Thomas and Protestants: A Second Chance for Thomas
While scouring the Internet in searching for resources for a forthcoming post on the relationship Thomas and Protestants, I found a book review titled A Second Chance for Thomas. Religion Online posted a review that originally appeared in The Christian Century where the books being reviewed were:
The Theology of Thomas Aquinas. Edited by Rik Van Nieuwenhove and Joseph Wawrykow. University of Notre Dame Press, 472 pp.’ $37.50. Holy Teaching: Introducing the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas. By Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt. Brazos, 352 pp., $27.99 paperbavk. (sic) In reviewing these books, the author reminded me of the underlying assumptions behind this site; namely, that there are many more reasons to reconsider Thomas of Aquinas in evangelicalism than not. In addition, the author not only gives a nice overview of the books but in the process he also points out many of the mischaracterizations people have had of Thomas. As I have said elsewhere :
Well, its not that one must adhere to all of the teachings of Aquinas per say. The issue that I am trying to make evangelicals understand in general is that for so long there has been a mischaracterization, misquoting, misuse, misatribution of Aquinas that the straw man that is usually attacked is nothing short of a poor caricature of Catholicism.
I want to leave you with this review so that it can give you not only a great review of the books mentioned but also an overview of how we as evangelicals have misunderstood Thomas of Aquinas.
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