The Oxford handbook of Aquinas / edited by Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump.

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Book
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English
Published/​Created
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012.
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1 online resource (xv, 589 p.)

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Thomas Aquinas (1224/6-1274) produced many works, varying in length from a few pages to a few volumes. This book is an introduction to this influential author and a guide to his thought on almost all the major topics on which he wrote.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
  • Life and works / Jean-Pierre Torrell
  • Aquinas and Aristotle / James Doig
  • Augustine to Aquinas (Latin-Christian authors) / Alexander Fidora
  • Aquinas, Plato, and neoplatonism / Wayne J. Hankey
  • Aquinas and Jewish and Islamic authors / David B. Burrell
  • Being / John F. Wippel
  • Matter, form, and individuation / Jeffrey E. Bower
  • Causation / Michael Rota
  • The five ways / Timothy Pawl
  • God's simplicity / Eleonore Stump
  • God's goodness / Ludger Honnefelder
  • God's knowledge and will / James Brent
  • God's impassibility, immutability, and eternality / Brian Leftow
  • God's omnipotence / Brian Leftow
  • Human freedom and agency / Thomas Williams
  • Emotions / Peter King
  • Happiness / Brian Davies
  • Law and natural law / Michael Baur
  • Conscience and synderesis / Tobias Hoffmann
  • Virtues and vices / Jean Porter
  • Practical reasoning / Thomas M. Osborne, Jr.
  • The theological virtues / Joseph Wawrykow
  • Human knowledge / Martin Pickavé
  • The intellectual virtues / Tobias Hoffmann
  • The relation of reason to faith / Bruno Niederbacher
  • Philosophy of mind and human nature / Robert Pasnau
  • Theory of language / Gyula Klima
  • The limits of language and the notion of analogy / Brian Davies
  • Providence and the problem of evil / Eleonore Stump
  • The Trinity / Gilles Emery
  • Incarnation / Michael Gorman
  • The saving work of Christ / Rik Van Nieuwenhove
  • Sacraments / Dominic Holtz
  • Resurrection and the separated soul / Eleonore Stump
  • Prayer / Brian Davies
  • The gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit / Andrew Pinsent
  • The development of Aquinas's thought / Giorgio Pini
  • The influence of Aquinas / Christopher Upham.
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Aquinas
ISBN
  • 0-19-994016-9
  • 0-19-971699-4
  • 9780190208790
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