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Thomas Aquinas: An Evangelical Appraisal is unavailable, but you can change that!

Norman L. Geisler reintroduces evangelicals to the man they “forgot,” clarifying Aquinas’ teachings about the nature of God, Scripture, faith, reason, and other key issues of apologetics and ethics. Aquinas, the author argues, “is a more articulate defender of the faith than anyone in our midst.” Roman Catholic Aquinas scholar Robert N. Campbell observes that Geisler “makes a good case for his...

Even worse, while criticizing Aquinas for applying finite concepts to God in less than a univocal way, there is scarcely an evangelical thinker who does not do the same thing. Who among us mortals has an infinite concept of the infinite God? Who would claim to have an unlimited knowledge of the Unlimited?17 But this is precisely what Aquinas means when he says that terms taken from our finite experience—which is the only kind of experience we finite beings have—cannot be applied to God in a univocal
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