Swingcorey's review
Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox by G.K. Chesterton
Swingcorey's review
rating:
bookshelves: catholic, christianity
recommended for: anyone wanting a primer on St. Thomas Aquinas
status: Read in October, 2001
rating:
bookshelves: catholic, christianity
recommended for: anyone wanting a primer on St. Thomas Aquinas
status: Read in October, 2001
"The Dumb Ox" does an excellent job of explaining the general philosophy of Aquinas to non-philosophers. For anyone scared of the size of the Summa Theologica, this book does an excellent job of explaining why Thomism (and thus, Catholicism) is the only philosophy that "makes sense".
