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Among the great works of Thomas Aquinas, the ""Commentary on the
Sentences of Peter Lombard"" has suffered almost total neglect
among translators. Such neglect is surprising, considering that the
massive Commentary - more than 4,000 pages in the last printed
edition - is not only Aquinas' first systematic engagement with all
the philosophical and theological topics on which he expended his
energy over the span of a short career but is also characterized by
an exuberance and elaborateness seldom found in his subsequent
writings. Although Chenu had already drawn attention decades ago to
the importance of studying this youthful tour de force for a fuller
understanding of Thomas' more mature work, the ""Commentary on the
Sentences"" has remained a closed book for many modern students of
Thomistic and medieval thought because of its relative
inaccessibility in English or in Latin.The present volume,
containing all the major texts on love and charity, makes available
what is by far the most extensive translation ever to be made from
the Commentary with the added benefit that the better part of the
translation is based on the (as yet unpublished) critical edition
of the Leonine Commission. The collection of texts from all four
books has a tight thematic coherence that makes it invaluable to
students of Thomas' moral philosophy, moral theology, and
philosophical theology. In addition, the inclusion of parallel
texts from Aquinas' first (Parisian) Commentary as well as from his
second (Roman) attempt at a commentary, the recently rediscovered
""Lectura Romana"", makes this edition all the more valuable for
those who wish to track the internal development of Thomas'
thinking on these matters.The new availability of so many rich
passages from the ""Commentary on the Sentences"" will encourage
and facilitate use of a magnificent resource that deserves to be
better known.
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