Rewritten Theology: Aquinas After His Readers [Hardcover]

Responding to the recent upsurge of interest in Thomas Aquinas, this book goes straight to the heart of the contemporary debates about Thomism.

• Focuses on the concept of authority, both in terms of Aquinass own attitude to authority, and how the Church authorities have used Aquinass texts.
  
• Engages with appropriations of Aquinass work by a range of theologians, from liberal Catholics to the creators of radical orthodoxy.
  
• Argues for future readings of Aquinas which are substantially different from those which have gone before.

Preface.

Abbreviations and Editions.

1 St. Thomas and the Police.

2 The Competition of Authoritative Languages.

3 Imaginary Thomistic Sciences.

4 Thomass Alleged Aristotelianism or Aristotle Among the Authorities.

5 The Protreptic of Against the Gentiles.

6 The Summa of Theology as Moral Formation.

7 What the Summa of Theology Teaches.

8 Philosophy in a Summa of Theology.

9 Writing Secrets in a Summa of Theology.

Conclusion: Writing Theology after Thomas -- and His Readers.

Index.

Mark Jordan's recent book, Rewritten Theology, challenges the way in which the achievement of Thomas Aquinas has been both received and reformulated, often in order to serve particular theological and philosophical ends. (American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, May 2009)Mark D. Jordan is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor in the Department of Religion at Emory University. He is the author of Ordering Wisdom: The Hierarchy ofló5