Reading Job with St Thomas Aquinas.

978 0 8132 3283 6 The introduction to this multi-author volume sets Aquinas's I Expositio i on Job in the extensive existing tradition of commentary on Job to which his contemporaries were also adding. This is a workmanlike and insightful collection of essays, in which breathes something of the spirit of the schoolroom for which Aquinas wrote his practical aid for the I fratres communes i in their study of the book of Job, and in which he can be seen developing his own thinking. The three papers collected in the first section of the book, entitled "Job and I sacra doctrina i ", are accordingly concerned with what Aquinas understood about teaching. [Extracted from the article]