Thomas Aquinas Selected Commentaries Bundle
Thomas Aquinas Selected Commentaries Bundle
Edited by Jason Paone, PhD
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This two part bundle provides profound insights on the words of Sacred Scripture from one of the most brilliant minds in the history of the Church: Saint Thomas Aquinas. It offers a curated introduction to Aquinas’s biblical commentaries that is suitable for newcomers, students, and scholars alike. Organized by topic and with extensive footnotes and indices to aid further study, this illuminating two-volume set will open up the words of the Bible for readers in a whole new way.
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Thomas Aquinas: Selected Commentaries on the Old Testament
Edited by Jason Paone, PhD
Thomas Aquinas’s Old Testament commentaries remain some of his most neglected writings due partly to the widely varying quality of both the commentaries themselves and their English translations, which often retain the terseness and opacity of the original Latin manuscripts. Nevertheless, Thomas’s corpus of Old Testament commentaries contains some of his finest biblical exegesis and theology. Within them, we find dimensions of his thought and literary personality that do not appear in any of his other writings.
This volume aims to promote appreciation for Thomas’s Old Testament exegesis by making his best commentaries more accessible. To this end, it offers a topically organized selection of the most theologically profound lectures from his premier Old Testament commentaries—those on the Psalms, Job, and Isaiah. Moreover, the translations used in this collection have undergone extensive editing and revision to enhance their accuracy, elegance, clarity, stylistic consistency, and overall readability. Lastly, hundreds of explanatory footnotes have been added to facilitate study, along with two indices and a bibliography.
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Thomas Aquinas: Selected Commentaries on the New Testament
Edited by Jason Paone, PhD
Thomas Aquinas: Selected Commentaries on the New Testament is a selective anthology of Thomas Aquinas’ New Testament commentaries, collected and organized to reflect the centrality of Christ in the saint’s profoundly theological approach to the Bible. Complete with an introduction, explanatory footnotes, patristic source citations, and other research utilities, this volume offers an introduction to Thomas’ biblical theology suitable for students and independent readers at any level of exposure to his thought.
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What People are Saying
“Jason Paone has achieved a breakthrough in the study of Aquinas’ biblical commentaries. Paone’s selections make crystal clear the power and richness of Aquinas’ theology of Christ and life in Christ. While opening up Aquinas’ biblical interpretation to a broad audience, this magnificent book constitutes a major step forward for Thomistic studies and for the task of learning to read the New Testament as it was meant to be read—namely, as the transformative revelation of divine wonders.”
—Matthew Levering, James N. Perry Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary
“This unique Aquinas reader is the best introduction available to Thomas Aquinas as interpreter of Holy Scripture and as biblical theologian. The selection of texts is judicious, and the overall structure of a sapiential nature that deeply reflects the very heart of St. Thomas’ theological vision. Contrary to modern conventional wisdom, Scripture was the very soul of medieval theology, and Thomas’ Scripture commentaries display this fact in an exemplary manner—such that they indeed become a salutary incentive and invitation for contemporary Catholic theology. This volume is to be most warmly welcomed and should find its way into the hands of avid Catholic Scripture readers, seminarians, priests, and also bishops.”
—Reinhard Hütter, Professor of Fundamental and Dogmatic Theology, The Catholic University of America, Member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas and the International Theological Commission.
“Thomas Aquinas affirms in his great work the Summa theologiae that theological truth derives from Scripture, as read and interpreted within the tradition of the Catholic Church. What some may not realize is that Aquinas also wrote copious commentaries on Scripture and sought, in doing so, to indicate the revealed truth of Christianity and to interpret the mysteries of the Christian faith with wonderful insight and vivid religious devotion. This volume brings together many of the key passages from Aquinas’ scriptural commentaries that have to do with fundamental truths of the faith: the Incarnation, the humanity of Christ, his redemptive death, the mystery of the Eucharist, and the Christian life of grace. This work introduces one directly to Aquinas’ theological genius and characteristic sanctity. It does so while opening Scripture so that, with Aquinas’ help, we can better see what is contained therein and revealed by God.”
—Thomas Joseph White, OP, Rector of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas