{"product_id":"dialectic-and-narrative-in-aquinas-9780268031138","title":"Dialectic and Narrative in Aquinas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDialectic and Narrative in Aquinas\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the intent, method, and structural unity of Thomas Aquinas''s \u003ci\u003eSumma Contra Gentiles\u003c\/i\u003e. In this innovative study Thomas S. Hibbs goes against the grain of most traditional interpretations of the work, which claim it serves a missionary or apologetic end, and argues that the intended audience is Christian and that its subject is Christian wisdom. In the process of making his argument, Hibbs also demonstrates that the \u003ci\u003eSumma Contra Gentiles\u003c\/i\u003e is the most important of Aquinas''s texts on the relationship between faith and reason, theology, and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the prologue to the \u003ci\u003eSumma Contra Gentiles\u003c\/i\u003e has been the focus of nearly all the debates over the work, Hibbs begins with an examination of it and the controversies it has provoked, and tests various interpretations of the prologue in light of the actual text. He then goes on to suggest that the method of the \u003ci\u003eContra Gentiles\u003c\/i\u003e is dialectical and that \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Thomas Hibbs has produced the definitive book on \u003ci\u003eSumma Contra Gentiles\u003c\/i\u003e, a book destined to become a permanent part of Thomistic studies.\" —\u003ci\u003eInternational Studies in Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One does not find in this book still another effort to explain what Aquinas was really about in the SCG; instead [Hibbs] interprets the text in a way that remarkably imitates Aquinas's own \u003ci\u003ecogitatio fidei\u003c\/i\u003e, his thinking about the truth of Catholic faith. The result is so brilliantly accomplished that one is led to ponder whether Hibbs works here as a philosopher or as a theologian. Whatever the answer, he renders a tremendous service to the world of Roman Catholic theology.\" —\u003ci\u003eTheological Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Hibbs] make[s] a signal contribution to the discussion of Thomas’s intellectual project by emphasizing the ‘narrative’ at least as much as the ‘dialectic’ and by writing with a view to chastising those who would neglect the former in preference for the latter.” —\u003ci\u003eReligious Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[A] provocative and engaging new study . . . \" —\u003ci\u003eThe Review of Metaphysics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400733335895,"sku":"9780268031138","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780268031138.jpg?v=1730471422","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dialectic-and-narrative-in-aquinas-9780268031138","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}