Praying with Confidence: Aquinas on the Lord’s Prayer

Those readers who, in the past, have found the study of Aquinas especially daunting, will be grateful to the Dominican Paul Murray for the freshness and clarity he brings to his task. Praying with Confidence is both a stimulating scholarly study and an ideal introduction for the general reader. Never before have the most important reflections by Aquinas on the Lord’s Prayer been drawn together and considered in a single book. Here, Aquinas comes alive not merely as a profound, speculative theolo...

Summa contra Gentiles (4 vols.)

As the most influential apologetic work of the Western Church, the Summa contra Gentiles has shaped and defined theological and philosophical enquiry for hundreds of years. This vast work aims to establish the truth of the Christian religion by laying out a defense of the Christian faith from the perspective of both faith and reason. In doing so, Thomas Aquinas engages intelligent non-Christian thinkers in the clearest manner, and helps establish the method, purpose, and grounding for both theology and philosophy.

Aquinas at Prayer: The Bible, Mysticism and Poetry

Aquinas at Prayer draws attention to important aspects of Aquinas’ life and work which have been all too often overlooked or forgotten. Today Aquinas is almost exclusively regarded as an outstanding scholastic philosopher and theologian. But what is little known is that Aquinas was, first and last, a teacher of the Bible. Moreover there is a distinctly mystical character to his theology. And, as a writer, he was arguably the greatest Latin poet of the Middle Ages. The primary focus of this enga...

By Knowledge & By Love: Charity and Knowledge in the Moral Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas

What is the relationship between charity and knowledge in the theology of Thomas Aquinas? Did Aquinas, in his mature thought, portray charity’s act as antecedent to and independent of practical reasoning? Did he view charity’s motion as rendering us morally good before God, apart from whether or not we do what is right in our actions? A dominant stream in contemporary Catholic ethics holds for precisely such a concept of charity, and many recent commentators on Aquinas maintain that this is his ...