St. Thomas Aquinas

Product Description

St. Thomas Aquinas enables the reader to appreciate both Thomas’s continuity with earlier thought and his creative independence. After a useful account of the life and work of St. Thomas, McInerny shows how the thoughts of Aristotle, Boethius, and Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius were assimilated into the personal wisdom of St. Thomas. He also offers a helpful study of the distinctive features of Aquinas’s Christian theology.

Review

“McInerny . . . does a good job of relating the key concepts in Aquinas’s natural and supernatural theologies. This is a reliable introduction for people who are not already experts in Thomistic studies―and it has many insights for those few who are.” (Vernon J. Bourke)

About the Author

Ralph McInerny (1929–2010) was Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies and director emeritus of the Jacques Maritain Center, University of Notre Dame. He was the author of numerous works in philosophy, literature, fiction, and journalism, including
The Very Rich Hours of Jacques Maritain,
Characters in Search of Their Author, and his autobiography,
I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You, all published by the University of Notre Dame Press.