Thomas Aquinas

An Evangelical Appraisal

By: Norman Geisler

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

At 800 years old, should old Aquinas be forgot and never brought to mind? Norman Geisler, a Thomistic philosopher (PhD, Loyola University), answers with an emphatic No! He argues that Protestant critics of Aquinas have misunderstood him. This introduction to the life and thought of Thomas Aquinas offers valuable insights in areas like faith and reason, epistemology, metaphysics, God’s nature, creation, human nature, government, ethics, and more. Originally published in 1991 (Baker Book House), republished in (2003 by Wipf & Stock), this second edition was revised and expanded by Dr. Geisler in 2013.

Chapters:
1) The Contemporary Relevance of Aquinas 1
2) The Life of Aquinas 21
3) An Overview of the Thought of Aquinas 39
4) The Bible 49
5) Faith and Reason 71
6) The First Principles of Knowledge 91
7) Reality 123
8) God’s Nature 139
9) God’s Existence 165
10) Human Nature 191
11) Religious Language 217
12) Evil 237
13) Law and Morality 265
Epilogue 285
Select Bibliography 287

Appendices:
The Major Writings of Aquinas 289
A Chronology of Aquinas’s Life 291
God, Angels, and Humans 292
Thomism and Neo-Thomism 293
He’s Our Man: Christian History Interview 301
Does Thomism Lead to Roman Catholicism? 307
Who Was Thomas Aquinas? 319