Aquinas's Summa Theologiae
Brian Davies
Nov 2005 · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Thomas Aquinas (1224/6-1274) was first and foremost a Christian theologian. Yet he was also one of the greatest philosophers of the Middle Ages. Drawing on classical authors, and incorporating ideas from Jewish and Arab sources, he came to offer a rounded and lasting account of the origin of the universe and of the things to be found within it, especially human beings. Aquinas wrote many works, but his greatest achievement is undoubtedly the Summa Theologiae. This presents his most mature thinking and is the best introduction to his philosophical (and theological) ideas. Few secondary books on Aquinas focus solely on the Summa, but the present volume does just that. Including work by some of the best Aquinas scholars of the last half decade, it provides a solid introduction to one of the landmarks of western thinking.
About the author
Brian Davies is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. His books include The Thought of Thomas Aquinas(1992), Aquinas(2002), and An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion(3rd edn., 2004). He is the editor of Thomas Aquinas: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives(2002). With G.R. Evans, he is co-editor of Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works(1998). With Brian Leftow, he is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Anselm(2004). He is also the editor of the Great Medieval Thinkers series published by Oxford University Press.
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