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Never Doubt Thomas - The Catholic Aquinas as Evangelical and Protestant (Hardcover)
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Never Doubt Thomas - The Catholic Aquinas as Evangelical and Protestant (Hardcover)
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Theologian, philosopher, teacher. There are few religious figures
more Catholic than Saint Thomas Aquinas, a man credited with
helping to shape Catholicism of the second millennium. In Never
Doubt Thomas, Francis J. Beckwith employs his own spiritual journey
from Catholicism to Evangelicalism and then back to Catholicism to
reveal the signal importance of Aquinas not only for Catholics but
also for Protestants. Beckwith begins by outlining Aquinas' history
and philosophy, noting misconceptions and inaccurate caricatures of
Thomist traditions. He explores the legitimacy of a ""Protestant""
Aquinas by examining Aquinas' views on natural law and natural
theology in light of several Protestant critiques. Not only did
Aquinas' presentation of natural law assume some of the very
inadequacies Protestant critics have leveled against it, Aquinas
did not, as is often supposed, believe that one must first prove
God's existence through human reasoning before having faith in God.
Rather, Aquinas held that one may know God through reason and
employ it to understand more fully the truths of faith. Beckwith
also uses Aquinas' preambles of faith - what a person can know
about God before fully believing in Him - to argue for a pluralist
Aquinas, explaining how followers of Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam can all worship the same God, yet adhere to different faiths.
Beckwith turns to Aquinas' doctrine of creation to question
theories of Intelligent Design, before, finally, coming to the
heart of the matter: in what sense can Aquinas be considered an
Evangelical? Aquinas' views on justification are often depicted by
some Evangelicals as discontinuous with those articulated in the
Council of Trent. Beckwith counters this assessment, revealing not
only that Aquinas' doctrine fully aligns with the tenets laid out
by the Council, but also that this doctrine is more Evangelical
than critics care to admit. Beckwith's careful reading makes it
hard to doubt that Thomas Aquinas is a theologian, philosopher, and
teacher for the universal church - Catholic, Protestant, and
Evangelical.
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