The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas

"[This volume presents] L. K. Shook's English translation of the final version of the late Etienne Gilson's (1884-1978) classic overview of the Christian philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. . . . Gilson was one of the pioneers, in the early part of [the twentieth] century, of medieval philosophy in general and the work of Aquinas in particular. He sought to restore to the study of Aquinas' texts an historical sensitivity, thus rescuing them from the near canonical status accorded in the well-intentioned but inhibiting late nineteenth-century papal revival of Thomistic studies and preserved in the so-called 'manual theology' of the seminar curriculum. . . . The endnotes are an invaluable resource, as is the still unsurpassed catalogue of Aquinas' works compiled by Eschmann and "[A]s the only English version of any edition of Le Thomisme, and therefore for years a kind of manual for North American students approaching Aquinas, the book deserves recirculation. With it appears the masterful 'Catalogue of St. Thomas' Works' prepared by the Rev. I. T. Eschmann to accompany Shook's translation and available nowhere else. . . . [I]ts overview of principles and conclusions in the history of the texts has not been surpassed." --The Philosophical Quarterly