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Book A Simplified Introduction to the Wisdom of St  Thomas

Download or read book A Simplified Introduction to the Wisdom of St Thomas written by Peter A. Redpath and published by University Press of Amer. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No descriptive material is available for this title.

Book A Simplified Introduction to the Wisdom of St  Thomas

Download or read book A Simplified Introduction to the Wisdom of St Thomas written by Peter A. Redpath and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No descriptive material is available for this title.

Book The Human Wisdom of St  Thomas

Download or read book The Human Wisdom of St Thomas written by Josef Pieper and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-13 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josef Pieper has attached no commentary to the texts brought together in this breviary of the philosophy of St. Thomas, preferring that the reader should encounter them, “on his own”. His work has been one of selection, in which he has sought to assemble such passages as will provide an introduction to the form and design of the whole Thomistic system. Yet he has so ordered his texts as to impress upon the reader a special feature of St. Thomas’s thought, what he calls its double aspect: St. Thomas sees the whole scheme of reality ordered and penetrable by reason; yet the mystery of Being itself remains: “The effort of human thought has not been able to track down the essence of a single gnat.” Josef Pieper, one of the most highly regarded Thomistic philosophers of the twentieth century, wrote numerous philosophical works including Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Guide to Thomas Aquinas, Only the Lover Sings and many more.

Book That They be One

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  • Author : Michael Joseph Schuck
  • Publisher : Georgetown University Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780878404896
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book That They be One written by Michael Joseph Schuck and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social teaching of the Roman Catholic Church has aroused publicinterest in recent years with the increased involvement of North American bishops in matters of civic morality, with the growth of liberation theology in Central and South America, and with the ongoing political and economic statements of Pope John Paul II. A vital ingredient of Roman Catholic social teaching is the papal encyclical literature. Debate grows, however, over exactly what the papal letters teach. Noteworthy encyclical commentaries exist, but none has attempted a comprehensive historical analysis of the complete content and overall coherence of Roman Catholic encyclical social teaching. This book, appearing in advance of the 1991 centennial of "Rerum novarum", provides the kind of analysis that concerned Roman Catholics, public officials, social ethicists, theologians and students are looking for: a textually inclusive and topically broad-gauged study of Catholic social teaching in its historical development with a forthright assessment of the teaching's contradictions and consistencies.

Book The Thought of Thomas Aquinas

Download or read book The Thought of Thomas Aquinas written by Brian Davies and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1992-01-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Aquinas was one of the greatest Western philosphers and one of the greatest theologians of the Christian church. In this book we at last have a modern, comprehensive presentation of the total thought of Aquinas. Books on Aquinas invariably deal with either his philosophy or his theology. But Aquinas himself made no arbitrary division between his philosophical and his theological thought, and this book allows readers to see him as a whole. It introduces the full range of Aquinas' thinking; and it relates his thinking to writers both earlier and later than Aquinas himself.

Book The Moral Wisdom of St  Thomas

Download or read book The Moral Wisdom of St Thomas written by Peter A. Redpath and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Way of Life

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  • Author : Walter Farrell
  • Publisher : Confraternity of the Precious Blood
  • Release : 2014-05
  • ISBN : 9781618908339
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book My Way of Life written by Walter Farrell and published by Confraternity of the Precious Blood. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In My Way of Life Fathers Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy champion a brilliant summation of the Thomistic doctrines that offers the reader an encounter with wisdom and the use of that wisdom in understanding and knowing our Lord and Redeemer Jesus Christ.

Book Thomas Aquinas

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  • Author : Brian Davies
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2002-12-05
  • ISBN : 019803492X
  • Pages : 415 pages

Download or read book Thomas Aquinas written by Brian Davies and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-05 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Thomas Aquinas has always enjoyed a privileged position as a pillar of Catholic theology, but for centuries his standing among western philosophers was less sure. Today, Aquinas's work is recognized as a cornerstone of the western philosophical tradition. This book offers a full-scale introduction to Aquinas's philosophy. Brian Davies has collected in one volume the best recent essays on Aquinas by some of the world's foremost scholars of medieval philosophy. Taken together, they illuminate the entire spectrum of Aquinas's thought: philosophy of nature, logic, metaphysics, natural theology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, and ethics. The essays are philosophically solid, readable, informative, critical, and evaluative of the texts of Aquinas. Davies frames the essays with a detailed introduction that provides an account of Aquinas's life and works, as well as of his major philosophical conclusions.

Book Words of Wisdom

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  • Author : John W. Carlson
  • Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
  • Release : 2012-01-16
  • ISBN : 0268076936
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Words of Wisdom written by John W. Carlson and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like their predecessors throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have emphasized the importance of philosophy in the Catholic intellectual tradition. In his encyclical Fides et ratio (1998), John Paul II called on philosophers “to have the courage to recover, in the flow of an enduringly valid philosophical tradition, the range of authentic wisdom and truth.” Where the late pope spoke of an “enduringly valid tradition,” Jacques Maritain and other Thomists often have referred to the “perennial tradition” or to “perennial philosophy.” Words of Wisdom responds to John Paul's call for the development of this tradition with a much-needed dictionary of terms. As a resource for students in colleges, universities, and seminaries, as well as for teachers of the perennial tradition and interested general readers, Words of Wisdom occupies a unique place. It offers precise, yet clear and understandable accounts of well over a thousand key philosophical terms, richly cross-referenced. It also explains significant terms from other philosophical movements with which Thomism (and the Catholic intellectual tradition more generally) has engaged—either through debate or through judicious and creative incorporation. Moreover, it identifies a number of theological and doctrinal expressions to which perennial philosophy has contributed. Finally, it provides a comprehensive bibliography of works by Aquinas in English, expositions and discussions of perennial themes, and representative examples from the writings of all philosophers and theologians mentioned in dictionary entries.

Book Confusions and Clarifications

Download or read book Confusions and Clarifications written by F. F. Centore and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the chief elements of 3,000 years of philosophy as found mainly in Western thought in a highly readable form. The work concentrates on problems and issues much more than on names, dates and places. he book includes an extensive bibliography of works related to the main themes of the text, followed by a long list of names and dates of leading historical figures in various fields, especially in science, philosophy, and theology.

Book Aquinas

Download or read book Aquinas written by Brian Davies and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274) is commonly viewed as one of the greatest Christian thinkers of all time. Aquinas was the ultimate combination of theologian and philosopher and his influence on Christian life and thought reaches from the Council of Trent to the Second Vatican Council and through to today. In this book Brian Davies shows that Aquinas' approach to the common questions of faith and existence is just as pressing and significant in our time.

Book A Shorter Summa

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  • Author : Peter Kreeft
  • Publisher : Ignatius Press
  • Release : 2010-06-16
  • ISBN : 1681490234
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book A Shorter Summa written by Peter Kreeft and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shortened version of Kreeft's much larger Summa of the Summa, which in turn was a shortened version of the Summa Theologica. The reason for the double shortening is pretty obvious: the original runs some 4000 pages! (The Summa of the Summa was just over 500.) The Summa is certainly the greatest, most ambitious, most rational book of theology ever written. In it, there is also much philosophy, which is selected, excerpted, arranged, introduced, and explained in footnotes here by Kreeft, a popular Thomist teacher and writer. St. Thomas Aquinas is universally recognized as one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived. His writings combine the two fundamental ideals of philosophical writing: clarity and profundity. He is a master of metaphysics and technical terminology, yet so full of both theoretical and practical wisdom. He is the master of common sense. The Summa Theologica is timeless, but particularly important today because of his synthesis of faith and reason, revelation and philosophy, and the Biblical and the classical Greco-Roman heritages. This little book is designed for beginners, either for classroom use or individually. It contains the most famous and influential passages of St. Thomas' philosophy with copious aids to understanding them.

Book Faith and Knowledge

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  • Author : Paul Giurlanda
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780819157607
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Faith and Knowledge written by Paul Giurlanda and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1987 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an analysis of Christian faith, the author surveys scriptural, traditional and contemporary values, as well as modern philosophy. Reviews the thoughts of Stephen Toulmin, Hubert Dreyfus, Michael Polanyi, and Alasdair MacIntyre, showing that humans know reality only against the horizon of shared goals, language, and practice of community. Goes on to survey the New Testament, the major figures of the tradition) Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Luther, Kant, Schleiermacher, and Vatican I) and contemporary writers such as David Tracy and Stanley Hauerwas. Concludes that Christian faith is what grounds that community of interpretation known as the church. A helpful educational analysis for students and scholars of theology and philosophy.

Book The Human Wisdom of St  Thomas

Download or read book The Human Wisdom of St Thomas written by Josef Pieper and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josef Pieper has attached no commentary to the texts brought together in this breviary of the philosophy of St. Thomas, preferring that the reader should encounter them, "on his own". His work has been one of selection, in which he has sought to assemble such passages as will provide an introduction to the form and design of the whole Thomistic system. Yet he has so ordered his texts as to impress upon the reader a special feature of St. Thomas's thought, what he calls its double aspect: St. Thomas sees the whole scheme of reality ordered and penetrable by reason; yet the mystery of Being itself remains: "The effort of human thought has not been able to track down the essence of a single gnat." Author Josef Pieper himself was one of the most highly regarded Thomistic philosophers of the twentieth century.

Book Introduction to the Philosophy of St  Thomas Aquinas  Volume 4

Download or read book Introduction to the Philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas Volume 4 written by H. D. Gardeil and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphysics now joins the series of translations of Father Gardeil's Initiation a la Philosophie de S. Thomas d'Aquin. After an Introduction which discusses the general notion of metaphysics as a science, the relation of metaphysics to the critical analysis of knowledge and metaphysics as developed by Aristotle and St. Thomas, the author turns to the questions of First Philosophy which have concerned philosophers from Parmenides to Sartre and Heidegger. In seven chapters he considers being in itself and as it is known, the transcendental, the categories of being, act and potency, essence and existence and causality. As in the other volumes of this series, the author includes a generous selection of texts from the works of St. Thomas carefully correlated with the various chapters of the work itself. These are not mere snippets, but substantial quotations drawn from the Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics, De ente et existentia, the Disputed Questions and the two Summas. The reader has the words of Aquinas in the best modern English versions before him. Here is St. Thomas for the thinker--unfiltered. A most valuable addition in this fourth volume is the technical vocabulary of Thomistic and scholastic terms, covering all four volumes of the Initiation. The beginner in metaphysics will find this book most valuable, for it presents clearly the basic problematics and the Thomistic solution of them. For the more profound student here is a clear, concise (but not cursory) review of the science. Thomistic metaphysics, in Father Gardeil's presentation, is not an historical curiosity but a living and lively discipline. While the aim of the work is to give a synthetic view of St. Thomas' thought, the insights of modern or contemporary philosophers is not neglected. The translator's notes offer clarification and add bibliographical information on works published since the French edition. Valuable as a class manual, indispensable as supplementary reading, this book can serve the needs of a strictly philosophical course or one designed as a preparation for theology.

Book Thomas Aquinas

Download or read book Thomas Aquinas written by A G Sertillanges and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no better introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas than this classic work, which acquaints readers with the essentials of his remarkable life and teachings.

Book A Theology of Wisdom

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  • Author : Kieran Conley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-05-01
  • ISBN : 9781258336851
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book A Theology of Wisdom written by Kieran Conley and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: