one of the greatest theologians of the Christian Church. For workers in both philosophy and theology he is not only illuminating (for his questions as much as his answers) but suprisingly relevant to our concerns. Philosophers who, since Wittgenstein, have been struggling to escape from the thought patterns so powerfully established by Descartes, and theologians seeking to escape the sectarian dichotomies dating from the same era, both find Aquinas refreshingly free from these preoccupations and speaking quite directly to our own time. In this book we at last have a modern comprehensive presentation of the total thought of Aquinas. Books on Aquinas invariably deal either with his philosophy or his theology. But Aquinas himself made no arbitrary division between his philosophical and his theological thought, and this book allows readers to see him as a whole. It introduces the full range of Aquinas' thinking; and it relates this thinking to writers both earlier and later than Aquinas himself. The book will be of considerable interest to professional theologians and philosophers, as well as to those with particular interest in medieval thinking. Since it is designed to serve as an overall study of Aquinas, it will also be of interest to general readers without specialist knowledge of medieval thought and without professional training in philosophy and theology."@en
  • "The works of Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest western philosophers as well as theologians of the Christian Church, are not only illuminating (for his questions as much as his answers) but surprisingly relevant to our concerns today. This book represents a long overdue modern comprehensive presentation of the total thought of Aquinas. While traditional studies of Aquinas invariably deal with either his philosophy or his theology, Davies introduces the full range of Aquinas's thinking, relating it to writers earlier and later than Aquinas himself. The book will be of considerable interest to professional theologians and philosophers, as well as to those with particular interest in medieval thinking. It is designed to be accessible to the general reader who has no specialist knowledge of medieval thought or professional training in philosophy or theology."@en

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  • "Llibres electrònics"

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