The One-Minute Aquinas: The Doctor's Quick Answers to Fundamental Questions - Couverture souple

Vost, Kevin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1622821580 ISBN 13 : 9781622821587

Editeur : Sophia Institute Press, 2013

Synopsis

Pope St. Pius said that "in one year, a man can derive more profit from the works of St. Thomas Aquinas than from a lifetime studying the works of others."

If you don't have a year to study the more than 3,000 pages St. Thomas wrote, then turn to The One-Minute Aquinas, the fast-paced book that provides busy readers with simple, readable explanations of the truths that, for 750 years now, have caused the works of St. Thomas to be sought out by kings and popes, scholars and saints, as well as by ordinary souls like you -- hungry to know God and to love him more and more.

In this book's lucid pages, author Kevin Vost gives you small, digestible portions of St. Thomas's life-giving wisdom that you can enjoy one minute at a time. Tables and graphics will help you grasp and remember St. Thomas's key ideas with a minimum of time and effort.

Best of all, in The One-Minute Aquinas you'll find quick, sure refutations of the countless relativistic, secular, and pseudoscientific ideas that are so influential in our culture today -- and so shallow, contradictory, and wrong!

Pope John Paul II declared that “the Church has been justified in consistently proposing St. Thomas as a master of thought and a model of the right way to do theology.” Now The One-Minute Aquinas enables even those with limited time and only a modest education to benefit from the wisdom of this great saint.

Here, with minimal effort and among scores of other things, you'll finally come to know and understand:

Why God permits evil

Heaven: what it is (and is not)

Five simple proofs that God exists

Why God became man

Why Jesus let himself be tempted

How you can grow quickly in virtue

Why all souls need the sacraments

Why Jesus let himself be crucified

The causes of lust

The natural law and the Commandments

The soul, free will, sin, and damnation

The angels, their ranks, and their powers

How God governs (and refrains from governing)

God's power and its limits

The Bible: why didn't Jesus just write it himself?

The surprising qualities of our resurrected bodies

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kevin Vost, Psy. D. (b. 1961) has taught psychology at the University of Illinois at Springfield, Lincoln Land Community College, and MacMurray College. He is a Research Review Committee Member for American Mensa, which promotes the scientific study of human intelligence.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

"Most modern readers never discover Aquinas because they are put off by the sheer bulk of his writings. Kevin Vost has done such readers a favor by serving up the sain't arguments in bite-sized chunks that anyone can digest."
Karl Keating
President of Catholic Answers

"It takes the reader by the hand, step by step, from confusion to clarity, from chaos to order, and from our simplest beginning, our search for happiness, to our final end, eternal union with God. You don't need a philosophy degree or an I.Q. of 165 to profit from this book. You need only an open mind and an honest, searching heart."
Peter Kreeft
Author of Summa of the Summa and Professor of Philosophy, Boston College

"For clarity choose Aquinas. For clarity on Aquinas choose Kevin Vost. Ideal for anyone who wants to cut through the silly sentimentality of modern religion and work up a brain sweat with some sound and serious thinking."
Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sophia Institute Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1622821580
• ISBN 13: 9781622821587
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 265
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible