title: The Creative Retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas: Essays in Thomistic Philosophy, New and Old
author:  W. Norris Clarke 
description: New and previously published writings on such topics as the medieval theologian's concept of the person. (<i>The Chronicle of Higher Education</i>)<br /><br />An eminently readable collection from a learned and lively mind. (<i>The Thomist</i>)
zlib_text: **The Essence and Topicality of Thomism**
  
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  **Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.**
  
  Professor of Dogmatics in the Theology Faculty of the Angelicum at Rome
  
  Fr. Michael Browne O.P., _Master of Sacred Theology_
  
  Fr. Rosarin Gagnebet O.P., _doctor of Sacred Theology_
  
   _Imprimi potest_
  
  Fr. M. Sp. Gillet O.P., _Master General_ , St. Sabina, Rome, 6 May 1947.
  
   _Imprimatur_
  
  Brescia, 13 December 1945
  
  Mgr. Ern. Pasini Vic. Gen.
  
  **Translation 2013 Alan Aversa**
  
  e-ISBN 978-1-304-41674-2
  
  print ISBN 978-1-304-41618-6
  
  Garrigou-Lagrange, Réginald, O.P. (1877-1964)
  
    1. Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
    2. Modernism (Christian theology) – Catholic Church
  
  B765.T54 2013
  
  189
  
    
  
   _Translator’s Note_ : _Essence and Topicality of Thomism_ is a translation of
  _Essenza e attualità del tomismo_ (Brescia: La Scuola editrice, 1946). Some
  translations of St. Thomas come from the works mentioned in Thèrése M. Bonin,
  “Thomas Aquinas in English: A Bibliography,” January 31, 2020,
  <https://aquina