A Reply to Michèle Mulchahey Regarding My Book on the Sermons of Aquinas

A Reply to Michèle Mulchahey Regarding My Book on the Sermons of Aquinas

RANDALL B. SMITH

Randall B. Smith (Professor of Theology, University of St. Thomas, Houston) replies to Michèle Mulchahey’s Review in The Thomist 83.3 (2019) of Smith’s book, Reading the Sermons of Thomas Aquinas: A Beginner’s Guide (Emmaus Academic, 2016).

Read More

Aquinas on Happiness as an Antidote to Modern Life

Aquinas on Happiness as an Antidote to Modern Life

CHRISTOPHER J. THOMPSON

In a small section of his famous work, the Summa Theologiae, St. Thomas Aquinas provides us with a basic tutorial on human flourishing. This well-known “treatise on human happiness” forms the skeletal outlines of the dominant desire at the core of every human heart: the inescapable need for happiness, fulfillment, bliss.

Read More