THOMAS AQUINAS

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - Family, Faith, and the Fat Kid
2. Chapter Two - Dominican Defiance
3. Chapter Three - Aristotle Returns
4. Chapter Four - A Method to the Madness
5. Chapter Five - Faith and Reason
6. Chapter Six - The Five Ways
7. Chapter Seven - The Nature of God
8. Chapter Eight - The Nature of Man
9. Chapter Nine - Angels, Sex, and the Body
10. Chapter Ten - The Ethics of Aquinas
11. Chapter Eleven - Clash of Minds
12. Chapter Twelve - The Book He Never Finished
13. Chapter Thirteen - The Engine Still Running

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE Family, Faith, and the Fat Kid THOMAS AQUINAS WAS born into a world where religion was business, and family was strategy. His family was rich. Not royalty, but close enough to smell it. They owned land near Naples, had just enough nobility to be annoying about it, and played politics like chess. And like most ambitious families in the thirteenth century, they saw the Catholic Church not just as a faith, but as a career ladder with robes. So when Thomas was born, they already had a path mapped out. He’d go to Monte Cassino, the most elite monastery in southern Italy, built on a mountain, full of old men in robes who basically ran medieval HR. There, he’d get trained up for a...