Guide to Thomas Aquinas by Pieper, Josef

Guide to Thomas Aquinas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780898703191)

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Guide to Thomas Aquinas by Pieper, Josef

Guide to Thomas Aquinas

$18.95
Guide to Thomas Aquinas by Pieper, Josef

Guide to Thomas Aquinas

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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One of the great philosophers of the 20th Century, Josef Pieper, gives a penetrating introduction and guide to the life and works of perhaps the greatest philosopher ever, St. Thomas Aquinas. Pieper provides a biography of Aquinas, an overview of the 13th century he lived in, and a wonderful synthesis of his vast writings. Pieper shows how Aquinas reconciled the pragmatic thought of Aristotle with the Church, proving that realistic knowledge need not preclude belief in the spiritual realities of religion. According to Pieper, the marriage of faith and reason proposed by Aquinas in his great synthesis of a "theologically founded worldliness" was not merely one solution among many, but the great principle expressing the essence of the Christian West. Pieper reveals his extraordinary command of original sources and excellent secondary materials as he illuminates the thought of the great intellectual Doctor of the Church.

Author: Josef Pieper
ISBN-10: 0898703190
ISBN-13: 9780898703191
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Language: English
Published: 04/15/1991
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.38w x 0.61d
By Josef Pieper
By Josef Pieper
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Josef Pieper, perhaps the most popular Thomist philosopher of the twentieth century, was schooled in the Greek classics and the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. He also studied philosophy, law, and sociology, and he was a professor at the University of Munster, West Germany. His numerous books have been widely praised by both the secular and religious press.

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