Aquinas
Classic Thinkers series
1. Edition November 2003
168 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-7456-2687-1
John Wiley & Sons
This lively and highly accessible introduction to the thought of Thomas Aquinas focuses on his philosophy while making clear its openness to theology as reflection on Revelation.
* Introduces students this great philosopher of the middle ages in one short book.
* Brings together alternative approaches to Aquinas' thought.
* Uses key texts to describe the trajectory of Aquinas' philosophy and the legacy it left behind.
* This is the first title in a new Polity series, Classic Thinkers.
Part I: A Short Life.
Part II: In Pursuit of Wisdom.
Part III: Thomism.
Further Reading.
Index
Part II: In Pursuit of Wisdom.
Part III: Thomism.
Further Reading.
Index
"Ralph McInerny knows as much about Thomas Aquinas, and about how
to communicate his thought, as anyone else alive. He is not only a
very learned commentator upon him, but also a fluent, lucid, and
often entertaining writer, who can make profound ideas seem
deceptively simple....McInerny offers an accessible guide to a
difficult and important topic."
The Heythrop Journal
"McInery is perhaps the most important Catholic philosopher of
his generation. While many limit philosophy to textual exegesis of
formal logic, McInerny, in the spirit of his immediate predecessors
Etienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain, still regards philosophy as
the pursuit of wisdom, speculative and practical. Steeped in the
history of philosophy, McInerny is a reliable guide to Aristotle
and Aquinas and their commentators through the ages. He writes not
for colleagues down the hall or for the appreciation of antiquity
or who seek an intellectual compass in stormy times. Translated
into many languages, his work rightly commands a global audience.
For its freshness, Aquinas will only enhance McInerny's
status as a major interpreter of the Angelic Doctor."
Jude P. Dougherty, The Catholic University of
America
"Aquinas lived in a time of remarkable intellectual and
religious ferment. His thought, which McInerny following John Paul
II describes as an implicit philosophy, articulates not just for
his own time, but foe all times, the philosophical principles
implicitly operative in human nature. In his new primer on Aquinas,
Ralph McInerny manages the impossible. He gives us Aquinas, his
times, the core of his philosophical teaching, and the significance
of his continued contribution to philosophy and theology. With the
deft stlye of the novelist and the clarity of a seasoned teacher of
Aquinas, McInerny provides a marvelous path into the thought of the
greatest of Catholic teachers."
Thomas Hibbs, Boston College
to communicate his thought, as anyone else alive. He is not only a
very learned commentator upon him, but also a fluent, lucid, and
often entertaining writer, who can make profound ideas seem
deceptively simple....McInerny offers an accessible guide to a
difficult and important topic."
The Heythrop Journal
"McInery is perhaps the most important Catholic philosopher of
his generation. While many limit philosophy to textual exegesis of
formal logic, McInerny, in the spirit of his immediate predecessors
Etienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain, still regards philosophy as
the pursuit of wisdom, speculative and practical. Steeped in the
history of philosophy, McInerny is a reliable guide to Aristotle
and Aquinas and their commentators through the ages. He writes not
for colleagues down the hall or for the appreciation of antiquity
or who seek an intellectual compass in stormy times. Translated
into many languages, his work rightly commands a global audience.
For its freshness, Aquinas will only enhance McInerny's
status as a major interpreter of the Angelic Doctor."
Jude P. Dougherty, The Catholic University of
America
"Aquinas lived in a time of remarkable intellectual and
religious ferment. His thought, which McInerny following John Paul
II describes as an implicit philosophy, articulates not just for
his own time, but foe all times, the philosophical principles
implicitly operative in human nature. In his new primer on Aquinas,
Ralph McInerny manages the impossible. He gives us Aquinas, his
times, the core of his philosophical teaching, and the significance
of his continued contribution to philosophy and theology. With the
deft stlye of the novelist and the clarity of a seasoned teacher of
Aquinas, McInerny provides a marvelous path into the thought of the
greatest of Catholic teachers."
Thomas Hibbs, Boston College
Ralph McInerny is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.
