That Aquinas was an outstanding scholastic theologian, a man with a genius for abstract speculation, goes without saying. But what, over the centuries, has generally been ignored in the academic world, and is still today little known by many of our contemporaries, is that Thomas Aquinas was first and last a teacher of Scripture, a Master of the Sacred Page. And no less forgotten, no less strangely overlooked, are two other aspects of Aquinas’s life and work: his quite remarkable genius