Suggested Bibliography for Reading in the Tradition of St. Thomas Aquinas

Overview Texts On Thomism
Advanced Texts of Thomism

The reading list has been compiled in response to requests from students for background reading on St. Thomas and his reception. It should not be seen as more than that.

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Overview Texts on Thomism

Bauerschmidt, Frederick, ed. Holy Teaching: Introducing the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas . Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2005.
Cessario, Romanus. A Short History of Thomism . Washington D.C.: Catholic University Press, 2005.
Chenu, Marie-Dominic. Translated by A. M. Landry and D. Hughes. Toward Understanding St. Thomas. Chicago: H. Regnery Co., 1964.
Copleston, Frederick. Aquinas . London: Search Press, 1957. Originally published 1955.
Davies, Brian. The Thought of Thomas Aquinas . New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Kerr, Fergus. After Aquinas: Versions of Thomism . Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2002.
McInerny, Ralph. Ethica Thomistica: The Moral Theology of Thomas Aquinas . 2nd ed. Washington D.C.: Catholic University Press, 1997. 1st ed, 1982.
Nichols, Aidan, O.P. Discovering Aquinas: An Introduction to his Life, Work, and Influence . Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.
Pieper, Josef. Leisure the Basis of Culture . Translated by Gerald Walsbary. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine"s Press, 1999. Originally published 1952.
Wadell, Paul. The Primacy of Love: An Introduction to the Ethics of St. Thomas Aquinas . New York: Paulist Press, 1991.
Weisheipl, James A. Friar Thomas D"Aquino: His Life, Thought and Work. New York: Doubleday, 1980.

Advanced Texts on Thomism

Anscombe, Elizabeth, and Peter Geach. Three Philosophers . "Aquinas." New York: Cornell University Press, 1961, 2002.
Burrell, David. Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Mainonides, Aquinas . Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986.
Emery, Gilles. The Trinitarian Theology of Saint Thomas Aquinas . New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Dauphinais, Michael and Matthew Levering, eds. Reading John with St. Thomas: Theological Exegesis and Speculative Theology . Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2006.
Gilson, Etienne. The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas . Translated by L.K. Shook. London: Victor Gollancz, 1994. Originally published in 1956.
________, ed. Thomas Aquinas: Commemorative Studies: 1274-1974. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1974.
Gondreau, Paul. The Passions of Christ"s Soul in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas . Munster: Aschendorff, 2004.
Hall, Pamela. Narrative and the Natural Law . Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999.
Hibbs, Thomas. Dialectic and Narrative: An Interpretation of the Summa Contra Gentiles. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995.
Hittenger, Russell. The First Grace: Rediscovering Natural Law in a Post-Christian World . Wilmington: ISI Books, 2003.
Levering, Matthew. Scripture and Metaphysics: Aquinas and the Renewal of Trinitarian Theology . Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
MacIntyre, Alasdair. Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopedia, Genealogy, and Tradition . Being Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh in 1988. London: Duckworth, 1990.
__________. Whose Justice? Which Rationality? . Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988.
Owens, Joseph. An Interpretation of Existence . Houston: Center for Thomistic Studies, 1985.
Pasnau, Robert. Aquinas on Human Nature: A Philosophical Study of the Summa Theologiae 1a, 75-89 . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Pinckaers, Servais. The Pinckaers Reader . Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2005.
Rowland, Tracy. Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II . London: Routledge, 2003.
Sertillanges, A.G., O.P. The Intellectual Life: It"s Spirit, Conditions, Methods . Cork: Mercier Press, 1946.
Stout, Jeffrey, and Robert Macswain, eds. Grammar & Grace: Reformulations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein . London: SCM, 2005.
Stump, Eleanore. Aquinas . New York: Routledge, 2003.
Torrell, Jean-Pierre. Thomas Aquinas: The Person and his Work (vol. 1). Thomas Aquinas: Spiritual Master (vol. 2). Washington D.C: Catholic University of America Press, 2005.
________. Aquinas" Summa: Background, Structure, and Reception . Translated by Benedict M. Guevin. Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2005.
Van Steenberghen, Fernand. Thomas Aquinas and Radical Aristotelianism. Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1980.
Wallace, William A. Elements of Philosophy: A Compendium for Philosophers and Theologians . New York: Alba House, 1977.
Wawrykow, Joseph. God"s Grace & Human Action: "Merit" in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas . Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995.
Weinandy, Thomas, Daniel A. Keating, and John P. Yocum. Aquinas on Doctrine: A Critical Introduction . Edinburgh: T and T Clark, 2004.
Williams, Anna. The Ground of Union: Deification in Aquinas and Palamas . New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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