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The Trinity and God the Creator: A Commentary on St. Thomas' Theological Summa, Ia, Q. 27-119 Hardcover – January 1, 1952

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A commentary on St. Thomas' Theological Summa, Ia, q. 27-119 written by renowned 20th century theologian, Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. Réginald Marie Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. (February 21, 1877, Auch, France – February 15, 1964, Rome) was a Catholic theologian and, among Thomists of the scholastic tradition, is generally thought to be the greatest Catholic Thomist of the 20th century. Outside the ranks of Thomists of that sort, his reputation is somewhat more mixed. He taught at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, commonly known as the Angelicum, in Rome from 1909 to 1960. Father Garrigou-Lagrange initially attracted attention when he wrote against the theological movement later called Modernism. He is also said to be the drafter or "ghostwriter" of Pope Pius XII's 1950 encyclical Humani Generis, subtitled "Concerning Some False Opinions Threatening to Undermine the Foundations of Catholic Doctrine." He is best known for his spiritual theology. His magnum opus in the field is The Three Ages of the Interior Life, in which he propounded the thesis that infused contemplation and the resulting mystical life are in the normal way of holiness of Christian perfection. This influenced the section entitled "Chapter The Universal Call to Holiness in the Church" in the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium. He taught many eminent Catholic theologians during his academic career, the most illustrious being the future Pope John Paul II, of whom he said "Writes much; says little." He is also known to have introduced Thomism to fellow theologian and priest Yves Congar, an expert on historical theology who became a Cardinal.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001NY1EWK
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ B. Herder Book Co; First American edition (January 1, 1952)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3 pounds
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Réginald Marie Garrigou-Lagrange, (1877–1964) was a French Catholic theologian. He has been noted as a leading neo-Thomist of the 20th century. He taught at the Dominican Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome from 1909 to 1960. Here he wrote his magnum opus, The Three Ages of the Interior Life (Les Trois Ages de la Vie Interieure) in 1938.

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Every serious student of the trinitarian theology should read this book.
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Whoever put this together just took the text from one of several sites on the Internet where it's available. Search for “Both the Greek and the Latin Fathers wrote long treatises on the Trinity” and you'll see the obvious typo “I we shall see” in the first paragraph of the Introduction; that typo is in the Kindle book here also. I can live with the occasional missed typo, but the book also lacks an working table of contents; words that would be italicized in print are put <in angle brackets> instead; and the footnote numbers in the text aren't linked to the actual footnote text (that's all at the end of the file), which makes them pretty much unusable.

In a free book, I'd say, "Oh, well." But I don't think it's worth $2 to pay for a straight dump of someone else's HTML.
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As another reviewer has mentioned, in the Kindle edition, footnotes are difficult to use because they are at the end of the chapter and their references in the text do not link to those footnotes.
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Perfect for those studying theology.
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