St. Thomas Aquinas - Couverture souple

Chesterton, G K

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1887593969 ISBN 13 : 9781887593960

Editeur : Angelico Press, 2011

Synopsis

"Chesterton makes one despair. I have been studying St. Thomas all my life and I could never have written such a book." - Etienne Gilson

"He was a Christian liberator. Like a beneficent bomb, he blew out of the Church a quantity of stained glass of a very poor period, and let in gusts of fresh air, in which the dead leaves of doctrine danced with all the energy and indecorum of our Lady's Tumbler." - Dorothy Sayers

According to Chesterton, "once Christ had Risen, it was inevitable that Aristotle should rise again." The synthesis between Christianity and Aristotle could only strengthen the believer's affirmation of the reality and goodness of created being; and also a strange kind of interconnectedness where "the study of the humblest fact will lead to the study of the highest truth." Chesterton reveals the marvelous clarity of Thomas's mind and highlights "the intense rightness of his sense of the relation between the mind and the real thing outside the mind."

This book is a splendid introduction to both Thomas the man and the significance of his work for his own time and ours. No less a scholarly light than Etienne Gilson remarked that "I consider it as being without possible comparison the best book ever written on St. Thomas. Nothing short of genius can account for such an achievement."

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Your Special Illustrated & Annotated edition includes: + 11 Brand New Illustrations – in Chisel sequence™ - of St. Thomas Aquinas by generative artist Myron Henkmen! + Bibliography of G.K. Chesterton – Humanities – since 1980 – Harvard format for quick Research + Glossary of Traditional Catholic Terms Here is the Chesterton's brilliant "sketch" of the great Scholastic theologian and Doctor of the Church St. Thomas Aquinas, nicknamed 'dumb ox' Chesterton's practical study serves as a refreshing antidote to dangerous aspects of modern society. He argues to restore true reason and rationality, to bring a measure of certainty where doubt and fear were sown by Luther and Voltaire, resulting in many of the horrors of the twentieth century. Chesterton deals swiftly with both fascism on the one hand and socialism on the other and many other issues of the day, offering a hope amongst the perils of empty materialism. "Mr. Chesterton's volume on St. Thomas [is a] treatise of inestimable worth." - Leo McVay (1933 in Catholic Historical Review)

Biographie de l'auteur

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) better known as G.K. Chesterton, was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out." (Wikipedia)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Angelico Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1887593969
• ISBN 13: 9781887593960
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 140
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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