Guide to Thomas Aquinas

Name: Guide to Thomas Aquinas
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ISBN: 9780898703191

ISBN-10: 0898703190

ISBN-13: 9780898703191

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Josef Pieper

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Publication date: 4/15/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English