St. Thomas Aquinas

“Chesterton makes one despair. I have been studying St. Thomas all my life and I could never have written such a book.” —Etienne Gilson

In St. Thomas Aquinas, Chesterton reveals the astounding clarity of Thomas’s mind and highlights “the intense rightness of his sense of the relation between the mind and the real thing outside the mind.” This book is a splendid introduction to both Thomas the man and the significance of his work for his own time and ours. No less a scholarly light than Etienne Gilson remarked that “I consider it as being without possible comparison the best book ever written on St. Thomas. Nothing short of genius can account for such an achievement.”