Home
On Love and Charity: Readings from the Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard
Loading Inventory...
Barnes and Noble
On Love and Charity: Readings from the Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard
Current price: $39.95
Barnes and Noble
On Love and Charity: Readings from the Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard
Current price: $39.95
Loading Inventory...
Size: OS
*Product Information may vary - to confirm product availability, pricing, and additional information please contact Barnes and Noble
Among the great works of Thomas Aquinas, the
has suffered almost total neglect among translators. Such neglect is surprising, considering that the massive
more than 4,000 pages in the last printed editionis not only Aquinas's first systematic engagement with all the philosophical and theological topics on which he expended his energy over the span of a short career but is also characterized by an exuberance and elaborateness seldom found in his subsequent writings. Although Chenu had already drawn attention decades ago to the importance of studying this youthful tour de force for a fuller understanding of Thomas's more mature work, the
has remained a closed book for many modern students of Thomistic and medieval thought because of its relative inaccessibility in English or in Latin.
The present volume, containing all the major texts on love and charity, makes available what is by far the most extensive translation ever to be made from the
with the added benefit that the better part of the translation is based on the (as yet unpublished) critical edition of the Leonine Commission. The collection of texts from all four books has a tight thematic coherence that makes it invaluable to students of Thomas's moral philosophy, moral theology, and philosophical theology. In addition, the inclusion of parallel texts from Aquinas's first (Parisian)
as well as from his second (Roman) attempt at a commentary, the recently rediscovered
makes this edition all the more valuable for those who wish to track the internal development of Thomas's thinking on these matters.
The new availability of so many rich passages from the
will encourage and facilitate use of a magnificent resource that deserves to be better known.