Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait

313 Pages·2013·1.22 MB·English

by  Denys Turner

Thomas Aquinas
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D E N Y S T U R N E R
Thomas
Aquinas
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A P O R T R A I T
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Turner, Denys, 1942–
Thomas Aquinas: a portrait / Denys Turner.
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1. Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?–1274.
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For Marie
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
One A Dominican 8
Two A Materialist 47
Three The Soul 70
Four God 100
Five Friendship and Grace 145
Six Grace, Desire, and Prayer 169
Seven Christ 189
Eight The Eucharist and Eschatology 230
Epilogue The Secret of Saint Thomas 267
Notes 271
Further Reading 285
Index 293
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Acknowledgments
I have not until undertaking this work ever given more careful
consideration to an intended readership for what I write than to
think in terms of the needs of the students I have taught profes-
sionally in theological schools in the United Kingdom and the
United States. Those students alone have truly mattered to me as
a teacher and writer. And on the whole, after many years of
teaching them I have imagined myself to have a pretty good idea
of their needs. For this work, though, Jennifer Banks at Yale
University Press called for availability to a wider and less specialist
readership, and I have had the good fortune of being able to rely
heavily on the advice as to how this might be done forthcoming
in the first instance from Jennifer herself, from Philip King, the
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