Description: Papers presented at an international conference held in early 2018 on the campus of Ave Maria University in Florida.
Review Quotes: "For generations, Christian theologians of all kinds have usually seen Aquinas and the Greek Fathers as opposites - to embrace the one is to reject the other. The learned and perceptive essays in this volume show clearly what, until now, only a few specialists have known: St. Thomas's long engagment with the Greek Fathers deeply formed both his own theology and the entry of Chrysostom, Cyril, John of Damasucs, and many others into the Western tradition. From these pages, Thomas and the great figures of the Greek patristic tradition emerge not as competitors, but as contributors to a common project of theological inquiry, in which each enriches our understanding of the other."--Bruce D. Marshall, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University
"A milestone in the contemporary theological renewal."--Martin Morard, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
"In the mid-twentieth century, a tragic dialectic arose that pitted scholasticsm against patristic theology, creating the illusion of an opposition. This seminal volume displays both the profound thematic continuity between Aquinas and the Greek Fathers as well as ways that St. Thomas developed patristic ideas in creative and important ways. In doing so, it underscores the dynamism and unity of classical Catholic theology and the intellectual patrimony of the Church."--Thomas Joseph White, OP, Thomistic Institute, Angelicum