Saint Thomas Aquinas

By: G. K. Chesterton, Chesterton Books

Narrated by: Guy Bethell

This is a top-quality audiobook of G. K. Chesterton's biography of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Etienne Gilson, leading scholar of Aquinas, says, "I consider it as being, without possible comparison, the best book ever written on Saint Thomas. The few readers who have spent twenty or thirty years in studying St. Thomas Aquinas, and who, perhaps, have themselves published two or three volumes on the subject, cannot fail to perceive that the so-called 'wit' of Chesterton has put their scholarship to shame."

Public Domain (P)2018 Chesterton Books

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I couldn't get past the accent and theatrical style of the narrator and really struggled to finish. Didn't get much out of this book while I had listened to another book about Aquinas which I loved.

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GK Chesterton is always worth the time. I only made it to Chapter 4 because of an odd note in the narrator's voice. Your mileage may vary on that one, though.

Not very deep

Pretty entertaining. If you liked his earlier book on St Francis of Assisi you should like this

Awesome!

St Thomas renewal, here we come, again. Amazing the similarities of Chesterton's day to our own. My how we need this wisdom today.

Chesterton’s Inimitable Style

So much more than a wonderful introduction to the life and philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. Chesterton compares and contrasts Aquinas with St. Francis of Assisi, places Aquinas’s philosophy among other great philosophers ancient and modern, and juxtaposes Aquinas with St. Augustine. Chesterton’s erudition and inimitable style pour forth, and the reading by Guy Bethell seems a perfect fit.