An Aquinas reader: edited with an introduction by Mary T. Clark

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This anthology offers an unrivaled perspective of the full scope and rich variety of Aquinas's thought. It provides the general reader with an overall survey of one of the most outstanding thinkers of all time and reveals the major influence he has had on many of the world's great thinkers. -- Provided by publisher.

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Full title :An Aquinas reader : edited with an introduction by Mary T. Clark.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:1999.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Fordham University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1999.

Notes

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1972.

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Description:1 online resource (597 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0585237514, 9780585237510
oclc:ocm44962850
LC Classification:BX890.T62
Dewey Decimal:230/.2

I. Reality -- General metaphysical texts chronologically arranged -- Special aspects -- Aquinas on his predecessors -- II. God and the world -- A. Uncreated being: God -- His existence -- Creation -- Our knowledge of God -- Divine activity -- B. Created beings: nature -- Principles -- Duration of the world -- Aquinas on Aristotelian nature -- On becoming -- III. Man -- Human nature and person -- Human knowledge -- Emotions and love -- Human freedom -- Man's creation -- Man's immortality -- IV. Man as moral -- Aquinas on Aristotelian ethics -- Providence and human action -- Moral dispositions -- Justice and law -- V. Man as religious -- Theological virtues and revelation -- The Trinity -- Sin -- Christ -- The sacraments -- The people of God -- The commandments -- Religious life -- Prayer and prayers -- Office for the Feast of St. Augustine.