Description If Saint Thomas Aquinas was a great theologian, it is in no small part because he was a great philosopher.
His exposition is clear, co.
Brock has given us a splendid overview of Aquinas\' deepest principles: nature, matter, the soul, existence and essence, God and the sources of moral agency.
It\'s the best we have." --John Bowlin, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ "Thomism offers a profound and realistic interpretation of the world, but it is difficult to understand the Philosophy of Aquinas on one\'s own.
Stephen Brock\'s book is a splendid sketch of the metaphysics Thomas uses in the service of theology.
To follow his lead, we need to know something about the Philosophy he finds useful, something about its object, principles, concepts, and limits. "Thomas Aquinas was a theologian who used Philosophy to lead us step by step from familiar truths to unfamiliar wisdom, from what natural reason can know to the divine things it cannot.
Along the way, it brings out some aspects of his thought that are not often emphasized in the current literature, and it offers a reading of his teaching on the divine nature that goes rather against the drift of some prominent recent interpretations.
This book is aimed at helping those who are not experts in medieval thought to begin to enter into Thomas\'s philosophical point of view.
Many are studying Thomas now for the answers that he might be able to give to current questions, but he is perhaps even more interesting for the questions that he can raise regarding current answers: about the physical world, about human life and knowledge, and (needless to say) about God.
It only needs some dusting off.
In the twentieth century, metaphysics was not much in vogue, among either theologians or even philosophers; but now it is making a comeback, and once the contours of Thomas\'s metaphysical vision are glimpsed, it looks like anything but a museum piece.
And he was a great philosopher because he was a great metaphysician.
Description If Saint Thomas Aquinas was a great theologian, it is in no small part because he was a great philosopher
