June 5, 2023
Father Jean-Pierre Torel’s definitive scholarly biography of St. Thomas Aquinas recently published its third edition, and translator Matthew Minerd returns to the Catholic Culture Podcast to discuss what we can learn from Father Torel about the life of St. Thomas and the context in which such works are told.
Summa Theologica It was written.
This episode delves deeply into Thomas’s vocation in many ways: his Benedictine education and eventual decision to join the Dominican Order, his intellectual training as a disciple of St. Albert the Great and ultimately earning a Bachelor of Arts degree, and his teaching, writing, debate, and preaching assignments as a sacerdotal master at the University of Paris and elsewhere. By examining these, we can learn a lot about Thomas’s spirituality, his methods of working, and the intellectual climate of his time.
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Jean-Pierre Torel, Op. St. Thomas Aquinas: Vol. 1
People and their work https://www.cuapress.org/9780813235608/saint-thomas-aquinas/
Essay in defence of Galigo-Lagrange by Matthew Minerd
https://www.academia.edu/97075759/Who_Wasnt_the_Sacred_Monster_of_Thomism_Overcoming_Certain_Narratives_about_Fr_Reginald_Garrigou_Lagrage_OP_in_the_Hope_of_Mutual_Honesty_Among_Faithful_Catholics
Episode 38: Mr. Minerd of Garrigues Lagrange
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/episode-38-sacred-monster-matthew-k-minerd/
Kirwan and Minerd, Thomistic Reactions to the New Theology
https://www.amazon.com/Story-Great-Medieval-Book-Re Thinking/dp/1551117185
Philip W. Roseman, The Story of the Great Books of the Middle Ages: Peter Lombard’s “Sentences”
https://www.amazon.com/Story-Great-Medieval-Book-Re Thinking/dp/1551117185
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