{"product_id":"the-love-of-truth","title":"The Love of Truth","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdited by Robert Edward Brennan, O.P.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“What we need is not truths that serve us but a truth we may serve.” \u003c\/b\u003eThis famous proposition of Jacques Maritain is a fitting epigraph for this volume, at the heart of which is a recognition of the fundamental relationality of the truth: Knowledge of the truth begets love. \u003ci\u003eThe Love of Truth: Samplings in the Thomistic Synthesis \u003c\/i\u003eillustrates the centrality and profundity of love which permeates the entirety of Angelic Doctor’s intellectual legacy. The contributors are sixteen of the brightest Thomistic luminaries of their age—including Jacques Maritain on necessity and contingency; Vernon J. Bourke on potency and act; Anton Pegis on being and unity; Mortimer J. Adler on law; John A. Ryan on Aquinas’s economic philosophy; Yves R. Simon on the crisis of liberalism; and Walter Farrell, O.P., on representative government.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eOriginally published in 1942 as \u003ci\u003eEssays in Thomism\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003eedited by Robert Edward Brennan, O.P., \u003ci\u003eThe Love of Truth: Samplings in the Thomistic Synthesis \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures the sapiential dynamism of the twentieth-century revival of Thomism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife comes before doctrine: for life leads to the knowledge of truth. \u003c\/i\u003e(Saint Thomas Aquinas)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Edward Brennan, O.P.\u003c\/strong\u003e (1897–1975) was a Dominican priest, psychologist, and internationally acclaimed author. He was a professor at Providence College from 1931–1943, where he directed its Thomistic Institute. His writings include \u003cem\u003eGeneral Psychology: An Interpretation of the Science of Mind Based on Thomas Aquinas\u003c\/em\u003e (1937), \u003cem\u003eHistory of Psychology: From the Standpoint of a Thomist\u003c\/em\u003e (1945), and \u003cem\u003eThe Image of His Maker: A Study of the Nature of Man\u003c\/em\u003e (1948).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 466pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1950970131\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- \/wp:paragraph --\u003e","brand":"ClunyMedia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35678148657309,"sku":"978-1950970131","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--15623.jpg?v=1785267412","url":"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/the-love-of-truth","provider":"Cluny Media","version":"1.0","type":"link"}