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

by Fritz Bauerschmidt (Author)

In Thinking Through Aquinas: 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.

Author Biography

Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt (PhD. Duke University) is Professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland and a deacon of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. He is the author of several books, including most recently, The Essential "Summa Theologiae" A Reader and Commentary and No Lasting City: Essays on Theology, Politics, and Culture , as well as over four dozen scholarly essays and book chapters.