Guide to Thomas Aquinas (Pieper - pbk)

Author: Josef Pieper

ISBN: 9780898703191

Binding: paperback

Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic

Pieper provides a biography of St. Thomas Aquinas, an overview of the 13th century he lived in, and a wonderful synthesis of his vast writings. Pieper shows how Aquinas reconciled the pragmatic thought of Aristotle with the Church, proving that realistic knowledge need not preclude belief in the spiritual realities of religion. According to Pieper, the marriage of faith and reason proposed by Aquinas in his great synthesis of a "theologically founded worldliness" was not merely one solution among many, but the great principle expressing the essence of the Christian West.