To Stir a Restless Heart: Thomas Aquinas and Henri de Lubac on Nature, Grace, and the Desire for God

by Jacob W. Wood

Book Overview

To Stir a Restless Heart tells for the first time the story of how Thomas Aquinas conversed with his contemporaries about the dynamics of human nature's longing for God, and documents how he deliberately utilized Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin sources to develop a version of Aristotelian natural desire that was uniquely Augustinian: natural desire seeks the complete fulfillment of human nature "insofar as is possible," and so comes to rest in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813234212
• ISBN13: 9780813234212
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"