The Primacy of Love: An Introduction to the Ethics of Thomas Aquinas »

Thomas Aquinas was a man with a strategy-not a strategy to assist us in good decision-making or a strategy to help us resolve our problems of conscience but a strategy to work toward our personal transformation in light of God's love for us. Aquinas has traditionally been represented as a man whose ethics are overly rational, excessively formal, and too scholarly to be of much use in contemporary society. The Primacy of Love gives us a fresh look at his ethical thought and invites us to become part of his vision of the moral life as partners in God's perfect love.

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Wadell provides a comprehensive and scholarly study of ethics in the teachings of the greatest of medieval Christian theologians. Grounding Christian moral behavior in the universal search for happiness fulfilled through friendship with God, he focuses on Thomas's view of passion, affections, and virtues in moral life and concludes with an inspiring vision of human persons responding to the restorative and redemptive love of God and fulfilled in joy and peace. Highly recommended for seminary and large academic and public libraries.