Engaging with Thomas Aquinas: An Evangelical Approach

This timely book addresses the surge of evangelical interest in Thomas Aquinas (c. 1224–1274). Tired of shallowness in modern evangelicalism and seeking to recover the doctrine of God, thinking evangelicals have increasingly been drawn to this giant of medieval theology – the ‘Angelic Doctor’. De Chirico writes to ‘promote evangelical discernment and moderation’.

A biographical sketch lets readers encounter Aquinas in his medieval context rather than through Reformation eyes. Aquinas’s world was one of crusades, monastic orders, and universities amid the rediscovery of Aristotle’s thought. Aquinas’s rapid rise to sainthood on his death is charted and his centrality to Roman Catholic thought to this day is explained (the only significant exception is that Aquinas did not teach Mary’s sinlessness by immaculate conception).