Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-383) and index.

The Shape of a Saint -- Early Years -- From Student to Teacher -- Paris to Naples -- The Last Phase -- Aquinas's Character -- Reading Aquinas Today -- Getting to Get to God -- God and His Effects: The Five Ways -- The Existence Argument -- Creation -- The Beginning of the World -- What God is Not -- Not Knowing What God is -- The Doctrine of Divine Simplicity: Preliminaries -- The Doctrine of Divine Simplicity: Details -- Talking About God -- Background to Aquinas -- Aquinas on God-Talk -- The Doctrine of Analogy -- Real and Notional Relations -- Perfection and Goodness -- God is Perfect -- God is Good -- God and Evil -- Ubiquity to Eternity -- God's Presence in Things -- God is Changeless -- God is Eternal -- Aquinas on eternity Today -- Oneness to Knowledge -- God is One -- God has Power -- God's Knowledge -- Will to Mercy -- Will in God -- Love in God -- God's Justice and Mercy -- Providence and Freedom -- Providence as God's Governing of Creatures -- Miracles -- Human Freedom -- Prayer -- The Eternal Triangle -- Aquinas and the Doctrine of Trinity -- The trinity and Philosophy -- Processions in the Trinity -- Relations and the Trinity -- The Persons Taken Individually -- Being Human -- Me and My Body -- Soul and Body -- Death and the Soul -- Desire and Action -- How to Be Happy -- Happiness and God -- Happiness and Need -- Practical Reasoning -- Virtues -- Natural Law -- How to be Holy -- The Human End and Human Nature -- The Sart of the Human Race -- The Old Law -- The New Law -- Grace -- The Cause and Kinds of Grace -- The Heart of Grace -- Faith -- Hope -- Charity -- God Incarnate -- The General nature of Aquinas's Christology -- The Union of Divinity and Humanity -- What was Christ Like? -- The Life and Work of Christ -- The general Picture -- Sin and the Incarnation -- Satisfaction -- Merit -- Justification -- The Resurrection and Ascension of Christ -- Sings and Wonders -- Sacraments -- The Crowning Sacrament: The Eucharist

Thomas Aquinas ranks uniquely as both one of the greatest Western philosophers and one of the most important theologians of the Christian church. In this book we at least have a modern, comprehensive presentation of his total thought. It introduces the full range of his thinking, and it relates this to writers both earlier and later than Aquinas. The book will be of considerable interest o profesional theologians and philosophers, those with an interest in medieval thought, as well as general readers.