St. Thomas Aquinas / Vivian Boland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boland, Vivian.

Series:

Continuum library of educational thought v. 1.

Continuum library of educational thought ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas.

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Physical Description:

xii, 237 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2007]

Summary:

St Thomas Aquinas is indisputably a major thinker in education. Vivian Boland's volume offers the most coherent account of Aquinas's educational thought.>

Contents:

Part 1 An Intellectual Biography of Thomas Aquinas 7

1 Learning: Monte Cassino, Naples, Paris, and Cologne 9

2 Teaching: Paris, Naples, Orvieto, and Rome 14

3 Reading, Disputing, Repeating 18

5 Openness and Criticism 29

6 Thomas Opts for the Dominicans and for Aristotle 35

Part 2 Critical Exposition of Aquinas's Work 39

2.A Can One Human Being Teach Another? 41

7 Thomas on Teaching: Contexts 41

8 Thomas on Teaching: In II Sentences 9 and 28 43

9 Thomas on Teaching: Quaestiones disputatae de veritate 11 45

10 Thomas on Teaching: Summa theologiae I 117 51

2.B Knowledge, Truth, Faith, Reason 59

11 Knowledge 59

12 Truth 63

13 Faith and Reason, Theology and Philosophy 68

2.C Pedagogy 75

14 Towards a 'Sound Educational Method': In Boethii de Trinitate 5-6 75

15 Kinds of Speculative Science 79

16 Method in the Speculative Sciences 82

17 From Sensation and Imagination to Understanding and Wisdom 86

18 The Roots of Aquinas's Pedagogical Concern: Scholastic, Aristotelian, Christian 89

19 From Socrates to Jesus 93

20 The Most Excellent of Teachers 97

Part 3 The Reception and Influence of Aquinas's Work 105

21 From Controversial Theologian to Doctor of the Church 107

22 The Second Scholasticism 109

23 The Third Scholasticism 112

24 The Twentieth Century 114

25 Thomists on Education in the Twentieth Century 120

26 Interpreting Aquinas Today 126

Part 4 The Relevance of Aquinas's Work Today 133

4.A Creation 135

27 The Meaning of Creation 135

28 The Goodness of Creation 138

29 God's Complete Freedom 142

4.B The Human Being 145

30 Aquinas Opts for a 'Holistic Anthropology' 145

31 The Unity and Integrity of the Human Being 148

32 Praise of the Body 155

33 The Image of God 158

4.C On Virtue 161

34 Virtue Theory 161

35 Dispositions 163

36 Shaping Character, Strengthening Dispositions 167

4.D On Virtues 173

37 Intellectual and Moral Virtues 173

38 Cardinal Virtues: Pieper and Geach 178

39 Contemporary Receptions of Aquinas on Virtue: Hauerwas and MacIntyre 182

40 Criticisms of Virtue Theory 190

41 Virtues for Learning and Teaching 193

42 Human Flourishing: Theological Virtues and Gifts of the Spirit 197

43 Human Flourishing: Action, Contemplation, and Teaching 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-225) and index.

ISBN:

9780826484000

082648400X

OCLC:

124039139