BIBLIO is the largest independent book marketplace in the world, with over 100 million books.

Skip to content

Guide to Thomas Aquinas
Stock photo: cover may vary

Guide to Thomas Aquinas Paperback - 1991

by Josef Pieper

Add to wish list

Reader reviews for Guide to Thomas Aquinas

Write a review for this book

There are no reviews for this book yet. Be the first to write a review!

Your review will be anonymous unless you login or create an account first.

Overall rating
Remember: You’re rating the book as a work, not the seller or the condition of the specific copy you purchased!

Important Terms and Guidelines

  • Please focus on the book’s content and context. Also, add any personal comments as to how you enjoyed the book. Substantiate your likes and dislikes. You may make comparisons to other books.
  • Reviews must be at least 140 characters in length.
  • Please do not reveal critical plot elements.
  • This is not a help line. Contact customer support if you need help.
Your review must not include:
  • Obscenities, discriminatory language, or other insulting language not suitable for public domain
  • Advertisements, “spam” content, or references to other products, offers or websites.
  • Email addresses, URLs, phone numbers, physical addresses or other contact information.
  • Overly critical comments about other reviews or reviewers
  • Time-sensitive material (i.e. promotional tours, seminars, lectures, etc.)
  • Availability, price, or alternative ordering/shipping information

From the publisher

One of the great philosophers of the 20th Century, Josef Pieper, gives a penetrating introduction and guide to the life and works of perhaps the greatest philosopher ever, St. Thomas Aquinas. Pieper provides a biography of 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. 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.

Details

  • Title Guide to Thomas Aquinas
  • Author Josef Pieper
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Subsequent
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ignatius Press, San Francisco
  • Publication date 1991-04-15
  • ISBN 9780898703191 / 0898703190
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.98 x 5.38 x 0.61 in (20.27 x 13.67 x 1.55 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Catholic
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Thomas
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 90086251
  • Dewey Decimal Code 230.209

About the author

Josef Pieper, perhaps the most popular Thomist philosopher of the twentieth century, was schooled in the Greek classics and the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. He also studied philosophy, law, and sociology, and he was a professor at the University of Munster, West Germany. His numerous books have been widely praised by both the secular and religious press.

Please wait a moment while we load the requested page.