Paul J. Glenn
A Tour of the Summa
Reprint of the Edition 1960, St. Louise, London
Abstract
Glenn’s A Tour of the Summa is not a translation but a reader’s guide or „abridgement in English“ designed to lead students through St. Thomas Aquinas’s monumental Summa Theologica. The book follows the original structure of the Summa —moving from God (Part I), to morals (Part I-II…
Paul J. Glenn
Ethics
A Class Manual in Moral Philosophy
Reprint of the Edition 1945 St. Louise, London
Abstract
Glenn’s Ethics is a Scholastic manual designed as a clear and systematic introduction to moral philosophy for students . The work likely grounds moral reasoning in a natural law framework, a common feature of Thomistic philosophy, focusing on the objective principles of…
Paul J. Glenn
Cosmology
A Class Manual in the Philosophy of Bodily Being
Reprint of the first edition 1947, St. Louise, London
Abstract
Paul J. Glenn’s book Cosmology is a philosophical text that examines the physical universe from a Scholastic and Aristotelian perspective. It focuses on the nature of change, motion, time, place, and the properties of bodies, such as quantity and…
Gerald Vann
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Reprint of the Edition 1947 London
Abstract
Gerald Vann’s Saint Thomas Aquinas (originally published in 1940) is not a traditional biography but an interpretive study aimed at correcting a widespread misunderstanding of Aquinas’s thought. Writing sixty years after the Thomist revival initiated by Pope Leo XIII, Vann observed that Thomism was still…
Paul J. Glenn
General Metaphysics
A Class Manual in Fundamental Metaphysics
Reprint of the Edition 1957, St. Louise, London
Abstract
Glenn’s Ontology is a Scholastic text that serves as an introduction to the philosophical study of „being as being.“ The work focuses on the most fundamental concepts of reality, such as essence, existence, substance, accident, cause, and potency,…
John Rickaby
General Metaphysics
Reprint of the Edition London, New York, Bombay 1901
Abstract
John Rickaby’s General Metaphysics (first published 1890) is a systematic textbook that offers a clear and structured introduction to classical metaphysics from a Scholastic, Aristotelian-Thomistic perspective. As part of the Stonyhurst Philosophical Series (also known as the Manuals of…