2 by Sproul

[Reformed Thomist]

Just picked up R.C. Sproul's Essential Truths of the Christian Faith (Tyndale, 1992) and The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts that Shaped Our World (Crossway, 2000 [2009 TPB]) at teh local Arminian bookshop. (Someone there must be a closet Calvinist.)

Read bits from each on the trip home; the former looks like a really helpful reference text, and the latter looks particularly interesting with its philosophical focus, featuring chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and other figures, and with a concluding chapter on... wait for it... Etienne Gilson?!

Anyone read one or both or these? Thoughts?

 

[AThornquist]

I haven't read either of them. Who is Etienne Gilson?

 

[Reformed Thomist]

I haven't read either of them. Who is Etienne Gilson?

The twentieth-century French Roman Catholic scholar of Aquinas and medieval philosophy generally, who founded the Neo-Thomist philosophical school known as 'Existential Thomism' and was the co-founder and longtime Director of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies -- located at my college (the RC St. Michael's College) at the University of Toronto.

There's a framed portrait of the man in every building on my campus.