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by: Jean-Pierre Torrell
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 230.2092
EAN: 9780813214238
ISBN: 0813214238
Label: Catholic University of America Press
Manufacturer: Catholic University of America Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: April 30, 2005
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Sales Rank: 617270
Studio: Catholic University of America Press
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Highly acclaimed as the most reliable, thorough, and accessible introduction to Thomas Aquinas, this first volume in Jean-Pierre Torrell's set of books on the great Dominican theologian has been revised to include a new appendix. The appendix consists of additions to the text, the catalog of Aquinas's work, and the chronology. Each item in the appendix is called out in the original part of the book with an asterisk in the margin.
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Rating:  - A pro historian writes about a pro theologian
The person of St. Thomas Aquinas is both fascinating and admirable. His work is first-rate. Jean Pierre Torrell's book St. Thomas Aquinas, Vol. 1, The Person and His Work is a must-have for a person who wishes to understand faith, wonders if we can expect good things from the Lord, and who loves the same thing St. Thomas loved: wisdom.
Torrell's Volume 1 of a two volume set clearly demonstrates how the life of Aquinas was and still is astonishing. St. Thomas experienced the peace of ... Read More
Rating: - A Most Thoroughly Detailed Account of Aquinas' Life
Torrell has provided the philosophical community with a most thoroughly detailed account of one of the greatest thinkers to ever walk this planet.
From the youth of Aquinas to his death, Torrell takes his reader on a historical journey through the life, events, thoughts, and works of St. Thomas Aquinas. Torrell uses the best resources available, and painstakingly documents all his sources. What is more, if certain things have been attributed to legend or mere 'story telling for the sake ... Read More
Rating:  - Superb technical achievment
Torrell's book is a two-fold masterpiece, but it is not for the faint-of-intellect. Die-hard Thomists will find the historical exegesis of scholarship on Aquinas' life and work to be the most fundamentally rigorous to date. Interspersed within this technical exposition are invaluable insights into the person of Aquinas as a man of faith first and foremost. For me, this book was a joy to read and I am utilizing it in a graduate seminar I will be teaching on Aquinas. That being said, I must warn ... Read More
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