The One-Minute Aquinas
Author | : Kevin Vost |
Publisher | : Sophia Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2013-01-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781622821594 |
ISBN-13 | : 1622821599 |
Rating | : 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 25 popes consider St. Thomas Aquinas the Church's preeminent theologian because he saw truths about God, our Faith, and the Christian life which had never been seen before. But do you have time to read the 3,000 pages in his Summa Theologica? Do you struggle to understand the abstract theological terms he uses in On Being and Essence? Perhaps you, like so many of us, desire to be taught by such a great philosopher as Aquinas, but feel he is well beyond your reach. Not anymore. In The One-Minute Aquinas, veteran Catholic author Dr. Kevin Vost provides you with simple, readable explanations of St. Thomas's life-giving wisdom. In this book's lucid pages, you'll read small, digestible portions of St. Thomas's answers to questions such as... Why do souls need the sacraments? Why didn't Jesus write the Bible himself? What are simple proofs of God's existence? What is heaven, and what