Thomas Aquinas on the Jews: Insights into His Commentary on Romans 9-11 (Stimulus Books)

The book is 145 pages long which are scanned to pdf as double pages [so, 80 may be an estimate of this].The author maintains that Thomas Aquinas in his Commentary on Romans uses predestination and election as hermeneutical keys to understand Romans 9-11 and to sustain a positive theological view of the Jewish people. "In this landmark contribution to the history of Christian attitudes toward the Jews, Dominican theologian Steven Boguslawski, OP, maintains that Thomas Aquinas in his Commentary on Romans uses predestination and election as hermeneutical keys to understand Romans 9-11 and to sustain a positive theological view of the Jewish people. Fr. Boguslawski sets Thomas' positions in the Sumina Theologiae regarding the Jews - those on significant policy questions of his times - against the sociohistorical context in which Thomas wrote, Fr. Boguslawski then integrates predestination and election, as treated in the Sumina, with their use in the Commentary on Romans, and compares Thomas' position with that of Augustine's. Finally, the author asserts that Thomas' way of reading Romans 9-11 not only corrects and develops the received tradition but also sustains a positive theology of Judaism." "Teachers and students of the theology of Thomas Aquinas, the theology of St. Paul Jewish-Christian relations, and soteriology will benefit from this fresh analysis of Aquinas' seminal writing."--BOOK JACKET Introduction to Thomas Aquinas' commentary on Romans Medieval church policy toward the Jews The Jews in the summa theologiae Predestination and election in Aquinas and Thomas' received tradition Election and predestination in CRO 9 and 11 The contribution of Aquinas' commentary on Romans to the contemporary debate on Romans 9-11.