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Author: Michael Dauphinais
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 081321405X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume fits within the contemporary reappropriation of St. Thomas Aquinas, which emphasizes his use of Scripture and the teachings of the church fathers without neglecting his philosophical insight.
Author: Jean-Pierre Torrell, OP
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2022-08-26
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 081323560X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe presentation of the life and work of any great thinker is a formidable task, even for a renowned scholar. This is all the more the case when such a historical figure is a saint and mystic, such as Friar Thomas Aquinas. In this volume, Fr. Jean-Pierre Torrell, OP, masterfully takes up the strenuous task of presenting such a biography, providing readers with a detailed, scholarly, and profound account of the thirteenth-century theologian whose works have not ceased to draw the attention of both friend and foe! In this volume, Fr. Torrell, an internationally renowned expert on St. Thomas, speaks to neophytes and experts alike: for those new to Thomas’s works, he paints an engaging human portrait of Friar Thomas in his historical context; for specialists, he provides a rigorous scholarly account of contemporary research concerning Thomas’s life and work. This new edition of Fr. Torrell’s widely-lauded text involved significant revision, expansion, and bibliographical updates in light of the latest scholarship. The Catholic University of America Press is pleased to present such an eminent specialist’s mature synthesis concerning Friar Thomas Aquinas.
Author: O'Rourke
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-18
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9004451773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Aquinas' encounter with Pseudo-Dionysius can be discovered an integral philosophy of reality — a comprehensive vision of existence, depicting the universe in its procession from and return to the Absolute, according to each grade of reality, including man, its place in the hierarchy of being. The point of divergence is the primacy attributed, in turn, by the authors to the Good or to Being as a universal principle. Against this background the present work investigates the influence of Dionysius with respect to the central themes of Aquinas' metaphysics: knowledge of the Absolute, and its nature as transcendent; Being as primary and universal perfection; the diffusion of creation; the hierarchy of creatures and return of all to God as the final end. This is one of the few studies to date which considers in a comprehensive way the relation between these remarkable thinkers. By concrete example and continual reference it illustrates both the pervasive influence of Pseudo-Dionysius and the profound originality of Aquinas.
Author: Oscar James Brown
Publisher: PIMS
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780888440556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Summers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-02-23
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780521386319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the rise of naturalism in the art of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance there developed an extensive and diverse literature about art which helped to explain, justify and shape its new aims. In this book, David Summers provides an investigation of the philosophical and psychological notions invoked in this new theory and criticism. From a thorough examination of the sources, he shows how the medieval language of mental discourse derived from an understanding of classical thought.
Author: Hans Daiber
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1998-12-31
Total Pages: 1044
ISBN-13: 9789004096486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Salvatore I. Camporeale
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-10-10
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9004261974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe work of Lorenzo Valla (1406-57) has enjoyed renewed attention in recent years, as have new critical editions of his texts. One of the most interesting interpreters of Valla, Salvatore I. Camporeale, O.P., had a following among scholars who read Italian, but very little of his work saw the light in English before his death in 2002. This book presents two of Camporeale’s studies on Valla in English, which examine in detail two of Valla’s works: his treatise on the Donation of Constantine (undoubtedly the work for which Valla is best known) and his Encomium of Saint Thomas Aquinas, delivered publicly in the last year of Valla’s life and, in Camporeale’s reading, summing up Valla’s multi-faceted thought.
Author: Carl T. Berkhout
Publisher: PIMS
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780888443601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael J Dodds
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0813215390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Unchanging God of Love provides a clear and comprehensive account of what Aquinas really says about divine immutability, presented in a way that allows his theology to address contemporary criticisms
Author: S. Frederick Starr
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0197675557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA portrait of the Arab enlightenment and its key figures, Ibn Sina and Biruni. In The Genius of Their Age, S. Frederick Starr brings to vibrant life an age when Muslim scientists and philosophers from Central Asia anticipated the Western renaissance of science by half a millennium.
