This month marks the 750th anniversary of the death of St. Thomas Aquinas, one of the Christian faith’s most influential theologians. We hope that you’ve enjoyed our engagement with Francis J. Beckwith’s Never Doubt Thomas: The Catholic Aquinas as Evangelical and Protestant. We end this month with a lively discussion
In Never Doubt Thomas, Francis Beckwith expands the field of scholarly study concerning the reception of the work of St. Thomas Aquinas. Beckwith’s book is particularly valuable because he looks beyond the more traditional Thomists to focus on a specific subset of evangelical scholars who are seeking to incorporate the insights of
A New Protestant Thomism? In 1976, Jesuit scholar John Patrick Donnelly published an influential article on the late sixteenth-century Protestant scholastic Jerome Zanchi, hailing him as “the best example of Calvinist Thomism.” But although there were many other Calvinist Thomists to study, Donnelly was quite alone in his concern for this early
Who exactly was St. Thomas Aquinas? Other than perhaps St. Augustine of Hippo (354–430), he is the most influential theologian and philosopher in the history of the Christian faith, and one of the most important thinkers in the history of philosophy. In addition to his two most important works, the
