Guide to Thomas Aquinas /

This book is closer to the spoken than to the written language. It is based on a series of university lectures given before collective student bodies. Its purpose and scope are precisely what the title suggests: to serve as a guide and introduction.

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Main Author: Pieper, Josef, 1904-1997
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Created: [New York] : Pantheon Books, [1962]
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240 1 0 |a Hinführung zu Thomas von Aquin.  |l English 
245 1 0 |a Guide to Thomas Aquinas /  |c Josef Pieper ; translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. 
260 |a [New York] :  |b Pantheon Books,  |c [1962] 
300 |a 181 p. ;  |c 21 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a What is known concerning Thomas' education -- The voluntary poverty movement and the beginnings of the Dominican order --Peter of Hibernia, a new type -- What the quotation means - both for us today and for Thomas -- Paris : the purest embodiment of the idea of a university -- Beginnings of the written works -- Possible reason for the degeneration of public discussion today : the lack of proper models -- The Summa theologica as reflection of events -- Sobriety the expression of extreme receptivity to reality -- The keystone of the Christian west : acceptance of the world along with a receptivity to the supramundane call -- The role of philosophizing and the role of theologizing in Thomas -- Immunization against false claims of finality. 
520 |a This book is closer to the spoken than to the written language. It is based on a series of university lectures given before collective student bodies. Its purpose and scope are precisely what the title suggests: to serve as a guide and introduction. 
600 0 0 |a Thomas,  |c Aquinas, Saint,  |d 1225?-1274.