Thomas Aquinas D E N Y S T U R N E R Thomas Aquinas (cid:2) A P O R T R A I T Yale UNIVERSITY PRESS / NEW HAVEN / LONDON Copyright © 2013 by Yale University. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Yale University Press books may be purchased in quantity for educational, business, or promotional use. For information, please e-mail [email protected] (U.S. office) or [email protected] (U.K. office). Designed by Mary Valencia. Set in Adobe Caslon type by IDS Infotech Ltd. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Turner, Denys, 1942– Thomas Aquinas: a portrait / Denys Turner. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages ) and index. ISBN978–0–300–18855–4 (alk. paper) 1. Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?–1274. I. Title. B765.T54T87 2013 230'.2092—dc23 2012044497 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1992 (Permanence of Paper). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Marie “...the onlie begetter...” Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 One A Dominican 8 Two A Materialist 47 Three The Soul 70 Four God 100 Five Friendship and Grace 145 Six Grace, Desire, and Prayer 169 Seven Christ 189 Eight The Eucharist and Eschatology 230 Epilogue The Secret of Saint Thomas 267 Notes 271 Further Reading 285 Index 293 Acknowledgments I have not until undertaking this work ever given more careful consideration to an intended readership for what I write than to think in terms of the needs of the students I have taught profes- sionally in theological schools in the United Kingdom and the United States. Those students alone have truly mattered to me as a teacher and writer. And on the whole, after many years of teaching them I have imagined myself to have a pretty good idea of their needs. For this work, though, Jennifer Banks at Yale University Press called for availability to a wider and less specialist readership, and I have had the good fortune of being able to rely heavily on the advice as to how this might be done forthcoming in the first instance from Jennifer herself, from Philip King, the ix