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Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Narrated by: Guy Bethell
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
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This is a top-quality audiobook of G. K. Chesterton's biography of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Etienne Gilson, leading scholar of Aquinas, says, "I consider it as being, without possible comparison, the best book ever written on Saint Thomas. The few readers who have spent twenty or thirty years in studying St. Thomas Aquinas, and who, perhaps, have themselves published two or three volumes on the subject, cannot fail to perceive that the so-called 'wit' of Chesterton has put their scholarship to shame."
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- Mary
- 17-07-21
St Thomas aquinas
narrator was brilliant...and brought out the best of Chesterton......a book that deserves to be re- listened to again and again!
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- Fraser Jeremy Clark
- 17-08-20
A man of reason & intellect
One of Chesterton's heros we are left in no doubt and physically perhaps a similarly of size and presence. It is a good overview of Thomas's life but gives little coverage to the written works of Acquinas albeit later chapters cover something of his thinking in relation to other philosophers. Chesterton's abhorrence of Martin Luther comes out and a strange assertion that the black death was responsible for the clerical decline that led to the Reformation. The narrator's voice sounds like how I expect GK to have sounded and was a pleasure to listen to.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-08-20
A difficult listen
While I did enjoy parts of the book, and Chesterton's talent is not in doubt I must say that I am pretty much as unsure about who St Thomas Aquinas was and what he did as I was before spending eight hours listening to this.
The book is rambling and lacks the structure to be of much use, if you wish to learn about Aquinas look elsewhere.
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- placidhead
- 26-10-21
So Bad
Really, truly woeful. Chesterton rambles from digression to endless digression, so much so that he seems hardly to touch on the life or teaching of Thomas Aquinas. The tone of this book is smug and sickeningly self-congratulatory, and the text is packed with sweeping damnations of any group that might disagree with Orthodox Catholic doctrine. After going cover to cover, I feel as if I learned almost nothing of substance about the subject of the text. This, then, is my first and last encounter with the work G. K. Chesterton. What a waste of time!
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