Conception of God in the Philosophy of Aquinas

<p>At the beginning of the thirteenth century the recovery by western Christendom from the Arabs Jews and Greeks of the metaphysical treatises of Aristotle and their translation into Latin caused a ferment in the intellectual world comparable to that produced by Darwin in the nineteenth century. To vindicate traditional methodoxy Albertus Magnus undertook to harmonize the doctrines of the Church with the Peripatetic philosophy and this work was carried to its conclusion by his pupil St Thomas Aquinas with such success that the latter has become the official philosopher of Roman Catholicism. The system of Aquinas centres in his conception of God to the exposition and criticism of which this book is devoted.</p>