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St. Thomas Aquinas, 1274 - 1974 : Commemorative Studies, 2 Volume Set

1974

THOMAS IN HISTORY: 14TH TO 19TH CENTURIES The Summa Confessoi-um of John of Freiburg and the Populari- zation of the Moral Teaching of St. [...] I still hear him answering in all simplicity: "You know, I have read the whole Summa Theologiae, and when I came to the passage of the Third Part where the work was left interrupted, I actually cried." Whatever their inspiration, all the homages to the memory of the Angelic Doctor will be found to have in common one paradoxical feature, namely the diversity of their subjects. [...] To Des- cartes and his successors, philosophical method, scientific method, and mathematical method are one and the same; to Thomas Aquinas and his disciples, the method of each science, while respecting the common 10 FOREWORD laws of logic, must adapt itself to the specific nature of its proper object: extension in geometry, number in arithmetic, motion and change in physics, life in the sciences [...] He reminds us that when in 1608 the Congregation of Rites forbade the recitation of Ida's office, Bellarmine, the president, remarked: "The trouble is not so much the saint as her story"; and Delehaye goes on: "The learned cardinal then defined the rule which ought to guide the critics: do not mistake the personality of a saint for the portrait imagined by the hagiographers".4 Though most scholars [...] Though the lapse of time bet- ween his death and the collection of evidence towards his canonization is shorter by far than is usual, we can observe in those few years the growth of distortions, the intrusion of fictions and the preservation of true tradition.
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Armand A. Maurer

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9781771101837 9780888445315
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S382 1974eb
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