Thomas Aquinas and His Predecessors: The Philosophers and the Church Fathers in His Works

Leo J. Elders

Catholic University of America Press, 2018 - Fathers of the church - 401 pages

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- 1. Plato's Philosophy -- 2. Aristotle -- 3. The Commentaries on the Works of Aristotle -- 4. The Stoa, Seneca, and Cicero -- 5. Gnosticism and Neoplatonism: Philosophy in the First Centuries and Gnosis -- 6. The Fathers of the Church -- Saint Augustine -- 7. Saint Jerome -- 8. Saint John Chrysostom -- 9. The Commentaries on Two Treatises of Boethius -- 10. Saint Gregory the Great -- 11. The Platonism of Pseudo-Dionysius -- 12. The Metaphysics of the Liber de Causis -- 13. Saint John Damascene and Saint Anslem of Canterbury -- 14. Avicenna -- 15. Averroes -- 16. Jewish Philosophy: Avicebron and Maimonides -- Works Cited -- Index of Names -- General Index

Bibliographic information

• Title: Thomas Aquinas and His Predecessors: The Philosophers and the Church Fathers in His Works
• Author: Leo J. Elders
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press, 2018
• ISBN: 0813230284, 9780813230283
• Length: 401 pages