Saint Thomas Aquinas v. 1; Person and His Work: The Person And His Work (St Thomas Aquinas in Translation)

Highly acclaimed as the most reliable, thorough, and accessible introduction to Thomas Aquinas, this first volume in Jean-Pierre Torrell's set of books on the great Dominican theologian has been revised to include a new appendix. The appendix consists of additions to the text, the catalog of Aquinas's works, and the chronology. Each item in the appendix is called out in the original part of the book with an asterisk in the margin.

On the French edition: "[A] magnificent achievement. . . . It will be an indispensable tool for every student of Thomas Aquinas."--The Thomist

"Torrell's book is the crown of recent research into Aquinas. Coming in the 1990s, it shows how greatly the 20th century has expanded the knowledge of Aquinas's thought and medieval milieu. . . . With painstaking scholarship [Torrell] offers his own opinions on hundreds of technical problems of biography, chronology, and of the context and purpose for all the writings. He devotes more time to Aquinas's theology and to Aquinas's life in the midst of a religious world than did Weisheipl. . . . It is clear that this book is the result of decades of careful reading and annotation; . . . it is the work of a scholar who is interested in meticulous discussions over chronology but also in the human side of Aquinas's years of intense labor."--Theological Studies

Jean-Pierre Torrell is a Dominican priest of the Toulouse province. He earned a doctorate in theology from the Facults dominicaines du Saulchoir in 1961, and later a second doctorate, in philosophy, from the Universit de Montral. From 1973 to 1981, while teaching at the Gregorian University in Rome, Father Torrell was a member of the Leonine Commission, where he contributed to research on and the editing of Aquinas's works. In 1981 he assumed the post of professor of dogmatic theology at the University of Fribourg.