{"product_id":"saint-thomas-aquinas","title":"Saint Thomas Aquinas","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Gerald Vann, O.P.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the year 1879\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003ePope Leo XIII formally inaugurated the modern revival of Thomistic thought. Some sixty years later, this revival had yielded great fruit in Catholic circles. In secular circles, however, its insights had been largely ignored or misunderstood, and the wisdom of Thomas Aquinas and the Scholastics taken instead as folly. This misapprehension, argues Gerald Vann, O.P., was the result of tragic misconception of Thomism as hyper-rational and reductive. In this study, Vann aims to prove the opposite: Thomism is the \u003ci\u003efides-et-ratio \u003c\/i\u003esynthesis par excellence; it affirms the vast totality of truth, from the mere possibility of being to Being itself—God; it affirms that “it is better to illumine than merely to shine”; and it affirms also that synthesis which saves reality from endless, chaotic perplexity: the celestial hierarchy which alone fully reveals “the \u003ci\u003esplendor ordinis\u003c\/i\u003e, the beauty of truth.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eTruth must consequently be the ultimate end of the whole universe,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eand the consideration of the wise man aims principally at truth. \u003c\/i\u003e(Saint Thomas Aquinas)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eDeemed by the great Church historian Philip Hughes “quite the best summary yet written in English of what makes St. Thomas the greatest of Catholic thinkers,” Vann’s \u003ci\u003eSaint Thomas Aquinas \u003c\/i\u003eis an excellent introduction to its subject and an apt reminder that the beginning of wisdom is “the desire for discipline.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e\u003c!--td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerald Vann, O.P. \u003c\/b\u003e(1906–1963) was an English Dominican priest and author of numerous bestselling works of philosophy, spirituality, and theology. A gifted preacher and scholar, he was in great demand as a lecturer and retreat-master, and appeared frequently in the United States on the National Council of Catholic Men's weekly radio program, “The Catholic Hour.” Along with \u003ci\u003eSaint Thomas Aquinas\u003c\/i\u003e, his books include \u003ci\u003eMorals and Man \u003c\/i\u003e(1937), \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Pity \u003c\/i\u003e(1945), and \u003ci\u003eThe Water and the Fire \u003c\/i\u003e(1953).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 162pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685953768\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42861720830046,"sku":"978-1685953768","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0652\/2929\/1614\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1205.jpg?v=1780986776","url":"https:\/\/nez-emporium.com\/products\/saint-thomas-aquinas","provider":"Nez Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}