[PDF.24rm] Aquinas and Modernity: The Lost Promise of Natural Law (Modernity and Political Thought)

Aquinas and Modernity: The Lost Promise of Natural Law (Modernity and Political Thought)

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 | #3335135 in Books |  2008-05-16 |  2008-05-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.08 x.68 x6.07l,.80 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

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||18 of 19 people found the following review helpful.| Every act of historical understanding is an act of empathy|By Peter S. Bradley|Review Aquinas and Modernity by Shadia Drury

The bona fide historian Robert Louis Wilken has once stated that, "every act of historical understanding is an act of empathy." Without some empathy, some attempt to understand the historical person in their own context and from their own pers| |In this impassioned criticism, Drury condemns the prevailing view of Aquinas as a champion of reason and morality. With verve and wit Drury relentlessly documents how Aquinas opted for faith over reason, expediency over elementary decency, and cruelty over hum

In this startling book, Drury overturns the long-standing reputation of Thomas Aquinas as the most rational exponent of the Christian faith. She reveals that Aquinas as one of the most zealous Dominicans (Domini Canes) or Hounds of the Lord. The book contains incisive criticisms of Aquinas's reconciliation of faith and reason, his defense of papal supremacy, his justification of the Inquisition, his insistence on the persecution of Jews, and his veneration of celibacy. F...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Aquinas and Modernity: The Lost Promise of Natural Law (Modernity and Political Thought)   |  Shadia B. Drury. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.

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