Rewritten Theology

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by Mark D. Jordan

Blackwell Publishers

Due/Published December 2005, 224 pages, paper

ISBN 1405112212

Responding to the recent upsurge of interest in Thomas Aquinas, this book goes straight to the heart of the contemporary debates about Thomism. The book focuses on the concept of authority, both in terms of Aquinasıs own attitude to authority, and how the Church authorities have used Aquinasıs texts. It engages with appropriations of Aquinasıs work by a range of theologians, from liberal Catholics to the creators of radical orthodoxy and argues for future readings of Aquinas which are substantially different from those which have gone before.

Contents

Preface
Abbreviations and Editions
1 St. Thomas and the Police
2 The Competition of Authoritative Languages
3 Imaginary Thomistic Sciences
4 Thomasıs 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