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List of contents
Introduction: Eleonore Stump, Thomas Joseph White, OP; Part I. Life and works: 1. Thomas Aquinas: a life pursuing wisdom Dominic Legge, OP; Part II. Metaphysics and the ultimate foundation of reality: 2. First principles: hylomorphism and causation Jeffrey Brower; 3. Essence and being, God's simplicity and Trinity Thomas Joseph White, OP; 4. Goodness and being, transcendentals, participation Gaven Kerr; 5. The metaphysics of creation: secondary causality, modern science James Dominic Rooney, OP; 6. The nature of human beings Eleonore Stump; Part III. Epistemology: 7. The nature of cognition and knowledge Therese Cory; 8. Intellectual virtues: acquiring understanding Angela Knobel; 9. Intellect and will: free will and free choice Michael Gorman; Part IV. Ethics: 10. Grace and free will Tobias P. Hoffman; 11. Metaethics and from metaethics to normative ethics Colleen McCluskey; 12. Infused virtues, gifts and fruits Andrew Pinsent; Part V. Philosophical Theology: 13. Original sin Brian Leftow; 14. The incarnation Timothy Pawl; 15. Evil, sin, and redemption Thomas Williams; 16. Resurrection and eschatology Simon Gaine, OP.
About the author
Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. Her books include Aquinas (2003), Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (2010), Atonement (2018) and The Image of God: The Problem of Mourning and the Problem of Evil (2022). She is co-editor (with David Meconi) of The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 2014), and (with Adam Green) of Hidden Divinity and Religious Belief: New Perspectives (Cambridge, 2016).Thomas Joseph White, OP is Rector of the Angelicum, Rome. He is the author of Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: A Study in Thomistic Natural Theology (2011), The Incarnate Lord: A Thomistic Study in Christology (2015), The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism (2017), and The Trinity: On the Nature and Mystery of the One God (2022).
Summary
A welcome resource for a new generation of readers studying Aquinas, this entirely new Companion explores his philosophical thought in relation to the worldview he inherited, developed, altered, and argued for. To contemporary philosophers, the book reveals the strong connections between Aquinas's interests and views and their own.
