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Thomas Aquinas : a historical, theological, and environmental portrait / Donald S. Prudlo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prudlo, Donald, 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theologians--Biography.
- Theologians.
- Christian philosophers--Biography.
- Christian philosophers.
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
- Thomas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Mahwah, New Jersey : Paulist Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "This biography explores the most significant thinker of his time in his various contexts, including his family, his education and formation, as a mendicant and Dominican friar, as a mystic, as a saint"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The world Thomas found : Italy, the church, the empire, and the conflicts of the thirteenth century
- Beggars or choosers? The genealogy of a vocation
- On the shoulders of giants : the intellectual ancestors of Thomas Aquinas
- The university crucible : the idea of a university, ca. 1250
- The itinerant professor : Thomas on the byways of Europe
- "The holy doctors...raised above the hills"
- From light to light : the death and afterlife of St. Thomas Aquinas.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-58768-758-5
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