title: The Four Friendships: From Aristotle to Aquinas
author:  Kevin Vost 
description: "C. S. Lewis wrote his famous book,<i>The Four Loves</i>. Kevin Vost has now furthered the discussion by writing<i>The Four Friendships</i>. Like Lewis's classic, it encourages us to reflect on what is most important in our daily lives."--<b>CHRISTOPHER S. MORRISSEY</b>, Seminary of Christ the King, British Columbia<br /><br />"Kevin Vost's joyful reflections follow pagan and Christian pioneers along their itinerary of friendship in this feast for mind and heart. He reminds us that contrary to many modern prejudices, ancient philosophers were sages of a high spiritual order, and medieval spiritual masters could be insightful guides and artists in the logic of love. Vost dives deep into the waters of friendship and offers us what is most precious, virtuous, and enduring."--<b>HEATHER ERB</b>, moderator in the Great Books Program of the Angelicum Academy<br /><br />"If you want to build good friendships, Kevin Vost's<i>The Four Friendships</i>will serve you well. Read the book slowly, taking time to reflect deeply on how the four classic authors he presents may help you choose friends wisely, and love others with more Christian charity."--<b>BERT GHEZZI</b>, author of<i>Voices of the Saints</i><br /><i></i><br />"This concise volume brings together key texts of four great thinkers from pagan antiquity and the Christian Middle Ages on the ever-timely topic of friendship. Kevin Vost provides helpful and insightful commentaries on the reflections of Aristotle, Cicero, Aelred of Rievaulx, and Thomas Aquinas on what friendship is, how it works, what it requires, and even when it is time to call it quits. A most useful book for understanding important dimensions of all manner of relationships."--<b>GREGORY SADLER</b>, President and Founder, ReasonIO<br /><br />"Kevin Vost's<i>The Four Friendships</i>is a compendium on the nature of friendship, and especially what it means for us today to befriend and be a friend. It is a timely reminder of our true nature as persons destined for communion in an age in which many of our friendships are based increasingly on mere utility."--<b>SEBASTIAN MAHFOOD</b>, OP, author of<i>The Narrative Spirituality of Dante's Divine Comedy</i>
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  # Theologizing Friendship
  
  
  How Amicitia in the Thought of Aelred and Aquinas Inscribes the Scholastic
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  Nathan Lefler
  
  
  With a Foreword by Austin G. Murphy, OSB
  
  
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  THEOLOGIZING FRIENDSHIP
  
  
  How Amicitia in the Thought of Aelred and Aquinas Inscribes the Scholastic
  Turn
  
  
  Copyright © 2014 Nathan Lefler. All rights reserved. Except for brief
  quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be
  reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher.
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  Pickwick Publications
  
  
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  isbn 13: 978-1-62564-104-5
  
  
  eisbn 13: 978-1-63087-491-9
  
  
  
  
  
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  Lefler, Nathan.
  
  
  Theologizing friendship : how amicitia in Aelred and Aquinas inscribes 