Reading materials

[Pete_1]

Can anyone recommend any books, by cathoics on
Aquinas?
The 5 proofs of God?

 

[cpayne]

Depends on how technical you want to get, but I would always recommend first of all G.K. Chesterton’s book Thomas Aquinas, the Dumb Ox. It is available online for free (I don’t know where, but Ani Ibi found it once).

Then I would go to Aquinas himself with annotations, as in Peter Kreeft’s A Summa of the Summa.

 

[Pete_1]

Thanks:thumbsup:

 

[Melo]

Depends on how technical you want to get, but I would always recommend first of all G.K. Chesterton’s book Thomas Aquinas, the Dumb Ox. It is available online for free (I don’t know where, but Ani Ibi found it once).

Then I would go to Aquinas himself with annotations, as in Peter Kreeft’s A Summa of the Summa.

Thomas Aquinas, the Dumb Ox is available here cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/index.html

There are quite of few of Chesterton’s books there online for free.

 

[Greg27]

Brian Davies O.P. wrote a good book called ‘Aquinas’ which discusses his philosophy quite well (a nice companion volume is ‘Philosophy of Religion’ by the same writer, who is a Dominican trained in analytical philosophy).

 

[jimmy85]

I recommend you to read this book by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange:A Synthesis Of Thomistic Thought

you can also find more free books about catholic philosophy over here: Ewtn Library

 

[Contarini]

Can anyone recommend any books, by cathoics on
Aquinas?
The 5 proofs of God?

Matthew Levering and Michael Dauphinais co-wrote a brief introduction called *Knowing the Love of Christ. *The book by Brian Davies is a little more advanced but still a good, clear introduction.

The “5 proofs” are a relatively minor part of Aquinas’s thought, and you are not likely to find them discussed in detail in these introductions.

Edwin

 

[Pete_1]

Thanks