Analytic Thomism

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Hello. I like Aquinas and I like analytic philosophy (what I know of it). I was wondering if anyone could give me a concise but rigorous primer on Analytic Thomism. Everything I have found in my brief searching is either too in depth or too shallow. Most importantly, I guess I am looking for an explanation of Aquinas’ conception of God from an analytic perspective. Thanks.
 
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Hello. I like Aquinas and I like analytic philosophy (what I know of it). I was wondering if anyone could give me a concise but rigorous primer on Analytic Thomism. Everything I have found in my brief searching is either too in depth or too shallow. Most importantly, I guess I am looking for an explanation of Aquinas’ conception of God from an analytic perspective. Thanks.
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This book may help you.

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Thank you for the link. That book may in fact help me, but as a father of four who is working full time as a teacher and taking classes and whose wife is working part time and taking classes, I don’t currently have the resources, either time or money, to acquire it and read. I was hoping that someone might be able to stream line the knowledge gaining process for me. I am familiar enough with both Aquinas and analytic philosophy that I don’t think you’d need to start from scratch. I know less analytic philosophy but I did have a masters level class on Wittgenstein a while back.

Any more help would be appreciated.
 
O.K. I assume you have googled the subject where there are a number of free articles you can study at your leisure. Good luck. 🙂
 
Hahah. I can see the topic is not especially interesting to anyone else so I guess that is the route I will have to take. Conversations with those who are more knowledgeable on a topic are always the most efficient way to learn new ideas, but it doesn’t seem like that is going to happen so I will go with the articles. Thanks again for replying with something.
 
There’s a lot by Anthony Kenny that’s good. However, there are more faithful presentations of Thomism and analytic philosophy combined, in particular, Peter Geach, Brian Davies and Herbert McCabe.
 
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