Title: Purple hagiography
Review: As other reviews have stated, one gets the strongest possible dose of Chesterton, only the vaguest, yet thoroughly adulatory hagiography of Aquinas. His habit of rhetorical paradoxicalism wears thin rather soon. At one point, the strong influences of the Arab philosophers promised some interest, both historically and philosophically, but soon we were back to the amazing shyness and amazing amazingness of the Saint, who had the distinction of asserting that Catholicism involved reason, in the face of actual reason wafting in from the ancient world by way of Aristotle.All in all, thoroughly dated, both in Chesterton's gushings and reflexive Catholic jingoism, and the underlying philosophy, such as it is, of Aquinas.
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