Saint Thomas Aquinas

Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox

Author: G.K. CHESTERTON
Length: 192
Edition: Paperback
Publisher: Image; Reissue edition

About Saint Thomas Aquinas:

A trade paperback edition of the classic portrait of Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest of Christian philosophers, by one of the greatest of modern religious writers.

Information on Saint Thomas Aquinas from the publisher:

A trade paperback edition of the classic portrait of Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest of Christian philosophers, by one of the greatest of modern religious writers.

Description of G.k. Chesterton, author of Saint Thomas Aquinas:

Chesterton's Aquinas is a man of mystery. Born into a noble family, Thomas chose the life of a mendicant friar. Lumbering and shy - his classmates dubbed him "the Dumb Ox" - he led a revolution in Christian thought. Possessed of the rarest brilliance, he found the highest truth in the humblest object. Having spent his life amid the vast intricacies of reason, he asked on his deathbed to have read aloud the Song of Songs, the most passionate book in the Bible. As Albert the Great, Thomas's teacher, predicted, the Dumb Ox has bellowed down the ages to our own day. Chesterton's book will enlighten those who would consign Thomas to the obscurity of medieval times. It will confound those who would use Thomas to bolster arid schemes of Christian rationalism. Rather, it will introduce the wondrous mystery of the man who, after a life of unparalleled genius, was seized by a vision of the Unknown and said: "I can write no more. I have seen things which make all my writings like straw." 197 pages, softcover, Image Books.