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Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | G.K. Chesterton | | Publisher: | Image | | Release date: | 15 January, 1974 | | List price: | $11.95 |
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Illustrative Of the Great Man's Life |
Chesterton utilizes poetic license interspersed with biographical sketches to provide his readers with a glimpse into the significance of St. Thomas and the scholastic movement in both his own day as well as in the modern world. The book is written in a style that most reminds me of sitting at a lecture by a stodgy old professor in a tweed jacket and a pipe who refuses to compromise his language to suit his students but instead insists on them adopting to the academic rigour of his delivery.
St. Thomas emerges as the pivotal historical figure that we accept him to be through the fog of Chesterton's writing but also as someone whose relevance to all that came after is indisputable. The parts of the book that contrast the Dominican Thomas with St. Francis are especially entertaining as well as enlightening.
A good choice for those with an interest in ST. Thomas and his life's work. |
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Totally Engrossing and Down-to-Earth for the Layman.... |
| I had never read about Acquinas before but after reading this book I feel that I know him and G.K. Chesterton (that amazing Christian writer!) better than ever. A quick read and one that was written with the simple layman in mind. Excellent book! |
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A pleasant biographical essay on Aquinas |
This book is the first that I read from the British author Chesterton and I can assure you that it will not be the last, next in line being his book essay on Saint Francis of Assisi, a subject which was the natural amicable counterpoise to the pounderous Thomas Aquinas. But I must confess in hindsight that the authorship was necessarily second in importance to the subject himself, The Dumb Ox, also known as Doctor Angelicus, who, along with Saint Augustine, were the most prolific and untiresome champions of the Catholic doctrine.
After engaging myself in the difficult reading of Thomas Aquinas masterwork Summa Theologica, an opus some 3.000 + pages long, written in Middle Age Latin, the book from Chesterton serviced me as a respite from the intricacies of Aquinas uneventful vocabulary and Aristotelian terminology, with never ending « contras, praeterea, seds, respondeos, et cetera », when approaching some difficult points in doctrine.
It is an agreeable but necessary contradiction that a so gigantic man like Aquinas is portrayed trough a so small and unpretentious booklet, although it could be also said that notwithstanding the size of any Aquinas' biography, such a towering subject would always remain as elusive as ever, winning over any attempt to reduce him to human proportions or contours. But what the reader has in the end is a thorough view of Aquinas in what is now known as the most important biography of the Doctor Angelicus.
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