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Description of  Reading Job with St. Thomas Aquinas (Thomistic Ressourcement Series)

Reading Job with St. Thomas Aquinas is a scholarly contribution to Thomistic studies, specifically to the study of Aquinas's biblical exegesis in relation to his philosophy and theology. Each of the thirteen chapters has a different focus, within the shared concentration of the book on Aquinas's Literal Exposition on Job. The essays are arranged in three Parts: "Job and Sacra Doctrina" "Providence and Suffering" and "Job and the Moral Life". Boyle's opening essay argues that Aquinas's commentary seeks to show what is required in the "Magister" (namely, Job and God) for the effective communication of wisdom. Mansini's essay argues that by Read more