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This book examines the influence of Saint Thomas Aquinas upon Nicholas of Cusa's (Cusanus) doctrine of human nature. It explores this influence against the background of other authors associated with Cusanus' own generation of philosophers in order to demonstrate the uniqueness …
Following a scholarly account of Thomas Aquinas's life, Davies explores his purposes in writing the Summa Theologiae and works systematically through each of its three Parts. He also relates their contents and Aquinas's teachings to those of other works and other thinkers both t…
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The material and allegorical presence of the Saint's remains -- The long last journey of Thomas's dust -- The Thomas relic cults -- Readings of the corpse: textual, allegorical, and iconographic -- A note on the s…
Nearly half a century after giving the testimony that sent Alger Hiss to prison, Whittaker Chambers remains among the most controversial of twentieth-century Americans, hated by many, revered by others. Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figu…