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The One-Minute Aquinas
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, 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 is it not?
- Why did Jesus allow himself to be crucified?
- How can I grow quickly in virtue?
- Who are the angels and what are their powers?
- What is God's power and its limits?
- Why did God become man?
- Why did Jesus allow himself to be tempted?
And you'll learn countless, but quick, refutations to the relativistic and secular ideas that are so destructive to
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Thomas Aquinas
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Thomas Aquinas was born near Aquino, halfway between Rome and Naples, around the year He was the youngest of at least nine children, and born into a wealthy family that presided over a prominent castle in Roccasecca. As a teenage student in Naples, he fell under the sway of the Dominicans, a newly founded order of priests devoted to preaching and learning. Joining the order at the age of nineteen, he was assigned to Paris for further study, but his plans were delayed by the intransigency of his parents, who had hoped he would play a leading role at the venerable local monastery, Monte Cassino, where he had studied as a child. After confining him to Roccasecca for a year, his parents yielded and Thomas went to Paris as a Dominican friar.
Thomas spent three years in Paris, studying philosophy, and then was sent to Cologne, in , under the supervision of Albert the Great. This older Dominican proved to be the ideal mentor. Albert was at the time the leading figure in the newly prominent program of melding Christian theology with Greek and Arabic philosophy. He possessed an encyclopedic grasp of the sciences of the day, which had been expanding at a dizzying pace thanks to the new availability of the Aristotelian corpus in Latin translat
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