Thinking Through Aquinas: Essays on God, Humanity, and Christ

by Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt

In Thinking Through Essays on God, Humanity, and Christ, Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt presents fourteen essays, written over the course of twenty years, that are attempts both to think through the arguments contained in the theology of Thomas Aquinas and to use the theology of Thomas to think through the questions that confront theologians in our own day. The essays include discussions of Thomas’s understanding of the nature of theology and of God; his reflections on virtue, vice, and the moral life; and his theology of Christ, the Church, and the Sacraments. Over the course of these essays, Thomas is brought into dialogue with figures ranging from Michel Foucault to Flannery O’Connor, Jonathan Lear to Ignacio Ellacuría, Stanley Hauerwas to St. John Paul II.

367 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 26, 2024

Reviews

[MR STEPHEN · Rating 2 out of 5]

I lost count of the number of times I asked ‘what does this even mean?’ in reading this book. The caricature of theologians finding how many angels can fit on the head of a pin is given wings here.