Description: Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books, 41) by Bernard McGinn (Paperback, 2019) ABOUT THE BOOK The life and times of the most important theological work of medieval Christendom Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologiae holds a unique place in Western religion and philosophy. Written between 1266 and 1273, it was conceived by Aquinas as an instructional guide for teachers and novices and a compendium of all the approved teachings of the Catholic Church. It synthesizes an astonishing range of scholarship, covering hundreds of topics and containing more than a million and a half words―and was still unfinished at the time of Aquinas’s death. Bernard McGinn, one of today’s most acclaimed scholars of medieval Christianity, traces the remarkable life of this iconic work, examining Aquinas’s reasons for writing it, its subject matter, and the novel way he organized it. McGinn looks at the influence of Aquinas’s masterpiece on such giants of medieval Christendom as Meister Eckhart, its ridicule during the Enlightenment, the role of the Summa in the post–Vatican II church, and the book’s enduring relevance today.
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Book Title: Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae : a Biography
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2019
Topic: Christian Theology / General, Christianity / Catholic, History, Europe / Medieval
Item Height: 0.7 in
Genre: Religion, History
Item Weight: 11.6 Oz
Author: Bernard Mcginn
Item Length: 8.5 in
Book Series: Lives of Great Religious Bks.
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
