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Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae - A Biography (Paperback)
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Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae - A Biography (Paperback)
Series: Lives of Great Religious Books
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The life and times of the most important theological work of
medieval Christendom Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae holds a
unique place in Western religion and philosophy. Written between
1266 and 1273, it was conceived by Aquinas as an instructional
guide for teachers and novices and a compendium of all the approved
teachings of the Catholic Church. It synthesizes an astonishing
range of scholarship, covering hundreds of topics and containing
more than a million and a half words-and was still unfinished at
the time of Aquinas's death. Bernard McGinn, one of today's most
acclaimed scholars of medieval Christianity, traces the remarkable
life of this iconic work, examining Aquinas's reasons for writing
it, its subject matter, and the novel way he organized it. McGinn
looks at the influence of Aquinas's masterpiece on such giants of
medieval Christendom as Meister Eckhart, its ridicule during the
Enlightenment, the role of the Summa in the post-Vatican II church,
and the book's enduring relevance today.
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