Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers by Michael A Dauphinais

Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers by Michael A Dauphinais

Scholars have often been quick to acknowledge Thomas Aquinas's distinctive retrieval of Aristotle's Greek philosophical heritage. Often lagging, however, has been a proper appreciation of both his originality and indebtedness in appropriating the great theological insights of the Greek Fathers of the Church. In a similar way to his integration of the Aristotelian philosophical corpus, Aquinas successfully interwove the often newly received and translated Greek patristic sources into a thirteenth-century theological framework, one dominated by the Latin Fathers. His use of the Greek Fathers definitively shaped his exposition of sacra doctrina in the fundamental areas of God and creation, Trinitarian theology, the moral life, and Christ and the Sacraments. For the sake of filling this lacuna and of piquing scholarly interest in Aquinas's relation to the Fathers of the Christian East, the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University and the Thomistic Institute of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies co-sponsored an international gathering of scholars that took place at Ave Maria University under the title Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers. Sensitive to the commonalities and the differences between Aquinas and the Greek Fathers, the essays in this volume have sprung from the theme of this conference and offer a harvest of some of the conference's fruits. At long last, scholars have a rich volume of diverse, penetrating essays that both underscore Aquinas's unique standing among the Latin scholastics in relationship to the Greek Fathers and point the way toward avenues of further study.

Michael A. Dauphinais is professor and chair of theology at Ave Maria University, where he also serves as co-director of the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal.

Andrew Hofer, OP, is an associate professor of patristics and ancient languages at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC.

Roger W. Nutt is an associate professor of theology and vice president of academic affairs at Ave Maria University. He also serves as co-director of the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal.

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ISBN 13	9781932589825
ISBN 10	1932589821
Title	Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers
Author	Michael A Dauphinais
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Ave Maria University Press
Year published	2019-07-30
Number of pages	312
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