Guide to Thomas Aquinas / Edition 1

by Josef Pieper

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780898703191
Publisher:	Ignatius Press
Publication date:	04/15/1991
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	585,024
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Josef Pieper, perhaps the most popular Thomist philosopher of the twentieth century, was schooled in the Greek classics and the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. He also studied philosophy, law, and sociology, and he was a professor at the University of Munster, West Germany. His numerous books have been widely praised by both the secular and religious press.

Editorial Reviews

"One of the best introductions to the thought of Saint Thomas by one of the leading figures in the Thomistic revival." 
— Ralph McInerny, University of Notre Dame

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