Thomas did like few who lived before him or since. What matters most to you? Chances are I don't know you, but because you are reading this book, I know you are a human person created in the image and likeness of God Gen. Of all of the species of creatures on earth, I am confident that no other, not even your pet chimpanzee or dolphin, is reading this to you.
I know that you have an intellect and a will. I also know what matters most to you. The most important thing that you seek is happiness. If you are a Christian, then, you also realize that while some happiness can come upon earth, our ultimate happiness comes in an eternal life with God, the origin and end of all that is good and which makes us happy.
I'm willing to wager as well that you'd very much like for your family and friends to share in this bliss with you. And if you've taken the message of God's Son to heart, you desire the same for your neighbor — that is, for all of mankind.
Well then, it stands to reason that nothing matters more than our relationship with God, and no subject could be more important than learning just how to improve it — how to, in the words of the prayer of St.
Richard of Chichester, "know Thee more clearly, love Thee more dearly, follow Thee more nearly. Thomas are so important to us: He so fully submitted his unusual human powers to the stirrings of the Holy Spirit. There is no greater guide on earth, to knowing, loving, and following God while we are viators "travelers" here, on our way to seeing God in the eternal beatific vision.
Thomas provides sublimely profound answers to the questions that matter the most — and yet he does not complicate things. He teaches us about our everyday lives:. What brings us happiness? What does it mean to be a human being? Why are we here? In what ways are we higher than the animals and lower than the angels? In what way are we made in the image and likeness of God?
How can we achieve our utmost potential? How can we become brave, wise, and loving? How can we become better friends? Can we know if God really exists? Can we understand God? How can God be both One and Three? Why did God become man? What does Christ expect of members of his Church? How can we obtain eternal bliss? Thomas's philosophia perennis , his timeless pearls of wisdom, are as relevant to us today as they were in the thirteenth century.
Indeed, in some ways they are more relevant today, because we hear so many attempts to answer such all-important questions by relativistic, secular, and pseudoscientific systems of thought that are so influential now — and also are shallow, contradictory, and wrong! Where have I come from, and where am I going? Why is there evil? What is there after this life? Thomas Aquinas. John Paul says, "The Church has been justified in consistently proposing Saint Thomas as a master of thought and a model of the right way to do theology.
Thomas Aquinas lived from approximately to March 7, The privileged seventh child of an Italian lord and a relative of the imperial family, Thomas nonetheless sought the robe of a poor Dominican friar to live his life as a preacher and teacher. He bore the gift of a marvelously powerful intellect and exercised it to the fullest. In early childhood, his most burning, repeated question to all was "What is God?
As a young man, he would study under the incomparably learned St. Albert the Great. He would spend the years of his mature adulthood as a teacher of theology, most notably at the University of Paris.
Thomas lived his life humbly and gently, absorbed in the contemplation of God and in sharing with others the fruits of his contemplation. He was perhaps the greatest integrator and synthesizer of truths in human history. He is the man who "baptized" Aristotle, the greatest of pagan philosophers, harnessing the truths Aristotle taught for the service of the Church.
Thomas had "inherited the intellect of them all. The Summa Theologica absolutely bristles with scriptural citations and insights.
Thomas was canonized in and named a Doctor of the Church in For clarity on Aquinas choose Kevin Vost. Ideal for anyone who wants to cut through the silly sentimentality of modern religion and work up a brain sweat with some sound and serious thinking. A valid email address is required to complete logging in with Twitter. We'll only ask for this the first time you use Twitter login. My Cart Your cart is empty. Format Paperback eBook. Add to Cart. Add to Wishlist. About this item 25 popes consider St.
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