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Free Download Peter S. Eardley, "Aquinas: A Guide for the Perplexed "
English | ISBN: 0826498809 | 2011 | 166 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Thomas Aquinas is the most widely read and arguably most influential of the medieval philosophers. He is famous for his impressive and coherent synthesis of Greek Philosophy and Christian Theology and his magisterial Summa Theologiae is a hugely important, and enduring, text in the history of philosophy. Yet he is also a very difficult thinker and his ideas present a number of challenges to his readers.

Free Download Jean Pierre Torrell, Jean-Pierre Torrell, Robert Royal, "Saint Thomas Aquinas, Vol. 2: Spiritual Master"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 0813213169 | PDF | pages: 438 | 1.4 mb
Following his highly acclaimed study of the life and works of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Jean-Pierre Torrell, O.P., continues his masterful work on the great Dominican theologian and brings an immense learning to bear on a subject that most readers have not considered very carefully: Thomas’s spirituality. Aquinas’s intellectual power is evident to anyone who has had even modest exposure to his work. Understanding the spiritual impetus behind that massive achievement, however, requires careful attention to the whole Thomistic corpus and a subtle understanding of several crucial works, particularly Thomas’s sermons and commentaries on Scripture. In this long-awaited sequel to Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Person and His Work, Father Torrell brilliantly lays out the theoretical background to Thomas’s spirituality. He shows that Aquinas’s theology is clearly oriented towards contemplation and is as deeply spiritual as it is doctrinal.

Free Download Miracles in Said Nursi and Thomas Aquinas: Non-Noninterventionist Approaches to Divine Action and the Sciences
by Edmund Michael Lazzari
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032819413 | 187 Pages | True PDF | 3.54 MB

Free Download Petr Dvorsk, "An Aristocratic Compatibilist’s Providence: Components of Aquinas’s Soft Determinist View "
English | ISBN: 9004549692 | 2024 | 670 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Analyzing different philosophical and theological components of Aquinas’s view regarding the relation between human agency and divine providence, the monograph shows this view to be compatibilist, based on a determinist conception of causation and an aristocratic understanding of goodness.

Free Download Anna Tropia, "Rethinking Intentionality, Person and the Essence: Aquinas, Scotus, Stein "
English | ISBN: 9004693459 | 2024 | 243 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The volume offers a series of systematic studies on the concepts of intentionality, essence and person in medieval philosophy and phenomenology, with special focus on Aquinas, Scotus and Edith Stein.

Free Download Anna Tropia, "Rethinking Intentionality, Person and the Essence: Aquinas, Scotus, Stein "
English | ISBN: 9004693459 | 2024 | 243 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The volume offers a series of systematic studies on the concepts of intentionality, essence and person in medieval philosophy and phenomenology, with special focus on Aquinas, Scotus and Edith Stein.

Free Download Paul Murray OP, "Aquinas at Prayer: The Bible, Mysticism and Poetry"
English | ISBN: 144110755X | 2013 | 288 pages | AZW3 | 459 KB
Aquinas at Prayer draws attention to important aspects of Aquinas’s life and work which have been all too often overlooked or forgotten. Today Aquinas is almost exclusively regarded as an outstanding scholastic philosopher and theologian. But what is little known is that Aquinas was, first and last, a teacher of the Bible – a Master of the Sacred Page. Moreover there is a distinctly mystical character to his theology. And, as a writer, he was not only a poet but, arguably, the greatest Latin poet of the Middle Ages.

Free Download Reginald M. Lynch O.P., "Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae and Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period "
English | ISBN: 0192874780 | 2024 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book is focused on the reception history of Thomas Aquinas’ account of Eucharistic sacrifice during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Although the sacrificial character of the Eucharist has been of interest to theologians throughout the Church’s history, during the early sixteenth century renewed attention was given to this subject, in part because of disputes that arose between Reformed and Catholic theologians about the relationship between the Eucharistic liturgy and Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. Does the Eucharistic presence itself have a sacrificial quality? Can aspects of the liturgy or dimensions of the moral life be considered a sacrifice, and if so in what way?

Free Download Reginald M. Lynch O.P., "Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae and Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period "
English | ISBN: 0192874780 | 2024 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book is focused on the reception history of Thomas Aquinas’ account of Eucharistic sacrifice during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Although the sacrificial character of the Eucharist has been of interest to theologians throughout the Church’s history, during the early sixteenth century renewed attention was given to this subject, in part because of disputes that arose between Reformed and Catholic theologians about the relationship between the Eucharistic liturgy and Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. Does the Eucharistic presence itself have a sacrificial quality? Can aspects of the liturgy or dimensions of the moral life be considered a sacrifice, and if so in what way?

Free Download Stephen Theron, "Systematised Logic from Aristotle to Aquinas, Hegel and Beyond"
English | ISBN: 1527550923 | 2023 | 175 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Thought, rather than being mere transcendence of the immediate (or "empirical"), is contemplation’s initial emergence from finite scientific understanding towards philosophic truth, sophia (Hegel on atomism’s history). We move from finite paradox to infinite contradiction, to "the bewitchment of intelligence by language" (Wittgenstein). The contradiction is a real fault of language and its discursive reasoning. Hegel denies partes extra partes. This book identifies absolute idealism as "the true realism", only expressible in apparent contradiction, unless we consider certain discrete reductions of such absolute spirituality to mundane vacuity, tackling instead the elusive theme of direct divine grace in human destiny. In the book, faith’s credentials as our link to the infinite are considered. It provides a unique analogy which likens faith to absolute knowledge, finite to infinite, mediating the "development of doctrine" through ignorance.