According to Chesterton, "once Christ had

Risen, it was inevitable that Aristotle should

rise again." St. Thomas Aquinas provided

that marvelous synthesis, which could only

strengthen the believer's affirmation of the

reality and goodness of created being. This

book is a splendid introduction to both

Thomas the man and the significance of his

work for his own time and ours. No less a

scholarly light than Etienne Gilson remarked

that "I consider it as being without possible

comparison the best book ever written on St.

Thomas. Nothing short of genius can account

for such an achievement."