AquinasISBN: 978-0-7456-2686-4
Hardcover
168 pages
December 2003, Polity
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The Heythrop Journal
"McInery is perhaps the most important Catholic philosopher of
his generation. While many limit philosophy to textual exegesis of
formal logic, McInerny, in the spirit of his immediate predecessors
Etienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain, still regards philosophy as
the pursuit of wisdom, speculative and practical. Steeped in the
history of philosophy, McInerny is a reliable guide to Aristotle
and Aquinas and their commentators through the ages. He writes not
for colleagues down the hall or for the appreciation of antiquity
or who seek an intellectual compass in stormy times. Translated
into many languages, his work rightly commands a global audience.
For its freshness, Aquinas will only enhance McInerny’s
status as a major interpreter of the Angelic Doctor."
Jude P. Dougherty, The Catholic University of
America
"Aquinas lived in a time of remarkable intellectual and
religious ferment. His thought, which McInerny following John Paul
II describes as an implicit philosophy, articulates not just for
his own time, but foe all times, the philosophical principles
implicitly operative in human nature. In his new primer on Aquinas,
Ralph McInerny manages the impossible. He gives us Aquinas, his
times, the core of his philosophical teaching, and the significance
of his continued contribution to philosophy and theology. With the
deft stlye of the novelist and the clarity of a seasoned teacher of
Aquinas, McInerny provides a marvelous path into the thought of the
greatest of Catholic teachers."
Thomas Hibbs, Boston College