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The Thomist Tradition
Brian J. Shanley
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Description for The Thomist Tradition
Hardback. Focuses on central themes in contemporary Thomism, including religious knowledge, language, science, evil, morality, human nature, God and religious diversity. Series: Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 166 x 243 x 26. Weight in Grams: 542.
The Thomistic tradition takes it name from the thirteenth-century religious thinker and saint who is its source and inspiration: the Dominican Friar Thomas 1 Aquinas. Aquinas understood himself to be a theologian, and that is what he was. This obvious biographical fact needs to be underlined at the beginning, however, 2 since it has often since been lost sight of in treatments of his thought. The reason for this is that Aquinas also developed a powerful, innovative, and comprehensive philosophy which has proved to be at least as perennial, if not more so, than the theological synthesis that it was ... Read more
The Thomistic tradition takes it name from the thirteenth-century religious thinker and saint who is its source and inspiration: the Dominican Friar Thomas 1 Aquinas. Aquinas understood himself to be a theologian, and that is what he was. This obvious biographical fact needs to be underlined at the beginning, however, 2 since it has often since been lost sight of in treatments of his thought. The reason for this is that Aquinas also developed a powerful, innovative, and comprehensive philosophy which has proved to be at least as perennial, if not more so, than the theological synthesis that it was ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402000782
SKU
V9781402000782
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