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Brian Horne, Aquinas on Doctrine: A Critical Introduction. Edited by Thomas Weinandy, Daniel Keating, and John Yocum. Pp. xviii + 276. London: T. & T. Clark (a Continuum imprint), 2004. isbn 0 567 08419 1 and 08411 6. Hardback n.p; paper £19.99, The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 57, Issue 1, April 2006, Pages 356–357, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flj038
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This volume of essays continues the trend of reclaiming the Angelic Doctor for theology. The preface claims that in the past ‘Thomas the theologian has sometimes suffered from a caricature of his work that paints him as primarily a (usually Aristotelian) philosopher’ (p. xiii). A ‘more accurate picture’ having become necessary, the editors have gathered twelve essays by some of today's best-known Thomist scholars to ‘offer something not currently available in English: a companion to Thomas as a teacher of Christian doctrine’. While it may be something of an exaggeration to maintain that until recently Thomas's contribution to the life of the Church and the thought of Western Europe was judged to be primarily in philosophical rather than theological terms (a view also expressed by Fergus Kerr in his foreword), there is enough truth in the assertion to give some justification for the preface's forcefully expressed contentions and to make a volume like this a welcome addition to the growing number of studies that are mining the theological depths of Thomas's writings.