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his arguments for a just war). The translation is that of the Fathers of the English
Dominican Province.
The classic introductions to Thomas Aquinas are F.C. Copleston,Aquinas
(Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1955), and Étienne Gilson,The Christian
Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas(New York: Random House, 1956). More
recent helpful studies include Josef Pieper,Guide to Thomas Aquinas(New
York: Pantheon, 1962); Ralph McInerny,St. Thomas Aquinas(Boston: Twayne,
1977); Anthony Kenny,Aquinas(New York: Hill and Wang, 1980); Brian
Davies,The Thought of Thomas Aquinas(Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1992); Jean-Pierre Torrell,Saint Thomas Aquinas, Volume I: The Person and
His Work (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1996); and
Thomas F. O’Meara,Thomas Aquinas, Theologian(Notre Dame, IN: Notre
Dame University Press, 1997). James A. Weisheipl,Friar Thomas D’Aquino:
His Life, Thought, and Works(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974) offers a
biography. G.K. Chesterton’s impressionistic study entitled St. Thomas
Aquinas: The “Dumb Ox”(1933; reprinted New York: Doubleday Image, 1956)
is also a good place to become acquainted with Thomas. For a discussion of
recent interpretation of Thomas Aquinas’ work, see Fergus Karr,Aquinas:
Conflicting Versions of Thomism(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2000). For collec-
tions of general essays, see Anthony Kenny, ed.,Aquinas: A Collection of
Critical Essays (Garden City, NY: Anchor Doubleday, 1969); Norman
Kretzmann and Eleonore Stump, eds.,The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993); Scott MacDonald and
Eleonore Stump,Aquinas’s Moral Theory(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 1999); and Brian Davies, ed.,Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae (Lanham,
MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).
There are many studies on aspects of Thomas’ thought. For example, a sam-
pling of works on the “Five Ways” includes A.G.N. Flew,God and Philosophy
(London: Hutchinson, 1966); Anthony Kenny,The Five Ways: St. Thomas
Aquinas’ Proofs of God’s Existence(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969);
Richard Swinburne,The Existence of God(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979); and
J.L. Mackie,The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and against the Existence of
God(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982). Other recent studies of particular areas of
Thomas’ thought include John Milbank and Catherine Pickstock,Truth in
Aquinas(London: Routledge, 2001); Anthony Kenny,Aquinas on Being(Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2002); Robert Pasnau,Thomas Aquinas on Human
Nature: A Philosophical Study ofSumma Theologiae, 1a 75–89 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2002); and Alex Hall,Thomas Aquinas & John
Duns Scotus: Natural Theology in the High Middle Ages(London: Continuum,
2007).
