The Thomist Tradition

by Brian J. Shanley

Book Overview

The Thomistic tradition takes it name from the thirteenth-century religious thinker and saint who is its source and inspiration: the Dominican Friar Thomas 1 Aquinas. Aquinas understood himself to be a theologian, and that is what he was. This obvious biographical fact needs to be underlined at the beginning, however, 2 since it has often since been lost sight of in treatments of his thought. The reason for this is that Aquinas also developed a powerful,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048158494
• ISBN13: 9789048158492
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"