Guide to Thomas Aquinas

by Josef Pieper

Publisher:

Ignatius

, 1991

Overview

Josef Pieper, one of the greatest Thomistic philosophers of the twentieth century, gives a penetrating introduction to the life and works of St. Thomas Aquinas. Pieper provides a wonderful synthesis of his vast writings as well as a biography of Aquinas and an overview of the thirteenth century, when Aquinas lived and worked. 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. Pieper reveals his extraordinary command of original sources and excellent secondary materials as he illuminates the thought of the great intellectual Doctor of the Church.

Product Details

• Title: Guide to Thomas Aquinas
• Author: Josef Pieper
• Publisher: Ignatius
• Print Publication Date: 1991
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 182
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
• ISBNs: 9780898703191, 0898703190
• Resource ID: LLS:GDTHMSQNS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:52:02Z

About Josef Pieper

Josef Pieper (May 4, 1904 – November 6, 1997) was a German Catholic philosopher, at the forefront of the Neo-Thomistic wave in twentieth century Catholic philosophy. Among his most notable works are The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance; Leisure: the Basis of Culture; The Philosophical Act and Guide to Thomas Aquinas (published in England as Introduction to Thomas Aquinas). He translated C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain, into German.